Hello,
since I came to be a christian I am often afraid of reading certain portions of the bible, for example the law of Moses. In this writing there is so much death and destruction, the awful animal sacrifices, the harshness of punishments for small sins like not obeying the sabbath fully and such. I take deep comfort in Christ's changes to religion which had St Paul say the law has been done away with in Jesus Christ and His cross. I am often praying to Jesus to show me the cross and the resurrection. Do you have any further thoughts about how I can loose my fear of the law and the fear of God that results from the law? Paul wrote the law only brings disputes and anger. So why did God institute it at first to begin with? Why didn't God start with Christ's teachings and the love that Jesus always preached? Without love there is only fear and I am very dependent on love, like every human being. I adore the 10 commandments which in my interpretation are enough when it comes to laws, and the 2 love commandments. But I cannot live well with much of the rest of the law. The Jews speak about it humanely, they spiritualize the law and don't want to hurt anyone. Do christians do the same thing? How can we embrace Jesus' kindness deeper? How can we run away more from the mosaic law? How can we destroy the kind of hell legalism can bring you into? Is legalism the hell that Jesus came to rescue us from too?
since I came to be a christian I am often afraid of reading certain portions of the bible, for example the law of Moses. In this writing there is so much death and destruction, the awful animal sacrifices, the harshness of punishments for small sins like not obeying the sabbath fully and such. I take deep comfort in Christ's changes to religion which had St Paul say the law has been done away with in Jesus Christ and His cross. I am often praying to Jesus to show me the cross and the resurrection. Do you have any further thoughts about how I can loose my fear of the law and the fear of God that results from the law? Paul wrote the law only brings disputes and anger. So why did God institute it at first to begin with? Why didn't God start with Christ's teachings and the love that Jesus always preached? Without love there is only fear and I am very dependent on love, like every human being. I adore the 10 commandments which in my interpretation are enough when it comes to laws, and the 2 love commandments. But I cannot live well with much of the rest of the law. The Jews speak about it humanely, they spiritualize the law and don't want to hurt anyone. Do christians do the same thing? How can we embrace Jesus' kindness deeper? How can we run away more from the mosaic law? How can we destroy the kind of hell legalism can bring you into? Is legalism the hell that Jesus came to rescue us from too?