Which definition of fulfill are you using?
Fulfill:
1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.
2. To carry out (an order, for example).
3. To measure up to; satisfy. See Synonyms at perform, satisfy.
4. To bring to an end; complete.
Abolish:
1. To do away with; annul.
2. To destroy completely.
2007-04-05 04:59:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Definition 1 of fulfill.
If you buy a concert ticket and get to the show and the person at the ticket box tears it up and sends you away, they've abolished it.
If they take your ticket and admit you to the show, they've fulfilled it.
Jesus fulfilled the law in that He fulfilled the promises of the law. One purpose of the law (the covenant between God and Israel, not just the 10 commandments) was to bring the Messiah through the fulfillment of God's promises to Eve, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Jesus also carried out the law, measured up to the law (no one else ever had or ever will obey it perfectly as He did), satisfied the law (the law required a perfect, spotless sacrifice, which He was), and He brought an end to that covenant or testament. Thus the New Testament or new covenant.
There is no longer a civil covenant between God and mankind - which is part of what the Old Testament was. It was not just a religion, but their civil law.
Now it is a personal law. Nine of the ten commandments are reiterated in the New Testament, so we cannot say they were abolished or completely destroyed. But now they are a matter of personal commitment, not a national covenant.
2007-04-05 05:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy. Fulfilled.
Example: You go 100 MPH on the highway. You get a ticket for $800. You are broke. The nice police officer stands up in court and takes out his paycheck and signs it over to the court to pay your fine. The law was fulfilled - yet you did not pay the penalty.
For the law to be abolished, it means someone came in and did away with the speed limit. That has not happened.
The penalty for sin is still death (physical and spiritual) We do not have the ability to pay the price ourselves, so if we accept the payment made by Jesus, the law gets fulfilled (penalty gets paid) but we don't pay it. If we don't accept Christ's payment for us, then we pay it physical death and eternal separation from God (spiritual death).
2007-04-05 12:10:11 · answer #2 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will give an explanation and you decide which meaning to use. When Christ said I came to fulfill the law not to change it He was referring to the law of Deuteronomy 19. It is the law concerning how to deal with murderers and killers. It says that if a man with hate lies in wait and kills a man then it is up to the dead mans next of kin to see that the murderer is killed. So it is this law that he is talking about. Since Satan and his minions are being held responsible for Christ's death then it is Christ's next of kin's job to see that the murderer is killed. And of course the next of kin is God. Although the law is also meant for man , I think God wrote this law with satan's eventual demise in mind. God promises that satan is already scheduled for death. That law is a vehicle to legally execute satan. God has every intention of using this law to it's fullest.
That is to say for the very purpose is was written.
2007-04-05 13:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by swindled 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus fulfilled prophesies and abolished the law - He did both but the second wasnt done until He rose from the dead
2007-04-05 12:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by servant FM 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think christians understand that when a punishment is that someone die for a sin, it cannot be one person dying for another's sin, and definitely not one person dying for several people's death-worthy sins... while being a "sacrifice" of a nature never allowed in the Temple.... They like to turn literal into figurative when it suits them....
2007-04-05 12:23:30 · answer #5 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your right!
Jesus came to full the laws of God....and his a two verse that support the your claim. Jesus never changes(Hebrew 13:8)
God never changes (Malachi 3:6). If it said that in the bible...why then man changes God laws?
2007-04-05 12:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by Eric T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law can't be fulfilled.
How do you fulfill "Thou shalt not murder"?
They're talking rubbish. Jesus abolished the law. The coming of Jesus was warned about in the Old Testament. Jesus worship will destroy the world. Look at history. It's been working on it for centuries.
2007-04-05 12:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
So... Is it OK to kill now?
2007-04-05 12:09:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋