Protestants: Is the Ten Commandments necessary?

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I was wondering this. One of the CAF members suggest here that the Ten Commandments is not necessary or not required for our Christian life. So I will ask you if you believe the Ten Commandments is necessary,

I do believe they are necessary for all Christians. If they aren’t, we would be living in sin.

Here is the poll.
 
Which group of “10 Commandments” is the poll refering to?
 
Mannyfit75 said:
I was wondering this. One of the CAF members suggest here that the Ten Commandments is not necessary or not required for our Christian life. So I will ask you if you believe the Ten Commandments is necessary,

I do believe they are necessary for all Christians. If they aren’t, we would be living in sin.

Here is the poll.
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Yes - I believe so, absolutely. There are a few (at least) different views on this within the Protestant community.

I believe that when Christ said he came to fulfill the law (not abolish it) (per Matt 5:17) he meant that he came and fulfilled all of the ceremonial/levitical laws (all of the 613) commandments in the Old Testatement, except for the moral law as revealed in the 10 commandments -those are ours to continue to follow. He expounded on their true spiritual meaning the NT. The Sabbath, however, was satisfied/fulfilled in our rest in Christ (Hebrews) though we celebrate the Lord’s day, Sunday, not as the Sabbath but as a memorial of the resurrection.

There are some Protestants who believe the 10 commandments have been replaced (the Mosaic Law was nailed to the cross) by the golden rule. That is “close” - in that the golden rule (Love God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself) will, in practice, lead you to live in accord with the 10 commandments - but I personally believe they continue and this was an explanation of their deeper spiritual meaning.

Blessings,

Brian
 
None of the answers in this poll are biblical. The law was nailed to the cross, and today we live within the fruit of the Spirit — there is no law against that. Or you can say by living via the fruit of the spirit one fulfills the law so to speak because one is doing God’s will.

Galatians 5:22-25 (New International Version)

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Colossians 2:14
having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
None of the answers in this poll are biblical. The law was nailed to the cross, and today we live within the fruit of the Spirit — there is no law against that. Or you can say by living via the fruit of the spirit one fulfills the law so to speak because one is doing God’s will.

Galatians 5:22-25 (New International Version)

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Colossians 2:14

having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.
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We are under God’s Law. Where does it say that the law was nailed to the cross? The cross destroy death, Jesus became sin for us. However, our tendency to sin remains we must strive to be perfect in this world. For a Christian who denies of obeying the Ten Commandments out of the love for God is not living a Christian life. He is living in sin.
 
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