Demi,

Please read this carefully as it seems that you haven't been reading my posts carefully before posting your responses and have, therefore, responded to things that I didn't say.

I'm not sure you read what I posted. I never said that you need to follow the law to gain salvation. That certainly is not possible because there would be no salvation.

Where I disagree with you is when you say,

"The Old Testament has been done away with."

That's not true at all, not even close. Although it is a common teaching in the modern church.

The Old Testament contains a heck of a lot more than the law. It contains statutes and ordinances and promises and prophecies and wisdom. That has not been done away with at all.

As for the law, it has not been "done away with" either. It only has no power over us because Christ fulfilled it "for us", in our stead. He did not do away with the law and the prophets, as he plainly says in the quote in my previous post. There's a big difference and I believe you are generalizing it away and missing this important detail.

[color:"red"]"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."[/color]

Matt 5:17

Also, the NIV is will known to be a horrible translation of the BIble, as is the NASV. The studies I've followed on this subject made it blatantly clear that these were translated with guile. The only worse translation is the Catholic Living Bible (not talking about the "new" Living Bible as there is a difference.