Does Jesus bring a new Torah with the New Covenant?

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(04-24-2011 11:01 AM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:  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.

Excellent points, Rose.

It seems that Moses had the temporary role of mediator between God and the people . [Exod 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. (KJV)] The Levitical Priesthood also established the temporary position of the High Priest as the intercessor for the sins of the people. I think Moses understood, (as he was told to make a picture of what God showed him on the mountain) that these measures were only a picture of what was to come in the future.

(04-24-2011 11:01 AM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:  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.

Scriptures that further clarify this:


Deut 30:16-20
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
(KJV)