by Debra Downey
Answering the question: "How do you know we must follow the laws of the Old Testament?"
The Bible says if you love God, you should follow His laws: "That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him..." (Deut. 30:20). There are many references, in both the Old and New Testament of how God's people, as a whole, have spent their whole existence in failure of obeying God and the misery that results. In chapter 9 of Daniel, Daniel is praying for his people because they have not kept God's Law. "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets." (Daniel 9:10).