Posted on 02/16/2013 5:20:42 PM PST by George Varnum
Not sure I follow the argument here (BTW, I’m not Jewish but a Noahide, though some of my responses are relaying information from religious Jewish lurkers).
A good guide to the role of the Talmud (and ‘The Rabbis’) is:
...With the Giving of the Torah, the God of Israel chose the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as His Chosen People, instructing them to fulfill the 613 Commandments of the Torah. He also commanded the righteous of the other nations of the world to keep the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah and commanded Moses and his people to teach them how. It was both the establishment of a new covenant and the strengthening of the old one.
The Mosaic and Noahide Laws were inextricably bound together. The Children of Noah, the righteous Gentiles, were obligated to fulfill the Seven Commandments because they were given on Mount Sinai, not because they were given to Noah. And the Children of Israel were commanded to teach the Seven Commandments to the righteous Gentiles...
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