Sabbath and other laws

Those are just a few of the laws God has given to us in his holy Word. The question is, "What are we supposed to do with them? Does God expect us to obey all of them? Did you sin by trimming your beard this morning? Is it an abomination to God that I'm wearing a shirt with a blend of cotton and some other fabric? Will you be in trouble with more than just your parents when you come home with a brand new tattoo on your skin? If all these commands are written in the Bible, don't we have to obey them?"

This is an excerpt from a sermon I found actually from an evangelical lutheran church. It is a very interesting sermon that uses good verses to verify the information presented.
Click on the link here to view the sermon:
http://www.mountoliveappleton.com/sermons/20030622.html

This helps to explain my viewpoint a lot.

Church

Are we supposed to meet and worship on
saturday or sunday?
Are we supposed to use instruments in
our worship or not?

Our Holy Bible

The Word of God!
Have you ever wondered what the actual
process was and how we came to have
the bible as we know it today?
I know a lot of you are going to say why
question what's worked for centuries.
Well, this is the year of judgement,
the year of new understandings,
the year to come unto new wisdom.
If you ask him and are able to understand
he will tell you the truths of the world today.
I've been told by someone recently that
we don't need to hear from God today
because we have the bible as our tutor.
There is a verse in the new testament
that says that the old testament was given
to us(the people of the new testament)
for a tutor and since we have Jesus to guide
us we don't need to adhere to the old
testament anymore. So then what do we
have the old testament for if not to learn from?
Well, I don't know....
I think we can still learn alot from the old
testament and it's many truths and stories
of other peoples mistakes and trials as well
as there triumphs. We can be uplifted by it
and guided by it in ways that don't have to
be the laws in it.
This brings me to a new question.
Who decided what was left out of the bible
when it was put together and what influenced
there decision. I've been told there over 80
gospels alone that were left out of the bible
and only 4 chosen, one of which I question
the author stated. Why do we need 3 gospels
that repeat the same thing almost word for
word over and over again? Why not put
something in there that is different or at least
showed a different viewpoint? What happened
to all those others that weren't put in the bible?
Where are they now? If we were to find them
and read them could they be considered the
Word of God as well? Were they not also
inspired by the Holy Spirit? What about the
dueterocanonicals/apocrypha? This was some
12-15 books that the Catholics still use today
that I don't have in my Holy Bible. Why were
they taken out? Why does the new testament
only speak about those churches that Paul set up?
What about those others that the other apostles
set forth and kept? What happened to them?
What about all those other gnostic texts that
were discluded?
One last question/comment... The book of John.
I mentioned earlier that I question the author
of one of the gospels. Did John tell stories about
himself in the third person? In John 1:15
it says: John spoke about him. He cried out,
"This is the one I was talking about when I said,
'He comes after me, but he is greater than I am,
because he existed before I was born.'"
Why would John, who also wrote of course 1st
2nd and 3rd John not in the 3rd person, talk
about himself in such a way. This doesn't seem
right to me. And it goes on and on through the
whole book where it talks about John as if
someone else is telling the story.

I don't expect that any one person can or ever
will be able to answer all of these questions.
If you have comments or other questions
please add them.