New Covenant=New Rules?

[Carcano]

What changed as a result of Jesus was that the human followers of Jesus where no longer required to carry out the penalty or see to the enforcement of the law through penalty of violence and death.

Adstar makes an astute point here.

The new covenant is thought to be kinder and gentler only because it moves the consequences of sin from this world to the next.

In the old testament you are merely stoned to death, according to the law. Not only that, but Yahweh curses the earthly life of your children as well..."to the third and fourth generation" as spelled out in the first paragraph of the ten commandments.

In the new testament you are tortured for all eternity ONLY after you die...in the chasm of fire.

This is why Jesus commands his followers to tear out their eyeballs when tempted to sin by sight.

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body be cast into hell." -Matthew 5:29

See how much kinder and gentler that is?

 

[one_raven]

When he was referring to "The Law" he most certainly was not referring to the whole of he Torah or even all of Leviticus.
Thoose two commandments do not, by any stretch of the imagination, sum up all of Jewish Law. It was clear he was referring to the ten Commandments.

Further evidence of this...

Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

9"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

 

[NDS]

Adstar, long time no see!

Jesus confirmed that adultery was indeed still sin just as it was before but it was not longer the responsibility of the followers of God to carry out the death penalty (Judgement) upon the woman by stoning her.

Why would God ever require his followers to torture anyone for any reason (stoning)?

What purpose did torturing sinners before Jesus have, if God could have just as easily left the punishment back then for "after death"?

Before Jesus the ultimate outcome (the penalty) from sin was death and After Jesus the same ultimate outcome is still death.

You seem to suggest equal treatment of pre and post Jesus people, when it is actually not even close.

Jesus says to Mary the prostitute, "Neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Go now and leave your life of sin? So the Pre-Jesus Mary prostitute, when caught in the act, would be immediately stoned by God (through his followers) and given No chance to turn her life around. She was condemned to hell and stoned with no chance of turning her life around.

The post-Jesus Mary prostitute, instead of having her life and redemption opportunity cut short by being tortured to death, she is told that Jesus/God doesn't condemn her and to go ahead and turn her life around.


Sorry Adstar, but this is anything but equal treatment.