Sentences with phrase «christ abolished the laws»

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Further illumination is given to the Corinthian text when it is related to Ephesians 2:14 - 22 where Christ is pictured as breaking down the walls that divide Christians from one another by abolishing «the law of commandments and ordinances» (vs. I5).

An interpretation this verse seeks to avoid is that the law of God, the law of the kingdom as embodied in the Old Testament, has been abolished, set aside or in any way declared defunct because of Christ's fulfillment.

To put it another way, Christ came to fulfill the Law, not to abolish it, so He observed the Sabbath even in His Death; and Three is an important number for the Trinity.

«Unless they will abolish their laws and ordinances, and restore to Christ's churches their liberty and have it taught among them, they are guilty of all the souls that perish under this miserable captivity, and the papacy is truly the kingdom of Babylon and of the very Antichrist.

As I read Paul's christocentric rationale for the breaking down of the dividing walls of separation — a basic text for branding anti-Semitism the heresy it is — I wonder how an orthodox Jew, for example, would regard Paul's insistence that Christ has abolished «in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances.»

Jesus Christ came, not to abolish the Old Laws but to fulfill them.