Which part of the 'old testament' are Christians supposed to obey?

Question

Which part of the 'old testament' are Christians supposed to obey?

Answer 1

The exact same parts of the Tanakh that you as a Jew *should* believe that all gentiles are obligated to obey. This is really very simple: Christians made the determination early-on that gentile converts to Christianity were not required to convert to Judaism. Therefore, the Christian Law is the Law as applied to gentiles. In simple terms, this would be the Noahide Laws, and the remainder of the Tanakh as it expresses those laws.

Answer 2

Split the laws into three columns; ceremonial, civil and moral law



1. The ceremonial law – These were but a shadow of what was fulfilled and done away with in Jesus Christ. Read Hebrews 10:1-18 and Colossians 2:16-17.



2. The civil law – This is basically the local laws of that time and we do not necessarily have to obey those laws as they were for a specific people at a specific time. Maybe our equivalent to things like local taxes, traffic lights, which side you drive on the road etc



3. The moral law – This is basically the ten commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) which are all reiterated in the New Testament (apart from keeping the sabbath)



One point to remember is that the Old Testament is generally for our understanding (even though we can learn certain principles from it) and the New Testament is generally for our application.



All of the bible is FOR us but not all of it is TO us

Answer 3

The old testament commandments are wrapped up in the new covenant command to "love God and love your neighbor as yourself." By doing this, we fulfill all the moral law; the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. The law was really given to us only to show us our need for a Savior, since we could not keep the law. Christ alone lived the perfect life pleasing to God in every way, and He imputed His righteousness to us. So no law keeping today gets us any closer to God than the life and blood of Christ has already brought us.



The ceremonial and civil laws from the old testament no longer apply today - they were time bound to the people of their day, prior to the new covenant coming into effect.

Answer 4

The parts that point to Christ and are compatible with God is Love



Christians interpret the Bible according to Christian Apostolic Oral Tradition ("The Full Gospel")but every group has its own interpretation

Answer 5

The part where the new testament are

Answer 6

anything that was taught in the old testament that we don't have to follow today was told us in the new testament

Answer 7

I can see you are a Jew lover in your previous questions sticking up for their religion, but yet you do not realise the old testement is Jewish scriptures, so Jews believe in the old testement also dimwit.



YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT NO MUCH ABOUT YOUR RELIGION CONSIDERING GENESIS IN OUR OLD TESTEMENT YOUR TORAH IDIOT!

Answer 8

Every single past of it, because it is their past. Plus, the OT laces on to the NT. It completes the OT.

They don't sacrifice and stuff, since Jesus was their sacrifice.

Answer 9

the one that fits their own beliefs

Answer 10

Hi!

I can understand your concern because I went through the same thing.I also used to wonder about God, so I studied the bible and wondered who wrote it..because some of the chapters were so confusing , I simply couldn't believe that God would sent down such a disorganized book(but my hunch is that the guy named peter wrote his heart out in the bible and filled it up with gibberish), but all I found was a bunch of unverified stories which confuses the readers. First I saw that there were over 9 versions of the bible, and each of them were different. It said that Jesus was God's son....but then I started thinking that if God is not a human, then how could he have kids. This guy was saying that look, jesus didn't have any father, so his dad must have been God himself! But when I told him that Adam and Eve didn't have any parents either. Does that make them god's children too? Well, all this was so confusing , that I started looking into some other religion to see what they had to say about God etc.Then Bible considers everyone to be sinners, and that God had to send his "son" to get rid of sins.This was strange that God would kill his innocent "son" in order to get rid of evil satan.! it sounded pretty cruel to me.Why would His "son" have to die for other peoples sins, or for satan, who makes people sin? Christianity also calls religious law a curse,and so that if someone follows religious laws ,they are in a curse.

Not too long ago, I bumped into this guy named Yousef Estes. He was a priest, so I told him about my confusions.Then he told me about a book called the Quran. It was the holy book of a religion called Islam. He told me that this book was "really" original. And trust me, when I read it, it didn't seem man made at all. The entire book didn't have a single contradictory statement. Then I later searched on you tube...you may want to check this out too;. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiAGHFnzMU . If you watch a couple of those videos , you'll be amazed by some of the facts that matches so much with modern science. I mean if a guy wrote that book, he couldn't have known all this stuff more than 1400 years ago. In Islam,everyone is responsible for their own deeds, good or bad. No one dies or suffers for other peoples sins. If someone does something wrong, all he has to do is ask God for forgiveness sincerely, and promise not to do it again. God will certainly forgive him according to his intentions.

At first, I wasn't too sure if this Quran was original coz I thought it was also altered like the bible, but I later went to Turkey. There, I saw the original copy of the Quran, which was written 1400 years ago. It matched exactly with the current one.

Anyway, just check these out.I'm sure it will clear out your confusion.

Obviously there has to be some One up there who made us, created Adam and Eve.

there are so many different beliefs around,one really needs to look deep into a religion to determine if it is authentic.

the maze is to find the right religion that will lead us to heaven. if it weren't so confusing then god wouldn't have created heaven or hell.

anyway i bumped into this faith that made sense to me. it believes that god sent Judaism through prophet Moses, and Christianity through Jesus, and lastly Islam through Muhammad. it honors all the past religions and it is the only faith that was never changed a bit since the prophet Mohammad’s time.

unlike Christianity which is pretty confusing with so many bibles that has been altered and Judaism that also changes their laws through Rabbis, Islam was never changed , not laws nor the holy Quran.you can actually find the real 1400 years old copy in a museum in Turkey. I don't know much about science thing, but this religion is so full of scientific proofs and it is also a complete way of life.you won't be disappointed if you checked out this religion.



Good luck and keep searching