Illuminator
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Indeed. Can you answer Jack's challenge in 25 words or less?
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Indeed. Can you answer Jack's challenge in 25 words or less?
I didn't make it over the wall.Indeed. Can you answer Jack's challenge in 25 words or less?
When you refuse to read it,not at all.And this answers my question how?
I am going to assume you are a jew?You shall not murder and you shall not steal and you shall not eat blood is not for Israel only, it is for all humanity. Circumcision is no longer required under the new covenant, because the Torah of God changed as a result in a change in priesthood, but the entire Torah itself has not been discarded.
Well as you onbly posted a one minute video with no running writing on it, What was there to read?When you refuse to read it,not at all.
Please relook at you rpost 53 which said this should answer my question as to the name of Yahweh known by Abraham and moses and Israel before it was given on Sinai!When you refuse to read it,not at all.
I posted this link initially.Well as you onbly posted a one minute video with no running writing on it, What was there to read?
Please relook at you rpost 53 which said this should answer my question as to the name of Yahweh known by Abraham and moses and Israel before it was given on Sinai!
The fruits of the Spirit are aspects of God's character.What's the fruit of the Spirit? (Galatians.5:22-25)
God's holy days foreshadow was is to come, so we should testify about the truth of what is to come by continuing to observe them rather than a way that denies the truth of what is to come.What's it's shadow? (Colossians 2:17)
The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of the Torah, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) and with justice, mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the Torah, so the fruits of the Spirit fulfill the Torah because they are obeying it as it should be.Does the fruit of the Spirit fulfill Torah? (Galatians.5:22-25)
God's holy days testify about the character of God rather than us expressing the character of God.Why is Torah the shadow of the fruit of the Spirit, but not the fruit itself?
The Torah was given for our own good in order to bless us, not with the goal of cursing us. The Torah is God's instructions for how to bear fruit and obeying it is the way to abide in Christ, which is why he said that if we keep his commandments, we will abide in his love, just as he kept his Father's commandments and abided in His love (John 15:10). Likewise, in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked.How does Jesus say the fruit of the Spirit becomes evident in those who have faith in Him (John 15:4-5)?
(a) Through obeying Torah, which brings a curse upon anyone who fails to obey it? or
(b) Through remaining in the Vine, who is Christ, through the obedience of faith in Him (John 15:4-5)?
In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so obedience to the New Covenant is based on obedience to the Torah through faith in Christ, which brings a blessing on all who choose to obey it.Is obedience to the New Covenant based on faith in Christ, or on obedience to Torah, which brings a curse upon all who fail to obey it? (John 15:4-5)
The Mosaic and New Covenants are both based on the Torah. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Torah is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20).Upon which covenant is obedience to Torah based?
(1) The covenant of Torah, which curses people for their disobedience to Torah?; or
(2) The New Covenant in Christ's blood, shed for the forgiveness of transgression of Torah?
The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way for the New Covenant to replace it is if the New Covenant does everything that it does plus more, which is what it means to make something obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). So the New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Hebrews 8:10), plus it is based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).Which of the two covenants have become old, and ready to vanish away? (Hebrews 8:13)
Obedience to the Torah is the way to have faith in Christ and to walk after the Spirit of Christ, which brings a blessing for those who obey it. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Torah, in John 16:13, the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth, and in Psalms 119:142, the Torah is truth. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Torah. In Galatians 5:19-23, everything listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against the Torah while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. After all, the Torah was given by God and the Spirit is God, so it is the Law of the Spirit.Should we seek to please God through obedience to Christ (faith in Christ and walking after the Spirit of Christ producing the fruit of the Spirit), or through obedience to Torah, which brings a curse?
1.) You shall not commit murder.I fully agree "The Law Of Moses" was nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ, no question
However the 10 commandments are alive and well today, they have never been revoked or replaced, all 10
The Bible never lists which laws are part of the moral law and never even refers to that as being category of law. The existence of that category would imply that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that are not in that category, but there is no example in the Bible where disobedience to God is said to be moral, nor do I see justification for thinking that it can ever be moral to disobey God. Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws. Legislators give laws according to what they think ought to be done, so for someone to claim that some of God's laws are not moral laws is to claim that God made a moral error about what ought to be done when He gave those laws and is therefore to claim to have greater moral knowledge than God.How Jesus Perfects OT Law
Old Testament law included many dietary regulations which were instituted as a preparation for his teaching on the moral law. Jesus discussed these laws:
In Mark 7:1-13, Jesus criticized the Pharisees as being hypocrites for setting aside the commands of God in order to establish their own traditions, so Jesus should not be interpreted as turning around and even more hypocritically doing what he just finished criticizing them as being hypocrites for doing.The Catechism explains, “Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation . . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts . . .” (CCC 582). Paul taught similarly concerning other Old Testament law:
Paul described those who were judging the Colossians as promoting human precepts and teachings, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, which means that they were being judged by pagan because they were keeping God's holy days. This has nothing to do with setting the stage for a new law.In this passage we can see that Paul recognized that much of the Old Testament law was instituted to set the stage for the new law that Christ would usher in. Much of the old law’s value could be viewed in this regard.
While God command priests to rest on the Sabbath, He also commanded priests to make offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that they were forced to sin by breaking one of the two commands no matter what they chose to do, but that the lesser command was never intended to be understood as preventing the greater command from being obeyed. This is why Jesus said in Matthew 12:1-8 that priests who did their duties on the Sabbath were held innocent, why David and his men were held innocent, and why Jesus defended his disciples as being innocent. This has nothing to do with having the authority to make changes to what God has commanded, but rather according to Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Mosaic Law.Jesus’ teaching about the Sabbath indicates similar value in part of the Old Testament regulation of the Sabbath:
Clearly, Jesus indicated that he—not the Old Testament—had authority over the Sabbath, and its regulation was not as rigid as the Pharisees thought. In fact, once Jesus would endow the hierarchy of his Church with his own authority (Matt. 16:19; 18:18), regulation of worship would become the domain of the Church.
In Romans 2:13, Paul said that only doers of the Mosaic Law will be justified, and in Romans 2:14-15, he said that believing Gentiles will by nature be doers of the Mosaic Law. This has nothing to do with being bound by a natural law.The Law That’s Rooted in Reason
It is important to point our here that the obligation to worship is something all people of every place and time can know simply through the use of reason. It is knowledge built into the human conscience as part of what is called the “natural law.” Paul makes note of such law when discussing those of his own time who were never bound by Old Testament law: “When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts . . .” (Rom. 2:14-15a).
The Ten Commandments are often cited as examples of the natural law. Christians are obliged to follow the laws cited in the Ten Commandments not because they are cited in the Ten Commandments—part of Old Testament law—but because they are part of the natural law—for the most part.
Do tell how we can know that those actions are immoral by reason alone.Certainly we can know by reason alone that certain actions are immoral—e.g., to kill the innocent, to take what does not belong to us, to cheat on our spouses, etc.
The Israelites worshiped God on every day, which included obeying His command to keep the 7th day holy. It is impossible to worship God instead of obeying His instructions for how to worship Him. God commanded His people to keep the 7th day holy, so we can choose to trust God with all of our heart by obeying His command or we can lean on our own understanding by doing what is right in our own eyes.Similarly, we can know by reason alone that we are obliged to worship our Creator. But can we really know in the same way that such worship should take place on Saturday every week? Of course not! That part of the Sabbath commandment is not part of the natural law at all but was simply a law imposed upon the Jews for the discipline of their nation. Other people had the authority to choose for themselves the time they set aside for worship. For Christians now, it makes sense to do this on Sunday.
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This should give Sabbatarians, (SDA who now own this forum), serious pause.
You are obsessed with the flesh producing the fruit of the Spirit through obedience to the torah, which is the shadow of the fruit of the Spirit, and which the flesh cannot produce, because only Christ was able to do that.The fruits of the Spirit are aspects of God's character.
God's holy days foreshadow was is to come, so we should testify about the truth of what is to come by continuing to observe them rather than a way that denies the truth of what is to come.
The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of the Torah, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) and with justice, mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the Torah, so the fruits of the Spirit fulfill the Torah because they are obeying it as it should be.
God's holy days testify about the character of God rather than us expressing the character of God.
The Torah was given for our own good in order to bless us, not with the goal of cursing us. The Torah is God's instructions for how to bear fruit and obeying it is the way to abide in Christ, which is why he said that if we keep his commandments, we will abide in his love, just as he kept his Father's commandments and abided in His love (John 15:10). Likewise, in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked.
In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so obedience to the New Covenant is based on obedience to the Torah through faith in Christ, which brings a blessing on all who choose to obey it.
The Mosaic and New Covenants are both based on the Torah. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Torah is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20).
The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way for the New Covenant to replace it is if the New Covenant does everything that it does plus more, which is what it means to make something obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). So the New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Hebrews 8:10), plus it is based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).
Obedience to the Torah is the way to have faith in Christ and to walk after the Spirit of Christ, which brings a blessing for those who obey it. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Torah, in John 16:13, the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth, and in Psalms 119:142, the Torah is truth. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Torah. In Galatians 5:19-23, everything listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against the Torah while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. After all, the Torah was given by God and the Spirit is God, so it is the Law of the Spirit.
I wasn't referring to moral lists in the OT. I said: "many dietary regulations which were instituted as a preparation for his teaching on the moral law."The Bible never lists which laws are part of the moral law and never even refers to that as being category of law.
I agree, but I don't know how you can conclude "disobedience to God is said to be moral" I made no such implication.The existence of that category would imply that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that are not in that category, but there is no example in the Bible where disobedience to God is said to be moral, nor do I see justification for thinking that it can ever be moral to disobey God.
No, they are not. I already explained this.Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws.
I don't confuse natural law with moral law. The ban on eating pork/shellfish has nothing to do with morality. "therefore to claim to have greater moral knowledge than God." is a non-sequitur fallacy.Legislators give laws according to what they think ought to be done, so for someone to claim that some of God's laws are not moral laws is to claim that God made a moral error about what ought to be done when He gave those laws and is
So why bring it up?In Mark 7:1-13, Jesus criticized the Pharisees as being hypocrites for setting aside the commands of God in order to establish their own traditions, so Jesus should not be interpreted as turning around and even more hypocritically doing what he just finished criticizing them as being hypocrites for doing.
Paul described those who were judging the Colossians as promoting human precepts and teachings, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, which means that they were being judged by pagan because they were keeping God's holy days. This has nothing to do with setting the stage for a new law.
David and his men were held innocent, yet they ate the shewbread when they were not supposed to. Jesus is clarifying priorities. Human need trumps religious tenets in this case. The soldiers were exempt from violating the law according to Jesus Himself.While God command priests to rest on the Sabbath, He also commanded priests to make offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that they were forced to sin by breaking one of the two commands no matter what they chose to do, but that the lesser command was never intended to be understood as preventing the greater command from being obeyed. This is why Jesus said in Matthew 12:1-8 that priests who did their duties on the Sabbath were held innocent, why David and his men were held innocent, and why Jesus defended his disciples as being innocent. This has nothing to do with having the authority to make changes to what God has commanded, but rather according to Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Mosaic Law.
Yes, it does. The Gentiles are not bound by Mosaic Law. First you say, "believing Gentiles will by nature be doers of the Mosaic Law", then you contradict yourself by saying "This has nothing to do with being bound by a natural law." Having sex with an animal violates the natural law, it's repulsive to anybody regardless of their beliefs. It's a perversion. Nobody needs a Bible to prove sperm united with poop is disgusting.In Romans 2:13, Paul said that only doers of the Mosaic Law will be justified, and in Romans 2:14-15, he said that believing Gentiles will by nature be doers of the Mosaic Law. This has nothing to do with being bound by a natural law.
I just did.Do tell how we can know that those actions are immoral by reason alone.
Similarly, we can know by reason alone that we are obliged to worship our Creator. But can we really know in the same way that such worship should take place on Saturday every week? Of course not! That part of the Sabbath commandment is not part of the natural law at all but was simply a law imposed upon the Jews for the discipline of their nation. Other people had the authority to choose for themselves the time they set aside for worship. (such as the Apostles who worshipped on the first day of the week) For Christians now, it makes sense to do this on Sunday, the Lord's Day, the first day of the week.The Israelites worshiped God on every day, which included obeying His command to keep the 7th day holy. It is impossible to worship God instead of obeying His instructions for how to worship Him. God commanded His people to keep the 7th day holy, so we can choose to trust God with all of our heart by obeying His command or we can lean on our own understanding by doing what is right in our own eyes.
1749 Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.Do tell how we can know that those actions are immoral by reason alone.
Well what are called the "oral torah" is not SCripture. The totality of them start as the Sepherim. The tanaim, the Gemera, and the Talmud. They are quotes of quoited of rabbis and give opinion and commentary much like the commentaries in Christianity today.I posted this link initially.
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The Written Torah and the Oral Torah | My Jewish Learning
Formulation of the Oral Torah. Gemara and The Talmud. Texts on Jewish Law. Jewish Texts.www.myjewishlearning.com
No idea how a YT video replaced it. But that should assist your understanding.
There's no way to validate the oral Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because early Christians did not have a new testament Bible,nor any written scripture relating his teachings until well after he departed.Well what are called the "oral torah" is not SCripture. The totality of them start as the Sepherim. The tanaim, the Gemera, and the Talmud. They are quotes of quoited of rabbis and give opinion and commentary much like the commentaries in Christianity today.
There is no way to validate the supposed original "oral torah".
True. But you discount that god was not able to have recorded and passed down all that was necessary for a believer to grown in grace and to be conformed to the image of Jesus.There's no way to validate the oral Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because early Christians did not have a new testament Bible,nor any written scripture relating his teachings until well after he departed.
You forget. There is no way to measure the oral teachings against what came after.True. But you discount that god was not able to have recorded and passed down all that was necessary for a believer to grown in grace and to be conformed to the image of Jesus.
We have the letters and gospels that were recorded and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, deemed to become the New Testament. So all "oral teachings" must ve measured by the New Testament which iis the inspired canonized word of God.