why the heck does what some translators wrote about what Matthews might have said regarding a Jewish Rabbi has to do with laws in the modern society
I have two answers for that. The answer I believe in is: they should have nothing at all to do with each other.
The answer which was pounded into me from grade school is the Old Testament contains the human race's first comprehensive written legal code. There are more than 300 laws in there, from the well-known "Thou shalt not murder" all the way down to a prohibition against eating sea creatures which do not have fins and scales. Most of Europe, and by extension the Americas, based their laws on those when their rulers adopted Christianity. The Holy Roman Empire and its popes had a large hand in enforcing that.
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I have two answers for that. The answer I believe in is: they should have nothing at all to do with each other.
The answer which was pounded into me from grade school is the Old Testament contains the human race's first comprehensive written legal code. There are more than 300 laws in there, from the well-known "Thou shalt not murder" all the way down to a prohibition against eating sea creatures which do not have fins and scales. Most of Europe, and by extension the Americas, based their laws on those when their rulers adopted Christianity. The Holy Roman Empire and its popes had a large hand in enforcing that.