jeremiah1five
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Do you understand the justification that accompanies being born-again?I agree that the New Covenant repeats 9 of the 10 commandment. But the Sabbath day is not required under the New Covenant, nor is the portion of the commandment to work 6 days, required in the New Covenant.
All of the approximate 613 Laws, including the Ten Commandments became obsolete when Christ was crucified in about 30 A.D.
Since that is the case, from 30 A.D. through today, you can't be under the Law, even if you wanted to be. The requirement of keeping the Law of Moses no longer exists.
Not only that, but God ONLY gave that Law to Israel - never to anyone else.
It was given ONLY TO ISRAEL.
It was in effect from about 1500 B.C. through 30 A.D.
Today, if a Jew or Gentile thinks they are under the Law, they are mistaken. It no longer exists. Sure, the written laws still exist, but the requirement for Jews (since the Law was given ONLY to them) to keep them ended in 30 A.D. Gentiles HAVE NEVER been commanded to keep the Law of Moses.
Today, Christians, whether Jew or Gentile, are commanded to keep the commandments of Jesus and His apostles, NOT the Law of Moses. It is true that there are several Old Covenant laws that are repeated in the New Covenant. When that happens, that law automatically becomes part of the New Covenant. But the vast majority of the 613 Old Covenant laws are not repeated in the New Covenant.
If we, as believers, were under the Law of Moses today, then any Christian who violates, let's say, the Ten Commandments, should be given the death penalty in our churches, or punished by lashes to our back, or made to work to repay something stolen etc. If God was literally our King (over America), as He was over Israel, then all those punishments would still be enforced. They had a Theocracy, a government that answered directly to God as their King. That no longer exists.
Exactly what is our justification if you know?