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No, definitely not! Christ fulfilled the law. He did not need to abolish it because it was fulfilled. However, in terms of Christian practice, the effect is the same: we are not under the law.
The analogy of the mortgage is relevant here: when your house mortgage is fully paid (fulfilled), you don't keep making payments on it. The same is true if your mortgage were forgiven (abolished); you would not continue to make payments.
The analogy of the mortgage is relevant here: when your house mortgage is fully paid (fulfilled), you don't keep making payments on it. The same is true if your mortgage were forgiven (abolished); you would not continue to make payments.
Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Strong's G4137
plēroō
From G4134; to make replete, that is, (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.: - accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.
The faulty logic is that fulfilled and abolished means the same thing. In Luke 21:24 that would mean that the Gentiles are abolished.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy G2647the law, or the prophets: I am NOT come to destroy G2647, but to fulfil G4137.
G2647
kataluō
From G2596 and G3089; to loosen down (disintegrate), that is, (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specifically (compare G2646) to halt for the night: - destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.
Mar 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.Strong's G4137
Or in the case of the faulty logic "the scriptures must be destroyed". G2647
destroyed/abolished and fulfilled mean two different things and are in no way alike or saying the same thing. That is just foolishness.
Strong's G4137
plēroō
From G4134; to make replete, that is, (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.: - accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.
The faulty logic is that fulfilled and abolished means the same thing. In Luke 21:24 that would mean that the Gentiles are abolished.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy G2647the law, or the prophets: I am NOT come to destroy G2647, but to fulfil G4137.
G2647
kataluō
From G2596 and G3089; to loosen down (disintegrate), that is, (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specifically (compare G2646) to halt for the night: - destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.
Mar 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.Strong's G4137
Or in the case of the faulty logic "the scriptures must be destroyed". G2647
destroyed/abolished and fulfilled mean two different things and are in no way alike or saying the same thing. That is just foolishness.
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Hebrews 13
20 Now may the YAH of peace, Who brought again from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an Eternal covenant, our Adonai Yeshua, 21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to Whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
20 Now may the YAH of peace, Who brought again from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an Eternal covenant, our Adonai Yeshua, 21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to Whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
I'm with you. Mat 5:17-20 indicates that the Law is NOT abolished, certainly not until ALL is fulfilled. The term "law" that Christ is using in v18 is a contracted form of the noun phrase "the law and the prophets" alluded to in v17. In other words "the law" often refer to the books of the Torah but sometimes is used colloquially to refer to all of the Tanakh. Christ's subject is clearly the Tanakh because of His opening statement in v17. There are literally thousands of commandments and prophecies (taken together) that are yet to be fulfilled. Not fulfilled = not abolished.
Which parts are relevant to the Christian? First, rightly divide. The codified Law found in the Torah is divided for you by the Holy Spirit. The testimony (ten commandments) - Exodus 20; The Judgements (God's judgements) - Exodus 21-23; The Ordinances (God's instructions for temple worship) Exodus 26-31; Subordinate Judgements (Some from God, some from Moses) throughout the rest of the Torah.
In Ephesians 2:15 Paul tells you which part no longer pertains to you - Ordinances. Why? Because He literally fulfilled/satisfied the ordinances by becoming our new High Priest and by sacrificing Himself. An exercise which did not need to be repeated because of it's perfectness. Now, if you believe that God was manifest in the flesh to become the Lamb which takes away the sin of the world, righteousness is imputed to by Grace through faith. If you deny this then you remain in your sins since there is no alternative.
The ordinances persist even to this day to describe in more detail what Christ has done for you, especially on that cross. But this is meat for the maturing believer.
As to the other parts of the law they stand with all the authority they have ever had till heaven and earth pass by which time they will have been fulfilled. This is why the writers of the NT repeatedly reference these laws in teaching believers The Way.
Hope this helps.
Which parts are relevant to the Christian? First, rightly divide. The codified Law found in the Torah is divided for you by the Holy Spirit. The testimony (ten commandments) - Exodus 20; The Judgements (God's judgements) - Exodus 21-23; The Ordinances (God's instructions for temple worship) Exodus 26-31; Subordinate Judgements (Some from God, some from Moses) throughout the rest of the Torah.
In Ephesians 2:15 Paul tells you which part no longer pertains to you - Ordinances. Why? Because He literally fulfilled/satisfied the ordinances by becoming our new High Priest and by sacrificing Himself. An exercise which did not need to be repeated because of it's perfectness. Now, if you believe that God was manifest in the flesh to become the Lamb which takes away the sin of the world, righteousness is imputed to by Grace through faith. If you deny this then you remain in your sins since there is no alternative.
The ordinances persist even to this day to describe in more detail what Christ has done for you, especially on that cross. But this is meat for the maturing believer.
As to the other parts of the law they stand with all the authority they have ever had till heaven and earth pass by which time they will have been fulfilled. This is why the writers of the NT repeatedly reference these laws in teaching believers The Way.
Hope this helps.
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Actually Christ not only fulfilled the Law but He also abolished it. When the New Covenant went into effect the Old Covenant was rendered null and void. That is exactly what Paul is saying below.
2 CORINTHIANS 3: THE OLD COVENANT HAS BEEN "DONE AWAY" WITH OR ABOLISHED
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament [Covenant]; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 CORINTHIANS 3: THE OLD COVENANT HAS BEEN "DONE AWAY" WITH OR ABOLISHED
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament [Covenant]; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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