Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL
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Jesus, Israel’s Messiah and therefore the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,
was to fulfil the Law by keeping it in its all embracing detail – according to
his own words, down to “the least of these commandments”.330
He is in fact the only one who could keep it perfectly.331 On their own
admission the Jews were never able to observe the Law in its entirety without
violating the least of its precepts.332 This is why every year on the
Day of Atonement the children of Israel ask God’s forgiveness for their
transgressions of the Law. the Law indeed makes up one inseparable whole, and
St. James recalls, “Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has
become guilty of all of it.”333
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
- Article 4 “JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED”
- Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL
- Article 4 “JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED”
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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