Soyeong
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Because the Law doesn't save anyone. No one, not even the Patriarch's were saved by the Law.
The law is a guide of what is good in God's site, but it is faith that saves and nothing in the law is based upon faith.
I act in accordance to Jesus commands to love each other and love God each day and that usually means keeping the 10 commandments, but that does not mean that the 10 commandments saves.
Words are important and the meaning is important.
Obeying the Law doesn't save because it was never given for that purpose in the first place. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith was one of the weightier matters of the Law, so the God's LAw is of faith, and obedience to it is straightforwardly about having faith to guide us in how to rightly live. Every example of saving faith in Hebrews 11 is also an example of someone living in obedience to God's will, so faith is always associated with and willingness to do that. Sorry, I don't see how your response is related to my question.
I'll agree with everything Jesus did was in accordance with OT law, but then to be perfect He had to obey ALL of what is good, perfect and just.
Now, the second part that all Jesus taught was in accordance with OT laws, not so much. Because see, Jesus fulfilled the law and in it's fulfillment He gave us two new laws.
So part two, nope.
So you're saying Christ came to free us from doing what is good, perfect, and just?
To fulfill the Law is defined as causing God's will (as made known in the Law) to be obeyed as it should be. After Jesus said he came to fulfill the Law in Matthew 5:17, he then proceeded to fulfill it six times throughout the rest of the chapter by teaching how to correctly understand and obey it. In Galatians 5:14, loving your neighbor fulfills the entire law, so anyone who has ever loved their neighbor as fulfilled the entire Law, which means that it does not refer to something unique that Jesus did. Likewise, in Galatians 6:2, bearing one another's burdens fulfills the Law of Christ because it is obeying it that it should be. In Romans 15:18-19, it says that Paul fulfilled the Gospel, which referred to causing the Gentiles to become fully obedient to it in word and in deed. There are also many other uses of the term "fulfill the law" found in other Jewish writings that use it in the same way.
In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was not asked about which Law should be followed to the exclusion of others, but about what the greatest command was. He summarized the Law as being God's instructions for how to love God and our neighbor and said that all of the other laws hang on those two commands. So the greatest two commands are the greatest because they encapsulate all of the other commands and all of the other commands are commentary or the explanation for how to correctly obey the greatest to commands. So all of the 613 commands in the NT and 1,050 commands in the NT can be put into the the categories of instructions for how to love God and for how to love our neighbor, so love fulfills the Law because that is essentially what it is about how to do.
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