From a theological viewpoint, I was taught that all of Scripture iscontext for individual verses. The idea that the Mosaic law could be
> From: Harold Holmyard
>
> Dear Yohanan,
> > I think the issue here is that you are creating a difference between
> > God's Torah and Mosaic Torah, as if they are not one, and the same.
> > But the issue is that they are one, and the same to, and I do not
> > think that there is any place in the Miq'ra that proves otherwise as
> > far as text is concerned.
> >
> HH: The Mosaic covenant was certainly a conduit of God's law and the
> expression of it which Israel was obliged to keep. That covenant was the
> vehicle by which he chose to communicate his law to Israel. But God had
> laws before there ever was a Mosaic covenant:
>
> Gen. 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
> commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
[Steve Miller] The basis for the New Covenant is Jer 31:34b "for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
A big part of the Mosaic law is the sacrifices for sin. In every sacrifice
for sin, there is a remembering of sin....
Another evidence is Psalm 110:4, where God designates the Messiah as Priest
according to the order of Melchizedek, not according to the order of the
Mosaic Aaronic priesthood. "For the priesthood being transferred, there is
of necessity a transfer of law also." (NT Hebrews 7:12)
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-Steve Miller
Detroit
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