Question of Law

by Haggelos 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • Haggelos
    Haggelos

    Hi Guys and Gals:

    A question of law has arisen. I'd like your opinions if you don't mind. When a law or laws have existed and then are abolished, does one need to still keep them? Like: Do not run a red light? If this law is abolished, may we run red lights without fear of getting a ticket? (Trivial example, but I think you get my point.) According to Ephesians 2:15, Christ's death abolished all the laws in the Old Testament. Wiped them out! Kaput! Why do we keep them? Why do we pick and choose certain laws to keep and not the others? I'm reading in my Bible, King James Version, with the words of Christ in red, and I come across very few laws, if you can even call them that, which he stated. Okay, so now the OT laws are abolished by Christ's death. What laws DO EXIST now for true Christians to keep? Can I steal? Can I commit adultery? Can I murder? What laws EXIST for true Christians, and why? Where are they written?

    Thanks for your input.

    Haggelos

  • lisaBObeesa
    lisaBObeesa

    Christ's law is LOVE. You need only ask yourself if the action you are planning is loving or not. No need to a million little rules like the JWs have.

    Romans 13:10

    --LisaBObeesa

  • willy_think
    willy_think

    Haggelos hi,

    "Can I steal? Can I commit adultery? Can I murder? What laws EXIST for true Christians, and why? Where are they written?"

    love. can you do these things to someone you love like jesus loves? what laws can you brake that will not brake the law of love?

  • D wiltshire
    D wiltshire

    willy,

    You can eat blood, work on saturday, eat food offered to idols, marry outside the lord, eat pork, and fish without scales.

    To name a few.

    If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
  • TweetieBird
    TweetieBird

    The only 2 commandments (laws) that Jesus specifically mentioned were:

    1) Love your Heavenly Father with all your heart, soul, strength and mind
    2) Love your neighbor as yourself

    which is summed up, as mentioned earlier, into the law of LOVE.

    "By doubting we come at truth" -Cicero

  • willy_think
    willy_think

    D wiltshire how are you?

    yes, you can eat blood and fat and shellfish and pork.
    you can not eat food offered to idols and love your farther with all you are. you can work on sunday if need be. if you marry outside the lord you are not married. so you can not marry outside the lord.

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