How Did Jesus Fulfill the Law?

This is a clip from the longer video: "Did Jesus Replace Judaism? A Messianic Jewish Response to Andy Stanley." -    • Did Jesus Replace Judaism? A Messiani...  

In Matthew 5:17, Jesus says, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill" (NRSV). What is Jesus saying? Pastor Andy Stanley argues that this means Jesus came to make the Torah obsolete. In this video, I show the major problems with Stanley's argument and then make a positive case for the meaning of Matt 5:17 by examining the text in its Second Temple Jewish context.

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Dr. Nicholas Schaser's interview on Matthew 5 https://podcast.israelbiblecenter.com...

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Noted works:

BDAG - Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

Thiessen, Matthew. "Abolishers of the Law in Early Judaism and Matthew 5,17-20." Biblica 93, no. 4 (2012): 543-56.

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