Sir, what I also find odd is that folks on here have also debated the allowance of female Rabbis and argued for divorce and remarriage as being Kosher in Messiah, yet commend themselves and others for not driving a car on Saturday. That's just a general example, not a quote.
But it's weird. The Goyim get really into Moses, the ethnic Jews value and reverence the Law but may or may not keep the mitzvot, and yet if you have Jewish ancestry yet don't keep niddah or attend a mikvah, you get razzed on a forum called "Messianic Judaism".
For ethnic Jews / part-Jews, it's weird. And gives non-Messianic Jews room to say things like "there are no actual Messianic Jews, it's just a bunch of Gentile Christians butchering Hebrew. Ignore them!" And they have something of a point. Meanwhile, ethnic Jews who acknowledge and honor Jesus of Nazareth as the Jewish Messiah get sued, harassed, intimidated, and railed against by Haredim in Israel. But God forbid they don't fast on Yom Kippur! Gevalt! How dare they use the term Messianic Jew and not use teffilim!
Which is why I don't base my doctrines or walk on the opinions of people. My focus is on Yahweh, Yeshua and Scripture. If someone chooses to exalt tradition or argues over gray areas, so be it. I try not to let such opinions affect me. However, if someone teaches falsely contrary to what I believe Scripture teaches, then I care and am obligated to get involved before the leaven leavens the whole lump. Teaching that the Law is abolished is leaven. Teaching we can eat unclean meat is leaven. Teaching to forsake the Sabbath and Feast Days is leaven.
That is how I feel on here. I do love Christ. I love my Jewish Messiah. I loved my Sephardi / Ashkenazi Dad and my Irish Mom, and love the NT and love Paul, and read Galatians as meaning that observance of the Law of Moses is not going to help Gentiles get spiritually closer to Christ, period. I love Hebrew and Aramaic, and can, like many Gentiles on here, read them. I am thankful for everything about my past and present, love bacon, and veil full time. Shalom.
Anything not in bold is commendable. Anything in bold is, to put it mildly, wrong thinking.
read Galatians as meaning that observance of the Law of Moses is not going to help Gentiles get spiritually closer to Christ - What draws us away from Messiah Yeshua? SIN. What is sin? The transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). Therefore, if breaking the law draws us away from Yeshua, the keeping of the law keeps us close to Yeshua.
love bacon - I used to love bacon as well until I read the following verses;
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. Leviticus 11:7-8
For I am YHWH who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your Elohim. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."
This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten. Leviticus 11:45-47
but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;
because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY." 1 Peter 1:15-16
For behold, YHWH will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will YHWH enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by YHWH shall be many. Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares YHWH. Isaiah 66:15-17
The Isaiah passage is referring to the Day of Yahweh yet in our future. How is it that His judgment will fall on people eating pig if He now allows His people to eat pig? If all meat is now clean and edible, what are the abominations these people are eating?
