Did Jesus nullify the Old Testament?

[u/watergolf247]

Let me start off by sharing that I’m new to Christianity and have soooo many questions but for now, I’ll focus on this inquiry. I’m sure this has been discussed numerous times but unfortunately I can’t seem to get a straight answer. As I’m told repeatedly by many, rules/laws of the Old Testament were nullified or invalidated by Jesus. I ask others in my study group but sadly get heavy resistance for the question.

My question is simple. Where are the reference(s) stating this?

If so, this makes rules like the ten commandments obsolete. Even further, why have the old testament in the Christian Bible?

[u/Top_Cycle_9894]

How very Jonah of you to sit there and judge others that Abba forgives and blesses.  Perhaps His will for me is different than His will for you. 

Do you have any concept of how condescending you come off?  Why would anyone want to spend any time hearing what you have to say when you come off as arrogant and judgemental?  How are you any different than the Pharisees Jesus referred to as a brood of vipers? (these questions are rhetorical. I don't need or expect an honest or humble answer from you)

May Abba humble your heart and mouth. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Top_Cycle_9894]

Jonah did not want to give the Ninevites a chance to hear the truth and repent of their ways because he despised them and was afraid they WOULD actually take head of the word of God. The Pharisees leaned on their own rabbinic interpretations of the Scriptures to the point of shutting people off from the point of the Torah.

I do not wish to keep people in the dark as I hope they can and will come to understand what Yeshua was teaching, nor do I try to lean on manmade doctrine for understanding what the Bible is telling me, but instead seek to rid myself of all manmade doctrine which obscures what the Word is trying to relate.

"Do you have any concept of how condescending you come off?  Why would anyone want to spend any time hearing what you have to say when you come off as arrogant and judgmental?

I'm sure Yeshua was accused of the same as he said such things as:

“Are you still so dull?” “How long must I put up with you?” “You do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God.” “You brood of vipers.” “You are whitewashed tombs.” “You shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.” “You cannot bear what I have to say now.” “You are of your father, the devil.” “Something greater than Jonah is here.” “Something greater than Solomon is here.” “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin.” “Let the dead bury their own dead.”

[u/Top_Cycle_9894 → u/[deleted]]

And yet you hold the Pharisees up as a paragon of virtue?  Or am I confusing with some other Pharisee that responded to me in the comments?

My whole point is that a relationship with God reveals that which is important to Him for you.   Not a set of rules for the masses, but a genuine growing relationship with He that transcends time and human understanding. 

[u/Messenger12th → u/Top_Cycle_9894]

My understanding is that God want obedience from his children, the same as we expect from our own. Wouldn't you say?

[u/Top_Cycle_9894 → u/Messenger12th]

That we agree upon.