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Does Jesus bring a new Torah with the New Covenant?
04-24-2011, 11:01 AM (This post was last modified: 04-24-2011 11:03 AM by Rose of Shushan.)
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RE: Does Jesus bring a new Torah with the New Covenant?
Quote:You're correct in saying Jesus' law is from the Father.

Ps 40:6-8
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.(KJV)

I agree that the words of Jesus and the Laws of Moses both came from the Father but just as the commandemnts to Abraham were not the same as those of Moses the ones of Jesus were not the same as the ones of Moses.Otherwise why would Jesus refer to the sacrifices and burnt offerings in one breath saying God doesn't require them and in the next say His Law is in His heart...it seems that God's will is also His Law right.Are not instructions from God His LAw? So if Jesus obeys God's instructions He is following God's Law, just that it is not the Law of Moses.

Quote:I don't think Christ was teaching another law, but that He was teaching the perfect law, one that has been from the beginning....

I Jn 2:7
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
(KJV)
That verse is the apostle John speaking, not Christ and he is saying he is not giving them any more instructions or commandments in addition to what they had already heard.

I do agree with you that Christ was teaching the perfect law the law that had underlied the Laws of Moses but were not the same.Moses Law made allowances for the people's hardness of hearts because it was a schoolmaster.In the same way that we allow our children leeway when disciplining them because we take other things into consiederation.

Quote:The Sinai Covenant contained statutes and ordinances that were for the nation of Israel only for a specific time.
I totally agree that the Sinai Covenant was to the nation of Israel, while they were to live in the land God gave them and under certain terms and conditions.If these were not abided by, they would incur curses upon them that would culminate in the covenant being broken and them being driven out of the land.

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RE: Does Jesus bring a new Torah with the New Covenant? - Rose of Shushan - 04-24-2011 11:01 AM

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