Sentences with phrase «law of the old testament»

The New Testament superceded the old testament... we are no longer under the law of the old testament.

The Bible certainly contains detailed instructions — e.g. the specifically Jewish Law of the Old Testament (although large parts of that are actually case law and as such are intended as examples to be more widely applied through common sense).

If a lot of radical Xtians had their way then we would be under a theocracy and using the laws of the old testament, which aren't much different than the koran.

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.

Pretending that you are no longer bound by the law of the Old Testament is the easy path to hell

@Triago: Jesus said to follow the law of the old testament ALL OF IT.

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.

As in, went against the laws of the Old Testament?

That is, we no longer follow the customary laws of the Old Testament, but the Royal Law (a word also used by Aristotle) as referenced in James 2, that to love your neighbor as yourself is the whole of it?

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The hate and anger about him not following the law of the old testament, is not right.

Why are we so focused on the laws of the Old Testament?

That is under the old law but Jesus says that he has brought a new law and that we do not have to follow the law of the old testament, but sin never changes.

He reported that he and his boss talked theology almost every day over lunch, and that his boss, although good and knowledgeable Christian, had distressing antinomian tendencies due to his neglect of the moral law of the Old Testament.

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.

Jesus said you are to follow all of the laws of the Old Testament.

So meh, you think that Jesus» direct command to obey the laws of the Old Testament in Matthew 5:17 - 18 was somehow changed by his crucifixion?

God reduced in Christ the laws of the Old Testament decalogue to two: love to God and love to man, universal and entire.

On these matters some would argue that the cultic laws of the Old Testament are no longer binding, and they must be distinguished from its moral commandments.

But if the laws of Old Testament Israel ought not to govern our treatment of, say, adultery, why should they govern the penalty for murder?

We are no longer subject to the laws of the Old Testament, so plant whatever crops you want

I am not sure where your Bible is from (I for One am very glad to be out from under the Law of the Old Testament), but the verses you suggest may be better understood if we read Galatians; 5:19 - 21.

Not exact matches

Exactly what is the value of the Law in the Old Testament other than to point out the sinful nature of man and his need for a savior.

Jewish writer AJ Jacobs tried living according to the Old Testament law in The Year of Living Biblically (Simon & Schuster).

Finally, I've not said anything about old testament law, unless I missed in a giant lapse of consciousness.

Luther's mistrust of the message of James» i.e., that faith without validating works is dead (James 2)» has been inherited by and continues to hamstring Luther's spiritual offspring, who wrongly juxtapose grace and law, mercy and justice, love and holiness, indeed, the ethical standards of the Old and New Testaments.

ragansteve1 Isn't the Christian insistence that the Old Testament Law no longer applies to believers of God not a case of «Moral Relativism»?

(New Testament) Whay did Christ die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough??? When Paul speaks of the law he means anything that we should must or ought be doing.

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.

Here's a biblical quote where jesus says we should follow the OT: Jesus orders Christians to follow the Law of Moses in the Old Testament: «Do not think that I [Jesus] have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

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 2:15)

The law in the Old Testament: «You shall not lay a male as with the laying of a woman, it is an offensive thing».

the law refers mostly to the torah (the first five books of the old testament), which serve no purpose in purifying christians, as evidenced by the fact that we christians no longer sacrifice rams.

The tradition in question here was a matter of the distinction between clean and unclean, which is prominent both in the Old Testament and in the oral law.

And he presented the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms of the Old Testament as speaking of him (Luke 25:25 - 27, 44 - 47)-- which for the most part they don't literally but they do spiritually.

Advice given in this way has something of an Old Testament ring about it, even if it is true that the law of the Lord is perfect and that it brings life to the soul.

Jesus condenses the Old Testament prophetic ethic (quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus) when he declares that «all the law and the prophets» depend upon love of God and love of neighbor (Matt.

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.

Unfortunately the author neglects to understand, as most people do, that Jesus, by fulfilling all laws, made the old testament irrelevent in terms of how we live our lives.

But i understand that if you want to make fun of Christians, the easiest thing to do is use Jewish old testament laws.

It is true that tithing has its foundations in Old Testament Levitical Law, and even before the law was given to Moses, as in the story of Abraham bringing a tithe to MelchizedLaw, and even before the law was given to Moses, as in the story of Abraham bringing a tithe to Melchizedlaw was given to Moses, as in the story of Abraham bringing a tithe to Melchizedek.

You don't even know the difference between the books of the law, the priesthood, and the prophets from the Old Testament.

Since the teaching about being loving, even to someone that hates you, was a part of the Old Testament Law, we need to carefully examine the words Christ spoke.

It was part of the Old Testament Law that people were to be loving, even to their enemies.

The point of the Old Testament is that humanity is incapable of obeying God's law, and so stands condemned before God, but a Redeemer can reconcile those who trust in Him.

In the Old Testament however, God was trying to set up an earthly kingdom, one that had rulers and laws with a system of taxation, government, and military might.

In the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, the writer tells us that God «established (his) covenant with day and night, and with the fixed laws of heaven and earth.»

He might even know that Christians are forbidden from obeying Old Testament law, while understanding that the Old Testament provides a preview of the New.

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.

They do not understand the old testament laws ment for the jewish pack and the New testament that improves all the laws and greater understanding of Love, mercy and the law it self.