Jesus IS Israel.
Jesus fulfills every preparatory and anticipatory aspect of the history of redemption in the Old Testament in general—and in the history of Israel in particular—because He is the true Israel of God.
Interesting thesis, but this was against Judaizers like in Galatia. Paul everywhere he went was hounded by Judaizers.
Thus all taste not, touch not, handle not commandments from the law are just principles of the world and have no value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Sorry but He was speaking to Israel and the foreigners dwelling in their land. It doesn't roll over to the church!
The church is one body in Christ but not because of the passage you cited!
This was for keeping the Torah in the land!
(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner sojourning in your midst.
This what YHWH said about those who were grafted into Israel, right after he gave instructions for keeping Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
He was speaking to the Church.
(CLV) Ex 12:49
(CLV) Ex 12:47
The whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they shall do it.
There were no exceptions for those who were grafted in.
YHWH tells those who are grafted in, to keep the Feast of Weeks.
(CLV) Ga 3:28
in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus.
All one in Yahshua.
(CLV) Ac 7:38
This is he who came to be in the ecclesia in the wilderness with the messenger, who speaks to him in mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who receives the living oracles to give to you,
Sounds like a round about way to just ignore what the text is actually saying though.Israel was of the Torah. There is no such command in the Torah. There are such restrictions in Asceticism of which some worship angels, probably fallen angels.
Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? The simplest explanation is the most likely.
There were no such customs in Jerusalem. Colossae is in Southwest Turkey. It's over a 800 mile walk from Jerusalem. There wasn't a strong Jewish presence there, judging the Pagans for eating what Pagans eat, nor drinking what Pagans drink, nor for observing their Pagan holidays.
The town was known for its fusion of religious influences (syncretism), which included Jewish, Gnostic, and pagan influences that in the first century AD were described as an angel-cult.[16]
It is believed that one aim of the letter was to address the challenges that the Colossian community faced in its context of the syncretistic Gnostic religions that were developing in Asia Minor.[16]
Sounds like a round about way to just ignore what the text is actually saying though.
The way this has been explained is so transparently eisegetical, it's unconvincing.
If you wish to win a debate, that's fine - but you haven't convinced me that this is a Christian theology.
Sons of Israel; exactly.
I'm a child of God, not Israel.
Ecclesia does not mean "church".
He was speaking to the nation of Hebrews whom he had rescued from Egypt.
There was no church.
Grafted in to the Jewish religion; yes.
I am not Jewish.
So your argument is that Christians have now been "grafted in" to Israel in Christ, so we have to go back to the OT, read all the laws about how Israelites are supposed to live, and we are obliged to keep them all because we are Israelites?
Jesus never said that we would only be able to remain in the vine if we kept the law of Moses.
Yahshua was commissioned for none but Israel. We must be grafted in.
(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
YHWH's covenant is with Israel.
(CLV) Hb 8:10
"For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord is saying: "Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.
God never said that if we keep the law, the Spirit will make us his children.
(CLV) Mt 7:21
"Not everyone saying to Me `Lord! Lord!' will be entering into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens.
(CLV) Mt 7:22
Many will be declaring to Me in that day, `Lord! Lord! Was it not in Your name that we prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many powerful deeds?'
(CLV) Mt 7:23
And then shall I be avowing to them that 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, workers of lawlessness!'
One scripture does not define our relationship with and to God as our father.
What specific law (of the Mosaic) are these he is speaking about breaking?
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