The Old Testament and the People of God

Christianity is correctly understood as the fulfillment of the Jewish religion; its purpose and its rightful end. Its connection to Judaism, however, was a source of much confusion in Christianity's early days, not to mention today. We ourselves are at times perplexed about how to handle the OT; how much more those who knew of no other Scripture, and knew of no other life before God than that lived under the law? The use and place of the law for Christians is then a delicate matter. We cannot divorce ourselves from the law; but neither can we use it in the same manner that the Jews did now that Christ has come. Here, we look at the nature of the law, and its fulfillment in Christ.