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dawg

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16. Yep.

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #14)

Mon Nov 15, 2021, 01:47 PM

Nov 2021

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

And that was the fulfillment. The hodgepodge of ancient "thou shalts" and "thou shat nots" were fulfilled by the teaching of the basis underpinning all the law (love for God and love for each other), and ultimately by the self-sacrificial act of the crucifiction.

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