However, these brutal laws are fair game for two reasons. First, Christian nationalists are careful to say that we are founded on Judeo-Christian principles, not Christian principles, and the mitzvot come from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Second, even if Christian nationalists claim that only Christian principles were influential, Jesus himself said that he came to uphold all 613 rules: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a
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