(February 21, 2014 at 12:46 am)Rahul Wrote:(February 21, 2014 at 12:36 am)Lek Wrote: It's true that God did give the Israelites harsh laws to follow. There were other things that required death that would not under the new covenant.
Quote:Matthew 5:17
King James Bible
Jesus: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished
Jesus didn't replace the old laws. They still apply.
The whole reason the law was instituted was to bring people to Christ. Nobody could live according the whole law until Christ came and fufilled all the requirements of it. The law wasn't destroyed, but by faith in Christ we are no longer the law His rightousness is imparted to us. Paul refers to this as living under grace. Read Romans 6:14 and Galatians 3:10-14. As verse 11 states "Clearly, no one is justified before God by the law..." (NIV). The book of Galatians was written specifically because Jewish christians were trying to convince new Gentile converts that they must follow the law and Paul is chastizing them for returning to the law after having been freed from it by faith in Christ.
