Shermana
Heretic
If you took more time reading the bible then making up words game you might understand the bible more .
The problem is that we have some verses that may in fact be interpolated and weren't part of original doctrine, which are used to enforce the idea that gentile Christians are not subject to the Jewish Law.
We see in Justin Martyr's writings that the Nazarene Jews were split into a few camps, one of them thought gentiles didn't have to obey the Law, the other thought that gentiles had to obey the same Jewish law that Jewish Christians were supposed to. (And Jewish Christians, according to Acts, were in fact supposed to be obedient to the Law).
This nonetheless gives a situation where Jewish Christians are held to some higher, holier standard, whereas Gentiles aren't. What kind of implications arise from that?
We see the Tubingen school at first reviving the idea that the Council of Jerusalem episode was interpolated in the 19th century (And their arguments were never really refuted, just swept under the rug), and we see many scholars who take this view as well. We know that Galatians 2 clashes with Acts 15, something even FF Bruce (king of the Conservative Christian scholars) acknowledges and tries to reconcile by saying that Galatians 2 might be referring to a different event than in Acts 15. We see that the Clementine Literature may in fact have seen Jewish Christian groups use the word "Simon Magus" as code word Paul, who shares a nearly identical description to Paul's story, as an enemy and false infiltrator of the faith.
To me, I think the scholars who say that the Council of Jerusalem never happened and that this episode, along with 21:25 (which interupts the flow of the passage) were not part of the original, have it right.
We also may see in the Book of John's Revelation some possible reaction against Pauline teaching, as well in the Book of James with its emphatic stating over 5 times in a row the futility of faith without works. John's revelation says there are 12 apostles. Did one of them die and Paul fill their place? Who is the false teacher of Ephesus? Did Paul say eating idol-sacrificed meat was okay, while Revelation says such teachers who say this will be thrown out?
The idea that Christians don't have to obey the Law basically undermines the entire point of the Jewish Messiah's very Jewish teachings.
He said anyone who breaks and teaches to break the least of the commandments shall be called the least in the Kingdom.
Apparently Christians don't mind being called the least.
And that's just the start. We have a whole series of passages that get caught up in "context wars", like Luke 16:17-31, which most likely is saying that those who ignore the Laws of Moses are guaranteed to spend some time in the fiery inferno, while others say its about rejecting the Prophetic indications of the Messiah, which kind of doesn't make sense as it stems from Luke 16:17's saying that Heaven and Earth will collapse before the Law is undone.
I don't really see the point in obeying the Jewish Messiah and calling him lord if one doesn't feel obligated to obey what he teaches, or they feel they can twist and cherry pick what he says into something that's completely devoid of its Jewish message.
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