Originally Posted by ryanm

Question:

I know we are discussing the Christian dismissal of the OT, but I'm curious if anyone here knows why the Jews themselves no longer follow the harsher laws found in the Torah. Unless I'm utterly ignorant of foreign affairs, I don't think they're routinely stoning their children... do they have a good reason for this?

Originally Posted by chrisengland

Hello
I havn't read all the reply's so I apologise if this has already been said.
Aparently the Church(I think the Catholic at least) has said that the Old Testament had three kinds of laws' ceremonial' civil and moral.
They say Christians are required to follw the moral laws still' some of which were expanded by Jesus.
They say the civil and cerimonial no longer need to be kept.
I,ve heard there has been some debate about The Old Testament Laws' possibly whether thay are moral' civil or ceremonial.
The person who broke down the laws was a Catholic I think' whether Protestants and other denominations have slightly different reasons for not keeping them I don't know.
Some do keep more of the Old Testament rules like the sabbath for example.
Chris

Originally Posted by J-D

I'll leave it you to judge what constitutes a 'good reason' in this instance, but on the particularly question you ask, here's one typical Jewish discussion:

http://www.sff.net/people/ahonigsberg/rabbi/Kitetse.htm

I can find some others for you on the Web if you're interested.