How did Jesus employ the laws of the Old Testament? Was Jesus more strict than the Jews of his time? Was Jesus loyal to the law and observant of its regulations but dismissed the traditions that had grown up around the law? Did Jesus attempt to transcend the law by penetrating to its essence and expressing its ultimate ideal? Or did Jesus violate the law in order to cancel and change its prescriptions? Christians have emphasized grace. How does the law fit in with this emphasis?

This file investigates this fascinating question and asks what it means when Christians proclaim that Jesus fulfilled the law. Here the arguments for the supercessianist view, the reformist view, and the eschatological view are enumerated.

Finally the views of the New Testament writers are investigated including the views of Luke, Matthew, Mark, John, James, and Paul on the relationship of the Christian to the law. Click the download button to read this file.