What was so new? continued...

This covenant relationship the Jews had with the God of Abraham was crystallized in the Law of Moses given on Mount Sinai. However, the Jews’ reception of that Law did not imply that God was therefore legalistic. Faith in the loving God who actively intervened in history presupposed the reception of the Law (Rom. 4:12). Christ says on the Mount, “Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matt 5:17). Christ’s Gospel message was primarily one of return-return to the heart and soul of that which underpinned God’s relationship with Israel for millennia, namely Faith. The direct corollary of this understanding was the reception of Christ the person as the fulfillment of that past, and consequently the foundation of the future. The Jew’s history, then, is understood as a single seamless narrative of God working Salvation for all mankind in His own time.

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Steve K.