When Jesus gave a new commandment to love, did he do away with the former commandments?

Answer 1

Jesus was not espousing anything new. In the book of Deuteronomy, for example, God's love for us is mentioned many times. In fact, it is God's love which He gave first which was meant to elicit our love for Him in return. God loves each of us as a father would his child.
It is clear how much God's love is at the very basis of our being. So far as loving one's neighbor, one can find this in Leviticus 19:18 as well as Zechariah 8:17. Of course it is implied in many other places in the OT.
Hence Jesus was reiterating what had already been said when he says in Mark 12:30 & 31 that there were no more important commandments than these.

Answer 2

Absolutely not. Jesus never did away with any of the Mosaic Law. He is the fulfillment of the Promise and the totality of the Law. His life is a perfect example of following the Commandments. His new Commandment to "Love one another as I have loved you" is more a summation of the earlier Commandments than a truly new teaching. Indeed the Rabbi Hil El had taught centuries earlier that "All the commandments can be summarized in this - what you find offensive to you do not do to another. All the rest is commentary." In short if you love your neighbor as you love yourself you will do nothing to harm and everything to help. That ends my answer; go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

Answer 3

Jesus said:
"37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
"38 This is the first and great commandment.
"39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
"40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matthew 22:37-40

So, Jesus was not eliminating the older laws he was building on them. If you look at the Ten commandments, you will find that all of the are pretty much contained in these two commandments. If you love God, then you won't worship idols, use His name in vain and will keep the Sabbath day holy. If you love your neighbor, then you will honor your parents and not murder, lie, steal, commit adultery, or covet that which is owned by others. What was done away by Jesus were the more nit-picky elements of the Law of Moses. The basic principles that were the foundation of those rules continue.

Answer 4

Jesus didn't say anything new, he only explained the commandments in a new way.
Anyone who is serious about Christianity knows that Jesus was a student of Rabbinic Law.
Jesus, being a good Jewish person, followed the laws of Torah.
He would not have disposed of those laws, as some might suggest.
He was a very creative person who was attempting to reach people with parables based upon Jewish theology.

Answer 5

Yes and no.

For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.

Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.

Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.

However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.

Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

No, he didn't. Jesus himself said he came to fulfill the law, not destroy it. By giving us the commandment to love God first and love one another, he pretty much got to the heart of the Ten Commandments. If you love someone, you aren't going to steal from them or kill them. You honor those you love, and you don't covet what is theirs. (You may be jealous and wish you had that stuff, but it's not the same thing.) So when Jesus gave us a new commandment, he gave us the bottomline starting place for how to live our lives.

Answer 7

10 commandment and over 150 laws were given to moses. a jewish teacher asked jesus what was the most important commandments. jesus replied to love your god with all your heart, mind, body and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself. follow these two and the rest will fall into line.

Answer 8

No. He said, "I give you a new command: Love each other. You should love each other as I have loved you" (John 13:34). In Matthew 5:17-19, He said He did not come to destro the law of Moses or the teachings of the prophets, but to bring about what they said.

Answer 9

no !!!!!!!!!!love is the ultimate commandment all the other commandments are derived from love, because God is love and because Jesus fulfilled all the commandments and thats why when we believe in Him it is credited to us as righteousness rather than us having to try follow the commandments that we are/will be unable to fulfill never ever..if a husband/wife LOVES {regardless}his/her spouse there would be no reason to committ adultery.

Answer 10

How many Christians do you know that observe sabbath on Saturday (the SEVENTH DAY), or keep kosher or celebrate the Jewish holidays. Basically none. I don't know what Jesus wanted but his followers did many things like abolish the kosher rule and above stated changes to distance themselves from Judaism. Thats the plain and simple truth. Christians believe that they keep the old laws alive though, I don't know how they believe that.