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HOW WE STILL KEEP THE LAW I keep seeing posts where people are saying that we can ignore the Old Testament since Jesus did away with the law at Calvary. This is just not true, and such ignorant people are causing much damage to the cause of Christ.First, the entire Old Testament does not fall under the written law of Moses. The fifty chapters of Genesis, the forty-two chapters of Job and the first nineteen chapters of Exodus are BEFORE the law of Moses. So some of the established laws from these scriptures stand true even today, since they were true even before the law of Moses. The death penalty for murder and the forbidding of blood drinking, for instance, were established laws clear back in Genesis 9, and they are still divine laws today (Acts 25:11; 15:29). They are not limited to the written law of Moses.Secondly, even within the written law of Moses itself, it is the ceremonial and ritualistic ordinances that were abolished at Calvary, not the moral law. We no longer offer animal sacrifices and keep the various feast days, but we still believe in Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, Thou Shalt Not Covet, etc., not as a means of earning salvation, but in order to live righteously before God. It is for this reason that Paul said, "the law is good" in I Timothy 1:8, and this is why he recommends half of the ten commandments in Romans 13:9.So, claiming that "we don't keep the law" is not true and is very misleading. We don't keep the law in the strict dispensational sense that the Jews were told to keep it for over fourteen centuries, but we do keep the moral law of God, just as saints of God have done from the very beginning.