If we believe the Ten Commandments are still in effect today, but deny the same about the other laws found within the Old Testament, we have a fundamental issue to deal with - why would "the law be fulfilled with Christ" but still leave the Ten Commandments intact if fulfillment meant abolition?
If Christ's "law of love" (the "love God, love your neighbor" law) is our argument against the Old Testament law, then what do we do with the Ten Commandments? Nullify them? By the way - the law of love is found explicitly in the Old Testament in Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18... yet another part of the Old Testament law that Jesus testified as still standing.
At this point, we'd say, "of course not!" - okay, well then we need to provide a scripturally-backed support that shows that when God supposedly abolished the OT law, He excluded the Ten Commandments and they remain in effect today. Do we see the fundamental error in this manner of thought?
Let's say we can't find scripture that abolishes the OT law, yet keeps the Ten Commandments. Then by logic, we would need to conclude that the Ten Commandments no longer remain in effect. And my guess is that we could all agree that God does not condone adultery or covetousness... see the dilemma here, folks?
Food for thought - our federal, state and local laws exist to protect us. The law restrains to protect. It's why we have laws against fraud, laws against murder, laws against speeding, laws to wear a seatbelt. God did the very same thing! He gave us the law to protect us - from disease, from exhaustion, from heartache, from the effects that sin can have in our lives! We as Christians can agree that sin brings strife. God gave us the law to keep us from sinning, so that we would be free of strife.
David tells us in Psalm 119 that the law is good and perfect and holy. So is the One who gave it to us, and it is through this law that we can truly see just how good and perfect and holy He truly is.
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