As Christ reversed many of the laws from the OT-why do Christian fundamentalists still defend the OT??

Question

The Jewish laws were clear--"an eye for an eye"-"give your enemy no peace",divorce your wife with a personal letter,stone adulterers to death,don't work on the Sabbath etc--Christ overturned these barbaric laws--and was accused of blasphemy for doing so--If Christ rejected these laws--why do fundamentalists still believe they are sacred??
Exodus 21: 23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Matthew 5: 38Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right

cheek, turn to him the other also.

Answer 1

Not sure why people think jesus did not subvert the way of the OT Law. He reinterprets it in almost every case to mean something quite contradictory to its prior meaning. From Leo Tolstoy's book What I Believe (which I think EVERY Christian should be encouraged to read in its entirity):

"Now I understood what Christ meant when He said, ‘You have heard that it has been said, “An eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” And I say to you, do not resist evil.’ Christ means, ‘You have been taught to consider it right and rational to protect yourselves against evil by violence, to pluck out an eye for and eye, to institute courts of law for the punishment of criminals, and to have a police and an army to defend you against the attacks of an enemy; but I say to you, do no violence to any man, take no part in violence, never do evil to any man, not even to those whom you call your enemies.’

"I now understood that, in this doctrine of non-resistance, Christ not only tells us what the natural result of following His doctrine will be, but by placing this same doctrine in opposition to the Mosaic Law, the Roman law, and the various codes of the present time, He clearly shows that it ought to be the basis of our social existence and should deliver us from the evil we have brought on ourselves. He says, ‘You think to amend evil by your laws, but they only aggravate it. There is one way by which you can put a stop to evil; it is by indiscriminatingly returning good for evil. You have tried the other law for thousands of years; now try Mine, which is the very reverse.’"

Answer 2

Matthew 5:18
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

Matthew 5:17
[ Christ Fulfills the Law ] “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

these are the words of Jesus......so why do you think he reversed the Law.
The Law , "Torah" what Jesus taught (not NT theology).
Jesus Fulfilled the Law in every way and thus overcame the World, Hell, Hades & the Devil.

the purpose of the scriptures you picked are to keep the people pure & instruct them in how to behave righteously.
the whole purpose of the Law is a school master, teaching man that we are sinful and in need of redemption. we see the penelty for wicked, immoral behavior and are required to carry out justice for the benefit of the Nation.

Jesus also said that all the Law & Prophets hung on to commandments. In this Jesus boiled it down, made so simple even the very foolish could get the point;

Matthew 22:
‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[d] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[e] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

this is the point of the Law & the point of the NT as revealed. it raises the bar/standard (to walk in love). it does not reverse or do away with it. the OT teaches man, we fall short and can not obtain righteousness for our selves. Because we walk in selfishness not love. the NT teaches we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. Jesus has empowered us through the Gift of the Holy Sprirt to live as He did in Freedom,Grace & Power.

furthermore the NT is dependant on the OT. you must have the foundation of the OT in order to understand the NT.

also how would we know that Jesus was the Messiah unless
the OT told us exactly what to look for. this is called prophecy or prophetic scriptures. nearly 25% of the OT prophecy is still being fullfilled today in our generation.

Answer 3

You let yourself wide open to the truth, my friend, If you were to read the Sermon on the Mount, you would find that the Lord Jesus advocated even higher 'laws' for His followers. Check out Matthew 5:17 through chapter 6:4. Our Lord did not come to abolish or reverse the commandments, He came to fulfill them for us. You will see in the above verses how the Lord expects MORE of us. May the Lord be with you as you ponder what Jesus is telling us here. God loves you !

Answer 4

Progressive revelation and an understanding of covenants.Jesus said He came to fulfill the Law ,not nullify it.And Grace is a new expression of the Law.No longer are we shackled by it,but it is certainly not a reversal of the teachings in the NT.Read Hebrews 11.

Answer 5

to respond to the single with regard to the Sabbath the Sabbath commandment says undergo in suggestions. The verse which you quoted with regard to the Sabbath became into certainly one of a number of regulations to make the Sabbath seem combersome, the devil became into chuffed to work out such issues. to date as exiled those with epidermis desease, think of approximately this. In Bible situations they did no longer have disinfectants. that they had no thank you to end the unfold of a few very contagious issues. Now days while somebody has an open contaminated sore and is interior the hospital they get an isoletation touch sign in on their room door, or a droplet isoletation. making a individual who became into contegious leave became into interior the superb intrest of the completed section. i'm particular if Lysol became into around returned interior the Bible situations besides as or besides to antibotics then Lev. 13:40 six might study slightly diverse.

Answer 6

Matthew 5:17-20

I follow the laws of the OT but extrapolated by the teachings of Christ. The rule of loving your enemy and the sabbath being made for man are among those extrapolations

Answer 7

All Scripture is Inspired by God, literally meaning, "God Breathed". That is why it is sacred. But times change and that calls for different laws and ways so not all that was done in the old testament can be used today but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water, so to speak

Answer 8

Christ didn't "reverse" anything, dear one. He FULFILLED Mosaic Law of the Old Testament, and gave us a New Covenant.

We now live under Grace, not Law.

Those who say or think otherwise, haven't read God's Word.

God bless!

Answer 9

I'm the "premier" fundie on here in the minds of most, and I don't defend practicing the Mosaic law. I don't know many that do. And the few that do, can't rightly be called "fundies". They're OT legalists if anything.

I believe that the true Gospel is the only way to heaven (that is, without law and works), and every false gospel leads to eternal hell.

Answer 10

Huffy, These laws are God's righteousness.
They are fulfilled by Jesus in that all who accept his atonement are by faith made new and in agreement with God's righteousness...these laws are not barbaric but God's righteousness fulfilled by the atonement God provided us.

Edit Christ did not reverse any law he fulfilled them.