Quote:A lot of the OT law was kicked out because of the NT grace.
'A lot'?. What about 'most'?
Even though Jesus admonished them to keep the law,the hard bits were abandoned in less than a 100 years.. Christians kept TEN of the SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN commandments of Mosaic law. (mitzvot)
There were odd exceptions,cherry picked for convenience.It still happens today with some of the more rabid fundamentalists.
If it was about grace, it would have been so from the very beginning, but it was not. It was purely pragmatic.. For fully two generations to be a follower of teachings of Jesus,you HAD to be a Jew or convert first to Judaism. Saul changed the rules [and invented most of what became Christianity] to allow gentiles to join.Had this not happened,Christianity would have remained as it begun;a minor Jewish sect.
Quote:The 613 Mitzvot (Hebrew: תרי"ג מצוות: Taryag Mitzvot, "613 commandments") are statements and principles of law and ethics contained in the Torah or Five Books of Moses. These principles of Biblical law are sometimes called commandments (mitzvot) or collectively as the "Law of Moses" (Torat Moshe, תורת משה), "Mosaic Law", or simply "the Law" (though these terms are ambiguous and also applied to the Torah itself).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_Mitzvot
