Neither of you can show Jesus and Jesus alone, having "double talk" when it comes to the law. And that makes both of your points, null in void.
And to Yahda, you cant show Jesus saying He Himself was God either.. So again your points are null in void.
Okay, let's take the chapter you quoted out of and see if there's a contradiction here.
As you wrote in Mat 5:17, Jesus says that he didn't "come to destroy the law....and that it will by no means pass away till all is fulfilled."
The problem is that later in Matthew 5:38 Jesus says, "You have heard it was said, 'an eye for an eye..'" Then in verse 5:39 he says,
"BUT I tell you not to resist an evil person..."
So right there we have the Law changed.
Additionally, Jesus did not reveal the author of "eye for an eye," because the author is Yahuwah, the Father -- who does not change Malachi 3:6. So in effect Jesus minimized what Yahuwah said and gave himself the authority to change what was written.
He does this with the divorce law in Matthew 19:8 as well. He says,
"Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives." But the truth is that the law came from Yahuwah and was told to Moses. If you go and read any of the Law of Torah it repeatedly says,
"Yahuwah spoke to Moses."
The reason that
So Many Christians are blinded from seeing the truth in Matthew 5:38-39 as well as Mat 19:8-9, is because Satan put a huge stumbling block that gets
all the attention. That stumbling block is the mysterious
"Fulfillment of the Law."
Jesus' death, even though it is meaningless according to Deuteronomy 24:16, Jeremiah 31:30, and Ezekiel 18:20, which says,
"No man can die for another man's sin" is heralded as the "Fulfillment of the Law." This is what is causing you to miss what is later written in Matthew 5:38-39. Your unyielding faith in a pagan god that you've trusted for so many years (as I did) is not letting you see the truth.
First you have to humble yourself. Then you have to learn the Law. If you don't firmly grasp what is written in the Law of Torah, then you will continue to be mislead. This Law is coming back according to Isaiah 1:26 and 2:3.
What will also help you understand the Truth is mediating on Ezekiel 46:12, which describes the Temple and the Messiah doing sacrifices
soon. If there are going to be sacrifices performed again, by the Messiah (Michael from Daniel 12), then Jesus could not have been the final sacrifice that fulfilled
any law. Nor could he be the Messiah.
If you
Really desire to understand, then go back and try to understand the chapters of the NT as a whole. You will see that they are Full of double speak and misleading doctrine. The Father does not speak like this. You will see that the NT contradicts what the Old Testament says and pulls many scriptures out of context.
Again I say to you, please look into Ezekiel 40-48, especially Ezekiel 42:13 and 46:12, which prove that Saul is a liar when he said Jesus "
did away with the first, (sacrifices)
to establish the second," and that, "
we are sanctified...once for all" Hebrews 10:9-10.
Shalom