okay, what is "NCT?" and..

I am on another board where this discussion is sort of taking place. There is a messianic Jewish Rabbi, who says that we as gentiles must follow the "Noadic law," and that he as a Jew must follow the Jewish law.

That did not ring true to me, and I have been through the Hebrew Roots thing before. It seemed to me before, having felt that I must follow the law, that the more law you learn, and begin to follow, the more law there is to follow, and it just never stops! It was like I stepped on a moving treadmill, and all of a sudden, walls went up around it, and the tread mill started going faster, and there was no way off. I realized I could not keep the law! lol. But that is one of the points of the new testament.

They got angry over there at me, probably rightly so, because I posted every single new testament passage concerning the law, and only afterward did I realize that the post was so long lol. Oh well.. anyway, they won't discuss it anymore anyway, but it is still on my mind.

I am not necessarily wondering WHICH laws we should follow, but how it is that we should follow the ten commandments, when it seemed that so much of the "law" described HOW to follow them. Like for instance explaining what sexual sin is etc. "Do not uncover the nakedness of".. whoever whoever etc.

A light just went off in my head when I read Pilgrims post that said that the ten commandments are summarized in the two law that Jesus gave. To love God,and love your neighbor. I can't believe that I never put them together. That the ten commandments are split in two parts, I knew that, and that there were two "new commandments, which are not new" given by Jesus. But then, how does a gay person say that he loves God? Or that he loves his neighbor? We know it's wrong, but I have a gay friend who insists that he is not living the wrong way, and that he does love God. How do I tell him he's wrong, if I don't give old testament examples? Or are there new testament examples too?

I hope I made sense.... I have to get off here now, and I have been quite distracted with my children while writing this post! LOL.. speaking of that.. Sanctus Stultus.. my children want to know your name, and Kim.. they love your dog, and Pilgrim.. they laugh every time they see the pipe smoking old man! LOL

Michele