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I take contextual analysis for granted because it's what you're expected to do with any sort of text, but including it here would be verbose.
Let's add more context then: Matthew 24 (in special 24:37-39) and plenty other parts of the Four Evangelia claim that Jesus is coming back (something that Mormons stick to), while Matthew 5:17 justifies enforcement of the Pentateuch laws. And yes, you should look at the context of those too, not that it'll change much.
What do you get, in the big picture? That that law is still valid, specially with some Always-Imminent® second coming happening. What she's doing is biblically justified - she's enforcing an old but still valid law, that is about preparing Israel for the coming of the alleged anointed/saviour, for the event of his second coming.
...or alternatively that the bible is a bunch of bollocks, and even when read correctly (i.e. with context being taken into account) you'll get it prescribing shitty things, that no decent human being would follow in 2024.
Side note: the Deuteronomy isn't expected to be treated solely as a historical record. @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world already handled it.
Under the exact same reasoning, most Protestants aren't Christians either.
The scriptures part is messy. The bible that one Christian group follows may or may not coincide with the one that another follows.
Matthew 5:17 is showing that Jesus fulfills them and brings them to realisation. Not enforcing them.
Protestants don't reject the Trinity?
That interpretation of "no enforcement" is clearly an ad hoc not justified by the text. Here's same excerpt in two other languages, for reference:
In both you see the usage of verbs that convey "finishing it", "completing it", "making it full", as if the older laws were an incomplete set, and whatever Jesus was preaching was in addition to them. (The English translation as "fulfil" is rather accurate.) It clearly implies that the old laws are still valid, alongside the new ones; and thus should be enforced alongside them.
The Latin usage of adimpleo also conveys "I carry out [something]"; it's specially relevant here because, if the implication of "carrying out the old laws" was to be avoided, the translator would've used compleo (non ueni soluere, sed complere) instead.
Also look at the rest of the excerpt, including the two following versicles. Your interpretation makes no sense in the light of what 5:18 and 5:19 say:
What is the text saying? "My laws are in addition to the old laws. Don't break the old laws, not even a little one, or you won't go to Heaven".
The reason why I say "under the same reasoning, most Protestants aren't Christians either" is that they reject some ~~nihilogical~~ theological concept that some other group that considers themselves Christian accepts.
That said some Pentecostal churches do reject it. Example here
Jesus was the fulfillment of the old laws as they were in preparation of His coming. And it depends what law Jesus was referring to. In John 8 He literally stopped a stoning which would have been justified under said law.
As Jesus said: Matthew 22:37-40 ESV
and St Paul also wrote about this:
Galatians 3:15-29 ESV
Christianity - The Gospel is Good News. As we are free from this law through Christ. And we can be freed from our sin.
Catholics and Orthodox, despite being ecclesiastical, still recognise Protestants as Christians even if lesser Christians. Oneness pentecostals aren't considered Christians either. Denying the trinity is weirdly enough the first sign of being a cult.
Those excerpts from John and Galatians outright contradict Matthew 5. They simply show that the Bible contradicts itself.
Addressing specifically the text in Matthew 22:37-40: it does not contradict that the old laws should be still enforced. It simply emphasises the new laws.
A simple explanation is that Matthew (if he's a historical figure) took seriously the old laws, and John (ditto) didn't. So they made their character (regardless of being based on some historical figure or not) say different stuff in each of their books.
This shouldn't be any surprise for anyone who, unlike Christians, doesn't adopt the superstition of a self-consistent Bible.
The church? Maybe. People? It depends. I've seen over and over and over the Catholics here saying that Protestants are not Christians, and putting them on the same "bag" as Muslims an Jews.
That pops up specially often when some Protestant church gets on the news due to corruption.
So the first the Bible is saying something you want it to say to make the argument "Christianity bad", and whenever teaching has context provided and is elaborated on further on in the scripture, then it's a "contradiction".
Got it.
I am highlighting that her disgusting and despicable behaviour is justified by the Bible, even if you dislike it (as a moral person should).
You can justify a lot of immoral shit through the Bible simply because it's self-contradictory - if excerpt A says "do it" and excerpt B says "don't do it", you simply pick one and try to justify the other in the light of the one that you picked!
Historical context, textual context, versions, even which books should be canon... ultimately those are just the means that Christians use to fool themselves as justified in their actions, and to pretend that there's no contradiction there. Not just on an individual level, but also in a church level, often forming new factions (oopsie "denominations") based on which excerpt you should follow by the letter and which you should bullshit your way out of.
That might reach specially hilarious levels with the Mor[m]ons, but note - what they're doing is nothing but what other Christian groups have been already doing since the Ancient Age. Including picking which books to consider canon.