[Uri’el-2012]

XS> Interesting as it speaks in the past tense and refers to Jewish Traditions.

How do you figure? From the NIV: "firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you." Are you saying Paul, Silas, and Timothy are teaching the Jewish Traditions? And what Traditions specifically, since this was post-Council of Jerusalem?

12 posted on June 26, 2008 3:07:45 PM MDT by thefrankbaum

Yes: Paul, Silas, and Timothy were teaching Jewish Traditions
There were no other traditions other than Jewish traditions.

Even after the Council of Jerusalem, the apostles were still
Torah-observant Jews who had accepted the Jewish Messiah.

They were not catholics nor christians,
they were Jewish believers in the Jewish Messiah.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

[thefrankbaum]

But some of the Thessalonians were already observant Jews - why would they need to be taught their own Traditions? And the Gentiles amongst the Thessalonians needn’t be taught the Jewish Traditions, as that was the whole point of the Council of Jerusalem...right?