Were it so simple. Did you have a chance to read Footnote 2 above? It isn’t simply a matter of lining up the ethical “Do’s” and “Don’ts” and seeing which ones made it into both Testaments. The NT isn’t a sanitary, catch-all corpus of contemporary wisdom. Like the “Old Testament”, it has its share of ethical difficulties that require we bring an assortment of external resources to bear in working through them.

There are no transparent formulas for navigating the difficult questions of life. We must work out our morals and our ethics and meaning for ourselves. It’s what we’ve been doing all along and, for better or for worse, it’s all we’ve got 😉