![]() ![]() ![]() Christ’s relationship to that Law was crucial to the development of Christianity. The Law thus governed all aspects of life and was central to the functioning of Jewish society. In addition to the Ten Commandments, all of the commandments of God to the people of Israel found in the rest of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible), set out the behaviors and activities expected of the Jewish people as the chosen people of God. Perhaps most famously, Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” In Judaism, the Mosaic Law was paramount. This has been true beginning with Jesus Christ’s own statements in the Gospels. Law and Christianity have a complicated relationship. Outside of the Monastery of Goshavank (Nor Getik) ![]()
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