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You're right to say that kainos means fresh or, as I say, "new-and-improved." The Old Testament's commands are for the nation of Israel,
Indeed they are.
so since the New Testament or covenant is for an international church,
The renewed covenant is with Israel.
(CLV) Hb 8:10
"For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord is saying: "Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.
or national form has been abolished by Jesus.
Yahshua didn't abolish the Torah.
(CLV) Mt 5:17
"You should not infer that I came to demolish the law or the prophets. I came not to demolish, but to fulfill.
(CLV) Mt 5:18
For verily, I am saying to you, Till heaven and earth should be passing by, one iota or one serif may by no means be passing by from the law till all should be occurring.
Yahshua was commissioned for none but Israel.
(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, [Yahshua] answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
However, the principles or underlying intentions of the Old Testament laws carry over to the new commands that Jesus gave us.
His commands are his Father's commands.
(CLV) Jn 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone should be loving Me, he will be keeping My word, and My Father will be loving him, and We shall be coming to him and making an abode with him.
(CLV) Jn 14:24
He who is not loving Me, is not keeping My words. And the word which you are hearing is not Mine, but the Father's Who sends Me.
(CLV) Jn 5:46
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for the writes concerning Me.
(CLV) Jn 5:47
Now if you are not believing this writings, how shall you be believing My declarations?"
Thus, Jesus' commands are new but not new, if that makes any sense.
That defies the law of noncontradiction
Another very important comment is that the word for "love" is agapao. That is, it is not personal or sexual attraction or friendly love, but it is the kind of self-sacrificial love that Jesus displayed when he willingly accepted extreme suffering and death for the benefit of us completely-unworthy people. We believers must also live sacrificial lives as much as God gives us the ability for others.
I understand that the love of YHWH isn't sexual either.
(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,
I don't understand why so many Christians insist on bring that point up out of nowhere.
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