We had broken the Law many ways. Those sins were held against us by the Law. That Law had writings which said we were sinners. But now He has destroyed that writing by nailing it to the cross.
I responded,
What exactly are you saying, Gary, that Messiah destroyed the Torah? I mean, it sure sounds like that's what you're saying. Is it?
Before Gary could reply, another Christian told me,
Judah, if He didn't abolish the Law of Commandments, and you are still under them in the least, then how are you going to be made righteous before God who has the power to cast both soul and body into hell? The Law is contrary to us as sinners and can only condemn us, and rightly so.
The Torah isn't for you, it's against you as one guilty of disobedience. Unless you claim to be without sin? I don't understand how anyone can have faith in Christ Jesus and say they're still under the Law. You make faith null and the promise void in doing so.
I don't say these things just to be a jerk, but to give you rest in Jesus. I know trying to live by the Law is miserable. You constantly feel unworthy and like you're not doing enough. I know what it is to try to live like that.
And in a post on Theophiles, a Christian gentile tells me that Christ came to correct the "erroneous view of the cleanliness code" in the Torah.
So there you have it. What an amazing anti-Jewish Iesus Kristo we have, who single-handedly:
- Corrected the error-filled Torah.
- Destroyed God's commandments and all that "Jewish" stuff.
- Rendered null the faith of anyone who keeps God's commandments.
- Turned keeping God's commandments -- which the Psalmist calls a joy and a delight -- into a miserable, unworthy life.
Nice.
And Christians wonder why Jews look at Christianity as a foreign, idolatrous religion!
I'm weary of doctrines pulled from a single author (in this case, Paul), with no support from the rest of Scripture. But even more dubious is the doctrine which is pulled solely from Paul that renders the rest of Scripture null, void, abolished. These are precisely the dangerous theologies we've seen plague the gentile Church for decades:
This kind of re-interpretation of Scripture is afflicting Christianity and leads to anti-Judaic doctrines, which are not only bad theology, but they have also led to anti-Jewish sentiment, even to the point of 75% of German Protestant preachers being anti-Jewish during the Nazi Holocaust.
The God-ordained grace and faith understanding the Church so proudly proclaims is now being abused, used as a tool to abolish God's standard of right and wrong, God's loving instruction to his children.
Abolished, all of it. In the name of Jesus.
Before we end, allow me to remove you from modern Christian theology for a moment and give a reality check:
And Messiah said to them,
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Selah.
I love reality checks.
