REL 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Living Sacrifice, Israelites
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Barna(cid:271)as s goal is to repudiate the jewish s(cid:272)riptures in whi(cid:272)h that religion is expressed. He wants to reiterate that the jewish scriptures actually teach christianity rather than judaism. He uses passages from the hebrew prophets, who often criticize aspects of their own religion to argue that god rejected jewish institutions of sacrifice, fasting, and the. Barnabas also interprets many of the jewish laws metaphorically rather than literally, so that they support christian rather than jewish practice. He goes onto to argue that the laws concerning circumcision dietary regulations and the sabbath should not have been taken literally. As a follower of christ my response would be that jesus christ did not come to abolish the law, but he instead came to fulfill it. He is the living sacrifice that god sent for his people. The israelites are not forgotten in christ, but they are instead fulfilled by.
