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Galatians chapter 4Disciple, the definition of love is to DO the torah.
Your galation verse talks about oral law (man-made rules). Paul is saying why do you desired to be under that system of bondage (man-made) and he likens it to Hagar. Those children of the promise (Isaac) will live by torah (elohim made) because that is their faith expressed in their Creator and His promises.
Don't say we can't do torah because scripture tells us to do it every other verse throughout the whole book.
Galatians chapter 4
24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Mount Sinai is where the commandments came from.
Your mistaken.
Lets back up to the top of the chapter and see what the context is:
Gal 4:3 So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.
Gal 4:9 But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters,1 to which you wish to be enslaved again? Footnote: 1See v.3, Col. 2:8 & 20.
Gal 4:10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Gal 4:11 I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.
This correlates with Paul's other writing in collosians:
Col 2:8 See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.
Col 2:20 If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters1 of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations: Footnote: 1See v. 8, and Gal. 4:3 & 9.
Col 2:21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle" –
As you see the context isn't the torah of Elohim, it is talking about the weak and elementary ORAL LAWS. These are also called "Traditions of Men". This is what Jesus and Paul came to combat because they violated torah in certain areas. Paul is saying we don't have to follow man-made religion. True freedom comes from following only the torah of Elohim:
Jas 2:12 So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by a Torah of freedom.
Is this oral law to.When you see "under the law" in Galations it is talking about oral law and Phrasaic/Sauducee leadership. I had hoped that correlating the galations verses with the collossian ones would clear up the misunderstanding since the wording is clearer in his other letter, yet uses the same phrases.
Somehow, the churches have twisted Paul's writings to mean that torah is bad which can never be. The opposite is the truth and the word of Elohim (torah) is the good and just and upright (read psalms 119).
2Pe 3:14 So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,
2Pe 3:15 and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
2Pe 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand,1 which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.
You have a way of twisting things, what kind of faith are you, I notice you don't say.No, the change wasn't the torah, the change was the administration of it. We have a new high priest of a different order in the heavens right now.
Hebrews chapter 7 verses 11,12 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on the basis of it the law was given to the people why was there still need for another priest to come one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law.
No one obeys the law, and you say you have to know some oral law code, your twisting the bible.What was twisted? Everything I've said lines up with the whole book.
Saying the torah is done away with is like saying, "Its ok to disobey the Father now". Its rediculous
My faith = torah obedient follower YHVH and His Messiah
Disciple, don't you see that you're saying that Paul is preaching a different message than the REST OF SCRIPTURE? If what you say is true, then we should throw Paul in the garbage because he is leading you away from YHVH. But if you see what Paul was truely saying, you'll see he lines up exactly with scripture:
2Pe 3:15 and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
2Pe 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand,1 which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.
I rather take a safe and good way that goes along with god and Christ
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
I'm going to believe the bible before you.The safe way? Lol. Jesus was the WORD (aka torah). He was obedient unto DEATH! Think about that....
Did you not read this verse? What is written in the law? He was upholding and living by it and teaching by it...
FREE YOUR MIND NEO
Ignorance means lack of knowledge. And if your under 50 you couldn't have studied the bible more than me I've given up my life to study it.Continue on in ignorance then and take the blue pill. And don't forget Peter:
2Pe 3:15 and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
2Pe 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.
John chapter 8 verse 31,32 To the Jews who believed him Jesus said if you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
The law is slavery to sin.
Romans chapter 3
20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
We uphold the law through faith that expresses it self in love.
1 peter chapter 4
And by this last verse I know I know god and have him if you go by 2 john verse 91 peter chapter 4
8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Jeremiah chapter 22 verse 16
He defended the cause of the poor and needy,
and so all went well.
Is that not what it means to know me?”
declares the Lord.
I've given up my life to study it.
Ecclesiastes 12:12New International Version (NIV)If you've truely done that, please look up what I've said about oral torah. It was the controversy in the NT and will radically change your view on the context of the NT. Paul is very obvious about it in multiple places, but less obvious in others unless you know the key phrases and havea foundation of torah. Without that you are a rudderless ship.
And Jesus is offering freedom your offering slavery.John chapter 8 verse 31,32 To the Jews who believed him Jesus said if you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Yes, but that's because this particular issue is your only heartthrob, isn't it? I mean, you start all these threads and rarely post on anything else; and aside from an echo coming occasionally from your fellow SDAer, hardly anyone else cares.
The things you list are only in agreement by incidence and not obedience.People can obey the law, just not perfectly. That doen't mean we don't aim to do it our best.
Love's definition is doing the law. By not stealing, murdering, being kind etc, those are all part of the law.
Everybody in the world isn't our neighbor. Its those around you. Help your family first, then your friends, then your community, and once all of those are set, look further out.
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