How Does Jesus Disregard The Authority Of The Old Testament

A lot of the time, Christians tend to disregard the authority of the Old Testament and even suggest that Jesus abolished its necessity. However, as in Matthew chapter 5, verse 7 Jesus did quite the opposite as he states, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” With that being said, we must first understand and establish that God's laws – both of the Old Testament and New Testament are not tyrannical manifestations of His hand, but neither should we perceive God’s laws as contradictory, as the law comes from his mouth which is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. Psalms 119:72 states the above clearly “The law of your mouth is better to me, than thousands of gold

Gen. 1:26-27 says, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness. 27.So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” As Christians, we tend to pride ourselves on the idea that humankind was made in God’s image. However, in reality, we as believers still have yet to know what it means to be made like in God’s image. As Curtis Mason points out in his commentary Man as the Image of God in Genesis in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels, even biblical data provides little basis for determining how Israelites conceive the concept of the imago dei. Nevertheless, I believe that the idea of being ‘made in the image of God,’ is a double-edged sword in that we have an understated responsibility to act in a way in which we are made, but it also affirms humanity's significance and worth in comparison to creation and under God’s eye. As Mason points out (to an extent) in his commentary, there is weight in how followers of Christ in comparison to how both ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia interpreted what it meant to be in the image of god, as their descriptions were “largely confined to the description of a king.” Contrarily, we are made in the image of the actual perfect deity, while other definitions pertain to imperfect, pagan human beings. Nevertheless, there seems to be some kind of connection in the biblical application of the term to how the term was used in accordance with kings within the

In a far more cynical sense, the Bible is just a compilation of short stories of mankind’s farce attempts in reconciling our relationship with God and fulfilling “how” and in what shape God made us. In Bruce K. Waltke’s An Old Testament Theology, Waltke highlights several theorists who tried to account for mankind’s identity. From Freud’s claims that man is controlled by their ancestral impulses to Karl Marx’s theory that mankind is ruled by economic necessity, humanity has been subject to their own vices since the fall. While many Christians would like to write these theorists off because of their hypotheses in regards to the motivation behind the nature of humanity, I tend to think they were still write—humanity is driven by their impulses, they are subject to materialism and the need for economic comfortabilty, not because that is how we are born, but because of disconnection from God’s intention for us due to the fall. Humanity for its entire history has tried to find security in the self apart from God and the bible perfectly depicts numerous instances of this happening. Take Genesis 11:7 for instance, God speaks in response to those who rebel against his image at the Tower of Babel, who sought to