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To: Blood of Tyrants
Yet the very core of this article is very detailed instructions on how to operate a stove on the Sabbath so as to not break any Jewish law. NO ONE can live up the the standard that G-d sets. Have you?

You obviously skipped over the verse I read to you. It says in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 says, "For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say, `Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, `Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?' But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it."

G-d didn't make the Torah impossible to keep. The Talmudic hedge around the Torah has made it an unbearable burden at times, which Yeshua frequently argued with the Pharisees about. But, the Written Torah itself is pretty simple, really and anyone who claims, like Justin Martyr, that G-d purposefully made Torah too difficult to keep to frustrate Jews into accepting Yeshua distort scripture and try make G-d a liar.

322 posted on 05/18/2005 9:39:26 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Read the red! www.readthered.com)
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To: Tamar1973

No, I read it. If it was possible to keep all of G-d's laws, then sacrifice and repentance would never be necessary.

I also read the following verses:

15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

In verse 16 G-d tells us FIRST to love Him, second to walk in His ways, and then to follow His commands and laws. The following passages tell of the consequences. A very similar passage is found in the book of Joshua and probably other books of the Bible.

I ask again, have you or anyone you know of beeen able to keep ALL of G-d's laws?


323 posted on 05/18/2005 9:50:54 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Tamar1973

P.S. I am not saying G-d is a liar. He also made laws about what you had to do when you broke another law in order to get right with Him again. When you have fufilled those requirements then your past sins are erased forever and you are again without sin.... until the next time you break one of His laws.


324 posted on 05/18/2005 10:04:18 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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