Posted on 06/02/2011 11:17:29 AM PDT by Nachum
G-d gave us the Law to do. Told us we CAN do it. It is not up in heaven....it is not accross the sea...but near to us...in our mouth and in our heart that we may DO IT. Deut 30 KJV.
Do you really think G-d is going to give us a Law we CANT do? After telling us we can? Is G-d duplicitous? A liar? G-d forbid! The bible also says many times the Law is FOREVER (Ps 111 for one). Again is G-d a liar? It isnt really
forever even though He say it is?
If one can call on an everlasting sacrifice for my sins, I am freed of the curse of the Law.
There is not verse in all of Tanach that speaks of an everlasting sacrifice. Human sacrifice is forbidden. Human vicarious atonement is forbidden. Forgiveness is obtained through prayer, repentance, charity and fasting (and there are others). No blood required!
With the coming of the New Covenant the Law is written on our hearts.
A)The new covenant has not arrived yet. B) The new cov is with the house of Israel...not the gentiles and finally Jeremiah 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Has that happened yet? No. The new covenant is not in place. And new covenant does NOT mean new Torah or no Torah.
The paul the roman you refer to is in fact Saul the student of Gamaliel the Elder.
Says who? The Talmud speaks of Gamaliel and some of his students but if Paul was his student, the Talmud never mentions it. And you would think that if Paul was such a awesome student...he would have been mentioned. Also, Pauls argumentations are not Pharisiaical.
Shalom
Thanks Nachum.
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