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I am sure that in this forum there are many opinions about The Torah (The Law). Why is it christians don't do the word of God? Did Yeshua (Jesus) set us free from The Law? Is that what he did? I will give you the answer. The answer is NO! Does it not say: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19). Has heaven and earth pass? Was everything fulfilled? NO! Everything will be fulfilled when he returns the second time.
There is not a verse in the New Testament that implies that the Torah (The Law) is canceled. Christians will come and say: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Romans 6:14) and they will also say: "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7:5-6). What Shaul (Paul) really says here and in other passages is that we are no longer under the penalty of sin and death of the Law. What Yeshua did is free us from the law of sin and death that came with The Torah and chained us with handcuffs as if we were put in prison. Yeshua died on the cross to set us free from the sin of the flesh, but rather live in the spirit.
In conclusion, we must follow the written word because it is the word of God. Yehsua is the word of God who came in flesh. It is not the Old Testament, but should be called the bible or Tanach (in Hebrew) and the New Testament is the renewed covenant between God with his creation like in prophecy in the book of Isaiah.
May God bless you and keep you!
Nadav
There is not a verse in the New Testament that implies that the Torah (The Law) is canceled. Christians will come and say: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Romans 6:14) and they will also say: "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7:5-6). What Shaul (Paul) really says here and in other passages is that we are no longer under the penalty of sin and death of the Law. What Yeshua did is free us from the law of sin and death that came with The Torah and chained us with handcuffs as if we were put in prison. Yeshua died on the cross to set us free from the sin of the flesh, but rather live in the spirit.
In conclusion, we must follow the written word because it is the word of God. Yehsua is the word of God who came in flesh. It is not the Old Testament, but should be called the bible or Tanach (in Hebrew) and the New Testament is the renewed covenant between God with his creation like in prophecy in the book of Isaiah.
May God bless you and keep you!
Nadav