However, it is important to have at least as much education in Jewish topics so that one can actually know
what the Torah viewpoint really is on all topics of life.
While many Jewish teachers used tradition and consensus to determine
what the Torah meant and how to live it, Jesus simply declared on His own authority what it meant and how to apply it.
Quite the contrary, large areas of Jewish law pertain to
what the Torah holds up to Jews as God's (at least seemingly) arbitrary ordinances for his people.
Basically, that's
what the Torah is.
Yes what Brian said, you don't even know
what TORAH is!
In this setting, God spoke
what the Torah regards as his holiest words.
But why would he know — he can not comprehend the accumalation of the texts and history after them on the debate of Torahnic law... which Jesus himself participated in (this banter back n forth on
what the Torah means in certain sections — or interpretation of how the law is used in daily life).
Not exact matches
What do you think the point of restitution and repentence were in the
Torah, if not the receiving of mercy for imperfection?
What it is you are saying or nor saying about Rabbis and their relationship to
Torah, I can't quite make out.
After having read some books on Judaism, I decided I was not interested in pursuing
what he calls «the lifelong task of learning
Torah.»
What fishon fails to realize is the teachings of the NT (synoptics for sure) are based on teachings of the
Torah (5 books of the law)... he does not understand law and the debating of law for the formation of understanding the idea better.
While the
Torah brings up Canaanites that couldn't possibly have been literal giants, it does so to represent a fear of
what's beyond our ability to control or predict.
I think 2 different people could each read the bible, koran or
torah or any other religious based guidebook and depending on
what they have experienced in life come to 2 absolutely different opinions on whether God exists or not.
The Qur «an never asks a Christian or Jew to accept it because their own scripture has become corrupt, rather they are asked to accept the Qur «an because the Qur «an claims, 1 / to confirm the teaching of the Bible, 2 / that Muhammad is foretold in the
Torah and Gospel, 3 / the Qur «anic teaching makes clear
what the Jews and Christians could not understand properly from their own scriptures.
@ Resident Theologians: I thought there was controversy about
what Jesus really said about the Mitzvah (the rules in the
Torah = the Law).
And while itler did bad things, but he was not without his reasons, the jewish comunity pourposefully segrigates itself, and if you read the
torah and learn
what jews think of gentals (not jes) it is sick and sad.
What needs to be considered here is Paul is talking to a Gentile community without the scriptures at all — meaning the
Torah and Prophets.
Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however —
what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the
Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).
My comments weren't meant to prove the divinity of the
Torah (Bible), merely to respond to the author who makes utterly erroneous claims on
what it says.
What God wants is that we embrace and live the spirit of the
Torah.
The message heard through the entire Bible; as the prophets repeatedly admonished the people of Israel and as Jesus preached and taught the Disciples and crowds,
what God wants is not the enforcement of the letter of the
Torah.
The new testament (Hebrews 8:8) * And in the
Torah, the old testament (Jeremiah 31:31)
What names are written on the kingdom gates of new Jerusalem coming down to earth?
Perhaps
what we see happening in Christianity today is the result of 2,000 years of antinomianism — the rejection of God's instruction (
Torah).
This is
what the Bible is showing us when it describes the exaltation of the
Torah, the adoration of the word and letter, and the fanatical obedience that will lead to conflict with the Son of God and ultimately to his death.
If the Bible were clearer on exactly
what we are and are not supposed to do, then the focus of Christianity would shift on to those instructions; much as Jewish focus zeroed in on the
Torah.
The main dispute between the Pharisees and the Sadducees was over
what was called the «oral Law» or «oral
Torah».
No one in the Bible,
Torah, or the Qur «an, no one, that has to mean something (not Adam, Eve, Moses, Abraham, Noah, not one person)
what does that tell you?
What I don't know, is when Rabbinical Judaism threw away tbe
Torah, when calculating the date for Passover.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the
Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [
what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
An appeal to «
what history has given» suggests the same reverence with which my fellow Jewish believers, for example, praise God as «the Giver of the
Torah.»
«The prophet Ezekiel described an incredible vision of cherubim angels in Ezekiel chapter 10 of the
Torah and the Bible, mentioning that the angels» wings were «completely full of eyes» (verse 12) and «under their wings was
what looked like human hands» (verse 21).
And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, «O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming
what came before me of the
Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad.»
Torah says not to add and subtract from it, but thats exactly
what happens.
That day [Jesus] saw someone working on the Sabbath and said to him, «Mister, if you know
what you are doing you are to be congratulated; but if not, damn you for violating
Torah!»
Then imagine
what could have had happened to the
Torah and or Gospel having passed through three dead languages, one after the other then from a classic language into modern language, in many different copies then into many languages.
What happens to the precarious shalom of the little village of Bethlehem when the
Torah is disregarded, when every individual is a law to himself or herself, doing whatever is right in his or her own eyes (Judg.
If they are going so far as to discredit their own
Torah by saying that Moses and Abraham Never existed then
what is left?
The
Torah didn't include all historical accounts within it because it only included
what was necessary for people to see the development of history that had to do with why G - d made the Jews into a nation.
What fishon fails to realize «rape» was allowed in war (in the literal reading of texts in the
Torah).
Going through the
Torah, there is a set of «this is
what you do» and a set of «this is
what you do not do.»
G - d wrote the
Torah and gave it to man and that was the revolutionary account at the time of
what He wants people to do.
61:6 — And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, «O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming
what came before me of the
Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad.»
3:93 — All food was lawful to the Children of Israel except
what Israel had made unlawful to himself before the
Torah was revealed.
The longer part of the sermon (vs. 14 - 45) is a prediction of
what will happen if they do not obey the
Torah: terror, disease, defeat in war, failure of crops, attack by wild animals, devastation, landlessness.
What may have started out as «Moses received the
Torah» expanded over time.
Sanders focuses on
what he calls «common Judaism,» the Judaism on which the masses and the priests agreed: a religion of grace in which the Creator God had elected Israel and given it the
Torah.
You, apparently, haven't read much of the
Torah or the rest of
what Christians refer to as the Old Testament where G - d tells the Twelve Tribes to kill...
When I speak of preaching from the law, I mean preaching that takes as its source the texts of
Torah, but I also want to include all biblical texts that speak in the imperative voice, texts that teach
what we are to do and
what we are not to do.
If it is our highest human task to «establish justice in the gate,» as the
Torah prescribes and the prophets exhort, we also need a fairly sophisticated notion of
what human justice is.
It is this background, the mighty acts of God, that gives cogency to the commandments of the
Torah, for these acts of God established
what is described as the «covenant,» by which is meant a special relation between this particular people and the God who had delivered them.