The Law was written for its day, its time. 

As such it served a beneficial purpose though at times, in the light of Christ’s teachings, it is hard for us today to understand. 

God deals with us as we are not as we will be. 

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Linda said

The Law was written for its day, its time. 

God deals with us as we are not as we will be. 

  

That makes no sense. If eating shellfish and wearing mixed fabrics was wrong, and God told people not to do it, why didn’t he tell people not to rape or own people as property?

 

  

Presentism is the applying of today’s standards to people in the ancient past. Doing so blocks any effort to understand, to truly understand, people who lived in the past.

Deuteronomy 22:25-27

“But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. You shall do nothing to the young woman; the young woman has not committed an offense punishable by death, because this case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor. 

“Since he found her in the open country, the engaged woman may have cried for help, but there was no one to rescue her.”  NRSV

Adultery was punishable by death. The verses above seek to give the engaged woman the benefit of the doubt because it is her word against his whether she cooperated or not with the sexual act. 

An interesting fact is that there is only one sexual act prohibited in the Ten Commandments- Adultery. 

Jesus emphasized the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments were housed in the Ark of the Covenant, the Law of Moses was not. Prophetic?