Jesus did not violate Moses law. Yes we should stone adulterers if we were in Israel (national law).
As to your New Covenant post, do you not think that it can be a different covenant but the same terms? What has changed are the promises which makes this a better covenant. Did the Lawgiver mess up the first time around? If it is a new set of precepts, then can you name them for me? Would the 10 commandments be part of them? What about the laws of incest, bestiality, etc? It makes no logical sense the terms would be replaced just because the people had the problem keeping it. Its like changing the rules your kids have to obey in your house just because they keep breaking them and getting in trouble.
Here are a few violations Jesus committed against Moses' Laws:
Joh 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Joh 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Joh 8:5
Now Moses in the law commanded us,
that such should be stoned:
but what sayest thou?
Joh 8:6 This they said, tempting him,
that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Joh 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Go ahead, stone her for her sins (I am crying in my spirit to make this statement) and see if God will forgive you for yours on Judgement Day.
FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS. Is your heart so cold that you have no love for a human being that is your equal in every way and then you think God will accept you, a sinner, while you reject your fellow human being? Do you not hear Jesus:
LET YOU WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.
Those Pharisees had their eye on Jesus and heard him speak on his teachings and were ready to trap him, if he said to let her live, so what does he do? He tells them if they are perfect and not in need of God's mercy, then go ahead kill her.
Why did they care what Jesus taught: if Jesus followed Moses and Moses said to stone her?
Mat 18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Mat 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Mat 18:23
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
Mat 18:24 And when he had begun to reckon,
one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
Mat 18:25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Mat 18:26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mat 18:27
Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
Mat 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
Mat 18:29
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mat 18:30
And he would not:
but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
Mat 18:31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Mat 18:32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him,
O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Mat 18:33
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Mat 18:34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Mat 18:35
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Moses never taught this, the torah/precepts of Moses has nothing on the torah/precepts of Christ. You want God's love and you refuse to love your enemies? You will not find forgiveness unless you do:
NEW COVENANT.
I am wondering if you are sincere. I ask because many times it has been stated that Jesus raised the standards of righteousness and if you look at Jesus' teachings you will see the new higher obligations, starting in Matthew 5, which he reveals to us.
Moses was clear on not eating all kinds of foods, but Jesus states the following:
Mat 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Mat 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Mat 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
Mat 15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Mat 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Mat 15:15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
Mat 15:16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Mat 15:17
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Mat 15:18 But
those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and
they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mat 15:20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Again we see Jesus contradicting Moses' teachings.
Mat 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and
his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold,
thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Mat 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Mat 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth,
I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Mark 2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
Mar 2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mar 2:25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
Mar 2:26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
Mar 2:27 And he said unto them,
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Didn't Moses say that you would prepare your food on the 6th day and on the 7th not to gather or prepare food? Again Jesus violates Moses Torah/Laws/precepts:
NEW COVENANT.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,
and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deu 18:19
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Act 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Act 3:26
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Moses' Torah never lead men to turn from their sins and indeed it never had the power to do so, as it failed to address forgiveness, which is essential to be of an equitable character: for one who is in need of being forgiven.
Again I state: the Don'ts of the books of Moses fail to show people the way of righteousness and thus they have no power to save a person, not a single one.
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32
Not the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; 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.
Jer 31:34 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: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Walk in Love and forgive others, caring about people not material gain: which is self serving and against the good of the whole. Do these things not resonate with your inward parts? Of course they do, the question is will you do it, or will you fight against the law of God written on your heart, which is demanding love of mankind and thus affection for God?
You are willing to stone a person who is your equal and you think all is well with yourself before God?
Go and learn what this means: I will have mercy and not sacrifice. Don't you see that God is looking for us to be merciful and that He does not care about your sacrificial offerings, if you fail to be merciful.
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