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1 | What day is the Sabbath day? | Mark | kalos | 117199 | ||
The Consistent Truth of the Torah ____________________ 'For those who say we are not required to keep the Law, I ask, "Just which one of those Ten Commandments were you planning on NOT keeping?"' ____________________ I Believe in the 'Consistent Truth of the Torah '"I came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets" - Matthew 5:17 'The New Covenant teaches that we are saved by grace. Everyone has failed to keep the Law. Through the atonement of Yeshua's work on the cross, we are set free from the punishment that is due us for having broken the perfect standard of the Law. In that sense, we are no longer "under the Law." 'However that does not mean that the moral absolutes of the Law are no longer applicable to us. The New Covenant does not "do away" with the Law in that sense, but rather writes it in our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31). For any system of truth to be valid, it must be consistent with itself. Contradictions disprove truth. If the New Covenant were to contradict previously given scriptures in the Law or the Prophets, then the New Covenant would not be true. 'In the Sermon on the Mount, Yeshua does not contradict the Ten Commandments, but rather instructs us as to what is the true "heart-meaning" of the Law. In that sense He makes the Law even more demanding. For those who say we are not required to keep the Law, I ask, "Just which one of those Ten Commandments were you planning on NOT keeping?" Christianity, without a proper understanding of Torah, loses its own moral courage and integrity' (Seven Pillars of Messianic Judaism, Asher Intrater, 2003). |
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2 | What day is the Sabbath day? | Mark | flinkywood | 117207 | ||
Kalos, In fact, the Law of righteousness (Torah) is based on faith, as David Stern points out in his Jewish New Testament Commentary’s note on the conjunctive "But" in Romans 10:5-6: “For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: "DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?' (that is, to bring Christ down), or 'WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)." Stern translates "Moreover" in place of "But", explaining that “But”, "...flows out of the Christian theology which mistakenly minimizes the importance of Mosaic Law. This, in turn, is the fruit of the Church’s effort during the 2nd through 6th centuries of the Common Era to eliminate, hide or finesse the Jewishness of Christianity… It is crucial, therefore, to insist that vv. 6-8 do not present the righteousness based on faith in the Messiah Yeshua as DIFFERENT (emphasis mine) from the righteousness based on the TORAH, but as the SAME—the same righteousness based on the same trust and leading to the same eternal life.” “But” implies contrast (“I love you, BUT you don’t love me”), whereas “moreover” amplifies what precedes it (“I love you, AND I will love you always.”). Paul means to say that there is not one righteousness based on the Law (Torah) and another, separate righteousness based on faith, but that they are both based on the same faith which leads to, and ends in, Jesus Christ. As you know, Stern is a Messianic Jew for whom “…the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness for everyone who trusts.” (Rom 10:4, Complete Jewish Bible) For Stern, and in keeping with your post, the Law remains critical in the NT, because it has always required faith, the same kind of faith we require to “believe in Him whom He has sent.” (John 6:29) It’s through the grace of God in Christ Jesus that we are enabled to do the Moral Law. Colin |
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