Why are Christians NOT under the Civil and Ceremonial laws in the Old Testament?

[MedicBravo]

We know that Christ fulfilled the law. Moral Law is permanent and all but one is repeated in the New Testament.

Civil Laws (governing Israel’s society and nation)​

These regulated daily life, justice, economy, and community in ancient Israel.

• Laws about property rights (Ex. 21–22; Deut. 19)
• Laws about theft, restitution, and damages (Ex. 22:1–15)
• Murder, manslaughter, and refuge cities (Ex. 21:12–14; Num. 35)
• Treatment of slaves/servants (Ex. 21:1–11; Lev. 25:39–55)
• Marriage, divorce, and family laws (Deut. 24:1–4; Ex. 21:10–11)
• Judicial procedures & witnesses (Deut. 19:15–21; Ex. 23:1–3)
• Kingship regulations (Deut. 17:14–20)
• War conduct (Deut. 20; 23:9–14)
• Fair weights & measures (Lev. 19:35–36; Deut. 25:13–16)
• Laws about lending, debt, and release (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 15:1–11)
• Inheritance and land laws (Num. 27:1–11; Lev. 25:23–34)
• Laws about sexual morality with civil penalties (Lev. 20)
• Care for the poor, widows, and orphans (Deut. 24:17–22)
• Rules for hiring and paying workers (Deut. 24:14–15)

Ceremonial Laws (governing worship, ritual, and holiness)​

These pointed to Israel’s separation and foreshadowed Christ (fulfilled in Him, see Col. 2:16–17; Heb. 10).

• Sacrificial system (Lev. 1–7; Num. 28–29)
• Priesthood regulations (Lev. 8–10; Num. 3–4)
• Dietary laws (clean/unclean foods) (Lev. 11; Deut. 14)
• Circumcision (Gen. 17:10–14; Lev. 12:3)
• Ritual purity/impurity laws (Lev. 12–15; Num. 19)
• Sabbath and festival observances (Lev. 23; Num. 28–29)
• Passover regulations (Ex. 12; Deut. 16:1–8)
• Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Lev. 16)
• Feast of Tabernacles/Booths (Lev. 23:33–44)
• Firstfruits and tithes offerings (Lev. 27:30–33; Deut. 26:1–15)
• Nazirite vows (Num. 6:1–21)
• Temple/Tabernacle regulations (Ex. 25–31; 35–40)
• Consecration rituals (Lev. 8–9)
• Laws on leprosy and purification (Lev. 13–14)
• Prohibition of mixing fabrics/seeds/animals (Lev. 19:19; Deut. 22:9–11)
• Offerings of incense, oil, bread (Ex. 30:34–38; Lev. 24:5–9)

There are holy days that we observe and celebrate, like Good Friday and Passover.
Unlike the Catholics (blasphemy), we do NOT believe Christ is being "re-sacrificed/murdered" and is literally the wine and bread.
There is NO cherry picking. God says....and your opinion otherwise is irrelevant.

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[Gothedral]

I see what you mean. That only happens for every particle of every sin. (Sigh) "Go and sin no more" is only possible with Christ.

Epistle to the Hebrews chapter 6:

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

 

[lightening strikes]

hello
hello

Greetings and good tidings to all.

One thing i believe to consider concerning the Old Testament Laws is that God required a blood sacrifice to be made for compensation and atonement - for the sin curse that was placed on all of mankind from the sin of Adam and Eve.

They were to kill the animal for food to eat and then offer the part that they did not eat - the entrails and stomach gut and its contents and the fat, the liver, kidney unto the Lord God as a reminder of the sin that they committed. And to show that they remembered their sin before the Lord and were honoring God.

This was all that sacrifice and offering was about.

Exo 29:13 .... take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

Exo 29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

Basically, it was a way that God had set up to also make sure that they were clean and eating healthy and not eating the entrails and stomach gut and its contents and the unhealthy portions of fat, the liver and disposing of the dung in the digestive tract properly by burning it outside of their living quarters.


This was all that sacrifice and offering was about. Then they ate the rest of the meat for food.

God had ordained the sacrifice in order to show man how to eat healthily and to prepare their food in this manner in eating healthy and not eating the blood and unhealthy portions of the animal - and also burning and offering these portions that they were not to eat unto the Lord as an offering of acceptance and recognition they were serving God and sorry for their sins and willing to follow Gods health regulations and other regulations that God had commanded.

 

[lightening strikes]

we see in 1 Cor 10:8

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

i believe that situations like this is why strict laws were given with a full automatic death penalty for endangering the lives of others by unhealthy practices.

many things have changed since the days of these laws but there is still danger but not on a scale as great as they once were.

 

[joestue]

because God didn't have anything to do with it.

Bible Gateway passage: Jeremiah 7:21-23 - King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them...

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.