why was a new covenant created to over rule some parts of the old law in the old testement eg. in the books of moses declares an eye for an eye, and the teachings of jesus states to turn the other cheek, and what about solomon and David who had many wives and concubines yet having sex with them was not adultery or fornication but the new testement teachings mandates monogamy?
2006-12-12 07:00:34 · 21 answers · asked by rovin d 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The conflicts are resolved once you appreciate that Jesus came to fulfill the Law, which he did by keeping it perfectly. He was the only human to do that, because the Law is perfect, and he is perfect. Once the Old Covenant Law had been fulfilled in Christ, it became a shadow, pointing to Christ and his New Covenant.
However, the principles of the OT Law continue to this day, unchanged, though there is no need to keep the ceremonial and civil aspects of it now. The moral law of The Ten Commandments still stands as God's requirements for all time.
Jesus showed us that legalism is deadly; it is purity of heart and meekness and love that enables us to love God's laws and to strive to keep them. For example, Jesus said that to look lustfully at a woman is to commit adultery with her, in your heart. David and Solomon paid heavily for their polygamy. Jesus said that Moses conceded to divorce because of the hardness of men's hearts but that what God has yolked together, let no man put apart. And he warned that on the Day of Judgment the Queen of the South would rise up to condemn his generation for "she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here" (himself) but God's people would not listen to him.
2006-12-12 07:27:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a strict monotheist. The Old Testament teaches that all 613 laws or commandments are to be observed FOREVER. In the New Testament, Jesus states that he came to fulfill the Law, not to abolish it. It was the Apostle Paul that founded Pauline Christianity and wrote most of the New Testament which threw out all of the laws of the Torah.
I wish to point out a paradox: to all those Conservative Christians fighting so hard to keep the 10 Commandments on the public squares, don't you realize that those 10 Commandment are part of the 613 laws of the Old Testament that the Apostle Paul abolished when he declared that "ye are no longer under the law, but under grace"? It really makes no sense to me, to be fighting for the public display for something that supposedly you don't believe in, in the first place.
Now that is my humble explanation of the Judeo-Christian controversies.
2006-12-12 07:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Ariel 128 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The would be an understatement. The Old Testament God was a god of war, brutal and bloody minded. The New Testament God is loving and kind.
Why the difference? The bible does not hang together as a unified body of work. It is a collection of works written over a long period of time by lots of different writers. The only thing special about the stuff in the bible is that some person or committee decided to call this stuff the word of God.
2006-12-12 07:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason the Law of Moses was given was because they couldn't abide by the higher law, the Law of Consecration. When the "new covenant" was given by Christ, it fulfilled the old law, it didn't replace it. It allowed for another step to be taken with the goal being to reach the higher law - the Law of Consecration. Throughout time, different parts of the Law of Consecration were given and adhered to briefly. For example, part of the LoC is that God's people will have all things in common and that the very clothes on their backs will be given back to them to have stewardship over, but if someone was in worse need then it would be expected that those clothes would be given to the one in need. Another aspect is that of plural marriage. Only the worthy - in the eyes of God, not man, may have more than one wife. David did not "get in trouble" for having more than one wife, but in taking another mans wife and having that man killed. All of David's other wives were given to him by God through the high priest. And it was because of this and the fact that David had been in battle and therefore killed that he was not able to rebuild the temple. Ironically, it was his son from the "troubled" marriage, Solomon, that was able to build the temple (Solomon's Temple), however, Solomon (like all of us) had his own problems to deal with. My thought is that Christ saw that man was not worthy of having that aspect (plural marriage) of the Law of Consecration and therefore "mandated" monogamy.
So I guess the short answer is, the Law of Moses was a stepping stone to the Law of Consecration. Mankind has still not attained sufficient spirituality to have the full Law of Consecration on the Earth for longer than a little while at a time.
2006-12-12 07:29:15 · answer #4 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only 'rules' that don't apply to Christians is the law, which Christ fulfilled.
These laws were setup for a nation, and God allowed somethings because the nation was stiff necked.
When Christ established his laws he mostly re-stated some, enhanced some and remove the others, so that it was as God had intended from the beginning.
This is because instead of dealing with a nation, God is now dealing with individuals. This also means there are no christian nations or no pagan nations, It is the individual in each nation that determines if they are serving God or not.
2006-12-12 07:18:23 · answer #5 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you'd study the New Testament you would learn that Jesus fulfilled the "Law and the Prophets." Matthew chapters 5-7 is the Sermon on the Mount. Read chapter 5.
Jesus condensed all the Old Testament "rules" into two. They are, love God with all you heart, and love your neighbor as yourself.
2006-12-12 07:09:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is allegory. Eye for an eye is karma, it was an allegorical saying for an aspect of esoteric wisdom, but people are reduced to literalism, which is the letter that kills and they made a bunch of pointless rituals and etc, when they were supposed to apply these things inwardly. That's some of the reason why Jesus came, to reform the people from the ignorance of their day, to bring an end to literalism, traditions, and rituals and focus the purpose back on what truly mattered.
2006-12-12 07:06:30 · answer #7 · answered by Automaton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God made covenants with increasingly larger groups of people. They were all broken, every one of them, by us.
If Jesus was just a Prophet the only thing he could have brought was a new Covenant, but he brought so much more than that, he brought us the tools of the sacraments that keep us in a state of Gods grace for all of time.
We just have to use the tools Jesus gave us! But we are finding that difficult as well.
Peace and good luck!
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2014-08-30 13:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The law was to show you were guilty:
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
God never was pleased with the multible wives, have you seen what they did to thier husbands?
2006-12-12 07:04:35 · answer #10 · answered by readthekjv1611@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋