abrogation of Old Covenant laws

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New Covenant theology is a Christian theological system that shares similarities with and yet is distinct from dispensationalism and Covenant theology.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj18f.pdf |title=TMS.EDU: TMSJ 18/1 (Fall 2007) 149-163: Introduction to New Covenant Theology |access-date=2010-12-17 |archive-date=2015-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217033228/http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj18f.pdf |url-status=dead }} New Covenant theology sees all Old Covenant laws as "cancelled"ALL Old Testament Laws Cancelled: 24 Reasons Why All Old Testament Laws Are Cancelled and All New Testament Laws Are for Our Obedience, Greg Gibson, 2008, page 7: "New Covenant Theology ...[has]... a better priest, better sacrifice, and better covenant (containing a better law)." or "abrogated"[http://www.djmoo.com/articles/fulfillmentoflaw.pdf Moo] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827013625/http://www.djmoo.com/articles/fulfillmentoflaw.pdf |date=August 27, 2010 }}, page 375; Gibson, ALL Old Testament Laws Cancelled, pages 48, 143, 144 in favor of the Law of Christ or the New Testament. Douglas J. Moo has argued that 9 of the Ten Commandments have been renewed under the New Covenant.The Law, the Gospel, and the Modern Christian: Five Views Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-310-53321-4}}, also republished as Five Views on Law and Gospel, page 376: "The content of all but one of the Ten Commandments is taken up into "the law of Christ", for which we are responsible. (The exception is the Sabbath commandment, one that Heb. 3-4 suggests is fulfilled in the new age as a whole.)"

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As a theological system, dispensationalism is rooted in the writings of John Nelson Darby (1800–1882) and the Brethren Movement, but it has never been formally defined and incorporates several variants. Major dispensational views divide history into some seven dispensations or ages:Scofield Reference Bible

1. Innocence (Gen 1:1–3:7), prior to Adam's fall;
2. Conscience (Gen 3:8–8:22), Adam to Noah;
3. Government (Gen 9:1–11:32), Noah to Abraham;
4. Patriarchal rule (Gen 12:1–Exod 19:25), Abraham to Moses;
5. The Mosaic Law (Exod 20:1–Acts 2:4), Moses to Jesus;
6. Grace (Acts 2:4–Rev 20:3), the current church age; and
7. The Millennial Kingdom, a literal earthly 1000-year period that has yet to come (Rev 20:4–20:6).

Traditional dispensationalists believe only the New Testament applies to the church of today. They see the covenant of Sinai (dispensation #5) as having been replaced by the gospel (dispensation #6), but at least some dispensationalists believe that, although the time from Jesus' resurrection until his return (or the advent of the Millennium) is dominated by the proclamation of the gospel, the Sinai covenant is neither terminated nor replaced, rather it is "quiescent" awaiting a fulfillment at the Millennium.{{citation needed|date=May 2011}}{{clarify|date=December 2011}} This time of Jewish restoration has an especially prominent place within dispensationalism.

Wayne G. Strickland, professor of theology at the Multnomah School of the Bible, claims that his dispensationalist view is that "the age of the church has rendered the law inoperative".Five Views on Law and Gospel, Gundry editor, Chapter 4: The Inauguration of the Law of Christ with the Gospel of Christ: A Dispensational View by Wayne G. Strickland, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993, page 259

The relationship between Paul the Apostle and Judaism continues to be the subject of research, as it is thought that Paul played an important role in the relationship between Christianity and Judaism as a whole. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states that Paul's influence on Christian thinking is more significant than any other New Testament author.Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ed. F.L. Lucas (Oxford) entry on Paul

Some scholars see Paul (or Saul) as completely in line with 1st-century Judaism (a "Pharisee" and student of Gamaliel or as part of Hellenistic Judaism),The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia (1915), Volume 4, page 2276 edited by James Orr others see him as opposed to 1st-century Judaism (see Pauline passages supporting antinomianism and Marcionism), while the majority see him as somewhere in between these extremes, opposed to "Ritual Laws" (see for example Circumcision controversy in early Christianity) but in full agreement on "Divine Law". These views of Paul are paralleled by Christian views of the Old Covenant. See also Antithesis in the Bible and Christianity in the 1st century.

• Biblical law in Christianity
• Christian anarchism
• Christian ethics
• Supersessionism

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• Blackburn, Jim (2008-12). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140628124122/http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/why-we-are-not-bound-by-everything-in-the-old-law Why We Are Not Bound by Everything in the Old Law]." This Rock: Catholic Apologetics and Evangelists. 19 (10). Retrieved 2022-12-30.

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