The Rent Veil: How Far Did It Tear?
Something has been puzzling me for awhile about the differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Every Christian church I have ever been to in the U.S. at least has had plenty of women with short hair and clean-shaven men. We have fellowship dinners with pork and shellfish. Yet we still follow the Ten Commandments religiously (pun intended), marriage is still defined as between one man and one woman...but yet polygamy is not allowed or sanctioned by most Christian churches.
My question, and my point of confusion is: why are parts of the OT still considered important when we believe things changed so much with Christ's death and resurrection? What is the metric by which some OT things are still followed by Christians in general and some are not, and who exactly set that metric? How do we answer criticisms from non-Christians that Christians pick and choose what they want to from the OT?
My question, and my point of confusion is: why are parts of the OT still considered important when we believe things changed so much with Christ's death and resurrection? What is the metric by which some OT things are still followed by Christians in general and some are not, and who exactly set that metric? How do we answer criticisms from non-Christians that Christians pick and choose what they want to from the OT?