Jesus was not Partial in the Law. You can not find a place where HE said we are free to Judge any of God's Word as unworthy of our respect.
And you clearly can't find a place where he said that all Gentiles who believed in him and had received eternal life, HAD to keep all the laws in Leviticus.
The mainstream preachers of Jesus time had also judged much of God's Word as unworthy of their honor, and omitted much of God's Law just as the mainstream religions of the land I was born into does. These are simply facts. Do they matter? That is another discussion, first we must accept that according to the Bible, it was being "partial in the Law" and "omitting" much of it, that caused the downfall of the religion Jesus was born into. It seems foolish to allow ourselves to be convinced by "other voices" that we can do the same things and escape their judgment.
So - DO you believe that "God's word" includes ALL the promises written in Leviticus, and Exodus and Deuteronomy? And do you keep the?
And yet you haven't.
Jesus, as the Word of God, before becoming Flesh, had the following written for Jew and Gentile. The mainstream religion of HIS Time rejected these "Sayings" of the Christ. I have chosen not to follow that path.
The laws that were given to the Hebrews at Mt Sinai, through Moses, were for those who had been rescued from Egypt by God. That might have included some who wanted to convert to the faith - Egyptians who wanted to escape the final plague, trusted in the God of Abraham and put themselves under the protection of the lamb's blood. But Gentiles were not under God's law and included as God's people unless they trusted in the One God and converted to the faith.
I, personally, have no Jewish ancestors. I am connected with Judaism in that the Lord Jesus and the early church were all Jews; that's it. But as they taught at the council of Jerusalem, Gentiles did not have to convert to Judaism before they could find salvation in Jesus.
Do you believe that Zacharias understood these sayings? And if so, why. According to the Scriptures, what was the main difference between him, and the Pharisees? Somehow I don't think you will answer that question.
I don't understand the question.
Do you mean Zechariah? If so, which one; the prophet? The father of John the Baptist or one of the other 26 men, apparently, in Scripture who bear that name?
Why are you asking about Zechariah when you quoted from Isaiah?
Whoever this person is, what have they got to do with the Pharisees?
I'm not sure you have any Biblical support for your implication that when Jesus said "Every Word" HE intended Leviticus to be excluded.
I'm not sure that you have any support for your belief that it was included; just assumption that it must have been.
The Cleansing Laws and Sacrifices were part of the Priesthood Covenant God made with Levi on Israel's behalf. Heb. 7 says that Covenant changed, and Jesus is now our New High Priest.
Exactly.
So are we, who are saved by, belong to and told to live in the new High Priest - Jesus himself - bound by the laws of the Old Covenant, which as you said, changed?
Paul was living By Every Word of God here. He knew what the meaning of the Law He referenced was because He understood that God had these Word's written for "OUR" admonition. For "OUR Sake's" HE wrote "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn" He didn't reject it. He didn't imply it was a stupid Law impossible to follow because he didn't own an Ox. He was teaching this Law and it's meaning to the Gentiles he also told to "Study" to show themselves approved of God.
Well as I don't have an oxen, that makes it a very easy word to obey.
I never said any of these laws were stupid, I was asking if you believe we are bound by them. I don't.
Does God care about beard length?
No idea - it's one of the laws in Leviticus that you seem to think we need to keep.
I don't have a beard, personally, so it's not a problem.
Or is there an important meaning behind these Words?
You tell me.
You are arguing that when Jesus said we should believe every word that God spoke, that includes Leviticus. One of the commands in Leviticus is that you shall not trim the end of your beard; I'm asking you, as a believer that Leviticus has to be kept today, if you keep it.
I find it amazing that Jesus can say we must drink His Blood to inherit His Father's Kingdom and religious men are perfectly OK with that symbolism, studying to understand what HE means by "drinking His Blood". But these same religious men seem to have so little respect for His Father that they offer Him a different treatment.
I don't understand what you mean by that.
What I have been asking all along is, when you say we need to keep every word of God, does that include ALL the laws in Leviticus?"
If so, do you keep them - including the one abut the beard?
According to the Jesus of the Bible, there is no Jew or Greek. His Instruction is for everyone.
No, Jesus didn't say that; Paul did.
You've just acknowledged that there was an old covenant which changed and Jesus is now our high priest. Hebrews says that he is high priest of a NEW Covenant.
The Jews, who didn't believe in Jesus, still relied on these Priesthood "Works of the Law" for atonement of sins. This is the Law that was "ADDED" to God's Commandments, God's Statutes, and God's Laws that Abraham obeyed.
This law, offering animals as sacrifice for sin, is explained in Leviticus; a book of the Bible which you seem certain we should keep.
Yes, these Priesthood sacrificial "works of the Law" have truly become old and obsolete.
So there ARE parts of God's word that we don't keep?
Again, Circumcision is now and has always been of the heart.
Not always; in Abraham and Moses' day, another organ of the body was involved.
I don't need to understand it.
I'm not a Jew and Jesus is my High Priest.
I really don't understand the rest of your post.
You seem adamant that as we have to obey EVERY word of God, there is no reason why that shouldn't include Leviticus. But then you say that sacrificial laws are obsolete and we have a new high priest and the old covenant its obsolete - as well as asking questions about why God is concerned with beard length.
It's quite simple - Leviticus (and Exodus and Deuteronomy) is either included in the every word from God which we are to keep, or it isn't. And if it is, that means EVERY word - you don't get to pick and choose from the laws in there, and you can't say that half the laws are obsolete.