Did the Old Testament laws come from God?

Question

Did the Old Testament laws come from God?

If they didn't come from God, why are they in the Holy Bible?

If they did come from God, why did Jesus try to change some of them?

Answer 1

I think Old Testament, New Testament and all other Holy books of any religion are products of intelligent humans' creativity and imagination.

If God really did created this universe and all its inhabitant..... then it seem absurd that God need a human to write down his laws.

Why wouldn't God just make his laws clear to everyone by making it visible on the sky.... then there wouldn't be anymore contradiction. Don't you think so?

Answer 2

Jesus did not come to change the law. The old testament came from God as well as the new.

Answer 3

You might be interested in reading up on the documentary theory for the origin of the Torah. It gives an alternate theory as to where the Torah came from, as a collection of earlier works. This theory explains a lot of the discrepancies of the Torah and why stories such as Noah are found in other Middle Eastern texts.

Of course the devote Jews, Xians and Muslims do not accept this theory as it strikes at the very basis of their various faiths. If the Torah did not come from God and is only a creation of man, then everything that follows in the way of their various faiths are nothing but further fabrications. None can tolerate that, so they automatically discount the theory. Kind of like evolution.

Answer 4

Exodus 31: 18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. The commandments were written by the finger of God. Jesus was God that came to earth as a man so He could die for our sins. He didn't change the law but He only enforced and fulfilled it. Since no human can keep the law we need somebody to do it for us and that what He did on the cross. Colossians 2: 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Answer 5

Jesus did come to change the laws, in that He was what the laws were leading up to (they prefigured Jesus).

The only one that is done away with is the sin sacrifice, because Jesus became our sacrifice.

Gentiles do not have to follow some of the rules in the Bible, they were meant for the Jews (although it might do us good also), like the laws pertaining to what we can eat and wear.

Answer 6

Try to remember it is all "allegory" in both "covenants": Galatians 4, and "mystery" (noted over 20 times) to solve in time, lest all (KofG within you) perish by law instead of none perish by grace.

Try to remember do the will of God (I will have mercy, and not sacrifice) precedes receive the promise (eternal life).

The law (and it's a lie) was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ: John 1:17.
(obviously comparison of law vs grace as lie vs truth)

The law given by Moses was Genesis 2:17 of Genesis 2: 16 vs 17 (grace vs law); Also called the (singular) law of (plural) commandments in Ephesians 2:15. All other laws (plural): 10 at Mt Sinai, and 613 in the Torah, were notably "added"; And notably added "because of the transgression". For the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression: 1Timothy 2:14; But where no law, there no transgression: Romans 4:15. So the woman, being deceived, was in the law. Which things are an "allegory".

So Moses gave place to Law (false God), which then gave more laws through Moses; Awful Lawful stuff which notes if you don't keep all the law all the time, then everyone gets accursed. We know even Moses did not keep all the law all the time, struck the rock twice, etc, so then all are accursed unless law is abolished, nailed as the enmity, and even blotted out in "the end" written. For a little leaven(law) leaveneth the whole. Not to mention law added makes grace "no more grace", like death added makes life no more life.

Law is "both good and evil": ends badly: evil.
Grace is good, never evil, ends as only good.

God is good. So God is grace, not law.
God is perfect. So God is grace, not law.
God is merciful. So God is grace, not law.

The allegory is about two Gods: Law vs Grace.
The objective is have one God: the God of all grace.

Christ is our peace who abolished "the law of commandments": one lousy tree law: Genesis 2:17. Thereby he abolished all laws, since other laws were "added": "because of the transgression"; Which is to say more laws were added to make it more obvious law not only sucks, but it's a thief that also kills and destroys.

So abolition of the law is the only plausible way of salvation for any, done for us by Christ: "the end of the law": Romans 10:4.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

Jesus, when He walked this earth, was both Fully God and fully man. He Fullfilled The Law and by so doing negated some and modified others... But if you follow the Two Commandments given by Christ in the New Testiment. you will be following The Law.... If you ".. Love The Lord your God with all your Heart and all your soul, and all your mind, and all your strength.... and love your neighbor as your self".... you will keep all of God's Law that is still binding on mankind.

Answer 8

Jesus fulfills the law.

Matthew 5:17
Don't suppose that I came to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I did not come to do away with them, but to give them their full meaning.

Matthew 7:12
Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about.

John 5:39-40, 45-47
You search the Scriptures, because you think you will find eternal life in them. The Scriptures tell about me, but you refuse to come to me for eternal life.

Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you. Moses wrote about me, and if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me. But if you don't believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?

Answer 9

Does a law that require you huck rocks at a person until they are dead if they pick up sticks on the wrong day of the week, SOUND like it comes from god?

They're in the bible because an ancient nomadic culture believed they came from god.

And to the last question, if you were in any kind of position of authority, wouldn't you try to change laws that were immoral? I would.

Answer 10

They were given to Moses by God and Jesus Christ did not attempt to change any of them, He fulfilled the purpose of the Law which was reconciliation between man and God.