Christians and the Law of Moses
Why the actions of the Christian Nationalists have proven that they are false believers.
(This turned into a three part series. See part 2 here and part 3 here.)
The Christian Nationalists have made attempts to force the Bible onto others, primarily through schools, even going so far as to put up the Ten Commandments. These actions shows clearly that they are false believers, according to the words and warnings of Scripture, for every book of the New Testament warned of false prophets and John declares those who do not love do not know God, for God is love (1 John 4:8). Those who would try to force their beliefs on others (1 Cor 5:12) and especially those who would try to raise up the defunct Law of Moses, are nothing more than charlatans using the faith of others for their own ulterior motives.
To back up this claim with more than my own personal opinion, I have put together a thorough—but hopefully succinct—scriptural interpretation on the New Covenant of Christ and how it supersedes the Law of Moses. This is crucial, because any “Christian” attempting to teach adherence to that ancient Law is actually subverting the new covenant with Christ and is therefore anti-Christ. They are no more than wolves in sheep’s clothing or the poor fools that have been lead astray by them.
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” -Jeremiah 31:31-34
Christians do not follow the old Law of Moses. That law is defunct, superseded by the new covenant with Christ. In quoting the above passage from the Prophet of Jeremiah, the author of Hebrews notes that the new covenant means that the old one is obsolete (Heb 8:13). This is based on the idea that Christ has, “obtained a more excellent ministry,” as “mediator of a better covenant,” (Heb 8:6). Hebrews chapter 9 goes into further detail, with words that mirror the apostle Paul’s in 2 Corinthians 3:6, where he states, “For the letter [the Law] kills, but the Spirit gives life,” and Romans 6:14, where he says that they are not under the Law, but grace.
Just as Jeremiah proclaimed the Lord’s word that, “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts,” so Jesus taught that the people did not even understand the Law, but used it as an excuse for evil (Matt 5:21-22, Matt 15:3-5). Instead, they needed a new covenant that connected them to Jesus by blood (Luke 22:20). This was not only the blood of his sacrifice in redeeming us from sin and death, but also connection by blood in joining as co-inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven (Romans 8:17, 1 John 3:1-3).
This is done through repenting of sin and receiving the Holy Spirit (John 20:22, Acts 2:38) and thus partaking of “the Divine nature” (2 Pet 1:3-4), and NOT by following the law. Jesus proclaimed that the greatest commandment was to, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ (Matt 22:37-39). Jesus then said the entire Law and the Prophets hinge on those two commandments. This makes the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments obsolete, for if you are loving God, then you will not sin against him and if you are loving people (including yourself) then you will not sin against them either.
Therefore, Jesus has enacted a new covenant, based on his sacrifice and resurrection, in connection to and empowered by the Holy Spirit of God, where we do what is right not because we have to follow a law, but because we know it is right and good and we want to. This is where the Christian Nationalists fail; they do not want to do what is right. They know their actions are anti-Christ, selfish and hateful. They know they don’t truly operate based on the teachings of the Bible and the Way of Christ.
They think you need laws set in stone in order to do what someone else has told you is right, because they know that they would never do so unless they were forced to. So then they want to force others to follow their own ideas of self-righteousness, when deep down they know how truly awful they are. Just so that there can be zero doubt, this is me—as a disciple of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, my Lord, my Savior and Redeemer, through whom I have received the Holy Spirit—denouncing wholeheartedly the false teachings of the false prophets of Christian Nationalism and their followers.