Can Christianity be called a "Lawless religion" that does not fulfill the requirements of the Holy Covenant ?

Question

Genesis 17:9-10 ---Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage(of the Divine law).
Gal 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Gal 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.


Paul freed Christians from the "yoke" of the Holy Laws and Holy Covenant which is integral to Judaism and Islam.

Christianity is not part of the covenant of God since they have negated the Mosaic Laws and Paul negated the circumcism.

A major part of the Responsibility of GODs coveneant is to establish the Divine Laws.

Christians have a new covenant with Paul and he has set them free from the job of establishing the Divine Laws on the earth.


What are your thoughts/additions on this ?

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Answer 1

Looking for logic or continuity in any religion is to be disappointed.

Answer 2

First of all I don't follow Paul- I follow Jesus-- And what He nailed to the cross was the "enmity" in the law. He freed us by being the final sacrifice and died for the sins we were doing-which most still do and say they do it for Him(the pagan holidays and Sunday worship) these are some of the very things He warned us Not to do. the yoke of bondage was the ordinances that the Sadducee's and Pharisees added to the covenant -Gods Law is still in effect Matt 5:17- till heaven and earth pass away- not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law- that is why there was a Change of the priesthood in Hebrews- we no longer are required to offer sacrifices--- for Jesus was the final one ------ is it hard to keep the commandments? He said If you love Me you will keep my fathers commandments--- I do not find them difficult- and love to please my heavenly Father!!!

Answer 3

Romans 4:11 "Circumcision was a sign that Abraham already had faith and that God had already accepted him and declared him to be righteous - even before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who have faith but have not been circumscised. They are counted as righteous because of their faith. And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumscised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had before he was circumscised.
Galatian 5:2 "If you are counting on circumscision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you."
Romans 2:28 "For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumscision. No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumscision is not merely obeying the letter of the law, rather it is a change of heart produced by God's Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people."

Answer 4

Christianity is by no means lawless.
Jesus said:
"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. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5:17-20

As for the quote above from Paul, he was writing to Gentile believers who were being deceived to think that they needed to be circumcised and begin to fulfill all the requirements of the Law of Moses, which was not given to Gentiles but to Jews.
The ceremonial aspect of Judaism was abrogated through the cross of Christ.
Indeed, there never was and never will be anyone who ever fulfilled the law of Moses, except Christ.
It is not even possible to fulfill the Law of Moses as there is no Temple and no sacrifices offered as prescribed.
Jesus taught this:
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 7:12
Paul summed it up this way:
"The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
Romans 13:9-10

John says:
"Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work."
I John 3:4-8

As for the issue of Covenant, Jesus initiated the New Covenant, the first is obsolete, as was prophesied by Jeremiah and cited by the author of Hebrews:

For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said:
"The time is coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear."

Now let me ask you - are you keeping the commandments of God?

Answer 5

I don't fully understand what your point is, but a Christian's covenant is with Jesus Christ, who is God, who also chose the Jews as His holy people, thus grafting us into the salvation covenant in His Son. We all owe the Jews our salvation because they originally acknowledged the true God of the universe, through Abraham, and because of that God gave them Jesus, who can save us all.

Answer 6

Jesus, himself, said that he came to change the Old and make it new. He explained in the gospels that those laws were to help a primitive people believe in God the Father since they didn't have anything else to hold on to. Jesus, the Son of God came to earth so that we may know God the Father more intimately. Therefore, those old laws are no longer necessary.

Answer 7

The answer to your question depends upon point of view:

1. According to Jewish law, gentile Christians are not "lawless" for failing to observe the laws of the Sinai covenant, since the laws of the Sinai covenant were never binding upon gentiles, but only upon Jews. Gentiles are required only to abide by the 7 laws of the Noahchide covenant.

2. According to Christian dogma, Christians are not not "lawless" for failing to observe the laws of the Sinai covenant, since those laws were abrogated for those who are "in Christ" according to a vision give to St. Peter recorded in the tenth chapter of the new testament book of Acts.

3. I do not know what Muslim shari'a says about the obligation of gentile Christians to obey the laws of the Sinai covenant.

Answer 8

old testament law was given to the nation of israel, not to christians. in place of the old testament law, we are under the law of Christ which is to, “love the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. this is the first and greatest commandment. and the second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself. all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments” [matthew 22:37-40]. if we do these two things, we will be fulfilling all that Christ wants for us to do.

obviously, if we are loving God we won't be worshipping other Gods or worshipping idols. if we are loving our neighbors, we won't be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. we are to love God and love our neighbors. if we do those two things faithfully, everything else will fall into place.