Wow!, Studyman, two long drawn-out posts trying to make the scriptures I provided tell us we are under the old covenant laws. You could have read 2Cor3:6-11 and found out that indeed we are not under the Sinai covenant's ten commandment laws.
Actually NO, the Scriptures I posted, expose your religious philosophy as from man and not God, without any help from me. And of course you must ignore the Scriptures where Paul is telling you that you are the servant to whom ever you "Yield Yourself" to obey. You just switched from Ellen White to Calvin and Pink. But Paul said we are to "offer ourselves", "Yield ourselves" to God, not popular religious voices of the religions of this world.
What is the opposite of the word fulfilled?
According to Jesus, "Destroy" is the opposite of Fulfill.
Fulfilled, Strongs "1096" Greek = ginomai means "To Continue to be" to "Become" (come into being) Be brought to pass, come to pass, continue, be divided, etc.
Destroyed, Strongs "2647" Greek = kataino means "to loosen down", to demolish, to halt for the night, destroy, dissolve etc..
You are ignorant of the Biblical Fact that the mainstream preachers of that time, were "Teaching for doctrines the Commandments of Men", at least according to the Jesus of the Bible. Jesus came, in part, to bring the Word's of His Father the Pharisees had "omitted" from their religion. That is what HE was doing in Matt. 5. He taught ALL of God's Law, He wasn't Partial in the Law as the "Them of old time" became.
Why would Jesus use the term "pass" in verse 18?
Because HE knew you and the Pope and Calvin and "Many" more who call Him Lord, Lord, were all going to continue on the path the Jews had forged in a centuries long Jihad against God's Laws, that started with the serpent in the garden. Jesus wanted His Servants, those who "Yield themselves" to Him and His Father, to know HE isn't the one promoting the erosion and elimination of the Laws Paul said were "Written for our Sake's no doubt". (Another scripture you must omit from your religion)
So HE said "Don't even think" I came to "Loosen down, diminish, destroy or dissolve the Law and Prophets, like the mainstream preachers of this world teach. I came not to destroy My Father's Laws and Examples HE had Written for your admonition, but to show you the perfection and benefit in "Yielding yourselves" to them. I am the result of a man who "Yields Himself, Humbles Himself, to the God of the bible. "follow ME" HE Said.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Doesn't the word "pass" mean end in that sentence especially with "till" in the sentence?
I would say yes, as long as the same Heaven and Earth that the Christ walked is still here, and has not "Ended" or Passed, then "EVERY WORD" Which Proceeds from the Mouth of God shall not Pass either.
Till what? Till Jesus brought all the jots and tittles to an end.
Which HE tells you to your face that HE DID NOT COME TO do, in fact, for you not to even "THINK" He will do, as long as This Earth, and the Heaven that exists in This Life are here. And yet, that is exactly what you and the mainstream religions of this land preach, as well as the mainstream preachers of Jesus time taught.
He ratified His new covenant at Calvary ending the old one as prophesied in Jeremiah.
I agree with this statement. So What is the New Covenant according to the God who created it. Lets let God answer this for us.
Jer. 31:
33" But this shall be the covenant that I will make " with the house of Israel;
OK Bob, here it is. Here is the God of the Bible, the Word of God which became Flesh, telling YOU, what HIS New Covenant is. All you need to do is believe Him.
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.
Isn't this the same thing Jesus said in Matt. 5? After "what days" Bob? Isn't this "After Calvary"? Please answer my questions as I am answering yours. And how long after His Resurrection do you believe HE intends to "write God's Laws" in the minds of HIS People? Wouldn't that be for as long as this heaven and this earth are here?
But you imply in your religious philosophy that Jesus stopped "writing God's Laws" on the minds of His People at Calvary. That God's Laws "Passed" because "Jesus brought all the jots and tittles to an end" at His Death. A teaching that flies in the face of the Jesus of the Bible and HIS New Covenant. Doesn't that bother you a little?
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:
How were God's Laws administered Before "After those days" Bob? Were we not required to go find a Levite Priest to read them for us? But now look, you have the Oracles of God in your own Home, in your own mind, just as He Promised. And you have been forgiven your past sins so you are free to "Serve Another" or as Paul calls it "Yield Yourself" to this same God.
And yet you still reject them as Jeremiah also Prophesied in Chapter 6. "
But they said, We will not walk therein.
How was sin forgiven prior to "After those days"? Of course you will not answer this question either.
According to you we must be under two covenants? Paul certainly didn't think so and I believe Paul over all that you write.
Actually you don't even know or acknowledge God's old Covenant, nor do you acknowledge HIS New Covenant. You don't understand that the Covenant that changed was the Priesthood Covenant God made with Levi on Israel's behalf on Mt. Sinai because of the Golden calf. It is the Priesthood Covenant that changed. Not God's Laws, Statutes, Commandments and Judgments Abraham was blessed for obeying.
There are two covenants to be sure. The one created by the catholic Church and her Protestant Daughter that you are promoting, and the New Covenant Given to us by the God of the Bible that I just posted.
I know none of this will cause you to "take heed", at least that has been your custom. And it is sad because you have His Word right in your hands, something other generations before "After those days" never had.
And yet, you still don't believe what is written.
Surely there is no new thing under the sun.