The Mosaic covenant or Law of Moses, which Christians generally call the "Old Covenant", played an important role in the origins of Christianity and has occasioned serious dispute and controversy sinc
A depiction of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus commented on the Old Covenant. Painting by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.
The Ten Commandments on a monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol which includes: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy".
Law and Grace (c. 1529), by Lucas Cranach the Elder, a Lutheran. The left side of the tree illustrates law, while the right side illustrates grace.
The decalogue of the reformed church of Ligerz, Switzerland
Dual-covenant or two-covenant theology is a school of thought in Christian theology regarding the relevance of the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.
James the Just, whose judgment was adopted in the Apostolic Decree of Acts 15:19–29, c. 50 AD: "we should write to them [Gentiles] to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood" (NRSV)