Mosaic Law Research Paper

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What role of the OT Law should be in the life of the Church?
There are six hundred and thirteen laws Mosaic Laws and many Christians today find themselves wondering which of the Mosaic Laws are to be followed and which ones are to be considered obsolete. According to Matthew 5:17, more importantly according to Jesus, the Laws have been fulfilled; "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." 1 I found it stated in the following way;
Although the New Testament cites many individual Old Testament laws as valid, it does not specify a general category as permanently valid. However, when it declares laws obsolete, it uses large categories. In Acts 15, it is "the Law of Moses."
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We never boast of obedience, nor despair of falling short.
God has already made fully sufficient provision for justifying us even when we were wicked and ungodly.4 In the Book of Timothy we find the following; "We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me." 5
This passage of Scripture tells me that the Law is still in effect for those who live carelessly, because if we are living for Him, we will do whatever we can to live according to the two Greatest Commandments; to love Him and to love each

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