if you have access to a Bible which gives parallel passages you can find all the references to the conflict Jesus had with the scribes and Pharisees, specifically in regards to their religion. then you can move outward from there. they (and other sects) had basically mixed ancient Mystery Religions in with I AM's Word.
here a basic intro from wiki (the half-truth source
)
this is a very complex subject, which involves by default studying some occult material (Kabbalah etc), since it's part & parcel. proceed carefully.
the point is, we should be able to discern pretty quickly that our Bibles do not record God handing down a set of Oral Laws to Moses which were transmitted privately through a few select special families.
He didn't of course, not in the way Judaism claims.
clearly, as John says there were many more things Jesus said and did that are not recorded. similarly it would have been with any of our OT Biblical characters and their generations.
but that's a far cry from what the Pharisees claim.
The Oral Torah comprises the legal and interpretative traditions that,
according to tradition, were transmitted orally from Mount Sinai, and were not written in the Torah. According to Rabbinic Judaism, the oral Torah, oral Law, or oral tradition (Hebrew: תורה שבעל פה, Torah she-be-`al peh) was given by God orally to Moses in conjunction with the written Torah (Hebrew: תורה שבכתב, Torah she-bi-khtav), after which it was passed down orally through the ages.[1][2]
Later to be codified and written in the Talmud (Hebrew :תַּלְמוּד ). While other cultures and Jewish groups maintained oral traditions, only the Rabbis gave ideological significance to the fact that they transmitted their tradition orally.[3]
Rabbis of the Talmudic era conceived of the Oral Torah in two distinct ways. First, Rabbinic tradition conceived of the Oral Torah as an unbroken chain of transmission. The distinctive feature of this view was that Oral Torah was "conveyed by word of mouth and memorized."[4] Second, the Rabbis also conceived of the Oral Torah as an interpretive tradition, and not merely as memorized traditions. In this view, the written Torah was seen as containing many levels of interpretation. It was left to later generations, who were steeped in the oral tradition of interpretation to discover those ("hidden") interpretations not revealed by Moses.[5] According to many, the "oral Torah" was ultimately recorded in the Mishnah, the Talmud and Midrash. In his introduction to Mishneh Torah Maimonides provides a generation by generation account of the names of all those in the direct line that transmitted this tradition, beginning with Moses up until Ravina and Rav Ashi, the rabbis who compiled
the Babylonian Talmud.
Oral Torah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
The Talmud (/ˈtɑːlmʊd, -məd, ˈtæl-/; Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root lmd "teach, study") is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, considered second to the Torah. It is also traditionally referred to as Shas (ש״ס), a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, the "six orders" of the Oral Law of Judaism. The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (Hebrew: משנה, c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law, and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible. The terms Talmud and Gemara are often used interchangeably, though strictly speaking that is not accurate.
The whole Talmud consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6,200 pages long. It is written in Tannaitic Hebrew and Aramaic. The Talmud contains the opinions of thousands of rabbis on a variety of subjects, including law, ethics, philosophy, customs, history, theology, lore and many other topics.
The Talmud is the basis for all codes of rabbinic law and is much quoted in other rabbinic literature.
Talmud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
In Judaism, Pharisees were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period beginning under the Hasmonean dynasty (140–37 BCE) in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt.
The sages of the Talmud see a direct link between themselves and the Pharisees, and historians generally consider Pharisaic Judaism to be the progenitor of Rabbinic Judaism, that is normative, mainstream Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple.
All mainstream forms of Judaism today consider themselves heirs of Rabbinic Judaism and, ultimately, the Pharisees.
Pharisees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
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so basically, that's really all that's important to know.
that Judaism is
a parallel religion to the Old Testament faith and record of The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
in many respects it is in direct opposition to it.
though it's not readily admitted publically, when Judaism references "the Torah" they mean of FIRST importance their Oral Torah/Traditions and secondarily the written OT texts. The OT texts play a very little role in mainstream Judaism - why? because they testify of Jesus! if those texts were studied and the Lord was willing, Jesus would be revealed.
when
we use the term Torah, we mean the Pentateuch, or the whole body of OT
written texts ONLY - and we could even say together with our NT doctrines revealing Messiah and the Church. but because of this confusion about what Judaism is, we're safer and it's simpler to not go there at all.
there are individual jews who hold and love the OT, and i have read of some (and know a few) who have come to see Jesus through those scriptures. which is just how Jesus said it MUST be*. there's also a sect within Judaism, or labeled as Judaism, which rejects any of the Oral Traditions (Talmud and related texts which
were written down AFTER JESUS came):
Karaite Judaism or Karaism (/ˈkærə.aɪt/ or /ˈkærə.ɪzəm/; Hebrew: יהדות קראית , Modern Yahadut Qara'it Tiberian Qārāʾîm ; meaning "Readers (of the Hebrew Scriptures)")[1] is a Jewish movement characterized by the recognition of the Tanakh alone as its supreme legal authority in Halakha (Jewish religious law) and theology. It is distinct from mainstream Rabbinic Judaism, which considers the Oral Torah, the legal decisions of the Sanhedrin as codified in the Talmud, and subsequent works to be authoritative interpretations of the Torah. Karaites maintain that all of the divine commandments handed down to Moses by God were recorded in the written Torah, without additional Oral Law or explanation. As a result, Karaite Jews do not accept as binding the written collections of the oral tradition in the Mishnah or Talmud.
Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
here's any example of Jesus in conflict with the Pharisees.
maybe His words make more sense when we know the background a bit more.
John 5
Testimonies About Jesus
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.
33 “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41“I do not accept glory from human beings, 42but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only Godd ?
45“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47
But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”
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to each their own choices concerning religions.
we have thousands of religions in the world.
the only reason i keep this issue going is precisely because we don't seem to understand that Judaism is NOT just sort of Moses without Jesus kinda thing.
not at all.
and even that is not my business aside from the Great Commission.
where it becomes our business as Christians is when
we do not understand that Judaism is in reality
hostile to Christ and Christianity and we insist on mixing it in with Christianity in any number of ways...AND/OR giving some sort of spiritual PASS to Judaism thinking it's our religion.
bad idea. very bad.
okay.
ttyl.
