Says you. Messiah says, that not even the smallest stroke of the obsolete law shall pass until heaven and earth pass. If you take a skim over to Revelation 21:1 youd see that Messiah wasn'tt metaphorizing anything. Heaven and earth will pass! Until then, Ill believe Messiah clear teaching over your opinion.
Hebrews 8:13,
By calling this covenant new, he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Luke 24:44,
He said to them, This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms. That is fulfilled.
Matthew 5:18,
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Everything is accomplished. So as you said, do you believe this?
I love when people claim the New covenant when A. the new covenant is made with the House of Israel and the House of Judah and B. the obsolete Law will be written on the hearts of all those who partake in the New covenant. Ironic. You can run but you cant hide from the Holy Law of God
So what do you think Jesus was saying in Luke 22:20?
You cant claim Messiah as your savior if He is not first your Lord. You cant claim to be adopted in the Household of God, without obedience to the rules of God. Its like we want to join ourselves to the God of Israel, without having to obey ALL of His Word. What in the world is wrong with us? I really think its high time we wake up and smell the roses. Whats with this half-way obedience that we want to do. Just obey Matthew through Revelation, and youll be OK. What is wrong with us? Didn'tt Messiah say, Man shall not live by bread alone but by EVERY WORD that proceeds from the mouth of God? Did God only give us Matthew through Revelation? How about 2 Timothy 3:16-17
does Paul tell us that ALL NEW TESTAMENT Scripture is profitable? NO. He says ALL Scripture.
Whats even more ironic about 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is that the so called NT was not even close to being canonized at the time Paul taught this
<shakes head>
Well I'd like to see a verse about that statement. First of all The Messiah is for the Jews, are you Jewish? If not, He is our Savior. A fact you should know if you know the OC. The only thing that saves us is Jesus Himself, when we accept Him as our Savior. Romans 10:10,
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. After that, Jesus becomes our Lord and hopefully soon after that our LORD. He is the God of Israel. So if you are part of Israel, He is your covenant God. Since Jesus died, He is the God of the world. We don't become Jews like Gentiles had to under the OT, we are accepted AS IS.
Read Phil 3:3-6, where Paul says of himself,
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
Then in Galatians 2:14-16,
How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
We don't live in OT times, nor NT times, we live today and use the scriptures we have. One of Peter and Paul's biggest issues they faced, in the early church, was Jewish believers trying to bring in Judaic customs and laws into the The Way. They dealt with it constantly and it appears we are still dealing with it today. Because we are under the Spirit of the Law and NOT the Letter of the Law, we can apply many scriptures to our lives, but ONLY with the Holy Spirit's prompting. Will you follow Lev 19:27? I won't, and it has no power over me to do so.
Anyways.
Gods Word is a unit. Not two halves. Its bout time we start living according to Psalm 119.
And after the entire vision ordeal what did Peter do? Eat pork chops? God forbid! He did what God showed him through the vision and associated with Gentile believers! No need to add to Gods Word. (Deuteronomy 4:2)[/quote]