Christian/Muslim ThreadsDICTATED and BORROWING theoryHi again Unity The argument by Muslims is usually that Jesus does not abrogate the Law, and that Christians are still to follow every slightest aspect of it. Yet this is not what the text is implying at all; let’s look at it carefully: Jesus is clear that he did not come to remove the Law, but to fulfil it; in other words bringing in the perfection of its standard. If you read the commands and teachings of Jesus in Matthew 5, you will see what he means. Fulfilling also fulfils the prophecy of the prophets, that a new Law coming; look at Jeremiah 31: 31-34: This is the New Law coming, it is not a book, it is the Spirit of God, entering our lives and transforming us and guiding us to live according to God’s standard. This is why he does not include the Torah only but also the prophets, in which the prophecy is given. So of course the Law is not abolished but made perfect And that is true! We still possess the Torah, yet neither passage states that we are to follow it, to its every aspect. You get the point brother Unite? We possess the Law, but it does not imply that we need to follow its every aspect; because the perfection of the Law has come with Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God who enters our life. The Law of God does not pass away or get corrupted! HOW CAN MAN CORRUPT THE VERY WORD OF GOD? This is what Jesus states here! I have met Muslims who say: ‘see here it explicitly states that Christians are to follow every detail of the Law.’ However, look at the passage again, which commandments is he referring to? He is not saying follow the Torah, but ‘these commandments’ which are the commandments of Jesus in the passage, not every aspect of the Torah. This is confirmed in Matthew 19: 1-9 when the Pharisees come to Jesus about a rule in the Law, in which a man could divorce his wife by providing her a letter of divorce. Jesus here prohibits the specific command, since it was for a time being, and does not imply the standard of God. The true standard of God is the rule found before sin entered the realm of mankind and which Christianity turns back. As Christians we criticise Islam because it goes back to the Mosaic Law which applied to certain time and a circumstance when the true standard would be unacceptable and non-clear to a barbaric society and circumstance. Hence here Jesus himself reveals that Christians are not to follow every aspect of the Law since they concerned the nation of Israel (not Christianity). When you look at Christianity you need to look at what is referred to as the Kingdom, and this will answer your question: Hence we are presently not in the time of the Law but in the time when the Kingdom of God is being proclaimed Does that answer some questions? |
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