So says the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:11. The statement caps a rapid-fire sequence of references to the Old Testament in a timeless warning against moral vices common to both the OT and NT ages—idolatry, sexual immorality, and discontent—and in so doing establishes a certain moral continuity between the testaments. Paul’s summary explains, in part, how “all [OT] Scripture is [still] profitable” for believers today (2 Tim 3:16–17).It is because of this passage (and many other passages that highlight the continuing value of the OT for the present age) that I am troubled by Andy Stanley’s recent book Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World. In the book he argues that, due to Christ’s fulfillment of the Mosaic Law, NT believers are “unhitched” from a Mosaic Law that has become “obsolete” in an absolute sense, that is, in both precept and principle. As a Christian and as a dispensationalist I reject Stanley’s model out of hand.
Source: Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary » Dispensationalism Unhitched?
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