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PS;3459885]I have been talking to Jews for the last few years who make a point of saying YHWH is the national God of the Jews, i.e. a Jew, as are His Commands.
Now you are saying that is not true. So who is right, you or the hard-line Jews, because I have had it rammed down my throat for the last three or four years.
God is right, not man or hard line Jews. If you believe God was a Jew, I don't know what to say. God created man. Man didn't create God. Jesus called the Pharisees (hard line Jews) "children of satan". Why on earth would you listen to them?
Second. Since when have the Ten Commandments been called God's Holy Days?
Lev. 23:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim
to be holy convocations,
even these are my feasts.
It seems Jesus, before He became a man, is telling the Israelites about HIS Salvation plan which starts with Passover, it doesn't end with Passover as todays Mainstream Preachers imply. He didn't tell them God's Commandments and holy Days were theirs, He tells them these instructions were HIS. This is an important Biblical Reality.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day
is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
therein: it
is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD,
even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Third. Why was Paul telling Jewish Christians to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs?
Paul wasn't telling the Jews to forsake Moses. They accused Paul of doing this, but it wasn't true.
Acts 13:
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men
and brethren,
that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things,
from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
The Jews refused to accept Jesus as their High Priest. They still pushed their version of the Levitical Priesthood "works of the Law" for remission of sins.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with envy, and
spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Paul was simply sharing the Old Testament promises of the Christ. Moses told us of Jesus but like Jesus said, had they trusted Moses, they would have known Him.
Acts 24:
5 For we have found this man
a pestilent
fellow, and a mover of sedition
among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
6 Who also hath gone about
to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to
our law.
Acts 21:
20 And when they heard
it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
21 And they are informed of thee, that
thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that
they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Remember, Jesus said the taught for doctrines "The Commandments (Laws) of Man", not God.
Paul responded.
13 Neither can they prove the things
whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which
they call heresy, so
worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And again;
Acts 26:
20 But
shewed first unto them of Damascus,
and at Jerusalem,
and throughout all the coasts of Judaea,
and then to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
All taught from Moses and the Prophets.
21 For
these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,
and went about to kill me.
22 Having therefore obtained help of God,
I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great,
saying none other things than those
which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
23 That Christ should suffer,
and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people,
and to the Gentiles.
So according to the Bible Paul didn't tell them to forsake Moses. They accused them of doing this, but the scriptures teach they were liars. Paul furthered the teaching of Jesus, the Old Testament, which exposed the mainstream religion of their time as from man and not from God. Because everything you know has been filtered through religious men who transgress the commandments of God by their own religious traditions, you haven't been taught this. But it's right there in your Bible if are interested.
