Don’t murder and don’t commit adultery are God’s laws, delivered to the people of God by Moses, that all Christians agree are to still be obeyed. Others that most Christians agree still need to be obeyed are laws for giving offerings, and against bestiality, and incest. These others are not part of the “Ten Commandments” but are understood to be still in effect today.

Do our do’s and don’t do our don’ts!

Christianity (and Rabbinic Judaism) add, to God’s laws, man-made laws and traditions including prohibitions against drinking alcoholic beverages and polygamy (depending on the sect/denomination), neither of which are against God’s law according to the Bible. Christianity also renounces God’s appointed observances (Holy-days/Holidays/Feasts) while religiously observing man-made holidays including Lent, Easter, Christmas, Sunday Church, etc. These are not in the Bible as being created by God.

Do some and then don’t!

So when Christianity insists that “we are no longer under the Law” what it really means is we are no longer under some of God’s laws; some laws don’t need to be followed by Christians anymore, but all of those Christianity made up need to be followed. Christianity (various men who started and perpetuate the firmly held traditions and doctrines, which were created after Jesus’ left earth) has determined which laws we are still “under.”

Got it twisted!

In the same passage where God declared that His people will not murder or commit adultery is the passage that (in even greater detail than all the other commandments) describes the seventh-day Sabbath. Most Christians don’t believe this one needs to be followed anymore, or they think we don’t need to follow it according to the instructions that God himself provided.

Most follow a first-day (Sunday) worship day in place of it. This is not something God instructed to be done. Some believe that when Jesus said “[…] son of man is lord of the Sabbath” he repealed the seventh day Sabbath; however, (if one reads it in context) he did not repeal the Sabbath in this passage; rather, he clarified that what is considered “work” is a matter of personal perspective/judgement.

What does God say?

God himself is quoted in the Bible making his Laws. In the Bible, God himself did not repealed any of them, and has not given anyone the right to repeal his laws.

God’s laws are the substance of the vows which God and His people agreed to for their marriage/covenant. If God were going to change His laws, He would do so himself or personally and publicly appoint someone else to do so.

Y’shua explicitly stated that he did not come to change the Law of God but to accomplish or carry it out.

About Man-made laws/traditions…

God has not ratified the additional laws that men have created, nor their twists on His laws. Sadly, his people have routinely listened to religious leaders, claiming authority in God, who led them to sin by altering their understanding of God’s laws and adding their own. Jesus explicitly warned against such practices.

Not every law is for everybody.

It is important to understand that God never expected everybody to follow all of the laws; after all, they don’t all apply to everyone. For example: the Levite have additional laws because God, through the Law, gave them additional responsibilities – likewise any king of Israel, etc.

Laws can become obsolete

God’s laws also include instructions for the journey from the wilderness to permanent location in “the land of promise.”  Once they achieved settlement and built the temple, God’s laws concerning the tabernacle (a temporary portable structure) such as encampment locations around the tabernacle; which families would care for which parts of the tabernacle for assembly, carrying, and disassembling; and when to break and make camp became obsolete.

In covenant with / Married to God

When the people of the God are instructed to do something, or instructed not to do something, and we have the means to follow his Instructions/Laws, we are covenant/vows-bound to follow them – to do otherwise is the definition of sin.

“We’re not under the law” may be the most dangerous statement ever for a follower of the God of Israel and those who believe they do so through Y’shua.

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