I have been told that Christ rebelled against His Father like so many of our Teenagers do.That it isn’t a triune God, or God as One, but Christ is a new God.
People say He did away with all the old ways His Father said to behave and made brand new ones.His Father had a special people, and some of those people turned out to be just rotten, like the Pharisees, so the Father’s people were all to be shunned and even punished. Anything those people did, we are not to do.It wasn’t just the Pharisees, it was all the Jews that were chosen by Christ’s Dad.Besides, a lot of them rejected Christ, so people said they all had to be ignored.
His old fashioned Father told people to have special Holidays, with prophecies in them and celebrations of some of what the Father had done.Followers of Christ said those holidays had to be gotten rid of.The new holidays got rid of any idea of following His old fashioned Father.They still wanted holidays, so they changedthe ones they were used to so they would be about Christ.It didn’t take long for those new holidays to be thought of as the only right ones, their beginnings were forgotten completely.They soon became tradition, and tradition was taken as scripture.
His Father had made some legal contracts with the people.Christ made some, too.So the new contract Christ made was to wipe out any promise or contract the outdated Father made.The Father had a rainbow as part of one of these legal documents and they couldn’t get rid of that, but most people forgot about that.The rainbow itself is just too hard to dispose of.
There were letters they say explains the new way and how His Father had been all wrong and Christ was right.The Father helped write those letters, but the people said they proved the Father was an outdated fuddy duddy.
But, if you really study what Christ said and even what the letters say about Christ, He doesn’t sound at all like a rebellious Teen.He sounds like one with His Father and in complete unity with Him.One that truly obeyed His Father and did just what His Father had said He would do all along.His Father even prepared the world just for His Son.Actually, everything the Father did was about the Son and what the Son did for us.I don’t think Christ was a rebellious teen at all, but it is people who are rebellious and blame the Son.
God is a God of all mankind, but the bible explaining God is written by Hebrew people from a Hebrew culture, and mostly in a unique Hebrew language very difficult to translate.God counseled Hebrews to be sure that they would welcome anyone who wanted to join them, but for 4,000 years those who joined also joined the Hebrew race.
When Paul was put in charge of taking Christ to the gentiles, Paul was also charged with separating Jewish culture from God’s principles.On top of all this, Christ became the spirit and truth of these principles, taking away the symbols.When scripture says this is a change, we read it as cancelling old and replacing it with something entirely new when it is always based on the same basic thing, except now in spirit and truth.
The Christian Jews had a terrible time accepting that it did not require Jewish customs to be saved in Jesus.Gentiles are still having a terrible time learning exactly what Jesus changed and how.Blood remained, but Christ’s blood worked much better.The high priest remained the same, but Christ took his place and it was perfected.Many things were perfected, but always had a base in what was before.Scripture about the change is exact and complete, but it requires reading the Torah and believing it to understand the entire story.
The Jews in Jerusalem charged Paul.Acts 21:28They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everybody everywhere to despise our people, our Law and this place.It was decided to stone him to death. It is an interesting story, please read it, through Acts 26.
This is the final outcome:26:30-31 - Then the king rose to his feet and so did the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them, and when they had retired from the assembly they discussed the matter among themselves and agreed, "This man is doing nothing to deserve either death or imprisonment."
We need to come to the same conclusion.
What a mixed up mess people have made of this!In Acts it tells us that when Paul was trying to explain all of this, they thought, like many do today, that the teaching was against the Father’s principles.They even wanted to kill Paul by stoning for teaching against God the Father.He was freed of that charge, then, we should free him of that charge today.
Today, many believe that it is right to be against the Father’s principles and that is what Paul said to do.I don’t think that is what Paul is saying at all.Paul is saying to both Jew and gentile: Col_2:16Therefore, don't let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
Look at some of the mistakes missionaries made when they went to other cultures, like in the south seas.They were so determined to change the culture that often they forgot the scripture.Just as the Jews told Paul he was to teach gentiles to obey Jewish ways to be included in the church in the first century.
Paul preached the gospel, Paul preached the Lord, not the rituals that became cultural.We are to go to scripture, not our culture.God accepts people from all cultures.
People say He did away with all the old ways His Father said to behave and made brand new ones.His Father had a special people, and some of those people turned out to be just rotten, like the Pharisees, so the Father’s people were all to be shunned and even punished. Anything those people did, we are not to do.It wasn’t just the Pharisees, it was all the Jews that were chosen by Christ’s Dad.Besides, a lot of them rejected Christ, so people said they all had to be ignored.
His old fashioned Father told people to have special Holidays, with prophecies in them and celebrations of some of what the Father had done.Followers of Christ said those holidays had to be gotten rid of.The new holidays got rid of any idea of following His old fashioned Father.They still wanted holidays, so they changedthe ones they were used to so they would be about Christ.It didn’t take long for those new holidays to be thought of as the only right ones, their beginnings were forgotten completely.They soon became tradition, and tradition was taken as scripture.
His Father had made some legal contracts with the people.Christ made some, too.So the new contract Christ made was to wipe out any promise or contract the outdated Father made.The Father had a rainbow as part of one of these legal documents and they couldn’t get rid of that, but most people forgot about that.The rainbow itself is just too hard to dispose of.
There were letters they say explains the new way and how His Father had been all wrong and Christ was right.The Father helped write those letters, but the people said they proved the Father was an outdated fuddy duddy.
But, if you really study what Christ said and even what the letters say about Christ, He doesn’t sound at all like a rebellious Teen.He sounds like one with His Father and in complete unity with Him.One that truly obeyed His Father and did just what His Father had said He would do all along.His Father even prepared the world just for His Son.Actually, everything the Father did was about the Son and what the Son did for us.I don’t think Christ was a rebellious teen at all, but it is people who are rebellious and blame the Son.
God is a God of all mankind, but the bible explaining God is written by Hebrew people from a Hebrew culture, and mostly in a unique Hebrew language very difficult to translate.God counseled Hebrews to be sure that they would welcome anyone who wanted to join them, but for 4,000 years those who joined also joined the Hebrew race.
When Paul was put in charge of taking Christ to the gentiles, Paul was also charged with separating Jewish culture from God’s principles.On top of all this, Christ became the spirit and truth of these principles, taking away the symbols.When scripture says this is a change, we read it as cancelling old and replacing it with something entirely new when it is always based on the same basic thing, except now in spirit and truth.
The Christian Jews had a terrible time accepting that it did not require Jewish customs to be saved in Jesus.Gentiles are still having a terrible time learning exactly what Jesus changed and how.Blood remained, but Christ’s blood worked much better.The high priest remained the same, but Christ took his place and it was perfected.Many things were perfected, but always had a base in what was before.Scripture about the change is exact and complete, but it requires reading the Torah and believing it to understand the entire story.
The Jews in Jerusalem charged Paul.Acts 21:28They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everybody everywhere to despise our people, our Law and this place.It was decided to stone him to death. It is an interesting story, please read it, through Acts 26.
This is the final outcome:26:30-31 - Then the king rose to his feet and so did the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them, and when they had retired from the assembly they discussed the matter among themselves and agreed, "This man is doing nothing to deserve either death or imprisonment."
We need to come to the same conclusion.
What a mixed up mess people have made of this!In Acts it tells us that when Paul was trying to explain all of this, they thought, like many do today, that the teaching was against the Father’s principles.They even wanted to kill Paul by stoning for teaching against God the Father.He was freed of that charge, then, we should free him of that charge today.
Today, many believe that it is right to be against the Father’s principles and that is what Paul said to do.I don’t think that is what Paul is saying at all.Paul is saying to both Jew and gentile: Col_2:16Therefore, don't let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
Look at some of the mistakes missionaries made when they went to other cultures, like in the south seas.They were so determined to change the culture that often they forgot the scripture.Just as the Jews told Paul he was to teach gentiles to obey Jewish ways to be included in the church in the first century.
Paul preached the gospel, Paul preached the Lord, not the rituals that became cultural.We are to go to scripture, not our culture.God accepts people from all cultures.