Decalogue in the New Covenant

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Julius_Caesar said:
What do the commentaries say about this clause?
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Absolutely nothing about the law being abolished, which is why in speaking to his disciples immediately after this statement the Lord says that anyone teaching to break even the least of these commands will be least in the kingdom of heaven.
 
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Hodos said:
Absolutely nothing about the law being abolished
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It’s fulfilled. As in a debt is fulfilled.

Ellicott
Till all be fulfilled.–Literally, Till all things have come to pass. The words in the English version suggest an identity with the “fulfil” of Matthew 5:17, which is not found in the Greek. The same formula is used in the Greek of Matthew 24:34. The “all things” in both cases are the great facts of our Lord’s life, death, resurrection, and the establishment of the kingdom of God. So taken, we find that the words do not assert, as at first they seem to do, the perpetual obligation even of the details of the Law, but the limit up to which the obligation was to last; and they are therefore not inconsistent with the words which speak of the system of the Law as a whole as “decaying and waxing old, and ready to vanish away” (Hebrews 8:13). The two “untils” have each of them their significance. Each “jot” or "tittle "must first complete its work; then, and not till then, will it pass away.
 
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It’s fulfilled. As in a debt is fulfilled
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Till heaven and earth pass away is fulfilled? That’s weird. Paul seems to indicate in Romans 8 that we are still awaiting the full completion with Christ’s second coming. Till then, the law still seems to apply since in even Matthew 28 Christ is commanding that the disciples teach us to obey everything that Christ has commanded. Also, if you actually read Ellicott’s full commentary he agrees with me that the moral law to which Jesus is referring to doesn’t pass away and the disciples are still commanded to keep and teach it. You might want to skip to his commentary on vs. 19.
 
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Hodos said:
Till then, the law still seems to apply since in even Matthew 28 Christ is commanding that the disciples teach us to obey everything that Christ has commanded.
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What He commanded, not Moses.
 
Hodos said:
That’s weird. Moses said the Lord gave him the law.
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And many things in that Law came because the hearts of the people were hard. Like divorce, which we know from Malachi, God hates.
Hodos said:
You keep trying to erect two different gods between New and Old Testament.
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Nope, You’re just making the same mistake the Judaizers made.

There is a New Law given to us by Christ which supersedes the Law of Moses.
 
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Personally, I find the10 commandments in the Sermon on the Mount, which I am called to do explicitly by Jesus through his apostolic magisterial instruction. Further, the greatest commandments call me to love my neighbor as myself - my neighbor IS myself in need. And, for a FULL EXAMPLE, if I break one of the ten, and were to kill my neighbor, he would not be available to LOVE AS MYSELF.
I GOTTA KEEP THE10 COMMANDMENTS so I have God and my neighbor near at hand to Love.
 
Catholics do keep all, including 3, or in sorrow seek forgiveness and do penance to repair lost friendship with God and neighbor so they will be able to love again.
 
Ask your catechist to teach you from the CCC.
7th Day Adventists are not, neither is Geisler, Catholic nor Apostolically authorized instructors for us, and in teaching other meanings they engage in propagating heresy.

We were magisterially given the Bible, with the commandments ALONG WITH magisterial catechization where our teachers taught us prior to Confirmation according to the guidance provided in the CCC what fulfilment of the commandments IS, including number three. Your teacher can look up paragraphs 2175 and 2176 and then walk you through how you can fulfil it to remain in friendship with God.
 
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John_Martin said:
Ask your catechist to teach you from the CCC.
7th Day Adventists are not, neither is Geisler, Catholic nor Apostolically authorized instructors for us, and in teaching other meanings they engage in propagating heresy.
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It’s undeniable that the Church doesn’t worship on the 7th day. So to say we keep all the 10 commandments is, well, a stretch.
 
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Julius_Caesar said:
It’s undeniable that the Church doesn’t worship on the 7th day. So to say we keep all the 10 commandments is, well, a stretch.
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That is a private opinion and a personal conclusion of an individual reading a book not provided for personal interpretations, but given magisterially with correct explanation by the church, which your catechist can train you from if your instructor in the Catholic Faith will go to paragraphs 2175 and 2176 in the CCC and then walk you through how you can fulfil commandment three to remain in friendship with God.
 
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