Why Christians obey the ten commandments

The ten commandments are part of the old covenant, but Christians still obey them.
I hear people ask things like: " You only choose whatever you like best in the Bible, you ignore all the rest, like you don't stone wiches, yet say fornication's wrong.".
And: " Why are the ten commandments to be obeyed, and not the animal sacrifices? - Both are old Testament."

If these are your questions, read on. If you don't care, get 'cha donkey outa here!
OK, so...
The commandments are:
Mark 12:29-31

29 Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is: 'Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. 30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment . 31 And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
(NKJV)

There is only one law in Christ: Love

We don't follow Jewish costoms because we are free of the Old Covenant, In the New Covenant, like Jesus said, are TWO commandments.

So, one may ask: " Why do we obey parts of the old law, and ignore the others?" Well, take the ten commandments for instance:


Do not have any other gods before Me.
Do not represent [such] gods by any carved statue or picture of anything in the heaven above, on the earth below, or in the water below the land.

Do not bow down to [such gods] or worship them. I am God your Lord, a God who demands exclusive worship. Where My enemies are concerned, I keep in mind the sin of the fathers for [their] descendants, to the third and fourth [generation]. But for those who love Me and keep My commandments, I show love for thousands [of generations]. Do not take
the name of God your Lord in vain. God will not allow the one who takes His name in vain to go unpunished. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.
You can work during the six weekdays and do all your tasks. But Saturday is the Sabbath to God your Lord. Do not do anything that constitutes work. [This includes] you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maid, your animal, and the foreigner in your gates. It was during the six weekdays that God made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on Saturday. God therefore blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and mother. You will then live long on the land that God your Lord is giving you. Do not commit murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not testify as a false witness against your neighbor. Do not be envious of your neighbor's house. Do not be envious of your neighbor's wife, his slave, his maid, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that is your neighbor's." [6]

Well, how about this:

If you love G-d you shall worship no other

If you love G-d you won't bow down to idols

If you love G-d, you're not going to forget His day of rest.

If you love your father and mother, you'll honor them

If you love your neighbor, your not gonna kill him

If you love your husband/wife, you're not going to commit adultery

If you love your neighbor, you won't steal from him

If you love your neighbor, you're not going to be a false witness to him.

If you love your neighbor, you're not going to be envious of him.

Get the picture? Now:

We love the witch, so we're not going to kill her.

We love the prostitute, so we're not going to stone her. ( but we won't sleep with her either. )

We love the thief, so we're not going to chop his hand off.

Since we're supposed to love them, we're not going to hurt them, therefore we don't follow those kinds of old covenant laws.

So, In short:

Rom 13:8-10

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law . 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law .
NKJV


Now I'm done. Bye!
-Ryu

 

You don't stone witches, you burn them.

 

Those Superstitious Catholics.

 

good post. thankyou!

 

Oh very good post, thanks!

 

Point still stands. Despite these covenants, witches were burnt.

 

the Salemites hanged them

 

Welcome and thank you.

BTW: If we love the witch, we're not gonna burn her either.

 

Ya know Ryu, for a christian it's really hard to dispute what you say.

Do you have any idea how annoying that is!?

 

I'd go with stoned over burning. Anyone who's ever lit their hair on fire knows you'd rather be assfucked than stand around a burning witch.

 

How'd you light your hair on fire? (bet you were stoned).

 

My fellow Chrstians seem to agree to what I'm saying. :/

 

But what if she weighs the same as a duck?

 

haha, i bet you're right.

and what the hell does a duck have to do with a witch?

i hate wearing white. everytime i do, i spill something on it. sonofabitch.

 

Of course they do.

 

CROWD: A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch!
VILLAGER #1: We have found a witch, might we burn her?
CROWD: Burn her! Burn!
BEDEVERE: How do you know she is a witch?
VILLAGER #2: She looks like one.
BEDEVERE: Bring her forward.
WITCH: I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.
BEDEVERE: But you are dressed as one.
WITCH: They dressed me up like this.
CROWD: No, we didn't -- no.
WITCH: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one.
BEDEVERE: Well?
VILLAGER #1: Well, we did do the nose.
BEDEVERE: The nose?
VILLAGER #1: And the hat -- but she is a witch!
CROWD: Burn her! Witch! Witch! Burn her!
BEDEVERE: Did you dress her up like this?
CROWD: No, no... no ... yes. Yes, a bit, a bit.
VILLAGER #1: She has got a wart.
BEDEVERE: What makes you think she is a witch?
VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt.
BEDEVERE: A newt?
VILLAGER #3: I got better.
VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway!
CROWD: Burn! Burn her!
BEDEVERE: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether
she is a witch.
CROWD: Are there? What are they? Do they hurt?
BEDEVERE: Tell me, what do you do with witches?
VILLAGER #2: Burn!
CROWD: Burn, burn them up!
BEDEVERE: And what do you burn apart from witches?
VILLAGER #1: More witches!
VILLAGER #2: Wood!
BEDEVERE: So, why do witches burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?
BEDEVERE: Good!
CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah...
BEDEVERE: So, how do we tell whether she, is made, of wood?
VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her.
BEDEVERE: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah.
BEDEVERE: Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1: No, no.
VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!
CROWD: The pond!
BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Great gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!
ARTHUR: A duck.
CROWD: Oooh.
BEDEVERE: Exactly! So, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of
wood.
BEDEVERE: And therefore--?
VILLAGER #1: A witch!
CROWD: A witch! A duck! A duck!
BEDEVERE: We shall use my largest scales!
[yelling]
BEDEVERE: Right, remove the supports!
[whop]
[creak]
CROWD: A witch! A witch!
WITCH: It's a fair cop.
CROWD: Burn her! Burn!

White works for some spills.

 

Thanks for trampling all subtlety into the dirt.