Did Jesus Christ do away the laws in the OT? I think Christians invented the concept Jesus did away with the old laws to distance themselves from one of the many 623 strange, violent, meaningless or otherwise vile laws of the OT. I am sure many of you will agree by today’s standards many of the laws in the OT are unacceptable. I can’t imagine anyone really believeing their wife needs to be put in the shed because she bleeds. With the same difficulty I try to imagine people wanting to stone their children, keep slaves and murder pigeons. Many of these laws are in my opinion stupid. I have long believed many Christians felt the same. They clearly understood that if they followed such laws(as gods word) it would be very difficult to win converts or to keep people involved.
However, these laws - no matter how strange are in the bible. The bible is gods book. I say who are we, if we love god, to not obey the laws of the bible. The bible for most Christians is something to be believed.
I do not think the Judge would release me after I killed a few homosexuals and justified it using the bible - possibly one or two would?
However, my wife like many other wives refuses to go out to the shed when she bleeds. Although I try to keep slaves they always escape. No matter how many times I tell my wife and slaves I am doing this is in accordance of the scriptures they just do not seem to care.
I can imagine many wives objected to the sexism in the Torah. I can imagine many Christians objected to these laws. Because of this Christians needed to create a way to do away with the old law. Jesus was used for this purpose. I do not understand this doctrine - JC doing away with old law? Can someone please explain it to me? This has been a road block, a reason I have been against religion. I think Christians just invent things. I base this on the following. . . . The bible clearly says it is not ment to be changed. It clearly demonstrates law is law. Am I way off?
Again my opinion is Christians(being good people?) knew the laws were evil. However, they needed to invent a reason so they did not need to follow them. They somehow claim Christ did away with old law. I do not understand this. Using the bible can you demonstrate how Christ does this? Although this is more a question I am happy to debate the topic and use such verses as evidence old law still stands:
Matthew 5:18-19, Matthew 5:17, Timothy 3:16 & 2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
We are born, we live then we die.
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