How do you determine which parts of the Old Testament were made obsolete by Jesus?
by admin ~ May 21st, 2006 . Filed under: Religion & Spirituality .
omnithought asked:
I hear a lot of conflicting information. Some say he made the whole OT obsolete and some quote him saying “I come not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.”
I hear a lot of conflicting information. Some say he made the whole OT obsolete and some quote him saying “I come not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.”
People will use one part of Leviticus to condemn gays but then say that the surrounding admonitions to not eat shellfish or wear clothing of more than one fabric are obsolete.
So, which is it? How do you decide what stays and what goes in the OT?
Kirk Bhairo
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:57 am
Keep in mind homosexuality was condemned in the NT as well.
So Christ did fulfill the law and is the embodiment of the New Convenant. That New covenant also views homosexuality as a sin along with a number of other sins.
May 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 pm
You just decide which ones suit your lifestyle, and which ones back up your intolerant beliefs and go from there. The ones left over are the obsolete ones.
May 25th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
He obseleted the whole thing. He replaced the Old Law (don’t be gay, don’t eat shellfish, etc.) with the New Law (be good to other people)
May 27th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
You just make **** up as you go along, easy! Hope this helped!
May 28th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Laptop Jesus used to know where to get the special decoder ring. Maybe she still has the address for it. I lost it.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:18 pm
The Jewish Law is applicable only to Jews still living under the Law.
The moral law is applicable to every one.
The New Testament condemns homosexuals just as much as the Old Testament, meaning that it transcends Jewish Law, and so it falls into the category of moral law that is applicable to all people.
As far as food, “But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.” (Act 15:20 KJV) and “For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.” (Act 15:28-29 KJV) and finally, “As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.” (Act 21:25 KJV)
You got it yet? Or are you (or someone else) going to ask this SAME question another million times?
(My wife told me that one definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I guess asking the same type of question over and over again, expecting a different answer is also a form of insanity. You won’t get approval for the ********** lifestyle, no matter HOW many times you ask the same question over and over and over and over and over and over again! God said “NO!”, and that’s final!)
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:30 am
Laws of Moses since they are the Law of Moses and not God.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:36 pm
I do not know all about it and it is a very interesting subject but I know he done away with the sacrifices and dietary ordinances. Now about the ********** thing, *** is for pleasure and procreation it is a gift from God , a way for the human race to continue, it is the way we were made ( biologically correct) now does homosexuality practice what is correct ? or what is incorrect? you decide. But if I put my ***** in a tree to have sexual pleasure only, does that make me *** or just stupid? I say both.
June 4th, 2006 at 8:11 am
The commandments are good laws to try to follow but Jesus was the end of those laws. All of them. He replaced them with two. To love Jehovah with all your heart, soul and mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. He did fulfill the law. That was his purpose. Once fulfilled it was done. Jesus condemns gays and ********. It has nothing to do with the Mosaic laws anymore. Homosexuality is mentioned right along with murder, fornication, adultery. I personally don’t care what they do but why advertise it? Would someone go around advertising that they were a murderer or a adulterer? I don’t think so. People who do wrong always try to justify their actions.
Matthew 22:(Matthew 22:36-40) . . .” 37 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.”
Gal. 10 For all those who depend upon works of law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is every one that does not continue in all the things written in the scroll of the Law in order to do them.” 11 Moreover, that by law no one is declared righteous with God is evident, because “the righteous one will live by reason of faith.” 12 Now the Law does not adhere to faith, but “he that does them shall live by means of them.” 13 Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: “Accursed is every man hanged upon a stake.” 14 The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham might come to be by means of Jesus Christ for the nations, that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.
1 Corn. 6:9 What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom.