There are many things in the OT such as "kill gays and witches" "stone adulteresses", take revenge ("eye for eye"), don't eat pork etc, so are we to blindly follow all the old laws or use our God-given commonsense to realise which ones no longer apply?
Matthew 5:17-20
5:17
Think NOT that I am come to destroy The Law, or the Prophets: I am NOT come to destroy, but to fulfill [to fully preach The Law (The Torah) and fulfill the prophecies about the first coming of the Messiah].
5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way 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 [the lowest of the low in God's Eyes]: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in The Kingdom of heaven.
5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall EXCEED [the righteousness] of the scribes (lawyers) and pharisees (politicians), ye shall in no case enter into The Kingdom of heaven.
John 5:42-47
5:42
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
5:43
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that [cometh] from God only?
5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] that accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust.
5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
John 7:16-17
7:16 Jesus answered them, and said,
My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me.
7:17
If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself.
There are no "gays"; there are filthy sodomites/homosexuals, etc., which is an abomination to God. It should be self-evident that once the lid to Pandora's box has been opened, every
unnatural, sexually deviant abominable behavior will eventually not only be tolerated, but mandated by made-up human rules/legislation,
exactly as has happened.
The "witches" were (and still are) the pharmacists, mixing up their
unnatural combinations and abominations (witches' brew), all of which were and still are
poisonous to the human body. It should be self-evident that once the lid to Pandora's box has been opened, every
unnatural, abominable potion made and sold will eventually increase human suffering, injury and death to the point that, coupled with war ("legalized" murder), there would be
no flesh saved ,
which is exactly where we are headed.
"Legalizing" adultery, has helped destroy the family unit, which is the basic building block of a healthy, civilized society. Our fidelity/loyalty to God is likened to marriage because both are relationships that are based upon trust, truth and honor, all of which are sorely lacking today because of our refusal to keep The Law that God gave us for our benefit, to protect us from evil.
As our God-given common-sense should make crystal clear, we do
NOT know better than God, Whom we should be learning to trust and obey without question or pause, instead of blindly following the traditions and doctrines of men (including legislation, policies, religious doctrines, rites and rituals, etc.).
Deuteronomy 12:8 Ye shall
not do after all [the things] that we do here this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in
his own eyes.
PS- If the Old T was all we needed, why did God send Jesus to give us the
New T?..
God sent His Christ in the body of Jesus to pay for our past sins (
Romans 3:25) and to show us, by example (
John 14:6) that
WITH God we not only can keep His Law, but in keeping His Law/Commandments we can choose Life and Good over death and evil (
Deut. 30:15-20).
IF we would have obeyed God and kept His Law/Commandments, as we promised to do, there would have been no need for Christ to have suffered the agony of the cross inside the body of Jesus. The fault for that is ours, because of our penchant for choosing sin/crime over God.
Hebrews 8:7-12
8:7 For
IF that first [Covenant] had been [followed] faultlessly, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8:8 For
finding fault WITH THEM, He saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel [ten "Lost" tribes] and with the House of Judah:
8:9 Not according to The Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they continued NOT in My Covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
8:10 For this [is] The Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put My Laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people:
8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.
8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
This is why Christ said that anyone who hasn't learned to "sing the
NEW SONG", i.e. keep
BOTH the Old Covenant
AND the New Covenant will
NOT be among those redeemed from the Earth
Revelation 14:1-4
14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many "waters", and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
14:3
And they sung as it were a New Song (
Isaiah 42:10) before the Throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders:
and no man could learn that "Song" except the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the Earth.
14:4 These are they which were not corrupted by women; for they are pure. These are they which follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb (obeying God NOT women).
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the "Song of Moses" (Old Covenant -
Deut. 31) the servant of God,
AND the "Song of the Lamb" (New Covenant), saying, Great and marvellous [are] Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] Thy Ways, Thou King of the holy people.