What Is The One Thing That Will Cause The Most Christians To Lose Their Salvation?

Almost all denominational preachers and even many Christians try to bind one or more laws from the Old Testament that are not taught in the New Testament. Interestingly, most everybody seems to justify different rules from the Old Testament, as there is usually no real rhyme or reason for which few rules are picked out from the Old Testament by any particular individual. Deep down, it is usually which parts of the Old Testament they like, or agree with, or think wise to be brought into New Testament law (just like the Seventh-Day Adventists and their binding today of the OT unclean meat restrictions).

But the very point of Heb 7:12 (“For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law”) is made from the perspective that if part of the old law (the priesthood) has changed, then the whole thing has. And Gal 5:3 (“For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law”) also teaches this “all or nothing” principle when it says if we are binding even one law from the Old Testament, then to be consistent we would have to bind the whole thing.

Gal 5:4 shows that if we do that (bind even one Old Testament law), then we lose our salvation. And this is the one thing I think will get the most Christians. Unfortunately binding a few Old Testament “principles” (what an Old Testament law is usually called if one wants to bind it today) is so prevalent among gospel preachers, it is widely accepted in the brotherhood.

Does Heb 7:12 and etc. mean we shouldn’t ever study the OT? No, since the NT constantly refers to / quotes the OT, we study the OT (Rom 15:4), not because it is our law for today, but because it will help us understand the NT which is our law for today. And make no mistake about it, the NT (the law of Christ – Gal 6:2) is our law for today – exclusively.

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