Old Testament Morality (Jesus, morals, punishment, Torah, virgin)

[Terrywoodenpic]

Originally Posted by jewscout

ok wow, that's not angry?

first of the Torah sets up laws of Slavery which are there only in the case where slavery exists in society, and Torah law allows for the freeing of said slaves every 50 years
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That was rather more than the average lifespan in those days.

Rather like releasing them when they were too old to be useful...so you did not have to support them in their old age... That does not read as a very charitable law.

[Aasimar]

I know this isn't a debate forum, so I'm not trying to debate. I've often heard it said that Old Testament law is ignored because the coming of Jesus repudiated the need to follow it. Are there any teachings or versus that someone could point me too to back this up? I just wanna know where the justification for the claim comes from.

[jewscout]

Originally Posted by Terrywoodenpic

That was rather more than the average lifespan in those days.

Rather like releasing them when they were too old to be useful...so you did not have to support them in their old age... That does not read as a very charitable law.

the concept of the 'Jubilee Year' does not begin with when a person is born or enslaved...theoretically a person could be enslaved and then 2 years later be freed because that's the year the Jubilee falls on.

it's not related to the life of people but the cycle of the Shmeetah, or Sabatical, years.