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So I've been fed the whole schpeel that Jesus fulfilled convenent so we are no longer required to follow the 613 laws of Torah, and yadda yadda yadda, but I'm starting to believe mainstream Christianity may be confused.
Jesus said he did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. How is it that by fulfilling law then, we are no longer required to follow it at all? That line of logic(if it's logical at all) baffles me.
I've also been noticing scriptures that seem to point toward our keeping the law. Mark 1:44, Jesus tells a man to offer a cleansing offering. Why tell someone to follow law if Jesus is supposedly here to free us from the law?
Matthew 8:4, I'm not quite clear on this scripture but it seems to me that Jesus is once again promoting law.
Acts 10:14-15, people use this passage to say "see there, God is telling Peter to eat pork. that means we no longer follow the law" but is God really talking of pork or is he talking of gentiles? If he is talking of gentiles than the whole "no longer follow the law" is a moot point, because it would seem God is just tryng to say Jews need to accept gentiles into their lives and accept that God will allow them to be saved as well.
James 2: 10 and 12, kinda self-explanatory.
You know the bulk of scriptures speaking again following the law comes solely from Paul, not from Jesus. So who are we to trust, Paul or Jesus?
Anyways, I'm straddling the fence here on the following the laws thing, and if one is supposed to follow the laws I still think there are certain laws we need no longer follow. Mainly, sin offerings. The thing is, early Christians were mostly all Messianic. How is it that we have trailed so far from our roots? What is it that makes mainstream Christians right and Messianics wrong? How do we truly know that what we believe is the right belief?
Jesus said he did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. How is it that by fulfilling law then, we are no longer required to follow it at all? That line of logic(if it's logical at all) baffles me.
I've also been noticing scriptures that seem to point toward our keeping the law. Mark 1:44, Jesus tells a man to offer a cleansing offering. Why tell someone to follow law if Jesus is supposedly here to free us from the law?
Matthew 8:4, I'm not quite clear on this scripture but it seems to me that Jesus is once again promoting law.
Acts 10:14-15, people use this passage to say "see there, God is telling Peter to eat pork. that means we no longer follow the law" but is God really talking of pork or is he talking of gentiles? If he is talking of gentiles than the whole "no longer follow the law" is a moot point, because it would seem God is just tryng to say Jews need to accept gentiles into their lives and accept that God will allow them to be saved as well.
James 2: 10 and 12, kinda self-explanatory.
You know the bulk of scriptures speaking again following the law comes solely from Paul, not from Jesus. So who are we to trust, Paul or Jesus?
Anyways, I'm straddling the fence here on the following the laws thing, and if one is supposed to follow the laws I still think there are certain laws we need no longer follow. Mainly, sin offerings. The thing is, early Christians were mostly all Messianic. How is it that we have trailed so far from our roots? What is it that makes mainstream Christians right and Messianics wrong? How do we truly know that what we believe is the right belief?