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If we're to follow ONE part of the LAW, it seems we should follow it all.

Should we disregard the ten commandments? The reason why we don't is because they accord with the natural law, which is written on the human heart (see Deuteronomy), and is knowable by all people. For this reason, the ten commandments were binding even before they were formally promulgated by God, and for this reason, they are still binding today.

The same holds true for Levitical laws that accord with the natural law, such as proscriptions against masturbation and induced sterility. These proscriptions are still valid today because they conform with the natural law, of which God is the author. Other Levitical proscriptions could be described as transient pastoral laws promulgated by God for a particular people and time.

For this reason, the ten commandments were binding even before they were formally promulgated by God, and for this reason, they are still binding today.

Huh?

The Law reveals our sinfulness.

"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin," (Rom. 3:20).

"What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law.

For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, ‘Do not covet,’" (Rom. 7:7).

The Law is for those who are not under grace.

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God," (Rom. 3:19).

"For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace," (Rom. 6:14).

The Law justifies no one.

"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law," (Rom. 3:20).

The Law makes no concessions; it makes demands.

"Cursed is every man who does not abide by everything written in the book of the law to perform them," (Gal. 3:10).

The same holds true for Levitical laws that accord with the natural law, such as proscriptions against masturbation and induced sterility. These proscriptions are still valid today because they conform with the natural law, of which God is the author. Other Levitical proscriptions could be described as transient pastoral laws promulgated by God for a particular people and time.

Which are which?