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Alterego-X said:

Most Christians would probably argue that Christ's death ended the Old Testament, fulfilled the law, and started the salvation by grace. As Paul says:

Acts 13 :39:"And by Him (Jesus) all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses" 

 

So these are just old legal writings for ancient jews, and we should move on, the only rules still active are the ones about how we should love our neighbour, and our God, and stuff like that.

 

Though, Paul also says this:

Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

 

And again, one could argue that these are just rules for ancient romans, and we should again move on. 

Paul saying that is a good point, but it runs directly in counter to what Christ says on the subject:

Matthew 5:18-19
I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus was a prety fundamentalist Jew, even if he was a fairly radical political activist.