Jesus The Messiah competed the ceremonial Kosher laws in New Testament dealing with shell fish,pork,other meats that were unclean during the times of Old Testaments.Now you can ejoy crabs,shrimps,oysters,and pork products as much as you wish,and all these good for you.However,Lord Jesus retained and enforced the moral laws dealing with all kinds of crime,idolatry,and sexual immorality that is also includes GLBT as we see in Old Testament Leviticus 18:22 and its reendorsement in New Testament in Romans 1:26-32,Second Peter 2,Jude 1:1-6.
Who was required to abstain from shellfish, the gentiles or the Jew or those in Christ?
Paul speaks of the Law being fulfilled, when he says we are dead to
the Law, when he says that we are not under
the law but under grace, when he says "Now before faith came, we were confined under
the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that
the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian" and "discharged from
the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit, and "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery"
Did he mean that we were really only dead to some of the law, that only some of the law was our custodian? It seems an odd way to discuss
the Law if he really only meant some of the law.
When those who tried to re-enslave people came his response was: For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. He of course means that if you accept some of the law then you deny that you are dead to the law and you must therefore obey all of it.
The distinction between ceremonial law and judicial law is man-made, the bible makes no such statement or distinction between parts of the law. James says: “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.” The Law is seen as unified, there is only one Law of Moses and it is the entirety of the first five books of the bible.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Are people save by law or by grace? If by grace then grace is sufficient and is all that is needed. The law is useful to lead one to grace and to teach but obeying the law is not only worthless for a believer but it is a step backward into slavery.
The Adamic law teaches that all who sin die. The Abrahamic law teaches that those who have faith are justified. The Mosaic law teaches that Jews alone who can obey all the written code are justified through works - though that is impossible. The Law of Christ teaches that both Jews and Gentiles can receive the justification of Abraham through faith and fulfill the Mosaic Law.
For a believing Jew he no longer must follow a legal code but it is superceded by the Law of Christ. For a Gentile he is not bound by the Mosaic Law but is bound by Adamic Law - to do what is right as his conscience dictates and to be judged against his own conscience. For the Gentile Christian he never had the Mosaic law but does have the Law of Christ which teaches that he should love what is right not to win himself salvation but to honor God.
When you speak to unbelieving Gentiles and tell them that they are damned because they have not followed the Mosaic Law you are mistaken because they were never given that law to begin with. If you tell them they must do what is right then you must appeal to their conscience. When you speak to any who have sinned either by violating their conscience or by violating the law of Moses you must help them to see salvation through faith.
Homosexuality is really such a small and unimportant issue barely mentioned in all of the bible, sometimes in the Mosaic law which does not apply Gentiles, and sometimes in the Law of Christ which is a message to those who have already believed - but never are there any written instructions on the subject to those who are neither Jew nor Christian. Why would you drive people from Christ by attempting to circumcise those who would be better off receiving faith?
I didn't take as much time as I could and that is not my best post. I also did not put quotes in the KJV as I am sure you would like - but you are free to look up any quote in the KJV.
