Q. I was talking to a Christian the other day about the Noahide
Laws and was surprised that he had never heard of them before.
He knew about the Mosaic Law and had been taught the standard
Protestant doctrine that Christ had "done away" with that. I
wonder if you could explain to us what the Noahide Law was, how
it relates to the Mosaic Law, and what its relevance - if any -
is to us today? A. The Law given by Yahweh to Noah immediately
after the Great Flood is believed by most to have been a
precursor to the Law subsequently given to Moses as though this
were some sort of "evolutionary process" or "Darwinian
revelation". It may surprise most Christians to learn that not
only is the Noahide (or Noahic) Law a self-contained code of
divine commandments in and of itself but that it is still valid
today. Before we examine this code it's important that we also
understand that even in the patriarchal time before Moses, and
all the way back to Adam, that there was also a Law or Torah. Q.
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