Luke Wolf said:
The few baptist churches I used to attend taught that the OT laws are to be followed.
Did they follow ALL the OT laws or most of them? I am not picking you, the Baptists, or anyone else, but I have encountered many Christians who say homosexuality is a sin because of Leviticus, yet they have no problem eating pork.
IMHO,you either follow all the OT laws or you don't. PIcking and choosing is not a valid option.
In Matthew 2:36-40, Jesus 'spars with a lawyer
, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
37 And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."
In Matthew 19:17-19, Jesus tells a young man 'If you would enter life, keep the commandments."
18 He said to him, "Which?" And Jesus said, "You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
In the 'words of instiutution', 1 Corinthians 11:25, Jesus tells his disciples "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.".
I think Jesus makes it clear that God has established a new covenant through him. When asked which commandments to follow, he makes no reference to the 'Hebrew Laws' but rather a New Testament of how God wants us to treat one another.