(October 30, 2009 at 5:36 pm)padraic Wrote: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.
Something I also forgot to say is that in the OT law there was 'civil law', 'ritual law' and 'ethical law'. it is generally only the ethical law that is kept.
The book of Romans explains the point of the Law before Christ. It was there before to show sin for what is was and to show that we fall below the high standard of God to show that we need God. The fact is that Saul did change it though.
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