If christianity chooses not to follow the original laws (which Jesus did), then how come they are still published in all the versions of the old and new testament? I think Christianity made its own interpretation and kept the laws that they liked, and dropped the ones they didn't (like eating pork for example) It just seems hypocritical. if you're going to have beliefs, don't pick and choose, follow all the testaments printed or don't print them. Keep in mind, I am a believer, just a questioner.
2006-09-04 06:15:15 · 4 answers · asked by Mandy A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you are absolutely correct- God's perfect instruction has been traded for traditions of man- Nowhere in the OT or the NT does it say that we are free from the law, or that it has been abolished. Jesus walked perfect Torah, showing us the spirit of the law and how it is not the law that gives us salvation as the rabbinical Jews of the day were teaching, but that it was there for our good, that we may live a blessed and abundant life- that we are free BECAUSE we are saved to walk sanctified and set apart for God, knowing that our redemption lies in God's grace and mercy given freely through Christ Jesus.
2006-09-04 06:21:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are no "Christian laws" or "Jewish laws". These terms were made up. There is GOD's Law and Mose's law. Check these scriptures out:
Deuteronomy 31:24 “And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.”
Deuteronomy 4:13 ”And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.”
2 Kings 21:8 ”Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
2 Chronicles 33:8 ”Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”
SOOOOOOOOOOO much more can be said.
2006-09-04 06:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amongst several ways I could say it; but it is a matter of growth. The old law (the law of Moses) was fulfilled, and abolished when Christ died on the cross, and Christians were given a new law, similar to the law of Moses, but more 'grown-up'. Be aware, that the law of Moses is not Genesis-Malachi, but 'roughly speaking' Exodus 20- Deut. 27 inclusive.
2006-09-04 07:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christainty is a mixing of Jewish and Greek religious concepts. Forming this new religion was a way to bring the idea of one God to non-Jews, which worked out.
The problem was, in order for Gentiles to be attracted enough to this new religion, it had to adjusted to this new audience.
This is where Greek ideas get integrated into Christianity, and the parts of Judaism (like kosher eating, circumcision) that scare people off, get tossed out.
2006-09-04 17:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋