Refuting Christians with their Own Bible

[SteveII]

What do you mean?

I mean that his distinction between grace and the law permits Christians to simply ignore vast stretches of the Hebrew scriptures as not applicable to them, especially if it presents embarrassing ethical problems for the believer. According to your divinely inspired book, homosexuals should be killed. But that doesn't apply to Christians . . . that's a Jewish rule. But the 10 Commandments? Nothing too embarrassing there, so you'll adopt it despite its being a law given to the Jews.

Etc., etc.

When Paul talks about being under grace and not the law, he is not talking about ignoring vast stretches of OT law. He is talking about the law's purpose is to convict you (show that you are hopeless sinner) but grace has removed that feature of the law. Do you have a particular passage in mind? 

You have to distinguish God's moral law from the punishments. Civil punishment for breaking laws is a civil matter of a theocracy. To use your example, practicing homosexuality is still wrong (moral law) but the punishments don't apply to us. Dietary laws are the same--they applied to that group of people in those circumstances.