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>Exactly what laws are Christians supposed to follow?
You mean from the Bible?

The most direct answer is to follow the greatest commandment, which is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, with all thy mind. Keeping that means everything else will follow. Looking at it from another perspective, one part of the laws of the Old Testament applied in one particular way to those who were under the Mosaic law in the BC era and living specifically in Israel, namely the ceremonial laws that have to do with the temple, animal sacrifices, dietary laws and sabbath days. That was a specific set of instructions that applied to only one people group, and for a fixed time frame that ended 2000 years ago. That part of the Law is fulfilled through Christ now, according to the New Testament. The civil law part of the Old Testament is a good idea for a country to follow. For example, having the death penalty for sodomites who are convicted and found guilty in a court of law would cause any nation to prosper, since God would bless them for following that law as a nation. And the moral law, which is where God prescribes how individuals are to behave, is always applicable. "Thou shalt not kill" applied even before Moses and it still applies now. Through the various teachings throughout the Bible, Christians can see examples of the moral law, and this includes the Ten Commandments. Of course, everything in the New Testament applies to God's people (the Christians) now. That would be how I would explain this if I had to start somewhere.

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