• Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    But, did he?

    Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

    I’ve often seen that as a response, when someone claims that Jesus wiped the shitty Old T nonsense away.

    That’s the trouble with the bible, it’s a book written by a bunch of men with competing interests over thousands of years ago, and honestly could have used a team of diligent editors, but has been held up as the infallible word of some dude sitting in the clouds.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Fulfill it, as in complete it. It’s done. With his sacrifice he formed a new covenant. He goes on to say that anyone who wants to follow any part of the law of Moses must follow the whole law of Moses*. That means that anyone judging someone for old testament laws is a sinner themselves for eating pork or shrimp, for wearing clothing of mixed fabrics, and 611 other laws that are quite difficult to follow in a modern world.

      *Galatians 5:4