Every moral
law in the New Testament has a good and logical reason behind it.
Not exact matches
@glossolalia — read your whole bible (especially the
New Testament) Christ specifically addressses «clean» and «unclean» restrictions and how that relates to the
Law after His arrival on the scene (i.e. nothing passes away from the
Law, but that it is fulfilled
in Him).
I agree with all the positive things Travis LaCouter said yesterday about Adam Greene's Bibliotheca Kickstarter campaign, an effort to present a reader's edition of the Bible, stripped of all verse numbers and other annotations and bound
in four handsome volumes, one for the
Law, one for the Prophets, one for the Writings, and one for the
New Testament.
a) Divide the Mosaic
law into 3 components: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial The Civil Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living in Israel in that time period The Ceremonial Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandme
law into 3 components: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial The Civil
Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living in Israel in that time period The Ceremonial Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandm
Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living
in Israel
in that time period The Ceremonial
Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandm
Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary
laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandm
laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral
Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandme
Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the
New Testament church today, except the Sabbath
Law, the 4th Commandme
Law, the 4th Commandment.
The Civil and Ceremonial
laws of the Old
Testament and the Abrahamic Covenant applied to a specific people for a specific time, and unless they are ratified
in the
New Testament under the
New Covenant, they are gone, and are not applicable for today.
The moral
law (10 Commandments) presented
in the Old
Testament still applies under the
New Covenant because the moral
law is reflective of the very character of God.
In the Old Testament, the divine law was written onto two tablets of stone, but in the New Testament, the divine law is written on our hearts (Romans 2:1
In the Old
Testament, the divine
law was written onto two tablets of stone, but
in the New Testament, the divine law is written on our hearts (Romans 2:1
in the
New Testament, the divine
law is written on our hearts (Romans 2:15)
Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «
law» demanding the tithe when not one
New Testament book endorses this model (The reference
in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus
in a different order, and his comments
in the gospels was to people living under the
law)... how is it that no other «
law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?
True
Law and grace can't be mixed, but baptism is not found
in the
Law, however it is all through the
New Testament.
I would suppose murder
in the
Law of Moses would be brought forth into the
New Testament.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching
in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the
laws of the Old
Testament are treated as irrelevant
in one moment, but important enough to display
in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the
new creation that began at the resurrection.
Instead of trying to follow
laws (sin or not sin)... Instead of trying to make the
New Testament into a new set of laws to follow or not, I take it that they point to Jesus and what His work looks like in my li
New Testament into a
new set of laws to follow or not, I take it that they point to Jesus and what His work looks like in my li
new set of
laws to follow or not, I take it that they point to Jesus and what His work looks like
in my life.
At this point those accustomed to Bultmann's earlier distinction of Jesus from Paul
in terms of
law and gospel,» and his subsequent classification of Jesus within Judaism2 as only a presupposition of
New Testament theology, would expect him simply to repeat that position.
The
Law from the Old
Testament was fulfilled when Christ came, from that time forward we have the Gospel of Christ, thus you read of no animal sacrifices
in the
New Testament, for example, just to give you an idea.
Furthermore, and of central importance for us,
in the
New Testament generally, and most explicitly
in Paul, our understanding of
law as such has changed.
If they are
law, what significance and application, if any, to they play
in the
New Testament?
The
New Testament describes worshipping God a little differently, as is to be expected
in a series of books based around Jesus» purpose to fulfill the
law (Matthew 5:17)
in a way that reinterpreted it for everyone.
I could hear
in it the echo of youthful Sunday school lessons on the superiority of the
New Testament's
law of love over the Old
Testament's rule of vengeance.
There is a crucial verse
in the
new testament: «bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the
law of Christ».
Thus the term «
law»,
in the
New Testament as well as
in the Old, is capable of a range of meaning wider than properly belongs to the English word.
A miracle
in the sense of the
New Testament is not so much a breach of the
laws of nature (a concept which would have had little meaning for most people of the time), but rather a remarkable or exceptional occurrence which brought an undeniable sense of the presence and power of God.
It is not at all anachronistic within this Unity -
Law of all things to interpret the Old
Testament in the light of the
New.
So the choice is either to recognize the Bible as primary authority, and Jesus of Nazareth as just one aspect of it along with Moses and the prophets and the many Old
Testament laws not specifically superceded
in the
New, or to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as primary authority.
The combination of
law and fulfillment, as well as the combination of
law and love, is mentioned repeatedly
in the
New Testament, particularly
in the letters to the Romans and the Galatians.
In neither case does it reflect a disrespectful view of divine law (which both the Old and the New Testament see as grounded in divine grace), but rather it refers to what is bound to happen to the law when we start «handling» it and using it to establish our own righteousness rather than letting the rule and righteousness of God dwell and become embodied in our mids
In neither case does it reflect a disrespectful view of divine
law (which both the Old and the
New Testament see as grounded
in divine grace), but rather it refers to what is bound to happen to the law when we start «handling» it and using it to establish our own righteousness rather than letting the rule and righteousness of God dwell and become embodied in our mids
in divine grace), but rather it refers to what is bound to happen to the
law when we start «handling» it and using it to establish our own righteousness rather than letting the rule and righteousness of God dwell and become embodied
in our mids
in our midst.
Equally unscriptural claims were made about thd
New Testament declaration that
in Jesus» coming the
law and the prophets were fulfilled.
For many today, this claim is associated with the Stuart kings of England; but James I
in his
New Law for Free Monarchic, as were his descendants
in their official acts, was dependent on the Old
Testament.
True, Scripture presupposes rather than enlarges on man's freedom of choice, and its explicit theme, especially
in the
New Testament, is the paradox that man's continuing responsible freedom is enslaved by the demonic powers of sin and death and even by the
law, and that it must be freed to the love of the
law by the grace of God.
In fact, the very phrase «
law written on the heart» is biblical; it comes from the
New Testament book of Romans.
There are several places
in the
New Testament where the Old is endorsed and «nothing is to be added or taken away», and Jesus himself says «no one can escape The
Law of the Pharisees».
True, freedom,
in the
New Testament sense of the word, means facultas standi extra se coram deo, freedom from condemnation, freedom from the bondage of the
law, etc..
They were not written for you or I. Secondly, the ceremonial, sacrificial, and dietary
laws of the Old
Testament are no longer binding as laid out
in the
New Testament.
If Christ is the end of the
law (Rom.10: 4), if we have been discharged from the
law to serve, not under the old written code but
in the
new life of the Spirit (Rom.7: 6), then all of these Old
Testament sexual mores come under the authority of the Spirit.
It can not be too strongly stressed,
in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base
in social adjustment, or a balancing of human values, or a natural
law of morality, that the center of
New Testament ethics lies
in the love requirement which
in turn stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.
I mean, wasn't all the
law fulfilled
in the
New Testament with Jesus Christ being the ultimate sacrifice for all?
the Jews triangulated
in on a God, the Christians targeted a specific One and not much else, and the Muslims attempt to encircle them all with violence rather than a religion of pure LOVE like Christians teach though has been subverted against old and
new testament laws forbidding such that Islam endorses namely justified killing,.
Cahn gives full weight to the Old and
New Testaments, but also to the secular growth of
law in concrete cases.14
So if Jesus has fulfilled the
Law why would He now add a
new Law (wearing a veil) in the New Testament which was never even part of the Old Testament L
new Law (wearing a veil)
in the
New Testament which was never even part of the Old Testament L
New Testament which was never even part of the Old
Testament Law.
He manifested himself with moses, now
in the
new testament with him destroying the works of the
law, why must he remain invisible with all the suffering
in the world.
We tried to understand the numerous miracle stories of the
New Testament without assuming a «supernatural» intervention — which can not be proved —
in the
laws of nature.
Gustaf Wingren
in Skapelsen och Lagen (Creation and
Law) says that the
New Testament calls Christ himself the image of God.
The» - Christian» side of the hyphen, which would draw on the
New Testament, is not of much help
in defining
laws for civil society.
The tithe has changed a little bit
in the
New Testament, but notice that Abram is tithing long before any
law about tithing was giving.
Already
in the proclamation of Jesus, however, and
in the
New Testament messages of Paul and John, we discover the Christian promise of the forgiveness of sin, or the release of the sinner from his bondage to
law and judgment, a liberation effected by his participation
in the body of Christ or the dawning Kingdom of God.
The TDNT says that parabaino is closely connected with sin
in the
New Testament, but primarily
in the sense of using human tradition to disobey the
law of God while claiming to be the fulfillment of the
law.
It is just this dynamism we see
in the
New Testament, in which Jesus continually reinterprets the law and brings subjectively new insights out of and into the objective tradition of which he is a pa
New Testament,
in which Jesus continually reinterprets the
law and brings subjectively
new insights out of and into the objective tradition of which he is a pa
new insights out of and into the objective tradition of which he is a part.
[17] The Son of Man would descend so that he could ascend
in triumph; so uniting
in himself the Old and
New Testaments, for everything in the old law, and more particularly everything in the new, was directed towards h
New Testaments, for everything
in the old
law, and more particularly everything
in the
new, was directed towards h
new, was directed towards him.
It happened that Bishop Candler's son -
in -
law, a man named Sledd, also taught
New Testament in the same seminary.
In the light of that, I therefore have come to a new appreciation of the place of law and commandment in the gospel, in both Old and New Testament
In the light of that, I therefore have come to a
new appreciation of the place of law and commandment in the gospel, in both Old and New Testamen
new appreciation of the place of
law and commandment
in the gospel, in both Old and New Testament
in the gospel,
in both Old and New Testament
in both Old and
New Testamen
New Testaments.
Our radical attempt to demythologize the
New Testament is
in fact a perfect parallel to St. Paul's and Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone apart from the works of the
Law.