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Disclaimer: I did not know that people in the US, interpreted the bible literally until I moved to the state of Georgia, five years ago. It's been an eye opener.
Here's a description of why the "old law" no longer must be followed:
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http://www.biblestudylessons.com/cgi...aw_today_1.php
A. Today We Must Obey the New Testament.
The reason the Old Covenant is not needed now is that Jesus replaced it with a different covenant, the gospel.
Hebrews 10:9,10 - Jesus took away the first will that He might establish the second. (cf. Heb. 8:6-9; 7:22; 2 Cor. 3:6)
Romans 7:4 - We are freed from the law to be joined to Christ.
Galatians 3:24-27 - We are not under the schoolmaster (old law) because now the gospel faith has come (cf. 1:11,12).
An illustration: The area we now call the United States was once ruled by Britain, then it was under the Articles of Confederation, and now we are under the Constitution. Likewise God provided for man first the patriarchal rule, then the laws at Sinai, and now the gospel or New Testament. We are no more subject to the Old Testament laws than we are to the Articles of Confederation.
This change occurred as a result of the death of Jesus.
Colossians 2:14 - He nailed the first ordinances to His cross.
Ephesians 2:13-16 - He abolished the old law by His blood.
Hebrews 9:16,17 - As with any will or testament, Jesus had to die to bring His testament into force. The old law was in effect until Jesus died, then it was replaced by the gospel. (Cf. Gal. 3:13; Rom. 7:4)
This New Testament contains commands we must obey.
Matthew 28:18-20 - Jesus possesses all authority so we must obey all His commands.
1 Corinthians 14:37 - The gospel contains the commands of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:20,21 - Though Paul was not under the law of the Jews, he was not without law but was under law to Christ.
James 1:18,25 - The gospel is the perfect law of liberty, by which we will be judged (John 12:48; cf. 1 Pet. 1:22-25; Rom. 6:17,18; Acts 3:20-23; Isa. 2:1-4).
God did not remove the old law so that we might be without law but so that we would serve Him under the terms of the New Testament. There are commands for us to obey, but these are the commands of the New Testament, not those of the Old Testament.
The New Testament will never be replaced by any law on earth.
Even while the Old Testament was in effect, God planned eventually to replace it. Will the New Testament also be replaced by some other system of commands for men on earth?
2 Corinthians 3:6-11 - The first covenant passed away so that it could be replaced by that which remains (does not pass away).
Hebrews 12:27,28 (cf. v18-29) - The law given at Sinai was shaken (removed) that it might be replaced by another (the New Testament) which will never be shaken but will remain.
The reason the Old Testament had to be replaced was that its sacrifices could not permanently remove guilt. The New Testament has the sacrifice of Jesus, which can remove all sins so they are remembered no more (Heb. 10:1-18; 7:11-28; 8:6-9; 9:11-28; Rom. 1:16; Mark 16:15,16). So there is no reason for God to remove it.
Jude 3 - The gospel faith was delivered to the saints once ("once for all" - NKJV, ASV). This word "once" is also used for Jesus' death in contrast to animal sacrifices (Heb. 10:10-14; 7:27; 9:12,25-28). Animals had to be repeatedly offered because they could not permanently remove guilt. Jesus offered the perfect sacrifice that need not be replaced by anything else. Likewise, the gospel is given to men "once." It is God's last word to man. It is so perfect, it will never be changed nor replaced by God while the world stands.
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Here are examples of why there is till confusion of the validity of old testament law:
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http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuse...eVerseID/23252
Matthew 5:17 (King James Version)
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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<a href="http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:i9Nk0AShg7EJ:www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/editors-choice/EC3W1004.pdf+jesus+%22every+word%22+law+indeed+every+letter&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4">Biblical Inerrancy: The Evidence—Part 3</a>
The above two verses establish the particularity of inerrancy (“jot,” “tittle”) and the extent of
inerrancy (all Scripture). As John Murray states of Jesus’ view, “We found it to be nothing less
than that of the infallible character and authority of the Old Testament. A higher view of plenary
or verbal inspiration we could not expect to find.”
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Theologian Dr. Charles Ryrie also has relevant comments on these passages:
A jot is the Hebrew letter yod, the
smallest letter in that alphabet. It
looks much like an English apostro-
phe. The word tittle means a minor
stroke and refers to the almost
unnoticeable strokes which distin-
guish certain Hebrew letters from
others. For instance, the tittle that
differentiates a d (daleth) from an r
(resh) is a protrusion that in a
normal font of type would not be
more than 1/16 of an inch. Of
course the presence or absence of
the tittle could change the spelling
of a word and likely change the
meaning. The Lord was emphasiz-
ing that every letter of every word is
important, and what those words
say in sentences and paragraphs is completely accurate. In fact, they can be depended on to be fulfilled
exactly as spelled out letter by letter and word by word in all the promises of the Old Testament. Such a
specific statement by our Lord would have no meaning if the Scripture were subject to errors in the text.
John 10:33-36 is another passage where the Lord states that the Scripture cannot be broken. This is an
assertion that the entire Scripture cannot be broken and that the particular words being quoted on that
occasion cannot be broken. This is only possible because the Scripture is true in each particular and in all its
parts.
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If it is easier for heaven and earth (i.e. the universe) to pass from existence than for the “least
stroke of a pen” to be lost, can we possibly believe Jesus thought there were errors in Scrip-
ture? John Warwick Montgomery comments on another statement by Jesus this time in Mat-
thew 4:4: “Christ tells us simply, quoting the God of the Old Testament, that ‘man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’ One must therefore
operate with every word and consider every word as significant. Had God ‘intended’ otherwise,
the text would (by definition) be different from what it is!”
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He makes the highly relevant observation, that “the weight of Christ’s testimony to Scripture
is so much more powerful than any alleged contradiction or error in the text or any combination of them, that the latter must be adjusted to the former, not the reverse.”
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