when you read the NT, you discover there is a “new covenant”, which makes the old covenant obsolete.
this is why Christians read the OT in light of the NT.
anyone who thinks this is a “problem”, probably has a problem with the historical, orthodox Christian Faith believed and taught for 2,000 years.
oh wait.....
DEUT:5
2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Jeremiah 31:31
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 NOT according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their INWARD PARTS, and write it in their HEARTS; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:
5....but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be DONE AWAY:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is DONE AWAY was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their HEART.
16 Nevertheless when it (the heart) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
It is easy to see why St Paul was accused of teaching the JEWS to “forsake Moses”. Yet in his own words he never did!
He told the Gentiles that THEY did not have to become Jews or follow the letters “writtten and engraven in stone” to become Christians because God’s new covenant law had been placed in their inward parts.
Except in that it ratifies the old into itself.
this is why Christians read the OT in light of the NT.
Silly christians.
anyone who thinks this is a “problem”, probably has a problem with the historical, orthodox Christian Faith believed and taught for 2,000 years.
HAH! Now you are just trying to be funny.