But the Word of YHWH cannot contradict.There are standing contradictions to the Gospel, so no way for me.
We do not have 'that word'...according to scripture anyway.But the Word of YHWH cannot contradict.
The Council members were scribes and lawyers, (soferim) responsible for interpreting the Torah for the people and the land, (especially in civil disputes and criminal cases). This also is likely one of the primary reasons why they were against the teachings of Yeshua; for he taught as one having authority, meaning he neither cited nor adhered to their authority when he taught the people, (except in cases where their judgment was correct). The same is the main reason why he was at first charged as a mesith, that is, one who leads a city, town, or the whole nation astray, (meaning astray from the teachings of the elders, scribes, and Sanhedrin rulings). There were different types of scribes; some were letter counters and copyists, others wrote legal rulings but not without citations from the fathers who came before them. The comment, "traditions of the elders" is another example of the same; the elders were the committee of ten which sat above the rest of the council, (excepting of course the two Chief Priests, the Ab Bet Din and the Nasiy, but the elders could indeed remove the Nasiy Kohen Gadol if need be).
I have a few friends who believe that we should obey Torah. Just like EVERY other issue, topic or doctrine in this world, there are 2 sides to it (actually there can be many facets of truth)
It is absolutely TRUE that we must obey the law or we will not be counted worthy. The fine print says though: the law that must be observed is not the old Torah but the NEW LAW that Jesus gave us. To love God and others as ourselves.
Case closed. We MUST obey the law.
I am a Christian, not a Jew; thus I observe the moral law of the Torah, but not the ceremonial law; instead, as a Christian I follow the instructions of the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 and the Canon Law of the Orthodox Church.
Tell me why or why not you believe it.
beware of judaizers!
colossians 3:11
galatians 5:1-6
"Judaizers" was a term first coined and used by the heretic Marcion. It did not refer to those who were trying to get Gentiles to obey God's law, nor did Paul mean that when he used the word, but rather means "to adopt Jewish customs and rights, one who observes the ritual law of the Jews". It has to with someone who was trying to make Gentiles live as a Jew and become a Jew, and having him keep all of the customs of the Jewish people. They want the perspective person to live exactly as they do, keeping God's law in the same manner as they do in order to be saved. It has nothing to do with the Torah except for the fact that Jewish customs were bound up in decisions made about it.
If you do away with the Torah, then you do away with sin, which means that you don't need grace, which means that you don't need a savior, which means that you don't need a Gospel.
If you do away with the Torah, then you do away with sin, which means that you don't need grace, which means that you don't need a savior, which means that you don't need a Gospel.
wrong!
read galatians 3:10-14
The New Testament apostles teach us what sin is. Christ commissioned them to do so.
The law is what gives us knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20), without the law we wouldn't even know what sin is (Romans 7:7), and sin is defined as lawlessness (1 John 3:4). Everything that the NT says about sin is in perfect accordance with everything that the OT says about sin. Christ commissioned them not to go redefine "sin", but to go make disciples, or in other words, people whose goal it is to learn how to think and act like him by following his example.