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<blockquote data-quote="SolitaireZeta" data-source="post: 1414860" data-attributes="member: 20567"><p>Indeed. Jesus says here that he came to fulfill the law. In other words, to be the final sacrifice to fulfill the requirements of the Old Covenant sacrificial ceremonial system once and for all, that could never be truly fulfilled by animal and grain sacrifices, no matter how many were made. Also, for His sacrifice to enable believers to be inhabited by His Holy Spirit, so that we are strengthened and emboldened, and all but happy to fulfill the moral law, more and more as we become ever further sanctified by abiding in Him. For He is not a mere mortal Levitical priest of the line of Aaron, subject to corruption and death. He is not only our one true final sacrifice, but is our eternal High Priest, forever interceding on our behalf to the Father in Heaven, in the manner of the order of Melchizedek. </p><p></p><p>The original purpose of the ceremonial law, which is distinct from the moral law, was to set the Hebrew people apart from the Gentiles, and to foreshadow the coming of the Messiah (i.e. animals sacrificed outside of the camp, prefigured Christ being sacrificed outside of the boundaries of Jerusalem.) Now that the Messiah has come, there is no more need for the ceremonial law. It's why Christians can consume pork and shellfish now. It's why Jews can associate with Gentiles without becoming unclean. It's why the Sabbath is no longer observed on Saturday anymore: because Jesus is our Sabbath rest. In Him, we have rest from the formerly required works of the ceremonial law that Saturday was originally a rest from. Even our current rest from the ceremonial law is but a shadow of the permanent eternal rest to come on the 8th day: eternity in paradise with God in the new Kingdom. </p><p></p><p>If your argument, that "the law is to stand until a new heaven and earth" was referring to ceremonial laws continuing as well too, was taken to it's logical conclusion, Paul's rebukes of the Judaizers, throughout several of his epistles, for trying to bring back the ceremonial laws as a salvific requirement, would make no sense. Paul was especially explicit about this aspect as well. Literally hoping that those still pushing for physical circumcision would just cut the whole thing off. Why? Because still insisting on such ceremonial law in the aftermath of Christ's death and resurrection is an outright slap in the face of our Lord. For we now bear the circumcision of the heart, which is greater and a spiritual reality; not merely symbolic of a covenant to come like physical circumcision was.</p><p></p><p>Since we live in an age in which purifying pigs of parasites is easier and makes pigs more reliably safe for consumption, we have no need to abstain. With police and justice systems, we have no need of sanctuary cities. With institutions like unemployment, some forms of government support, and 9 to 5 jobs, slavery is no longer necessary. There is also a reason why children are no longer executed for disobeying their parents, nor are people executed for not going to church on Sunday. Jesus Himself, in one of His most iconic moments, did away with the death penalty for adultery. Even when a city rejected Him, and His apostles asked if they should call down fire and brimstone to wipe said city off the face of the Earth akin to Sodom and Gomorrah, Christ rebuked them, saying that is not how things are done anymore.</p><p></p><p>Thus, in an age of mercy, grace and systems of support in place, there is simply no need to subject a rape victim to marrying her rapist in order for her to be spared the fate of being a penniless, homeless, spinster. </p><p></p><p>Once again, God had his prophet, Hosea, literally marry the prostitute Gomer, to foreshadow the level of grace and mercy to come with the New Covenant. Hosea took Gomer back as a wife, even when she cheated on him again. Even when Gomer went back into prostitution and was so destitute, that she because a slave whose price on the market was less than even a normal slave, Hosea bought her back. Such was God's expression of love for Isreal, in spite of their straying at the time. Such is Jesus' love for us when we were or are His enemies, and beyond wretched and seemingly hopeless. If God can show such a level of mercy to a prostitute, willfully defiled by who knows how many men, and in the Old Covenant no less, then mercy and grace to a woman who has been unwillingly defiled by one man is nothing. Nothing is impossible with God. Nothing is too hard for Him. His hand is not too short to save.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SolitaireZeta, post: 1414860, member: 20567"] Indeed. Jesus says here that he came to fulfill the law. In other words, to be the final sacrifice to fulfill the requirements of the Old Covenant sacrificial ceremonial system once and for all, that could never be truly fulfilled by animal and grain sacrifices, no matter how many were made. Also, for His sacrifice to enable believers to be inhabited by His Holy Spirit, so that we are strengthened and emboldened, and all but happy to fulfill the moral law, more and more as we become ever further sanctified by abiding in Him. For He is not a mere mortal Levitical priest of the line of Aaron, subject to corruption and death. He is not only our one true final sacrifice, but is our eternal High Priest, forever interceding on our behalf to the Father in Heaven, in the manner of the order of Melchizedek. The original purpose of the ceremonial law, which is distinct from the moral law, was to set the Hebrew people apart from the Gentiles, and to foreshadow the coming of the Messiah (i.e. animals sacrificed outside of the camp, prefigured Christ being sacrificed outside of the boundaries of Jerusalem.) Now that the Messiah has come, there is no more need for the ceremonial law. It's why Christians can consume pork and shellfish now. It's why Jews can associate with Gentiles without becoming unclean. It's why the Sabbath is no longer observed on Saturday anymore: because Jesus is our Sabbath rest. In Him, we have rest from the formerly required works of the ceremonial law that Saturday was originally a rest from. Even our current rest from the ceremonial law is but a shadow of the permanent eternal rest to come on the 8th day: eternity in paradise with God in the new Kingdom. If your argument, that "the law is to stand until a new heaven and earth" was referring to ceremonial laws continuing as well too, was taken to it's logical conclusion, Paul's rebukes of the Judaizers, throughout several of his epistles, for trying to bring back the ceremonial laws as a salvific requirement, would make no sense. Paul was especially explicit about this aspect as well. Literally hoping that those still pushing for physical circumcision would just cut the whole thing off. Why? Because still insisting on such ceremonial law in the aftermath of Christ's death and resurrection is an outright slap in the face of our Lord. For we now bear the circumcision of the heart, which is greater and a spiritual reality; not merely symbolic of a covenant to come like physical circumcision was. Since we live in an age in which purifying pigs of parasites is easier and makes pigs more reliably safe for consumption, we have no need to abstain. With police and justice systems, we have no need of sanctuary cities. With institutions like unemployment, some forms of government support, and 9 to 5 jobs, slavery is no longer necessary. There is also a reason why children are no longer executed for disobeying their parents, nor are people executed for not going to church on Sunday. Jesus Himself, in one of His most iconic moments, did away with the death penalty for adultery. Even when a city rejected Him, and His apostles asked if they should call down fire and brimstone to wipe said city off the face of the Earth akin to Sodom and Gomorrah, Christ rebuked them, saying that is not how things are done anymore. Thus, in an age of mercy, grace and systems of support in place, there is simply no need to subject a rape victim to marrying her rapist in order for her to be spared the fate of being a penniless, homeless, spinster. Once again, God had his prophet, Hosea, literally marry the prostitute Gomer, to foreshadow the level of grace and mercy to come with the New Covenant. Hosea took Gomer back as a wife, even when she cheated on him again. Even when Gomer went back into prostitution and was so destitute, that she because a slave whose price on the market was less than even a normal slave, Hosea bought her back. Such was God's expression of love for Isreal, in spite of their straying at the time. Such is Jesus' love for us when we were or are His enemies, and beyond wretched and seemingly hopeless. If God can show such a level of mercy to a prostitute, willfully defiled by who knows how many men, and in the Old Covenant no less, then mercy and grace to a woman who has been unwillingly defiled by one man is nothing. Nothing is impossible with God. Nothing is too hard for Him. His hand is not too short to save. [/QUOTE]
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