What he is seemingly saying???
How can you make that statement...have you actually looked at the Shema? Do you think I am making that up?
Whether or not you agree, its a historically proven reference citing the Shema...an incantation that is thousands of years old and which all Jews claim to have on their lips at the point of death, and you say...it "seems" Christ (a jew by birth and upbringing) was teaching something different?
God is Love and the Ten Commandments are God's law of Love. You do understand that right? (you probably should google it)
Now let me bring you in on a little secret. Do you know how I know Christ was referencing the Shema?
1. My dad holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biblical theology and he has studied and worked professionally in this area for 40 years. As soon as I showed him this, he immediately recognized the error in the post i was responding to and added Deuteronomy into the mix of texts i quoted.
2. I used my bible concordance to cross reference Christ's statement and found the other texts I cited. I didn't make the interpretation...if you don't believe me, check you own bible cross-referencing. 100% it will take you to the texts I cited.
3. I diid not make the claim Christ is not referring to Gods law of Love...SDAs believe quite the opposite actually. If you were to use some intellectual ability and check for yourself, you will find that even Google searches produce the same results and conclusions as what i posted regarding the Law of Love.
The problem here is that you simply do not get the point of why one should never straw-pluck texts out of their context and attempt to derive doctrine from them. You were a simple person who read one line of a text, ignored everything else in Christ's ministry surrounding the topic (ie loving your neighbor) and voila... there's the "new" commandment that supersedes everything else!
Now i will give you a short theological history lesson...
1. The Sanhedrin was known in the time of Christ to have increasingly followed in the pathway of their forefathers and made the Law of Love (The 10 commandments) a burden.
2. Christ rejected the notion of repression through the use of the law and taught it as it was supposed to be implemented.
3. There is no evidence, despite your continuing to attempt to link them, that the 613 bylaws and the 10 commandments are the same thing. How do we know that there is a difference one may ask? Well the answer to that is simple...which laws were written in stone, 613 or just 10? Why were the 10 commandments written in stone and not just on papyri or something of that nature? We know the Egyptians had other writing medium at this time in history and that the Israelites pillaged all they owned from the Egyptians immediately before the Exodus!
4. We know that the writer of the gospel of John also wrote the book of Revelation and that Revelation was almost certainly written after Johns Gospel. Given that, if your claim Christ was doing away with the 10 commandments is true, how is it that John writes in Revelation 14:12
"Here is a call for the patience of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus"
Cross-reference the above passage and note what we find...
1 John 2:3 By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
Now if we go back a little, let's remind ourselves of an important biblical theme...
Why did Christ die on the Cross?
1. Was it not in fulfillment of the need to atone for the sins of mankind after Adam and Eve disobeyed in the Garden of Eden and thus brought pain and suffering into this world? "He will save His people from their sins" Matthew 1:21
2. Was it not due to the righteousness of Christ "let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" Hebrews 4:16
3. Was it not to provide an avenue of salvation "who he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour" Titus 3:6
4. Was it not to redeem us back unto God? "He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit" Galatians 3:14
5. Did not the two angels at the time of the ascension of Christ into heaven make the following claim "men of gallilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven" Acts 1:11
Is not the culmination of all of the above found in Revelation 21? "and i saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea".
I guess the point is this...
whether or not you care to accept it, we have only 1 standard by which we know what sin is...the 10 commandments. It is the only standard by which judgment occurs in all the bible (there is no other standard mentioned).
The pharasees and Saduccees corrupted this law and turned it into a means of self elevation and segregation. They used it to oppress the poor, to presecute, and to punish unjustly.
Christ did not say to ignore the 10 commandments (as shown in Luke 11:42 below) rather, Christ simplified the laws into a commandment of love (God and one another) because the jewish leadership were not showing any compassion or love in the way they followed the law. Sure they kept the law, Christ admitted that, but they did not love in keeping the law. God is love and His law is love...it was not meant to be implemented in this way and Christ highlighted that mistake.
Check out Luke 11, and Matthew 23 below
(Matt 23 is a bible concordance cross reference for Luke btw)
Luke 11:
42Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God.
You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
46“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “
You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.
50As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered,
and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Matthew 23
1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:
2“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3So practice and observe everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads
a and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
6They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
7the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.
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8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
9And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.
11The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
