The Old Testament shouldn’t be used to preach morality.
Nothing bothers me more than people who use verses about morality from the OT and then say I should follow it. I remember these people once told me that my lip piercing and tattoos were bad and they quoted me a verse about not tattooing your body. That night I went and found the verse and there it was, in the OT right beside “don’t clip your beard or hair at the sides”.
I get why some people think tattoos are wrong and that just fine but they can’t be wrong because THAT verse said so. Otherwise we’re going to stop eating pork, get a menorah and starting celebrating Hanukkah. Nothing against my fellow Jews, you’re beautiful people but us Christians, we’re not Jewish.
The purpose of the OT was to set the stage for Christ. People lived by the law then, having to get into Heaven by their own good works. Christ came a demolished all of that on the cross. He fulfilled the law for us so we no longer have to. We can’t live by the OT these days, we’re not going to get together and sacrifice a cow, God’s not going to demolish cities because of immorality. It’s not relevant to us any more in that way.
There are though, many wonderful lessons to learn from the OT. The commandments in there, if followed, will actually help you be really healthy. They wont make you better in the eyes of God though. You’re already better in his eyes, you’re already perfect.
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