au1929 wrote:No. People became the sacrificial lambs.
People are
not the sacrificial lambs. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. He died for us, so that we could get to heavan and so that sacrifices would no longer be necessary.
Fufilling the law means that he completed the requirements of the Jewish law.
He did not alter the Jewish law in any way. By fufulling the law, he gave us a way to forgiveness not through the law. He gave us a way to heavan. This is why we are no longer bound by the Jewish law.
Before the life of Jesus, people were following the laws and traditions for the sake of following them. They had forgotten the original meaning of these.
mesquite wrote:If you two would just stop and think for a few minutes, you might grasp just how silly it is to assume that the one word "fulfilled" in that passage wipes out all of the unpleasantness of the Old Testament.
Nobody said that it wiped away history. It didn't wipe out the happenings of the Old Testament. What it did was liberate us from the Jewish laws.
mesquite wrote:In the Old Testament we have a God that tossed a tantrum that destroyed all the people and creatures of the earth, save what was on Noah's boat. We have a God that destroyed all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah except for Lott and his incestuous daughters. We have a God that tormented, sent plagues, pestilence, and drought upon the people of Egypt, then killed all their firstborn. We have a God that said this about his laws. Lev 26:14-46
Notice how evil these people were. Where do you think the term "Sodomy Laws" came from? Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with sin. As for Egypt, God's people were being tortured, and they were the only ones following His will. He does not destroy people on a whim: He does it for a reason.
What are you complaining about? We are the evil ones, and He has given us the opportunity to repent. Remember the part about having free will? That means we have the choice. God could have made us mindless creatures, but he didn't. We have the capacity for good and evil, and thus have the responsibility to accept the consequences of our actions.