Why can't Christians say that parts of the Old Testament don't apply??..

[solja247]

This is the argument that Christians use, when Atheists ask why people don't stone their neighbors for working on the Sabbath, and things like that. How do you counter arguments that these rules were for an earlier time? I mean, there are some old testament verses about people's animals falling into pits that certainly don't apply anymore.

Any Christian who argues the law was done away with at the cross does not know what they are talking about. The Mosaic law (including the ten commandments) have been fullfilled, they were a shadow of things to come. However, if you want to keep the passover go ahead. Early Christians kept the Passover, not Easter (Easter was a pagan event). I personally keep the Sabbath and although some people are very legalistic (No swiming on the sabbath, no fun, no secular activites) I think Jesus said it very well, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. However, in Jesus's time people were very legalistic, you had laws to prevent the torah from being broken (one of them was no healing on the sabbath) back when the Mosaic law was written it wasnt so much about being legalistic, it was trying to set of rules and principles for the Jews to keep that would make them live good lives, if they failed, they would sacrifice a lamb or some other animal...
The law has never been done away, but it has been fulfilled, in love...

The Father, Christ and Holy Spirit were from the begining ie. Genesis. As for stoneing someone for working on the Sabbath that is against the laws of our country that was founded on religious freedom. All the OT law does not apply to christianity. Jesus said, it was said to hate your enemies, I say to love your enemies and even supply their needs. When the priest condemned the disciples for picking grain to eat on the Sabbath Jesus said do you not pull an ox from the ditch on the Sabbath, then He told them He was the Lord of the Sabbath and that the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath. Jesus was saying to the priest that I have not judged them so why should you. Many different laws in the OT were meant for different reasons and some of those do not apply to todays world.

I am sorry to say you are wrong. I have dont ample of research on the Sabbath and the law and none of them were done away with at the cross. Christianity was very much so Jewish, they kept the Torah, went to all the feasts and new moon celebrations.