[Iscool]

1 Corinthians 7:11-13
"But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife."

That's good advice...But it's not the law...We are not under the law...But why don't you reference the rest of the chapter instead of just cherry picking a verse that 'appears', on its own, to bolster your opinion...

[Mrs. Don-o]

If anyone says that Jesus Christ is a redeemer in whom they are to trust but not also a lawgiver whom they are bound to obey, they are pretty badly mistaken.

I think you probably have the Gospel of John in your Bible? Jesus says there is no abolition of commandments: if we love Him, we keep His commandments.

Read John 14: “If you love me, keep my commands.
...Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."

Look at all the timnes in the Gospels Our Lortd tells us to obey the commandments.

You'd have to go after your NT with an X-acto knife and leave it looking like a paper doily, if you cut out the plces Jesus tells us to obey the Commandments.

[Mrs. Don-o]

We are not under halachic regulations: the whole panoply of ritual and kosher laws, the 613 Mitzvot, which made Israel distinctive as a "nation apart."

This is what St. Paul had to contend with: do Christian Gentiles have to live like Torah Jews? The answer is "no."

But we definitely have to obey God's moral Laws, which are universal and eternal. This is not just good advice. This is the way of Life.

And the other way, breaking the Commandments, is the way if Death:

1 Corinthians 5:9-10
Do you not know
that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived.
Neither fornicators,
nor idolaters,
nor adulterers,
nor boy prostitutes,
nor sodomites,
nor thieves,
nor covetous,
nor drunkards,
nor revilers,
nor extortioners
will inherit the kingdom of God."

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