The Old Testament Law/Covenant still stands today and you have the choice to try to follow it if you want. I donât see why you would want to because itâs âto be perfect you have to do all this all your life but TLDR youâve already broken it so itâs impossible and youâre already condemnedâ. Jesus introduced a new covenant (aka testament, hence âNew Testamentâ, also called âNew Covenantâ in some bibles) of grace and forgiveness, which is superior to the Old. We donât ignore the Old as such, we just follow the New because itâs better.
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RattlerSix@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠agoThis isnât a sermon of Moses, itâs Godâs law. God said to follow his law forever. Christians ignore it, but Jesus said to follow the law forever too.
letsgo@lemm.ee â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
How does this benefit your neighbour?
RattlerSix@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
I donât see how quoting the two most important commandments negates any of the rest. It goes against when he said to follow all of them, even the least of them, until the end of the earth
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Itâs Yahwehâs laws but the mythology has it provided by Moses in his sermons to the Israelites. As for Christians ignoring bits of it, part of that is based on saying attributed to Jesus in the gospels (e.g. the bit from Mark I quoted above) and also the simple fact that most religions update themselves as society changes. If anything, I think the Catholic church was smart to have a leader who could receive ânew revelations from Godâ. It lets them update canon, while maintaining the illusion that they arenât just making shit up to stay relevant.