If what Jesus said cancels those ideas in the OT that contradict Him, how it is possible to?

Question

say that everyting in the bible must be taken literally? The rules of the OT are stated as commands. Can you just ignore them?

Answer 1

The law was to show the need. God used Hebrews to show the world that we cannot do it on our own. That the law is unable to make us righteous enough to enter heaven and be in his presence. His grace is enough, he will show us the door, but only we can decide to enter.

Answer 2

**If what Jesus said cancels those ideas in the OT that contradict Him, how it is possible to? **

Jesus canceled nothing, the ten commandments are in the Old Testament.

The Bible Matthew 5:17 - 19 ( Jesus speaking)

" Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,
will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished ".

**say that everyting in the bible must be taken literally? ***

Jehovah supposedly spoke or wrote them as literal. How can stoning someone to death for some offense be seen as allegory.

**The rules of the OT are stated as commands. Can you just ignore them?**

Yes.
Should we ignore them, yes.
Are they ignored, yes.

Answer 3

Who made this rule to take everything literally. It is a book of treasures..principles and teachings. Not everything is literal. But this take digging and hunting and inspection. Franz was a great scholar but he preached the Good News of a better world ahead. He and many others spent 60 to 80 years out of love for people and God in the ministry..Great Question.
OT and NT agree that Killing a life or taking a life is wrong without Gods backing. When God fought for the Israelites it was that they were his people. Today can you identify Gods people...a new commandment to love your enemy and love your neighbor...who is doing that?
I can think of a few that will not be children of the Devil and slaughter humans. can you ?

Answer 4

Everything in the Bible must not be taken literally. Much of it is written in symbolic or Apocalyptic language to better convey spiritual truth.

Christians do not "obey" the 10 Commandments; we don't rest on a Saturday and do no work for example.

God's way of life cannot be explained in a short answer; it takes a lifetime of growth and a depth of understanding that comes only with time and experience. Just like children, we learn over a period of time what God (our Father and Brother) expects of us

Answer 5

LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX PEOPLE

The Brain is Subject to Delusion
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
- Saul Bellow

The ability to imagine, to create and explore new ideas in our heads, is perhaps our greatest strength as a species. However, it is simultaneously our greatest weakness, the problem being that we sometimes have trouble distinguishing our imaginings from reality.

You may say you have no problem telling fantasy from reality, but you'd be wrong. Every night, you are completely fooled by not one but several multi-sensory fantasy worlds of your own creation, or dreams, as we like to call them. Even during the day, you may find yourself taken away to some other place, some world of your own ideas, only to find yourself in the middle of a boring meeting with someone snapping you back to reality saying, "hey, where are you?"

We can induce the no longer quite so mysterious "near death experience" with the drug ketamine, or by applying an electromagnetic field to the temporal lobe, or even, as has been discovered in the case of fighter pilots, putting them in a centrifugal trainer until they black out. We have accounts going back thousands of years of people having religious experiences while taking various hallucinogens. It's just the way the brain is wired. Also, there can be serious problems with the wiring itself. We know that things like temporal lobe epilepsy and schizophrenia can lead to delusional religious beliefs.

So we find ourselves with an error prone mind subject to fantasy, which leads to some pretty amazing places. My favorite Oliver Sacks story is about a patient with a large brain tumor. The man was blind, but believed he could see. No amount of rational thought could dissuade him. He couldn't understand why he was being taken to Braille classes. An extreme example of delusion, but one we need to take to heart. As a species, we are pretty good at pulling the wool over our own eyes.

Answer 6

Many Christians are perplexed when they confront the issue of the Mosaic Law. How binding is the Law on the Christian? Some have said that Jesus abolished the Law of Moses. I would have to disagree, based on the following passage spoken by Jesus Himself:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Matthew 5:17)
Some have suggested that by "fulfil," Jesus meant "abolish." Indeed, "abolish" is one meaning of "fulfil," but it is also the only meaning of "destroy." So if He had meant "abolish," He might as well have said, "I am not come to abolish, but to abolish." We can assume, therefore, that Jesus meant, "to develop the full potentialities of" when He said "fulfil."

So why then do Christians not observe the Mosaic Law? The answer is that they do observe parts, but not all of it. Some parts of the Law were meant to be temporary, while others were intended to be permanent. This is seen in the fact that before Moses, the ancient Jews were not bound to the ritual commands (except circumcision). If the Mosaic Law was not meant to be temporary, then either God changes or the God of the righteous men and women before Moses was a different god. But this is absurd. We know that the God of Abraham was the God of Moses, and that He is our God today. The coming of Christ made parts of the Mosaic law unnecessary.


In order to understand this, we must realize that the Law is made up of three parts: ceremonial, civil, and moral.


The ceremonial law related specifically to Israel's worship. Since its primary purpose was to point to the coming Savior, Jesus made it unnecessary. He did not abolish it, in the sense of destroying it; He fulfilled it. Nowhere do we read that Jesus thought that the ceremonial law was wrong. The principles behind the ceremonial law are still applicable to us today, that is, the principles of worshipping and serving a holy God.


The civil law prescribed rules for the Israelites' daily living. These laws separated the Jews from the Gentiles, and gave the Gentiles the example of how a holy people should live. Since much was given to the Jews, much was expected. But God gave a new covenant in Christ, and there is now no distinction to be made between Jew and Gentile. We are still to follow the requirements of this law as God's people, but the punishments are not for any nation to impose on its people, because we are no longer separated by nations but by God's grace (Christians and non-Christians).


The moral law is basically the Ten Commandments. We are still bound by these laws, not for salvation, but to live a holy life. Jesus not only desired that His followers adhere to these commandments, He wished that they would go above and beyond them. He said, "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment..." He desired not only an outward observance of these laws, but an inward observance as well.


So we see that the parts of the Law that have been rendered obsolete are those that contain ordinances. An ordinance is either a memorial of something that has already passed or a type of something in the future. The Old Testament laws containing ordinances were not meant to be permanent. There are no ordinances in the Ten Commandment Law.


Now, we must remember that following rules and regulations will not get us into heaven. It is only through the blood of Jesus that we can see heaven. But if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.

Answer 7

I don't think that the issue is ignoring them. NO ONE can keep the law. The only person that ever did was Jesus. Being that NO ONE can keep the law, you are speaking to degrees of violation. As another poster said, not all aspects of the law were for us to use today.

Answer 8

There is too much wisdom in old books like the Bible and Quran to ignore. I recommend reading and debating such collections of thought, glean what seems sensible and good from them, and move on.

Answer 9

I can some of them because I'm not Jewish. The dietary laws and such apply to Jews, not Gentiles. Acts 15 extends the Hebrew Church recommended limit to non-Jewish believers. If I were Jewish in my ancestry then it would be different, but I'm not, so yes I can have my ham sandwich and drink my milkshake with my burger.

Answer 10

Your assumption that everything in the bible is to be taken literally is the flaw in your logic.