Do These Rules Even Matter Now?

Not really. The rules themselves don't mean much unless you still strictly follow them for some reason. Their existence matters though. The fact that they exist means a lot.

Why Do They Matter?

The reason the rules matter is simple. The fact that they exist means that there was a time where everyone thought that just following the rules and doing nothing else religious meant that you were holy and were going to heaven. It means that there was a time where people overthought the Ten Commandments to the point where they let the rules that they created out of just the statement "Keep the Sabbath holy" completely ruin a day of the week. They took it so far that I'm surprised that they were allowed to exist. This of course, was just the rules for the Sabbath. They had rules for just about anything. The Israelites made Christianity into just a bunch a rules.

The Point I'm Trying To Get Across To You

Now it may not have been clear what the point I was trying to get across so far was, but here it is:

I've been telling you about the way that the Israelites treated Christianity to try to prevent people from doing that again. The passage that this project is based on is in the Bible to remind people of the Israelite's failures so that we don't repeat it. If you look at the modern churches, you can occasionally see that rules based conduct in the way they act, and we need to not repeat the failures of the Israelites from nearly 2000 years ago. That is the point I'm trying to get across. I want you to think about how the Israelites changed the way people were to act as a Christian into something completely wrong. It's starting to happen again, and we don't want that. Christians aren't supposed to be people who hate anyone who is different in whatever way because of some rule that people have come up with, we're supposed to be people who love others no matter who they are, what they do, how they identify, what color their skin is, or who they're attracted to. Christians are supposed to treat everyone fairly, but because of the way some churches are teaching now, that just isn't the way many of us act any more.

I just want to spread awareness of what's going on, and where the problem lies.

Hopefully, you learned something from this. Thank you for reading.