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Report on Approaches to the OT Law

Report on Approaches to the OT Law

Q In 6-8 pages, explain and evaluate the following scholar’s approaches to the OT Law and its significance for the Church today, including Gane’s, Dorsey’s, Wright’s, and Waltons’ approaches. Give a brief explanation of each approach, including the following components: 1) What portion of the laws, if any, are directly applicable (should still be in use) today for Christians? 2) Do the laws offer moral guidance for godly living for Christians, and how do they offer guidance (via underlying principles, insights about God, or perhaps not at all, etc.); 3) Are some (or all) of the laws succeeded by higher moral standards in the NT and/or in today’s Church and do all of the laws accurately reflect God’s own morality as opposed to accommodating to the culture in such a way that God’s values cannot be discerned from them? * Along with explanation of these components, discuss to the best of your ability some of the positives and negatives of each of these approaches.

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OT law for diversified groups of thinkers/authors signifies/symbolizes the personification of the overall spiritual context of the human existence and human law. In case of Gane’s approach to this law, the most important aspect is the way in which relationships as well as covenants have been established between human beings and God and also between/among prophets during transitions of every generation in the Old Testament. The emphasis of Gane in case of treating the importance of the OT law is to practically consider the applicability of every law of the Ten Commandments in the lives of the human beings. “Progressive Moral Wisdom” has been classified by Gane to be the perspective for every Christian living in the modern world as far as the OT law’s applicability is concerned.