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I've often wondered about Messianic Jews and those who mix Judaism with their Christian faith.
I can understand having some cultural heritage as a Jew and appreciating it, but it seems like messianic Jews take it a step further and end up going back to the old ways of doing things and mixing the law and grace.
I just got done reading part of Galatians and Paul was just ripping them apart for going back to Judaism, yet I see many modern day Christians mixing Judaism with their faith.
Am I blurring the lines here between what Paul was dealing with and what people are doing today?
Here is the portion of scripture that made me wonder. Right here he is rebuking them for observing days, and months and seasons and years. Yet don't many messianic Jews incorporate these very things in to their Christianity?
Galatians 4
8Formerly, when you(J) did not know God, you(K) were enslaved to those that by nature(L) are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather(M) to be known by God,(N) how can you turn back again to(O) the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10(P) You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid(Q) I may have labored over you in vain.
I can understand having some cultural heritage as a Jew and appreciating it, but it seems like messianic Jews take it a step further and end up going back to the old ways of doing things and mixing the law and grace.
I just got done reading part of Galatians and Paul was just ripping them apart for going back to Judaism, yet I see many modern day Christians mixing Judaism with their faith.
Am I blurring the lines here between what Paul was dealing with and what people are doing today?
Here is the portion of scripture that made me wonder. Right here he is rebuking them for observing days, and months and seasons and years. Yet don't many messianic Jews incorporate these very things in to their Christianity?
Galatians 4
8Formerly, when you(J) did not know God, you(K) were enslaved to those that by nature(L) are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather(M) to be known by God,(N) how can you turn back again to(O) the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10(P) You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid(Q) I may have labored over you in vain.