The Law fulfilled

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“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” - Matthew 5.17.

Why did the Law need to be fulfilled? What does this even mean?
 
“Law” is a clumsy translation. Think more of “contract.”

There was Abraham, then Moses, and now Jesus. Three phases.

Consider a modern contract. You get a loan to buy property. Then you start work on a house on it. The loan changes to include construction costs. It was always intended to do so.
 
The law is for the lawless - 1 Timothy 1.9

So if Jesus fulfilled it, does that mean that we are truly free of sin?

But how can it be fulfilled, but not abolished? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
 
Richard320 said:
“Law” is a clumsy translation. Think more of “contract.”

There was Abraham, then Moses, and now Jesus. Three phases.
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Contracts can be broken.

These prophets did not represent contracts, they lead us in covenants, which are never to be broken.
 
Someplace St Paul describes the Law as a tutor given to prepare a young heir for adulthood. With Jesus mankind reached his majority and was ready for his full inheritance. [Sorry that that is poorly stated, but I can’t find the passage at the moment and am working from memory.]
 
The law was the collection of laws that the Jews had put together over the years since Moses.
The Pharisees had some 1,700 laws that all Jews were supposed to obey. They were very specific about every detail of a Jews’s life. There was no chance the average Jew could even know what all these laws were let alone obey them

Jesus changed these laws, and fulfilled them in the sense that they were Christian rather than Old Testament Jewish…
 
empther said:
The law was the collection of laws that the Jews had put together over the years since Moses.
The Pharisees had some 1,700 laws that all Jews were supposed to obey. They were very specific about every detail of a Jews’s life. There was no chance the average Jew could even know what all these laws were let alone obey them

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Is this something that you read somewhere (if so what is the reference source) or is this something that just sounds correct to you?
 
chosen_people said:
Is this something that you read somewhere (if so what is the reference source) or is this something that just sounds correct to you?
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While there are only 613 laws in the Torah, the Pharisees kept the Oral Law that is codified in the Talmud.
 
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