Understanding Biblical Law

Alan Shlemon of Stand to Reason uses a helpful analogy to explain the difference between the Mosaic Law and the New Covenant.

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Sadly, like most money making preachers, you are dead wrong. When Jesus said He came to fulfill the law, the full quote is this: "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill." The "but" is a conjunction which puts contrast between two things. The first thing is, to destroy and the other is to fulfill. If destroy means to do away with the law, or to satisfy the law, then fulfill means to put it into effect. But there is more to support this: "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Now, He is saying not a jot or a title from the contract is done away with but you say the first contract was done away with and replaced, basically, by new terms. This is an out-and-out lie. There is one Covenant from beginning to the end. That Covenant was first the Adamic Covenant, then the Noahic Covenant, then the Abrahamic Covenant, then the Davidic Covenant and so on until the New Covenant which was nothing new. It was renewed and finalized, put into full effect. Each covenant was a transfer but not new. The new transfer, the new covenant, was a transfer from a nation to the world. But there was nothing in the terms of any of the Covenants that changed. Think of the Old Testament and the New Testament as one single perfect flower. The Old Testament was the flower bud, the New Testament is the same flower in full bloom. ONE way of salvation from cover to cover in the Bible. One people of God from cover to cover in the Bible. One law from cover to cover in the Bible. Now, the OT law for the nation of Israel applies fully to the New Testament church (spiritual Israel) except where it was specifically repealed. One of the laws repealed were the sacrificial laws which were completed in the sacrifice of THE LAMB. So, we no longer sacrifice animals. But these laws were not just sacrificial laws, but they were types and shadow laws to point to the real thing-Jesus. But then there are other types of laws like moral and judicial laws. These have by no means been done away with. Otherwise you'd have to say before we shall not murder, steal, bare false witness but now we can. Outrageous nonsense. And there are judicial laws in how you deal with people who murder, steal, bare false witness and so on. So your analogy is TOTALLY FALSE and gives people a false understanding of the Covenant of Grace AND the Covenant of law.