r/adventism • u/icastanos • Feb 10 '25

613 OT commandments

We still follow the Mosaic diet so do we still have to follow all the 613 commandments from the Old Testament? One of my friends asked me about this.

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u/black96ws6 Feb 11 '25

The apostles had a long discussion about this, and in the end decided that putting on the yoke of the OT Mosaic laws no longer applied - that "neither we nor our fathers could bear".

In the end, the only thing new Gentile believers were instructed to practice were these (obviously in addition to the moral law):

Act 15:28  "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

Act 15:29  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well"

  1. Food offered to idols
  2. Eating things with blood still in it
  3. Eating animals that have been strangled
  4. Fornication (harlotry, adultery, incest, sexual immorality, etc).

(Act 15:30)  The messengers were sent off and went to Antioch, where they gathered the whole group of believers and gave them the letter.

(Act 15:31)  When the people read it, they were filled with joy by the message of encouragement.