no it doesn't.
But God himself said to kill people working in the Sabbath, does that still hold today?
Do Christians Have To Follow The Old Testament?
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But God himself said to kill people working in the Sabbath, does that still hold today?
Why do we all deserve death? I think I deserve to live, is that wrong of me to think?
Do you know what sin is? Do you know why Jesus died?
Sorry -- that was not addressed to me.
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No, the MOSAIC Law does not hold today. That is the law of the old covenant. The law has been fulfilled through His son bringing forward the New Covenant. But this doesn't mean God has changed. What it DOES mean is that divine law has brought to fruition.
Do you believe God is capable of changing?
I know God doesn't change. But why does God tell one group of people (the Jews) to keep the Sabbath but then tells everyone else they don't have to. If the Sabbath is so holy that God wants you dead for not keeping it, wouldn't God always consider the Sabbath holy?
Your posts seem pre-meditated and clearly show you have grasped nothing said to you. You seem like a troll. Not a good start to this site. Goodbye.
God sent Jesus to die for our sins. So that means any sin I do doesn't matter because Jesus already paid the price.
I never said that we aren't to keep the Sabbath. God still commands this. The ten commandments extend to Divine Law. We are still bound by the commandments.
Believe me, sin matters. But our faith in Jesus covers our sins thanks to the Love God has for us.
So we have to keep the Sabbath, but the punishment is no longer stoning? So the commandment stays the same but the punishment changed because of Jesus?
So since I believe in Jesus, I can work on the Sabbath day and not worry about being stoned? But before Jesus if I worked on the Sabbath day I would be stoned? But Jesus is God so God used to have people killed for working on the Sabbath day but then when God turned into the human form of Jesus God no longer wants that?
Right.
But God has never wanted us to die, he never wanted us to sin, but since we did, he had to punish us because he is Holy. God from the beginning planned to put Jesus on the cross, but he had to show us why first.
What do you believe the punishment is for our sin in rejecting God?
If God never wanted us to sin then why did he put that snake in the garden?
I heard its hell but I don't know if that's fair because some people get to witness miracles like splitting the red sea which makes God's existence obvious, but people in China for example never get to sees God's miracles so I don't see how God could put the Chinese in hell for not believing.
Are you suggesting that God tempted man?
Well God created everything, including that tempting snake. So if the snake tempted man, and god made the snake and also made it the only talking animal in the garden and the only think it talked about was tempting man, then yes I would say God tempted man.
It was our decision. Not God's. We should have resisted the devil, but we didn't. God made us a conscious spirit embodied in flesh, he gave us a lot of freedom, and with that freedom comes our responsibility.
I don't think God would do that either. I believe because God is merciful, He would not condemn those who had no chance of coming to Him. I had a discussion with a colleague of mine who is a Liturgical Theologian -- so it's not his expertise, but was a good discussion nonetheless.
God's mercy is constant and more powerful than we can even understand. My question is when we actively disobey God and reject him. That's different from being in ignorance of Him.