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I also wonder if God took the steps of the Old and New Covenants to teach us the folly of rigid laws compared to the power of the entire scope of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
[Consider the mental-gymnastic legal-loopholes the jew was able to use to nullify the entire scope of Mosaic law simply by swinging chickens over their intolerably disgusting heads.](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2013/09/f111007DV041-e1378973790967-1024x640.jpg)
Compare that with the profound power of one simple question, "What would Jesus do?".
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It's always worth remembering that we are like children compared with the infinite grandeur of God.
When we pray for events or understanding, I suspect God often uses trials to help us grow spiritually before we are capable of receiving the answered prayer.
Perhaps God does answer every righteous prayer, but rarely how or when we expect but always at the perfect time and in the perfect way?
There is an important truth in what you are reaching for, but it needs one clarification.
Christianity does not teach that God replaced “bad laws” with “no laws.” The problem was never that God’s commandments were foolish. Scripture says the Law was “holy, and just, and good” (Rom. 7:12). The problem was the weakness of fallen man under a system that could command externally but could not heal internally.
That is why the New Covenant is not lawlessness, but transformation.
The Old Covenant revealed sin, restrained sin, and prepared the world for Christ. The New Covenant gives what the Old could not give fully: the indwelling grace of the Holy Ghost, by which the law is written on the heart.
So “What would Jesus do?” works best when it means conforming ourselves to the actual person, teachings, and commandments of Christ — not merely following subjective feelings. Otherwise, people can reinvent Jesus in their own image.
You are also right that legal loopholes can become a way of technically preserving rules while evading their spirit. Christ repeatedly rebuked exactly that tendency among the Pharisees: meticulous external observance paired with interior hardness of heart.
But Christ does not abolish morality into vagueness. He intensifies it:
not merely avoiding murder, but overcoming hatred;
not merely avoiding adultery, but purifying the heart;
not merely external ritual, but interior conversion.
And your final point is deeply Christian. God often answers prayers through providence, suffering, delay, purification, and growth rather than immediate gratification. Scripture repeatedly shows this pattern:
Abraham waited,
Joseph suffered,
Moses wandered,
David fled,
the Apostles endured persecution,
and even Christ passed through the Cross before the Resurrection.
God’s timing is not indifference. Often it is formation.
As St. Paul says:
“Tribulation worketh patience; and patience trial; and trial hope.” (Rom. 5:3–4)
The Christian life is not merely learning rules. It is being remade into the likeness of Christ.
I'm not suggesting God or his Old Covenant was imperfect.
I'm suggesting we must consider God's perfect intentions behind His actions before we can appreciate His perfection in full.
It's easy for fallible humans not to see the big picture in the actions of a timeless and all-knowing God.
I'm suggesting God's perfect intention of the Old Covenant may have been, in part, to teach us a perfect lesson about the dangers of following laws rather than following God (Jesus).
It's the difference between swinging chickens and Shabbos Lamps versus walking with Jesus in your heart.
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It's the same logical flaw used by atheist edge-lords who claim our imperfect bodies disprove a perfect God.
In their arrogance, these people haven't considered that perhaps our bodies are perfect for their intended purpose which (I believe) is to grow spiritually while being reminded of of the ticking clock of our mortality especially as we age.
A naked human eye that can count the rings on Saturn and fireproof skin are not imperfections in the same way that clouds are no imperfect for not raining umbrellas.
[Consider the mental-gymnastic legal-loopholes the jew was able to use to nullify the entire scope of Mosaic law simply by swinging chickens over their intolerably disgusting heads.](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2013/09/f111007DV041-e1378973790967-1024x640.jpg)
Compare that with the profound power of one simple question, "What would Jesus do?".
-----------------------------------------
It's always worth remembering that we are like children compared with the infinite grandeur of God.
When we pray for events or understanding, I suspect God often uses trials to help us grow spiritually before we are capable of receiving the answered prayer.
Perhaps God does answer every righteous prayer, but rarely how or when we expect but always at the perfect time and in the perfect way?
Christianity does not teach that God replaced “bad laws” with “no laws.” The problem was never that God’s commandments were foolish. Scripture says the Law was “holy, and just, and good” (Rom. 7:12). The problem was the weakness of fallen man under a system that could command externally but could not heal internally.
That is why the New Covenant is not lawlessness, but transformation.
The Old Covenant revealed sin, restrained sin, and prepared the world for Christ. The New Covenant gives what the Old could not give fully: the indwelling grace of the Holy Ghost, by which the law is written on the heart.
So “What would Jesus do?” works best when it means conforming ourselves to the actual person, teachings, and commandments of Christ — not merely following subjective feelings. Otherwise, people can reinvent Jesus in their own image.
You are also right that legal loopholes can become a way of technically preserving rules while evading their spirit. Christ repeatedly rebuked exactly that tendency among the Pharisees: meticulous external observance paired with interior hardness of heart.
But Christ does not abolish morality into vagueness. He intensifies it:
not merely avoiding murder, but overcoming hatred;
not merely avoiding adultery, but purifying the heart;
not merely external ritual, but interior conversion.
And your final point is deeply Christian. God often answers prayers through providence, suffering, delay, purification, and growth rather than immediate gratification. Scripture repeatedly shows this pattern:
Abraham waited,
Joseph suffered,
Moses wandered,
David fled,
the Apostles endured persecution,
and even Christ passed through the Cross before the Resurrection.
God’s timing is not indifference. Often it is formation.
As St. Paul says:
“Tribulation worketh patience; and patience trial; and trial hope.” (Rom. 5:3–4)
The Christian life is not merely learning rules. It is being remade into the likeness of Christ.
I'm not suggesting God or his Old Covenant was imperfect.
I'm suggesting we must consider God's perfect intentions behind His actions before we can appreciate His perfection in full.
It's easy for fallible humans not to see the big picture in the actions of a timeless and all-knowing God.
I'm suggesting God's perfect intention of the Old Covenant may have been, in part, to teach us a perfect lesson about the dangers of following laws rather than following God (Jesus).
It's the difference between swinging chickens and Shabbos Lamps versus walking with Jesus in your heart.
--------------------------
It's the same logical flaw used by atheist edge-lords who claim our imperfect bodies disprove a perfect God.
In their arrogance, these people haven't considered that perhaps our bodies are perfect for their intended purpose which (I believe) is to grow spiritually while being reminded of of the ticking clock of our mortality especially as we age.
A naked human eye that can count the rings on Saturn and fireproof skin are not imperfections in the same way that clouds are no imperfect for not raining umbrellas.