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To be able to truly say that, follow the Torah.
Most won't, because the 83 commandments we're still under are apparently too difficult for most Christians to understand.
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What makes you say that? I guess you don’t agree with St. Aquinas?
The Traditional Threefold Division
1. Moral law — still binding. This includes the Ten Commandments and broader ethical teachings (love of God and neighbor, justice, sexual ethics, prohibitions on murder, theft, lying). Jesus explicitly reaffirmed and deepened these in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7). Nearly all Christian traditions hold that the moral law reflects God's unchanging character and was never abolished.
2. Ceremonial law — fulfilled/overwritten. Sacrifices, dietary restrictions (kosher), circumcision, ritual purity laws, festival observance, and the Levitical priesthood. The argument is that these were shadows pointing to Christ (Colossians 2:16–17, Hebrews 10:1), and were fulfilled in him — the sacrificial system ends because he is the final sacrifice (Hebrews 9–10); circumcision of the body gives way to circumcision of the heart (Romans 2:29).
3. Civil/judicial law — expired with Israel as a political entity. Laws governing the ancient Israelite state: land inheritance, gleaning rules, cities of refuge, penalties administered by courts. These governed a theocratic nation that no longer exists, so Christians generally treat them as historically instructive but not legislatively binding