You shouldn't wrestle me because your argument will get demolished.
The text says the Law does NOT change. It says to not add or subtract to it.
It doesn't say "This will change because someone doesn't like some parts and humanity will "evolve".
It does say "This is for all generations." ALL generations. Without exception.
There's no point in wrestling with you because none of your arguments are remotely cohesive to the actual issue. Sparing Sodom for the sake of 10 people has absolutely nothing to do with sparing the People of the Covenant who go astray.
Dying for your own sins is different than being born due to sins of your past life. Reincarnation may have indeed been part and parcel to Ancient Hebrew theology and the Tanakh strongly hints at it.
Indeed we are.
Why would we need any? I do believe Zechariah 14 is talking about the end of this age in the near future nonetheless. I also believe that there have been prophets since that time, and many that didn't get recorded in the Tanakh.
Huh?
Huh? Why would they be renewed if they pass away? What do you mean by pass away? God will revoke them? God will lie about his own laws? The only ones that may not be applicable is because of the situation. No priesthood, no priestly rituals. No Temple, no temple rituals. Simple as that. But that's as far as it goes.
Indeed. And according to Jesus, they will pass before a SINGLE IOTA of the Law becomes void. For some reason, Antinomians can't stand that part and try to rewrite it one way or another.
They will occur by God's hands.
ALL may come to pass equates to all events that will ever happen. Basically this means that not a single letter of the Law will go void.
Indeed, and even in this new heaven and Earth, the Law will stand nonetheless.
We can go back and forth in the text, but unless it can be paired with reality, the only thing being demolished is its credibility.
If we start with Adam, which laws were in effect? Which were added after him? Which were subtracted since the destruction of the Temple?
We can continue to say "all generations," but once you lift up your eyes to the real world, you'll notice something different. As aforementioned, the Law evolved, starting from Adam, the first generation. Even now, in the current generation, God's people are divided. The languages are divided. The interpretations are divided. The governments are divided. The laws are divided. However, some of these are shared, and some have remained perpetual.
If God only requires 10 righteous individuals to save the entirety of a city, there would be not one city on Earth destroyed. The very premise of this story is flawed. Righteousness itself is an inheritance from God, so if God wanted to raise up 10 righteous from stones, He is able, and the only One able. But instead, the people of God are not spared destruction, not even for thousands. Nor millions, as we saw plainly with the Holocaust.
You're ignoring the obvious problem with naming reincarnation as an explanation of immediate parenting and childbirth. Have you listened to your fellow Jews about the curse of Jeconiah? And what is your response to them?
So, if we are to honor our parents, how is it done? Genetically? Mentally? Socially? Spiritually? Am I able to dishonor my parents genetically? Mentally? Socially? Spiritually? If marriage results in the joining of two into one, and childbirth is a joint effort creating one flesh- do you see the reality in genetics? Do you notice that half a mother's genes, and half a father's, form one flesh? Is that one flesh able to inherit another brain? Or perform socially contrary to the laws in their flesh, called DNA? Or even develop spiritually away from the laws instituted in one House? How and why?
What identifies Zechariah 14 as relating to the current time?
What determines the color of your skin? The shape of your eye? The taste buds on your tongue? The size of your heart? What determines how each of these functions? Are they laws? Are they shared? Are they overcome in death? Are they renewed in the resurrection?
To say, "that's as far as it goes," is an understatement. The Law explicitly names the borders, the priesthood, the throne, and the Temple, etc. as all being perpetual. Yet, they are able to be undone. And they are undone. These law have been subtracted. They have not been effective for "all generations". Have they?
Not a single iota? Did you not admit the current circumstances? Which iotas were made void at the destruction of the Temple? Which are made void according to the allocation of land? Which are made void according to the priesthood? And the kings? And the children?.. Which of them haven't been made void? How is the covenant prophesied in Jeremiah unlike the previous one?
Jeremiah 31:27-34
Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sown the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, With seed of man, and seed of beast. And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah. In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted. But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth. Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant, Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them -- an affirmation of Jehovah. For this [is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.
