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[b]#1[/b]Exodus 35:2 says people who work in the Sabbath should be put to death. What about all those people who work at the grocery store? Or play in the NFL?

[b]#2[/b]Should people still be burned for wearing garments made of two different threads? 
[b]#3[/b]What is a good price if I want to sell my 6 yo as a slave? The Bible says I can. 
[b]#4[/b]Speaking of slavery, the Bible is OK with it - are you?

[b]#5[/b]What's that, you say? Those are anachronistic beliefs that have no place in modern society even though they appear in the Bible?
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from  [url]http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_OldTestamentLaw.htm[/url]

This website sums it up rather well:
[url]http://thecripplegate.com/shellfish-mixed-fabrics-and-homosexuality-picking-and-choosing/[/url]

[b]#1 The Sabbath[/b]
Jesus and His disciples did not observe the strict scribal rules against doing any work on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:1-14, Mark 2:23-28, 3:1-6, Luke 6:1-11, 13:10-17, 14:1-6, John 5:1-18). Neither did they perform the ritual hand washings before eating (Matthew 15:1-2). In contrast to the dietary rules of the Law, Jesus said no food can defile a person; it is bad attitudes and actions that can make a person unholy (Matthew 15:1-20, Mark 7:1-23). Jesus frequently criticized the scribal laws (Matthew 23:23, Mark 7:11-13) and some aspects of the civil law (John 8:3-5, 10-11).

Matthew 12: 
[i]5 Hhaven’t you (Pharisees) read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 
6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 
7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘God desires to give mercy, not receive sacrifice,’ you (Pharisees) would not have condemned the innocent. 
8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”[/i]

Jesus did not abolish the moral and ethical laws that had been in effect from the time of Moses.

Matthew 5:  
[i]27 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;
28 but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her did already commit adultery with her in his heart.[/i]

Christians still look to the Old Testament scripture for moral and spiritual guidance

2 Timothy 3:16-17).
[i]All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.[/i]

But when there seems to be a conflict between Old Testament laws and New Testament principles, we must follow the New Testament because it represents the most recent and most perfect revelation from God

Hebrews 8:13
[i] By calling this covenant “new” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.[/i]

However, freedom from the Old Testament Law is not a license for Christians to relax their moral standards. The moral and ethical teachings of Jesus and His apostles call for even greater self-discipline than those of the Old Testament

Mark 7:21-23
[i]Jesus: "What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”[/i]

[b]#2 Wearing garments of wool and linen[/b]
Leviticus 19:19
[i]Ye shall keep my statutes...neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee[/i]

Notice there is no death penalty for not keeping this statute. No one is commanded to burn the person with fire for not keeping this statute. God says you are to keep that statute but there is no death penalty for not doing so.

Deuteronomy 11:26
[i]See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God[/i]

On the other hand, God clearly says a homosexual is to be put to death:

Leviticus 20:13 
[i]`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.[/i]

[b]#3Slavery[/b]
Slavery in biblical times is completely different than the African slave trade.  The bible condemns kidnapping people and forcing them into slavery.

[i]"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death."[/i] (Exodus 21:16)

from [url]http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/slavery_bible.html[url]

[url]http://www.gotquestions.org/bible-slavery.html[/url]

The Bible does not specifically condemn the practice of slavery. It gives instructions on how slaves should be treated (Deuteronomy 15:12-15; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1), but does not outlaw slavery altogether

In Bible times, slavery was based more on economics; it was a matter of social status. People sold themselves as slaves when they could not pay their debts or provide for their families. In New Testament times, sometimes doctors, lawyers, and even politicians were slaves of someone else. Some people actually chose to be slaves so as to have all their needs provided for by their masters.

The slavery in bible times can better be described as indentured servitude rather than like the kidnapping of Africans and selling them into slavery.

[b]#4 Slavery[/b]
Exodus 21:7 
[i]“If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do. If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.[/i]

Sometimes out of economic necessity a man would sell his daughter into slavery. Of course no father would want to do that but in biblical times there was no social security, no welfare, no unemployment agency to tide one over until better times came. You either sold your daughter into slavery so as to replace a dead milk cow which was the only source of income, or everyone starves to death.

Those were very different and difficult times. Notice the statute is how to treat the slave justly. It does not say "And you can beat her near to death if it pleases you oh happy slave owner."

[b]#5 Relevance to modern times[/b]

Of course the statutes on slavery do not apply to these modern times because wonderful capitalism and our advanced economies of scale render unnecessary selling one's daughter into slavery.

The old testament of the bible was written for the Jews. The laws were written so that the Jews would be separate and distinguishable from the pagan gentiles of the time. God set the Jews apart so that Jesus would come and save everyone.

The laws on how to trim one's beard or the type of fabric to wear no longer apply but the moral laws still do:  murder, adultery, homosexuality, drunkeness, lying, and cheating are still wrong, but there is no death penalty for it anymore.

When the Jews were going to stone the woman to death who was caught in the act of adultery what did Jesus say?  "I do not condemn you to death:  go and sin no more."

That is what Jesus is telling us:  do not sin. Avoid it.  But if we do sin (and we will) Jesus is there to forgive if we are willing to repent and make a supreme effort to stop sinning.

Keeping old testament laws does not get a person to heaven, only faith in Jesus Christ for what he did on the cross. 
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