This has to be one of my biggest pet peeves..why do Hebrew Roots/Messianic Jews call Jesus the "Living Torah"?
I guess it's because they are trying to claim that he was an animated Torah or something. Torah didn't exist before God. Jesus is God. Therefore, calling him the Living Torah is illogical.
When John referred to Jesus as being the Word, it was either related to one of these concepts or both of them:
1. Greeks had the concept of the Logos, which spoke of the divine force that ordered the universe. This force was viewed
as inanimate, and not a person. John was making it clear that Jesus was creator, and that He ordered the universe and
became flesh. He not only ordered it, he created it.
2. Jews had a concept of the Memra which spoke creation into existence.
But, claiming that Jesus is the Living Torah makes no sense whatsoever. I think it's some truism that's been accepted by Hebrew Roots/Messianic Jews and they are just going around repeating it like parrots.
I guess it's because they are trying to claim that he was an animated Torah or something. Torah didn't exist before God. Jesus is God. Therefore, calling him the Living Torah is illogical.
When John referred to Jesus as being the Word, it was either related to one of these concepts or both of them:
1. Greeks had the concept of the Logos, which spoke of the divine force that ordered the universe. This force was viewed
as inanimate, and not a person. John was making it clear that Jesus was creator, and that He ordered the universe and
became flesh. He not only ordered it, he created it.
2. Jews had a concept of the Memra which spoke creation into existence.
But, claiming that Jesus is the Living Torah makes no sense whatsoever. I think it's some truism that's been accepted by Hebrew Roots/Messianic Jews and they are just going around repeating it like parrots.
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