Why would "the son of God" or God himself liquidate his laws after going thru so much trouble to deliver them?
2006-08-01 09:08:11 · 21 answers · asked by WhiteHat 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This question is refering to how christians ignore the old testament laws because of their excuse that they now live under "grace." Or Jesus somehow changed them.
2006-08-01 10:35:22 · update #1
He isn't and he didn't.
2006-08-01 09:11:04 · answer #1 · answered by Netchelandorious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Capt. you are the most uninformed person on this site. Jesus did NOT change any laws. I have no idea what you have been reading, snorting or drinking. The only thing that changed was after the crucifition, the temple curtain was rent down the middle and the people no longer had to go to the priests for prayer, forgiveness. They had and still have a direct line to God. That is why the Pharisees were so against Jesus. They would cease to have power over the people. Get your facts straight and quit asking half-baked dumb questions.
2006-08-01 16:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Jesus was not God- he was the Son of God... who was speaking from heaven when Jesus was baptized?... who was Jesus praying to in the Garden of Gethsemane?
2) He re-defined the law ("I am come to fulfill the law"). The Mosaic Law (the one that required animal sacrifices, etc.) was a lesser law. Read Exodus again, notice that Moses came down from the mountain, saw the golden calf, threw the stone tablets at the statue, then went back up the mountain... Do any of us know what was written on those first tablets?... My theory- God saw that His people weren't able to handle the first law He sent, so He sent a "lesser law"- a more physical law.
When Jesus came, He re-instated the original "higher law"- no more eye for an eye, but instead love thy neighbor... no more meat or animal sacrifices, but instead "a broken heart and a contrite spirit" (= humility, obedience, etc)
In the meantime, the whole point of the law, both old and new is to refine and perfect us as human beings and as God's children.
2006-08-01 22:40:47 · answer #3 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I read my Bible right, Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill the law of Christ. Jesus always took a step further than what was expected. The Old Testament said, "Do not kill," Jesus said, "Do not hate your brother," which we know that hate can lead to killing. The Old Testament said, "Do not commit adultery, " Jesus said, "Do not look at a women lustfully." We know that as married people looking at another person outside of our marriage lustfully - our mind tends to travel and so can our hearts which in turn can possibly become an affair. Jesus was trying to protect people from falling into sin by taking one step further into righteous living. The more you read about what Jesus preached the more you realize Jesus wasn't against the law or tying to change it, he was always one up from the law to prevent more sins from happening.
2006-08-01 16:21:12 · answer #4 · answered by wonderwoman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is unchanging. His laws are unchanging. It is just the manner in which we practice the law that has been changed. Take the law of sacrifice for example. People practiced this for thousands of years. Then, when Christ came, he was the ultimate sacrifice. In doing what he did, live sacrifice wasn't needed anymore. Christs sacrifice was all that was needed. We still practice sacrifice, but not by killing animals like they did then. Now our sacrifice is our time, our obeidence and our tithing. The law is still the same, just the way we go about fulfilling the law is different.
2006-08-01 16:17:54 · answer #5 · answered by odd duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is bigger than your issue. Jesus came to save the entire human population, for all time.
God is down here working and growing with humanity, creating and changing along with us.
The laws are still there - Christ said to live the love and not just the laws.
2006-08-01 16:16:07 · answer #6 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is God's son as well as being God. He did not come to change the laws but to fulfill the law and make it easier to come to God. Think about it...there are over 600 "case laws" in the Old Testament which are summed up in the 10 Commandments which Jesus sums up with love God & love your neighbor. The law is love.
"If you love me you will keep my commands." "Greater love has any man than the one who gives his life..."
2006-08-01 16:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by Seeking answers in Him 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't change His laws and neither did His Son, Jesus. people say that Jesus abolished the laws of God, but He didn't. the only laws Jesus Christ abolished were the ceremonial laws given to the Jews, in which they took way out of proportion. God did not change His holy law for it is the foundation of His heavenly kingdom. Also Jesus came not to destroy,but to save!
2006-08-01 16:19:40 · answer #8 · answered by seth-enoch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 5:17-18 (NKJV) "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."
Also, not everything recorded in the OT is God's law. Matthew 15:1-2 gives some insight into what was law and what was tradition represented as law.
2006-08-01 16:15:21 · answer #9 · answered by ©2007 answers by missy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the law was just a schoolmaster to get us to the point were at now,kinda like schools prepares you for the real life,the law prepared Gods ppl for the fulfillment of Jesus and grace
2006-08-01 16:17:17 · answer #10 · answered by holyghost130 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Jesus 'changed' the laws of God.
2006-08-01 16:12:20 · answer #11 · answered by Tori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋