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Laws are regulations that regulate coexistence in a community and ensure a fair balance of the various claims and interests. Today, laws are often perceived as restrictions. However, the Bible has a fundamentally different attitude to this: the law is there to tell the people of Israel how they can be God's people (Exodus 19:3-6). This understanding also corresponds to the Hebrew name for the law: Torah. It means "signposting". What is meant is the direction to a successful, fulfilled life.

(1) Old Testament: At the heart of biblical law are the Ten Commandments, which can be understood as a summary of the law (cf. Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21). They formulate what obligations the people of Israel make to God, but also what obligations people have to each other.

The obligations to God are further developed in special instructions. These include: guidelines for sacrificial worship (sacrifice), provisions on feasts (Exodus 23:10-19), rules on purity in which people from the people of Israel should approach God in worship, circumcision, and observance of the Sabbath.

The obligations towards one's fellow human beings are unfolded in detailed civil and criminal law provisions (Exodus 21–23). They are usually structured according to a fixed scheme:

When this and that happens... (legal facts),

then this and so should be done (legal consequence).

It is striking that according to the law, the strangers, the poor, the widows and orphans, are in a special way under the protection of God (Exodus 22:20-26).

(a) Jesus, in his speech and actions, demonstrated great freedom in the face of the law, in which he violated, for .B, the precepts associated with observing the Sabbath (Mark 2:23–3:6). Nevertheless, Jesus did not reject the law in principle. Rather, he is concerned with revealing the will of God expressed in the law and rein interpreting and applying the concrete legal provisions in this sense. The so-called double commandment of love, which includes love for God and for fellow man (cf. Mark 12:28-34), contains the core of the law for Jesus.

(b) The Apostle Pope also opposes a false understanding of the law. He does not first ask whether a person obeys the law, but rather the attitude from which he holds the law. Man, who is under the rule of guilt, misunderstands the law as a way to salvation: he uses it to appear as righteous before God through the fulfillment of the law (Romans 9:30-10:13). In truth, however, it is not the law that makes man just, but only JesusChrist. He brought liberation from all guilt through his death on the cross. To be righteous before God, all people need do is accept this deliverance in faith (Romans 3:21-26). The believer no longer needs to slavishly orient himself to the law in his actions. Paul calls him to find out on his own responsibility what god's will is in the concrete situation (Romans 12:1-2). The commandment of love, which is the center of the law ( Romans 13:8-10; Galatians 5:14).

Nickname of the Israelite progenitor Jacob. As a popular name, it refers to the entire twelve-tribe people.

They form the heart of the biblical law and describe in short form what the relationship of people to God and to each other should look like.

Offering a gift (animals, plants, incense, gifts) to God as a sign of gratitude or request. The sacrifice creates fellowship with God. As a rule, the victim is burned on an altar. Slaughter of a sacrificial animal

Judaism is a religion with a distinct festive culture.

For the Jews, purity is the prerequisite for objects or people to come close to God.

For Israel, the severing of the foreskin on the male limb is a sign of the covenant between God and his people.

The last day of the Jewish week. On this day, worship is celebrated and no work is done. N:001

Greek name form of the Hebrew name Yeshua.

Literally "Emisse". Someone who is sent to an addressee with a specific order.

Important apostle who made the good news of Jesus known far beyond the land of the Bible. Paul's Travels – 1. JourneyThe Journeys of Paul – 2. Journey Paul's Journeys – 3. Journey Paul's Journeys – Journey to Rome

The fault is the separation from God caused by faulty behavior, which burdens the conscience.

Originally referred to the King of Israel appointed by anointing on behalf of God, then the Savior promised by God for the people.

Cruel execution carried out by the Romans on slaves, robbers and insurgents. Crevice inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.Cross inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.