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To: Risha
Speaking of 70AD,with the Temple destroyed by the Romans, how do the Jews get around all the sacrificial instructions in the Torah?

I say this because this thinking has been used by the homosexual lobby to support their position.

If Jews no longer sacrifice, in violation of the Torah, why not allow gays to marry which is also against the commands of the Torah?

What is the rational by modern Judaism to stop the all the daily, monthly and yearly sacrifices?

Hoo boy.

Judaism did not "stop" the sacrifices. They were stopped for them by the Romans (and before that, the Babylonians).

The qorbanot (offerings) can only be offered in the Temple. When there is no Temple they cannot be offered. Just like during the Babylonian Exile--the offerings ceased until the Temple was rebuilt.

The Holy Torah warns Israel numerous times of the penalty for abandoning it. These consequences include exile, when no offerings can be brought. The Torah also promises that when Israel repents and returns to the Torah they will be restored. When this happens the Temple will be rebuilt and the offerings resumed.

Chr*stians (very dishonestly) have always maintained that the Torah's warnings refer to "rejecting the messiah." The Torah says not one solitary word about "rejecting the messiah." All the warnings are about abandoning the Torah. Chr*stians demand that Jews do exactly this--abandon the Torah and replace it with something else. The demands of chr*stianity thus contradict the plain words of G-d in the Holy Torah. Chr*stians get around this because of their a priori assumption of the veracity of the "new testament," but this is a violation of logic ("affirmation of the consequent"). The plain fact it that unless one begins with the assumption that the "new testament" has superseded the Torah (G-d forbid!) that the plain words of the Torah insist that it is to be observed forever and never replaced with anything else. Chr*stianity basically insists that today it is the observance of Torah that is the sin and the abandonment of Torah in favor of chr*stianity that G-d requires. But this view cannot be retrojected into the Torah!

The Torah told Israel that this would happen. They would abandon it and be scattered to the four corners of the earth. During this exile no offerings are possible. The Torah distinguishes between those laws that are to be observed everywhere at all times and those that can only be observed in the Land of Israel, or when the Temple is in existence. The Torah ends all its prophecies of exile with the promise to restore Israel to its land. For two thousand years chr*stianity (especially the non-Fundamentalist variety) has absurdly claimed that these promises apply "mystically" to the chr*stian church. Once again, you have to already believe this before you can retroject this belief into the Torah.

Kindly read your Bible from the front before posting such comments again.

71 posted on 12/04/2006 7:43:51 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Ya`aqov lo' ye'amer `od shimkha ki-'im Yisra'el; ki-sarita `im-'Eloqim ve`im-'anashim vatukhal.")
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The qorbanot (offerings) can only be offered in the Temple. When there is no Temple they cannot be offered.

Abraham, Issac and Jacob all offered sacrifices without the Temple as did Samuel.

Kindly read your Bible from the front before posting such comments again.

I have thanks.

72 posted on 12/04/2006 8:45:34 AM PST by Risha (Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God)
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