Are the 613 commandments Christian?

Question

I didn't think so until I saw the page at this link, which seems to be the bible equevelant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_Mitzvot#Maimonides.27_list

Why are they in that oder?

Excuse the mispelling. In the second question I meant 'order'.

Some of you are saying no, and some "kind of". These are all in the bible and they're all followable, so knowing those two things makes me want to think that the 316 commandments are Christian.

Please help, I'm so confused and this seems so important.

Answer 1

The way to understand this is by understanding covenants.

The old covenant that contains these 613 points of law is like a contract. The parties to it were God and Israel.

Christians were never a party to this covenant. So how can one be held to the conditions to a covenant they were not a party to? They cannot.

There is a new covenant. It replaced the old. The new is not like the old. (Heb. 8)

The new is of the Spirit, and not the letter of the law (Rom. 7:6)

What happens when either party to a covenant/contract dies? Paul explains this in Romans 7.

Jesus was the God who made that old covenant with Israel. He died.

The Jewish Christian "dies" through baptism.

Paul talks about people who try to bring people back under the bondage and yoke of the old covenant, and that we are to not allow that. (Gal. 5:1, and elsewhere)

So if someone tells you any of the o.t. law applies to Christians, they don't know what they are talking about:

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Read it carefully. Those who turn aside from the Christian commandment of love are the ones who turn to the law, teaching the law, and Paul says they don't know what they are talking about.

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Answer 2

613 Commandments

Answer 3

The 613+ commandments, of which the "Ten Commandments" are a part of, are Jewish laws...Most of the laws had no meaning any more after the second temple was destroyed. Thus, only really the 10 we are so familiar with applied.

I am not sure if there is a specific order - or if that is just what was written down by Maimodedes.

Technically when Jesus came, He was the Law, so any Jewish laws had no meaning if you are a follower of Jesus...but obviously the Jewish texts are to be revered and so many people still followed Jewish law (they were Jews before they were Christians)...and that practice has carried over with the 10 to modern times.

Answer 4

I think that the order is random.

Also many of them are from the Old Testement

Botom line:


Matthew 22:34-40 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society



The Greatest Commandment
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

These ae all we, as Believers need to know!

Answer 5

The 613 mitzvot are intended for Jews.
The seven laws of Noah (NOT the 10 commandments) are intended for everyone else.
Info on the laws of Noah:
http://www.noahidenations.com/content/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Answer 6

No. They are not for non-Jews! Converts and anyone born to a Jewish mother assumes the obligations of these commandments. This doesn't imply any special rewards.

http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

Answer 7

They're of Jewish tradition, just like the 10 commandments, and the book referred to in your link is The Bible, not an "equevelant" (Yahoo Answers does have a spell checker, you know?).

Answer 8

sorry, they are not. they are for the Non-believers.

The non believer is supposed to conclude it is impossible to follow 613 commandments, this is to point them toward Christ.

Christ is much easier, just have faith in him alone, and you will fullfill those commandments by your faith.

Otherwise, you will be judged by those commands. Remember, break 1 and it equals death.

Answer 9

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.


this is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it


thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself


on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets

Answer 10

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