Wow you did it again-- yes i agree with you about Matt 5:17-19 that christains throw that out. You are not to throw it out, but what you have mistaken is that you are to follow it in spirit and truth, it should be in your heart of flesh and not your written in "stone". You are to follow all the commandments of Jesus--since He is the God of all scripture--OT and NT, but you are to do this in spirit and truth.
+++Ben: - What's the fifference between following in spirit and following according to the letter only as long as the Law is obeyed? What difference does it make if the
Law is written in stone or in our hearts so long it is obeyed? Stop with this Pauline rhetoric and just fulfill the requirements of the Law and you will be all right.
Jesus gave no commandments. He rather confirmed what had been given in the Sinaitic Covenant. Now, for your last statement, you are going to excuse me
if I must be blatant here, but you are teaching idolatry and to Jewish ears it doesn't go well.
Okay maybe you just didnt get the question and i will give you the benefit of the doubt this time--God gave the discription of how his Word will be put in scrolls and He describes it in Duet 25 66 scrolls. now without the 27 that make up the NT them His Word would be incomplete. Now with this small little bit of knowledge i am giving you I will ask the question again---How is it you can reject 80% of the NT? And actuall Jesus couldnt answer that directly because uhhhh He was the beginning of it.
+++Ben: - I reject 80 percent of the NT because they are interpolations by the Gentiles who wrote the NT. People who either had no knowledge of Judaism
or wrote only to satisfy the Christology of Paul. There was a time when I tried to consider everything as you guys do, and I couldn't handle the contradictions.
I even ended up by publishing a book about the contradictions of the NT through Vantage Press in New York.
I am not upset, believe me and i am not trying to persuade you at all (remember what i posted before). I only expose those who contradict (Titus 1:9) and their is nothing Paul was inspired from God to write that contradicts anything in all the other books/scrolls of the entire bible. Paul had the faith of Jesus. Did Jesus practise Judaism? Give me a break Did John the Baptist practise his faith the way the pharisees did? The Jews lacked faith. They worshipped not in spirit, but only to the letter in which they perverted even more for their own personal gains. (Jer 8:8)
+++Ben: - If you are not trying to persuade me into becoming a Christian, what are you trying to do, considering the possibility that you could become a Jew?
Don't take my question lying down because that's what you get with the cop-out that your purpose is not to convert me. Why deny? At least I am more honest
than you when I don't deny my purpose which is to convert you into the Faith of Jesus which was Judaism. Yes, Jesus practised Judaism, but Paul did not.
Read Acts 21:20 and wonder why the converts of the Nazarenes were staunch defenders of the Law. And when you say that the Jews did not worship in spirit,
you make of Jesus a liar, because he himself said that we worship is spirit and in truth, and Gentiles worship what they do not know. Read John 4:22.
Oh brother-- and i quote you "I hope you won't let pride speak louder than commonsense to come to it. (Zech. 8:23)" Just answer the question and stop running from it. After all, with what you believe, you have more to lose than I.
+++Ben: - What do I have to lose more than you, a conditional faith? That's what you guys have: Conditional faith. Paul himself said that if there is no resurrection
let's eat and drink for tomorrow we die. (I Cor. 15:32) That's faith with an eye in rewards. We Jews don't even believe in Hell, Heaven or resurrection; or Satan for
that matter to make us afraid and abide by the Law. We do it because it's a Jewish thing to do. Not with the intent in postmortem rewards. Thanks but no, thanks.
Judaism is much more real.
