**The most glaring case of "picking and choosing" indulged in by ALL Christians (except the 7th Day Adventists) is ignoring the Sabbath. The commandment says honor the SABBATH.**
The early Apostles did keep the Sabbath. Then they met again on Sunday to celebrate the Lord's resurrection, read scripture and share a meal. It usually happened in a home. Bet you knew this!
Yes, I knew that.
But Christians ever since have NOT kept the Sabbath, and do not keep the Sabbath.
For Catholics and the Orthodox, this is easy. Power of the keys given to Peter and the Apostles, and given by Peter and the Apostles to the leadership of the Church, in Apostolic succession. So, the Commandment to Honor the Sabbath no longer applies, because it's been superseded, by the authority God vested in Peter and the apostles, which they vested in the Church, by the Tradition of the Church that says that SUNDAY is the day of Catholic (and Orthodox) worship. Catholics do not honor the Sabbath Day and keep it holy, because the Church says they don't have to, and the Church has the authority, given by God, to bind God, which includes changing the Ten Commandments. The Church changed one, and we are bound to obey the Church, and not the Bible, on this point. Or rather, we are bound to obey the Bible and understand that the Power of the Keys in Matthew MEANS that the Church can change the law of the Bible, and that IS divine. So much for the Catholics and Orthodox.
Protestants can't do that. In fact, when Catholics do that, based on the power of the keys, Protestants see Catholics erecting the sort of traditions against the law of God that Jesus railed at the Pharisees for doing. The Bible's the inerrant, infallible Word of God, and the Church cannot modify the Ten Commandments.
But Protestants, except for Seventh Day Adventists, follow the tradition of Sunday worship, which isn't Biblical, and don't honor the Sabbath Day and Keep it Holy. In effect, they follow 9 of the Ten Commandments.
I find this interesting, and I find the justifications given for that interesting.
For Catholics, the Church has the authority of God, including the authority to overrule the Bible (so long as that was done long ago; TODAY the Church could not credibly overrule Sunday and replace it with a Tuesday mandatory mass, for instance. It could try, but it would be the end of infallibility were the assertion made. Everybody would see it as an error.)
For Protestants, it's Bible alone, but they don't keep the Sabbath. A fascinating problem.