• bramkaandorp@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Only for Christians. I would assume this still holds for Jewish people, as well as some christians who still holds to the Old Testament due to Jesus saying that the old text will not be superceded.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      For reference, here’s that verse, Matthew 5:18:

      For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

      Thats the KJV, here’s a NKJV:

      For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

      Here’s a bunch of other translations:

      https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-18.htm

      Absolutely tons of branches/denominations use this to justify upholding whatever their particular interpretation of whatever law they perceive from the Old Testament, the Tanakh/Torah.

      ‘The law’ is literally what Torah means in Hebrew, the Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament, The Tanakh broadly is the entire Hebrew Bible.