There are more commandments in the New Testament than in the Old

[tonychanyt]

There are 1,050 in the NT and 613 commandments in the old.

The New Testament emphasizes love, faith, and grace as the foundation for Christian living. Jesus summarizes the law in the Great Commandment, and the apostles provide practical guidance for believers. Both testaments reflect God’s desire for His people to live in righteousness, but the NT shifts the focus from external obedience to a transformed heart and a life of love and service. I am not counting the numbers

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• I will put my laws on their hearts

 

[RamiC]

But there is forgiveness if we confess since Jesus came, and that was not part of the old covenant.

 

[tonychanyt]

But there is forgiveness if we confess since Jesus came, and that was not part of the old covenant.

Check out How did God forgive David's sin of having sex with Bathsheba? and follow up there.

 

[David Lamb]

But there is forgiveness if we confess since Jesus came, and that was not part of the old covenant.

Wasn't it? What about what we read about what God said to Moses?:

“And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation."” (Ex 34:6-7 NKJV)

Indeed, I found 95 references to forgiveness in the Old Testament, and although a few of those refer to people forgiving each other, most of them relate to God's forgiveness.

 

[RamiC]

tonychanyt

Check out How did God forgive David's sin of having sex with Bathsheba? and follow up there.

Did so, thank you. See you in the linked thread.

 

[RamiC]

Wasn't it? What about what we read about what God said to Moses?:

“And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation."” (Ex 34:6-7 NKJV)

Indeed, I found 95 references to forgiveness in the Old Testament, and although a few of those refer to people forgiving each other, most of them relate to God's forgiveness.

I am sorry my post above is not very clear about what I meant. Adding to it here, and in the thread about David to make up for that now.

I was trying to say this, "The Passover meal was the annual remembrance of God's rescue of Israel from slavery in Egypt, particularly the final plague in which God killed the firstborn of the Egyptians. With the blood of a sacrificial lamb on their doorposts, the Israelites were spared. That lamb ultimately represented Jesus—"the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29; cf. 1 Peter 1:18–21). When Jesus took the bread that night, He said, "'Take, eat; this is my body.' And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, 'Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matthew 26:26–28). Jesus fulfills the old and has ushered in the new. May His name be praised!" Entire article here.

I meant to be supporting tonychanyt in the OP, which I obviously did not make clear, in just pointing out that there is a significant difference betwen the new covenant revealed and established by Jesus on the cross, to which the NT commandments apply. It is not just about the number of commandments.