I've sometimes wondered if many OT laws fall into a catagory of "virtue" that could mean that keeping them is a good thing but not keeping them isn't necessarily a sin.

In South Africa the Bible is taken much more seriously in Afrikaans culture than it is over here. My neighbor was an alfalfa farmer, and due to the OT law he didnt "round the corners of his fields" i.e. he left the corners for the local Africans to glean. They came and harvested by hand enough to supplement the diet of their milk goats, which was very important to their families.

Was that morally neutral (don't you hate having to use that phrase?)?

Say you have two farmers in 30AD. Both let poor people glean, and that was proper. A few years later one decided he wasn't under the law due to the death and resurrection, and felt he could use the extra income, and stopped letting poor people glean, and on the day of rest went out and harvested the corners.

The other kept on doing as always.

What then? Even if one did "better" could it be that neither sinned in the matter?

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Tim Vaughan, 48 years old, member PCA church but currently attending EV Free church. San Luis Obispo County, California.