The Law is NOT Abolished!
Some take Ephesians 2:15 as an excuse to abolish God's Ten Commandments and the moral law. But actually this verse is speaking of "dogma"—in this case man—made laws that caused division between Jew and Gentile. Remember the principle of studying all the references on one topic. If we read Ephesians 2:15 apart from the rest of the Bible, we could come to a wrong conclusion.
Note this comment from the NIV Study Bible (emphasis ours): "Since Mattew 5:17 and Romans 3:31 teach that God's moral standard expressed in the OT law is not changed by the coming of Christ, what is abolished here is probably the effect of the specific 'commandments and regulations' in separating Jews from Gentiles, whose nonobservance of the Jewish law renders them ritually unclean." This comment and its approach are consistent with the principle that the Bible is a complete book. Study the scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments of your Bible!!!
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