Continued from last post.
The law of the fathers
They took the law of God written with the finger of God and expanded it in the opinion of the later Jews as new revelations that were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations of fathers , which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence.
Because natural man must believe the kingdom does come by observation. The perceived competition must be destroyed as in "out of sight out of mind". They had become the murdering band influenced by the father of lies the murder from the beginning.
We can see Saul before his conversional eliminating the falsely perceived competition. In three difernt occasions he emphasizes the importance of walking after the unseen faith principle.
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. Act 8:1
On another occasion..
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,And desired of him letters (high Priest approval )to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them boundunto Jerusalem.And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: Act 9:1
Saul having all the right credentials according to what they called "the perfect manner" which in reality was the perfect killing machine) of the law of the fathers, a false zeal for knowing God.. again not mixing faith in what he saw or heard but did apply the manner of walking by sight ."Kill the perceived completion" in a hope of killing the message (all things written in the law and the prophets .).
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of "the law of the fathers", and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. Act 22:1
Again what they called the = perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day ..turned out to be the perfect murdering machine with a false zeal coming from the god of this world..
Later they included Paul on their most wanted list who had become the member of another sect called him a mover of sedition
Act 24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Again it’s the goal of those who walk by sight to destroy the source of faith (the unseen) to those who do believe God. They would simply be shooting their own foot. It exposed the law of the fathers for what it truly is. not the oral tradition of men.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy,(an opinion) so worship I the God of my fathers, believing "all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:" Act 24:13.....(sola scriptura God's law not of men)
The difference seems clear Paul after his conversion walked by the exclusive faith that came from hearing God (sola scriptura) in respect to our Father in heaven not seen. They were worshipping the fathers as if it was our father in heaven not seen.
One worshipped the fathers as God (blasphemy) the other the God not seen of the fathers, seen.