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Zeek

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Originally Posted by Zazal
So did Jesus teach Torah?​

please post a verse or two...then I will be happy to reply.:)

Strange how such a simple straight-forward question can prove so difficult to get a reply to...any of the intructions that Jesus gives will be adequate, but so you can see it for yourself in black and white here are some. ( I already quoted Scripture, but it was all ignored in my first post...ho-hum :) )

Matt 10: 32“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33“But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

Matt 15: 10After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand. 11“It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Matt 18: 1At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, 3and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4“Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5“And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.



well,, great verses, don't they show that one can"t keep the torah? What about the ALL., or break mycov in lev 26:15?;)

Aren't we specifically looking at the Torah given to Moses at Sinai...the 'binding' of the Law onto the Israelites...rather than making the mistake of putting all torah/teaching into the same melting-pot?

There is an interesting dichotomy between the Torah which is spiritual, and the heart of man which is sinful...the Bible talks about the Law being perfect, its weakness was man....hence the need for the Torah to be engraved onto hearts of flesh.

why were the jewish Christians living as gentiles in Antioch??

The Jewish Believers understood in part the liberty that they had in Messiah...but the appearance of the big cheeses from Jerusalem put a religious fear in their hearts and made them act hypocritically...it is one of the things Paul hated the most, because he devoted so much time in making sure the right teaching on grace was abounding in the Body...he realised that above all other teachings, this religious spirit had the ability to make the gospel ineffective, and to annul the whole purpose of Jesus' atonement on the cross.

bottom line, you want to go where Jesus was elaborating on things in the law to jews, forgetting that the cross came. Why do you not elaborate on how peter, james, paul, said not to burden with the torah, after the cross?

You assume wrongly...I am merely trying to demonstrate that Torah is on-going, and it is the Torah in the New Covenant that actually initiates faith in a Believer to understand their position in Messiah, and not get into the trap of being Law-pleasers rather than G-d pleasers.

so at best you just show that jesus was talking to jew before the cross

No no no and thrice no.:)

At best I am trying to show that the word Torah and Law have been poorly used and applied throughout much Christian teaching, or do you want to suggest that the torah/instruction that Jesus gave to a largely Jewish audience, was not also effective for all Gentiles who believed on Him?
 
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Your inability to be honest about ignoring answers shows that you are not to be addressed . I am placing *you* on ignore for ignoring me .

Hmmm...it all gets a bit surreal at times. (another useful post ;))
 
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Hmmm...it all gets a bit surreal at times. (another useful post ;))

Could you direct me to the post where NW gave examples? I am not ignoring anything. I have been over NW posts on this thread and he/she gave no examples where MG said Torah was a salvation issue.
 
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Could you direct me to the post where NW gave examples? I am not ignoring anything. I have been over NW posts on this thread and he/she gave no examples where MG said Torah was a salvation issue.

I know you're not ignoring anything bro...and as far as I can see, no examples were forth-coming of either MG or MJ quotes.

I think we all miss a few posts to answer sometimes, most of it is pure oversight, or sheer volume of posts to sift through, especially when a topic gets red-hot.

Some people are a wee bit over-sensitive at times, and things become personal, which is a pity, ahhh but such is life. :)
 
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I know you're not ignoring anything bro...and as far as I can see, no examples were forth-coming of either MG or MJ quotes.

I think we all miss a few posts to answer sometimes, most of it is pure oversight, or sheer volume of posts to sift through, especially when a topic gets red-hot.

Some people are a wee bit over-sensitive at times, and things become personal, which is a pity, ahhh but such is life. :)

You bet . It is always useful to know who is honest and who is not .

Nuff said.
 
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This is totally false.
They were given all scripture as it is able to throughly furnish all believers to perform good works.
Why would gentiles be ashamed of their past behavior, if they never heard the law that convinced them they were sinners?


The only way to know you are being led by the Spirit is by checking you're behavior as it stacks up with scripture.(including torah):thumbsup:
Do you believe Duet 5?

Do you believe John 3 and 10?

Do you believe Romans 10?

What about the historical record of Acts in the unfolding of the NC?

Do you believe Gal 3, 4 and 5?

Do you believe Jer 31?

Do you believe Hosea 2?

Do you believe Eph 2?

Do you believe Col 2?

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So it seems there is always a good Torah vs. Torahlessness debate going on in this section (including the Sabbath debate as well). I've seen both sides of the battleground and sympathize towards the logic of both. But logic wont answer the ever present debate of whether or not Torah (any part, all parts, some parts) is for today. So just how important to you is this matter personally? Not tearing anyone down, just getting a feel for the why behind the big debate.
You now have enough information on these dabates . They are ongoing and repetitive .
 
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All or nothing, was what told the Rich Young Ruler in so many words. Its not that complicated. The Sabbath is the issue that cannot be avoid, because it is so clearly defined by God, and it is a Commandment of the highest moral basis, namely, defining a time of rest from labor and focusing on our relationship with God, and our fellow men, and yet Evangelicals, Catholics, and most Protestants ignore what God said to "Remember"!
Please quote one any one verse in the NT requiring the observance of the 7th day sabbath by Jesus or an Apostle. Just one is all I ask.

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What others not only ignore but flat out spit on is that part of observing the Sabbath is putting to death their own for disobeying it .

I certainly do not ignore that the Lord told the Israelites to remember . But , I may as He didn't tell me anything about it .
Me neither.

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Any and all except for what is explicitly part of the New Covenant, i.e. the two-fold Commandment to Love God and Love One Another. Everything else -- special holy days (sabbaths, Sundays, whatever), clean vs. unclean foods, hair styles, clothing styles, a myriad of other minutiae -- all of it is useless excess baggage. Cast out the bondwoman and her son!
No she is to pretty to cast out. :p;)

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Christianity teaches the Torah is dead; nailed to the cross and fulfilled in Christ.

Christ is my Passover Lamb and my righteousness. Let Jews keep the Torah; Christians are not obligated and are theologically opposed, to the point of historically declaring heresy, to the practice of following Torah.
 
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Christianity teaches the Torah is dead; nailed to the cross and fulfilled in Christ.

Christ is my Passover Lamb and my righteousness. Let Jews keep the Torah; Christians are not obligated and are theologically opposed, to the point of historically declaring heresy, to the practice of following Torah.

:doh:...why do they stare.
 
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This issue has so much discussion, because Sunday is has NO biblical basis for replacing Sabbath! And 4th Commandment is one of the laws that God wrote with His own finger, and yet man made tradition from the Pope of Rome has subordinated the Sabbath to Sunday!
I think it has something to do with believing all the Scripture.

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