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To: matthewrobertolson

Matthew Jesus came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

There is no “new: Law Matt 5:17

God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He doesn’t change.

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”


95 posted on 10/13/2013 7:54:43 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: JSDude1
Matthew Jesus came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” There is no “new: Law Matt 5:17 God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He doesn’t change. Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”

We agree on every last bit of this. When I said "'new' Law," I thought I made it clear what I meant by that with what I wrote within the parentheses.

Read again that portion of what I wrote:

(the universal form of the Law, which Christ brought to us)

The "new" Law is the pure and universal form of the "old" Law. They are both, substantively, the same Law. I put "new" and "old" in quotation marks because it is sometimes the easiest way to explain the difference between the very culture-specific form of the Law (the "old" form, from the Old Testament) to the purest and most universal form of it (the "new" form, which Christ has taught us).

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.
108 posted on 10/13/2013 9:08:06 PM PDT by matthewrobertolson
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