Sentences with phrase «observe torah»

Ye have naught (of guidance) till ye observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed unto you from your Lord.

Kinzer and the branch of Messianic Jews to which he belongs continue to observe Torah not in order to be justified but to be faithful to the covenant that God made with their ancestors.

If the church acknowledges the permanence and centrality of Israel's election as central to its own identity, it will expect baptized Jews to continue to affirm their Jewish identity and continue to observe Torah.

In the middle of the second century, Justin Martyr said that he would accept those who continued to observe the Torah into Christian fellowship, provided they did not seek to persuade gentile Christians that they too had to follow the Mosaic Law.

Foreigners and eunuchs are called to observe Torah and confess their faith just as do other Israelites.

Not exact matches

I don't think this is how it really happened, but the point of the story is that no Jewish person would ever expect a non-Jewish person to obey or observe all of the Jewish laws, either the 613 of the Torah, or the 6000 + laws of the Oral Torah.

His attacks on the Jewish Law in his epistles do not seem to have been on the Torah as such, although this is how they have often been understood, but upon those who insisted that gentile believers were required to observe all the commandments of the Law.

Augustine wrote that «the ceremonies of the Jews are both baneful and deadly to Christians and whoever keeps them whether Jew or gentile, is doomed to the abyss of the devil».2 In recent years, to the anger of many in the Jewish community, some Christians of Jewish descent, such as the Messianic Jews, have tried to observe much of the Torah while affirming that Jesus is the Messiah.

According to the Torah, Jews must observe 613 rules, but this does not mean that non-Jews must not have any rules, because in reality they too have them, arranged under seven fundamental headings, called the [precepts of Noah or] Noahtic precepts, natural law.

Second, you're wrong, the monotheism of the Tanakh and yes even of the Torah is a flexibile one, and it is this flexibility that the early Christians observed and used to communicate the significance of Jesus.

He is willing to accept Messianic Jews» claim that they are still Jews as long as they act like Jews by obeying the Torah, keeping kosher, observing the holidays, circumcising their sons, and so on.

They observed that practice every year thereafter and told their children, and their children's children, etc. every year about how G - d took them out of Egypt and gave them the Torah.

Leibowitz, David Hartman observes, regards the Bible not «as a source of factual information, but only as a source of normative direction — that is, as Torah and mitzvah.»

At sundown tonight, Jews will begin to observe Shavuot — a holiday that commemorates when the ancient Israelites at Mount Sinai were given the Torah, Judaism's founding texts.

(54) For our purposes, it is sufficient to observe the tension between temple and Torah as a central motif.

We observe this holiday «by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.