Jesus, Old Testament Laws, New Testament Laws, replacement or fulfillment?
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Good question!\n\nHere is one of paul's new laws:\n\n\n1 Cor 11:5-7\n5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head-- it is just as though her head were shaved.\n6 If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.\n7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.\n\n\nOf course this don't apply to our time so we don't keep'em.\n\nBible = faulty
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Actually the laws that were done away with are the "laws contained in ordinances".\nSite:\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/80628344/2012353330047993148Lqpai\n\nMany people confuse these with the Seventh Day Sabbath and Sabbath Feast Days.\n\n\nThe Laws Contained in Ordinances = Eph.2:15 & Col.2:15\n**It seems that most believe these two texts are saying that the Sabbath and/or Sabbath Feasts are done away with. Let me ask you a question: who wrote these books; wasn't it Paul? Paul kept the Sabbath (Acts 17:2) & Sabbath Feasts (Rom.5:11) like Jesus; then these texts must not be talking about that, when the Bible says to follow Jesus (Col.2:6) and the Apostles (Eph.2:20). If you believe the Bible is inspired (2Tim.3:16) & is the truth (John 17:17); continue on!\n**If everyone read the Bible clearly on these matters like Jesus did; then they're wouldn't be false interpetations! The Bible says in Colossians 2:16-17 "Let no man therefore judge you....which are a shadow of things to come" inwhich Jesus showed openly.\nIt explains some of these ordinances in Colossians 2:20-22 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"\nNow Hebrews 9:9-13 explains it more! \nSee: Heb.9:10 "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation."\nThe other part to this about "judging on the Sabbath,...etc." are in: \nMark 2:23-28; 7:2-23; Luke 13:10-16; 14:1-3 & John 5:8-10; 7:23-24.\nNotice in every matter; the Pharisees thought it was wrong to eat with unwashed hands, to heal on the Sabbath, helping out people/animals on the Sabbath as other things; but Jesus always came back with Bible answers to them!\nSo what is actually done away with is "the judging of these days" and the animal sacrifices!
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You are right. Jesus did not abolish the laws but fulfilled it.\n\n*(*
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You'll probably get allot of hogwash (pun intended) about how that was in the old testament, and now were living under the law of the new testament.  I say eat your bacon and shred both testaments.
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There is no "new" gospel.  Scripture was canonized by God's sovereignty.  Revelation 22:18 might be of interest to anyone claiming they have found "new" writings.  ("...If any man shall ADD unto these words, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book")
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Niether Jesus nor Paul (Saul) teach the Trinity.  On the contrary, they both taught the Gospel of the Kingdom as the central message -- that those who obey God may become sons of God, as Jesus is.  The Bible is consistant throughout, both Old and New Testaments teach of God's plan to create man in his image and likeness, as Jesus is the very image of God's character (Colossians 1:15).\n\nTrinitarian teachings did not come from the Bible; they did not develope until centuries after the Bible was completed.
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Somehow the Christian religions had successfully diverted the attention to the new Testament and making the Old Testament somewhat obsolete. This is really what the deceiver wanted to happen. At anyrate, they cannot totally abandon the Old because they are afraid they may lose some of the claims why Jesus has to come down and save mankind for their sins. However, at the same time they are also afraid that should people be left to read the Old Testament from the very start completely without their guidance, people might find out that Jesus' death was not really needed to save man from their original sins. Specially if they Found out that God have already declared who shall be responsible for the sins of man. Deuteronomy 24:16; Ezekiel 18: 3-26 all of the verses written there speaks of God's declaration that those who sins shall suffer the consequence of his own sin and no one else will be held answerable for that. So how can God send someone to take the responsibility to  save other mans' foolishness and much more to be so stupid to send His own Son (or Himself as a Son) for the sins of his own creation. Actually, I found many active Christians in my vicinity very ignorant of the Old teachings and they claimed they have only known the New Testament.
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Jesus did\n\nBut he didn't so much as break the law as change it from the law of sin and death to the law of love and life\n\nLife is greater than the law
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Jesus lived his life in strict adherence to the Laws of God presented in the Old Testament.  Therefore, nothing Jesus did contradicts anything else in the Bible.  What it DOES do is help us interpret the rest of the Bible.  This is sometimes difficult for western thinking to grasp, however, when the Bible is interpreted with a more eastern thinking style, as it was written, it is easier to see that there are no contradictions but just elaborations.\n\nFor example, it was common practice in Jesus' day for the most prominent rabbis to come up with their own interpretations of which laws were the most important.  This was necessary because obeying some laws required ignoring others in particular situations, therefore, it was necessary to decide which law took precedence.  In western thinking this would usually be viewed as a contradiction and a mistake in the law, but it was not seen as such at that time and place.  Even Jesus discussed with the religious leaders and others his interpretation of which laws were the most important. (Matthew 2:24-28, Matthew 22:36, John 7:23, etc).\n\nSo the bottom line is that I think you should use the life and words of Jesus to help you understand and obey the ENTIRE Bible.
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Leviticus is the Jewish law.You are not supposed to follow these laws because you are under grace & not the law.Although much of the Old Testament doesn't apply to us we can see types & pictures all through it.For instance in Isaiah you can see Christ.He tells of His death burial & resurrection.Also of the suffering that Christ would go through.Of course this is all through the Old Testament.
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Ahhh Wicked Wonder, just the new testament now,\nJesus fulfilled the law by living a sinless life.  Now is another testament.  You are so curious that one would wonder if you were not close to becoming one of us.  Then you could change your Yahoo name.\nNo evolution here, mankind just wouldn't obey the laws, didn't have it in them.  God sent his son to do the job.\nJohn 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.\nHebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.  \nHebrews 7:25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.  \nJesus brought in the New Testament, and he will save you to the uttermost if you ask him to.
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Exactly! I think many Christian churches spend too much time on the OT and not nearly enough time on the NT. I thought Jesus said he came to fulfill the OT, so why languish there?
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you cannot possess slaves at all in this day and age. leviticus was pre-Jesus. that law does not apply now.
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The reason that Christians do not feel obligated to follow the old Levitical Law is because the apostle Paul said that we didn't have to (Such as in his letter to the Romans, for example.).  The same Paul condemned homosexuality in chapter one of the same letter.  \n\nIf you assume that Paul is right, and we gentiles are not bound by the Levitical law, then how can you turn around and argue that Paul was unduly influenced by the same Levitical law regarding human sexuality and dismiss him?  Your argument sounds logically inconsistent.\n\nIf you look at Acts chapter 15, it is clear that it was the apostle Paul who got the original apostles of the Christian church to agree that the only laws gentile Christians need obey are those that are moral in nature, and not those which served to set Israel apart as a nation.  \n\nSo the same Paul who said that Jesus did away with the need to follow Levitical law to please God is the same Paul that you would dismiss as being homophobic.  If you cut Paul out of the New Testament and dismiss him, then what is your rational for ignoring Leviticus?  The very idea that any of the old Law of Moses does not apply to Christians does not seem to come from anyone else but Paul himself.  Take away Paul, and it would seem that we are back to stoning people for sexual sins, including homosexuality, as Moses commanded.
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The Old Testament for-warns us of up coming events and how it all came to be. Its like going to the end of the story and reading the last page...we need the old with the new to better understand and to encourage our faith.
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There are many things that Jesus did where the Tanach (OT) fulfillment is hard to find such as Jesus walking on water. Then we find an obscure little passage in Job where we read that God "treads on the sea". In the case of the "I AM" statement knocking the sense out of the arresting officers, I do not think there is any prophecy related to it other than what would have happened to Moses if he didn't take the shoes off his feet. We do know one thing, and that is that Jesus was not just saying "I AM", He showed that there was power and authority behind it.
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The New Testament is meant to be the resolution of the Old Testament.  The Jews had the paradigm of fear.  Jesus, especially in the story of the Resurrection, is showing there is nothing to fear, not even death.