Posted on 03/20/2021 9:06:36 AM PDT by OneVike
Judaism was the bastardized faith created during the quiet years by the Pharisees.
>On John the Baptist being the last of the line of Aaron, very well researched and thought out. Which I will look more into. I thank you for what you’ve posted.
And, yes, I agree on the difference between “Hebraism” and “Judaism.” I think the author of the book of “Hebrews,” with all that is taught there, would agree with what you have here.
I do wonder, however, why you haven’t said more about the “bastardized faith by the Pharisees.” Surely you must know that beimg bastardized. it has also been “paganized?”
I refer to the “Babylonian” Talmud, and Kabbalah, the latter an occultic brew of pagan mysticism and magic, conjured up by the Pharisees after the fall of Jerusalem, 70AD. Now being passed off under the name of “Judaism.”
Which neither John the Baptist, nor Jesus, taught.
Well the law was to prove how we needed Christ. However, in the 2nd temple period, the Pharisees added things for the purpose of their greed and control, that were never given by Moses.
As I stated, Jesus chastised them for it.
Mind you, God told us NOT to change what He ordained. The Pharisees did a lot more than just change it, they created whole new laws God never imposed.
Now when Christ came, He was God incarnate and He fulfilled the laws we could not. Jesus was the perfect lamb who never ever broke any of the comandments. Thus the reason His sacrifice was sufficient for our sins, IF, we accept and believe in Him as our Lord and Savior.
Because my focus was to show that John was the Last True High Priest.
More can be said about the way the bastardized faith by the Pharisees.
But doing it here would have distracted from my subject matter.
Maybe I will do a commentary on it sometime, because I do agree with you.
OH, and if I do, I would also probably tie in how the Roman Catholic Church parallels with Judaism in the way they twisted things.
Basically, the Roman Catholic Church recreated the Sanhedrin and the Priesthood, only they did it for Christianity.
I would start a huge argument though, and that is something I must truly pray over so I can do it truthfully and in a delicate way.
Who knows. If the Holy Spirit leads me I will.
Mind you, I did not set out to write what I wrote. I started with a short post of a thought on FaceBook, and as I was finalizing it, it ballooned into what I posted here.
That happens to me a lot. A simple comment I write will turn into a 5 page commentary that I write when the Holy Spirit leads me.
I also want to add, that in all that some tribes changed, and even Moses allowance for divorce, they were not condoned by God.
True, men always created grey areas where God uses black and white with no middle grey area.
We are constantly looking for loopholes, but try as we may, or do as we do, there are none.
Thus the reason Jesus told His disciples that man cannot, which proved we needed a perfect forever Sacrifice as the mediator..
However, Jesus wants us to live with our errors by asking for forgiveness, and trying harder to be right. Instead of creating grey areas to justify our weaknesses.
God is against divorce, what Christ did was die for the sins. We repent, and gain forgiveness. However, Gods searches the heart, and while divorce is wrong, and even Christians get divorced, God sees the reason in the heart.
Christ said only for sexual sin can one justify divorce, but if one cheats, the other one better not be the type who led them to it.
If we are to forgive another 70 x 7, then where is the forgiveness for the sin.
If then one keeps sinning, then we learn it is OK to put one away in divorce if they are not saved. Since continual willing sin proves one is not one with Christ.
This even God says to do so is OK, since God’s commandment under Moses said death was the penalty for one who commits harlotry. Remember the woman caught in adultery? Christ also said let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Remember, all of God’s punishments were the max you can give, under Christ it is forgiveness to the max. So while divorce is wrong, if a Christians divorces their spouse for adultery, then they are as guilty for not forgiving them.
You then will say, but who can be iso forgiving for such a violation of ones marriage vow? To which Jesus said, man cannot, thus we need Christ. Yet as I said, if you are truly in Christ, then why would you not forgive instead of divorce?
Tye Babylonian Talmud was the written down Oral Torah of the Pharisees.
Rabbinical Judaism is the reimagined Pharisees sect of 2nd temple Judaism.
Christianity is the other surviving sect of 2nd temple Judaism
Clement of Alexandria taught that the bestowal of the six blessings necessitated the end of biblical Judaism within the seventy weeks (9:24). He referred to the Temple’s destruction in the language of Daniel’s weeks. He wrote, “Vespasian rose to the supreme power and destroyed Jerusalem, and desolated the holy place” (STO, XXI, 142–143).
Origen (185–254 A.D.) was a student of Clement of Alexandria. It seems quite certain that he agreed with his teacher that the terminus ad quem of the seventieth week was the destruction of the Temple. “The weeks of years up to the time of Christ the leader that Daniel the prophet predicted were fulfilled” (TPR, IV:1:5).
Jesus is the successor to Melchuzedek who brought wine and bread to Abraham. Similarly Jesus in the Euch6gives us eternal life giving bread and wine.
If you want to know more about John the Baptist mission read about the Mandaens. They are the continuation of John’s disciples who did not follow christ
It is translated as “salvation is from the Jews “.
car le salut vient des Juifs
porque la salvación viene[a] de los judíos
Vos adoratis quod nescitis: nos adoramus quod scimus, quia salus ex Judaeis est
Ihr betet an, was ihr nicht kennt; wir beten an, was wir kennen, denn das Heil kommt aus den Juden.
क्योंकि उद्धार यहूदियों में से ही है
कारण यहूदी लोकांकडूनच तारण येते.
, bo zbawienie pochodzi od Żydów
In 16th century English it meant the same as in today’s English saying “salvation comes from the jews”
Also note that “the Jews” in Jesus’s time were multiple sects. One of these were the Jesus movement which became Christianity
And the most prominent other sect was the Pharisees who became rabbinical Judaism after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD
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