Your explanation doesn't really clear the issue up, Vicki Q. It seems as if you're saying that yes, it was overridden but no, it wasn't either. Like many other biblical messages, the question of whether the old testament law applies is muddled because there are texts that can be used to support either viewpoint. I think most Christians prefer the version where the old law is superceded by the "new pact" because forced adherence to old testament law would be onerous for them today, seeing as they'd have to massacre anyone who worked on the weekend, for starters.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
