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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The Trinity and the Son of David
Message-ID: <2110@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 10:58:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 10:58:40 1985
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Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
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In article <cvl.792> arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross) writes:
> 
>  How can one "fulfill" the law by negating all the precepts of the OT?
>
>Among the direct biblical injunctions in the OT that are not adhered to:
>
>"On the tenth day of the seventh month... a day of atonement(Yom Kippur)"
>"Upon giving birth she shall be unclean for one week........"
>"And these are animals that are unclean to you... the pig,the camel,..."
>"And if an entire city worships idolatry... it shall be sealed off.... "
>"On the eighth day circumcise every male child....."
>"And when one divorces his wife he shall give her a get ...."
>"If a childless brother dies then should his brother come and marry 
>   his wife to establish a name for his deceased brother ..."
>"This shall be the service of the High Priest on the Holy Days.
>   A tunic of fine cloth shall he wear .....            "
>"And when a prophet from you comes up amongst you .. and seeks to revoke
>   any of the commandments that I have given ... then shall you know that
>   he is surely a false prophet....."
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>         Ari Gross

These are all OT injunctions concerning the ceremonial and theocratic laws
of the nation of Israel.  Their purpose was to provide for the governing of
the theocracy and to point the people to the coming Messiah.  Israel, as a
geopolitical entity, and the ceremonial law were no longer necessary once 
the Messiah had come.  It that sense Christ was the fulfillment of the Law.  
God's salvation was no longer to be narrowly enjoyed by the Jews, but was to 
be taken into all the world.  The work of Israel as the custodian of the Law
and the nation through which the Messiah would come is fulfilled.


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