If the Christians are right and nobody obeys the 10 Laws of Moses perfectly, would you say a lot of people get blessed for partially obeying it?

[jennifer_bloom]

I believe one of the reasons so many East Asians are successful is that their culture stresses similar values to the 10 rules of Deuteronomy and Exodus such as deep respect for seniors and elderly people in your group, honesty, hard work, modesty, humility, not holding grudges against others, considering others equal in importance to yourself, being morally conservative with your dates etc...

[emeraldsaphire]

I've never heard any christian make this argument. Christians divide the Mosaic law into the Moral and Ceremonial law. The Ceremonial law refers to many of the food laws and cleanliness laws like not eating shell fish or honoring the sabbath. The ceremonial law was fulfilled when Jesus came and died on the cross, so christians no longer need to follow those rules. However the Moral law which refers to most of the 10 commandments still applies. Now there can be some debate on what is the moral law and what is the ceremonial law. For example Calvinists believe we should still honor the sabbath by not doing work for money and going to church, but the sabbath has been moved to Sunday for some reason. They also believe it's sinful to make images of God.

I have heard Christians argue that in terms of Justification it is impossible to follow the laws of Moses completely. That is not a license to sin as much as we want though. It's about putting your faith in Jesus for your salvation and not your own good works.

I do think that some of the 10 commandments are good rules to follow and most Christians and most people in general do. However I think the 7 deadly sins that come much later are a far better rubric for morality.

[purplepoppy]

The problem with biblical laws is there's actually hundreds not just the famous 10. People can rightly argue that if we ignore the ones about not eating lobsters or the ones about burning doves during your period then why shouldn't we ignore the ones laid down by mosses, after all he was a butcher who ordered his followers to slaughter their own families.

[AyChingao]

I think there is a class of Christians who take this promise of forgiveness at it's word and use it as license to go out and cheat and hurt others and do whatever else strikes their mood and none of it will matter, because they know they can have every bit of it "forgiven" anytime they want

[Alexandrubaschet08]

Yes, is almoust imposible to obey all the biblical rouls perfectly as human, but the only desire and willing to obey them is enought in God eyes to give any human blessing and forgivnes