Where did Jesus say that the old laws were now finished?

Question

I have posed a similar question before and christians replied saying jesus said "it is done" on the cross and this meant the old laws were over and the start of a new covenant.isn't this convenient interpretation as only a very short time before he said that he hadn't come to change the laws and in fact they should still be followed.Surely he would have said"but only for a little while longer" if he had meant them to be abolished so shortly after.

So he didn't actually say it then?

jadore7 - so he didn't actually say it I repeat.Dreamstuff's answer is very accurate and confirms my suspicion that you follow Pick'N'Mixism from the bible.

Answer 1

Because he did not know how the followers of his teaching were going to twist his wisened words into malicious lies.

Yes..I do believe Jesus existed. But only as a wise and mystical man.
He was probably the equivalent of a cross between Criss Angel and Plato.

Answer 2

Matt 22:37-40
37 Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

So he said that all the law and prophets hand on to these commandments.
Mark 2:15-16
We can see that Jesus himself didn't abide to the law of Moses in his life time on earth.
5 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and `sinners'?"

Mark 7:5
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with `unclean' hands?"

JESUS did against the law of Moses by forgiving sins.
Luke 5:21
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
It does not mean that we should forbid the law. But in this age of grace, when we obey the Holy Spirit and walk in the ways of the LORD, we are fulfilling the law.
The law of Moses was a compulsory to the people of Israel. As now in the new testament, we obey God with our own free will though it is not compulsory

Answer 3

Matthew 5:17-20
17 "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. 18 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.

John 19:30
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

While we live in this corrupted creation...sin still exists, and the Law does not disappear. In the new heaven and new earth there will be no sin, therefore no need for the Law.

Jesus fulfilled the requirement of the Law on the cross...He paid the penalty for us, and if we have faith and accept His pardon from our sins, we are saved and have eternal life. The Law is still Righteous and Perfect, but since we are no longer bound to it by our sins because Christ has removed our debt to it...the penalty we would have had to pay by dying for us, we now live according to the Spirit of the Law with the help of the Holy Spirit that lives within us.

Just as Christ said...the law does not vanish, but it's penalty has been paid for us by Him, so if we have faith in Christ, we are no longer bound to the Letter of the Law, and are cleansed of our sins by His Righteousness, not our own.

God will judge the world according to His Law at the final Judgment. When God judges "us" according to His Perfect Law at then end of days, we are found innocent because instead of our sins, God sees His Son's Righteousness in place of our crimes against Him, and it is on Christ's account that we are given eternal life in Heaven. For those who do not accept Christ's gift of righteousness, there is only the "penalty" of the Law they have broken during course of their lives to look forward to.

No one earns salvation and no one deserves it, it is freely given from God by our faith in Christ.

Take Care and God Bless you!

Answer 4

He actually said that He did not come to do away with the Law but to fulfil it....ie make it complete.
That is a rather different concept, you must agree, surely.

Answer 5

Luke 16:6,,"The Law and the prophets were untill John, since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it."

Answer 6

On the page at this link: http://www.bythebible.page.tl/Jesus-The-Man.htm

Under the subheading "The Law and Jesus" this question has been answered.

Another page that speaks about Christ and the ransom is addressing this subject so that the Muslim may understand if it is taught or not by Jesus, by Moses, etc.

The page is named "Jesus and Moses."

Answer 7

Then follow the Old Testament laws.

Answer 8

"For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness."
Romans 10 v 4

"For he is our peace, he who made the two parties one and destroyed the wall in between that fenced them off. "

Eqhesians 2 v 14

Answer 9

The righteous requirement of the law has been met in His death, burial, and resurrection. His righteousness will be imputed to believers by faith. Jesus fulfilled the Law.

Answer 10

He doesn't. However His coming to earth did fulfill many of the OT laws and He also corrected misinterpretations of some laws (Sermon on the Mount).