I had just finished writing post #157 in response to miknik5 on the same issue, so I invited you to read that post instead of copying and pasting the same response in reply to you, which means that I had no reason to assume that you had already read it or that you had found it unpersuasive. If you don't find it persuasive, then please explain why that is the case:
What happened to Peter?
You make erroneous assumptions in your post, and you ignore the actual statements made in the text. The text blatantly, and clearly, states that God cleansed all the creatures in the sheet.
Soyeong said:
However, you want to translate it, it was a rabbinic idiom that referred to interpreting the Law in a way that undermined it or to causing the God's will as made known in the Law to not be obeyed as it should be.
Hogwash.
Jesus was commanded by his God to give new commandments. Included in those new commandments were replacements for existing laws, which Jesus quoted from the Mosaic Law, AND which Jesus altered according to his God's instructions.
Soyeong said:
Whenever Jesus quoted Scripture, he always preceded it by saying "it is written", but when he was quoting from what the people had heard being taught about the Law, it he preceded it by saying "you have heard that it was said"....
Please show in Scripture where this distinction is explained.
Of course you can't, because this assertion is your opinion, it isn't
from Scripture.
"it is written" means EXACTLY the same thing as "you have heard that it was said".
This is proven by the writings that Jesus quoted;
Thou shalt not kill ... Ex 20:13, Deut 5:17
Thou shalt not commit adultery ... Ex 20:14
Writing of divorcement ...... Deut 24:1
Swearing by Jehovah ...... Deut 6:13
Sorry, your theory doesn't match Scripture.
Soyeong said:
For example, Leviticus 19:12 commands us not to swear falsely in God's name, but it does not say that we can't swear falsely by some other name, so the Pharisees were teaching that that oaths were not binding unless they were in God's name. However, Jesus was correcting this by showing that all oaths ultimately referred to God.
Your attempt to distort Christ's words are "unpersuasive"!
Jesus commanded; "swear NOT AT ALL".
Soyeong said:
We see in Genesis 22:16-17, Hebrews 6:13, and Hebrews 7:21 that God swore by Himself,
God takes vengeance also, we are commanded NOT to take vengeance. Your point isn't persuasive.
Soyeong said:
in Matthew 26:63 that Jesus answered under oath to the Sanhedrin,
No, the Sanhedrin ATTEMPTED to trap him, but Jesus didn't swear to anything!
Soyeong said:
in 2 Corinthians 1:23 that Paul swore an oath to the Corinthians, and in Romans 1:9, Galatians 1:20, Philippians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 15:31, 1 Thessalonians 5:27, and Revelation 10:5-6 that they made solemn appeals to God
Your attempt to "spin" these text into "SWEARING" is again, unpersuasive!
Soyeong said:
While God's Law does command us to love our neighbor (Leviticus 19:18), it does not command us to hate our enemy, that was again correcting what was wrongly being taught about the Law.
Deut 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Deut 13:6-11 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Deut 19:11-13 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
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I agree that Jesus is the prophet like unto Moses, but I disagree that the text you quoted established that fact.[/quote]???? Then who do you THINK Peter is talking about ????
Acts 3:18-26 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
We KNOW Peter is talking about Jesus, AND that Peter quotes Moses, and explains that "Samuel and those that follow after .... LIKEWISE foretold" of Jesus' day!!
Soyeong said:
There are many examples of God's Laws being in place prior to Sinai, so the Law given at Sinai did not reveal a change in the way to act according to God's character, but rather it revealed what had always been and will always be the way to act according to God's character.
Not quite correct. The Mosaic Law was a NEW set of laws, that had NEVER been given until Jehovah/YHVH spoke to the nation of Israel.
Yes, the basic principles of ALL of God's laws are consistent, but the specifics, like the sabbath, and dietary laws, are absolutely NOT any contiguous law!!
Soyeong said:
According to Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from what God had commanded, so that is not something that the prophet like unto Moses would commit.
You're attempt to spin this is "unpersuasive".
Jehovah/YHVH God made it absolutely clear, the coming prophet would be like Moses, in that Jehovah/YHVH God would "put my words in his mouth".
Jesus NEVER... EVER ... said, I am just telling you the exact same thing Moses said ... so you don't have to keep my commandments"!!!!
Soyeong said:
God did not change His commandments on dietary issues or on holy days, but rather they have always been the way to act according to God's holiness.
Moses disagrees with you;
Deut 5:1-3
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3
The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Soyeong said:
If God did change the way to act according to His holiness, then God's holiness is not eternal, but God's holiness is eternal, therefore God did not change it.
God's holiness isn't affected by me eating bacon, or lobster.
Nor is it affected by me keeping any day.
Acts 10, Rom 14, Matt 15:11, 1 Cor 10 ALL make it perfectly clear, the New Testament has replaced the restrictions of the Mosaic Law with "grace and freedom".