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Thinking on the book of the law:
Exodus 20-23 is the book of the covenant. The two sets of stone tablets came AFTER the book of the covenant, which includes the "ten" commandments. It appears the stone tablets were the plans for the tabernacle, priestly garments and so forth. The tent of meeting was before and during the tabernacle, but something seperate, for just Moses & Joshua to enter. All the commandments given after exodus 23 are strictly for YHWH to be able to abide with the israelites. So, since YHWH does not abide among the israelites any longer (no pillar/cloud/fire), do the cleanliness laws, sacrificial laws, priestly positions and everything between exodus 23 & joshua 1 still pertain? The way im understanding it today as i read through exodus, maybe not? Open for discussion!
Check out the Torah Portion reading for this week!
Go, inquire of YHWH for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of YHWH that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.
2 Kings 22:13
"Our fathers have inherited lies" applies to Jews just as much as to gentiles. All doctrines are corrupt. All Scriptures are mistaught. The Early Church Fathers and the Talmud are both full of error and blasphemy...but that doesn't mean they are without value. All teachers teach some error along with the truth. Test everything.
Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of YHWH.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2 Kings 22:8
The idea that God always preserves the Scriptures so that they are never lost is here disproven by Scripture. Inspired Scripture and prophecy is often lost, sometimes permanently and sometimes temporarily. The Bible contains numerous mentions of prophecies that were never recorded, let alone preserved.
Why are there two stories of the rock in the wilderness? God doesn't repeat himself without reason.
In Numbers 19, Moses struck the rock to bring forth water for the Israelites. This caused God to deny him entry into the Promised Land. Why?
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The first time the Israelites complained about no water, they grumbled out of Moses' hearing. The second time (38 years later), they spoke to him directly. This was an improvement.
The first time the Israelites complained about no water, God told Moses to strike the rock. The second time, God told him to speak to the rock. God tailored the response to the character of the people at the time.
The church side doesn't really make sense if you think about it. Unless you subscribe to Marcionism (the belief that the God of the OT was evil and the God of the NT is good) or the like. Why would everyone we read about in the OT have to go through all these steps to be followers and get severely punished when they didn't follow correctly? Then, Jesus dies on the cross, now no one has to do any of that stuff? That's about 4,000 years of people that need an apology or something. Did our perfect God make a mistake to have to change everything so drastically?
I was just thinking the other day, after coming to the realization that there is no separation in thought between the OT and the NT, that it is all just a continuation of the same story, I can't ever see myself falling back into seeing them as being separate again.
Things just don't make sense seeing them as separate. When you realize the whole story, since Adam, is about how we as humans are having to deal with this thing called sin, because of Adam sinning, and everything God has done through His judgements (like the Flood and Tower of Babel) to His instructions (the Law/Commands) are all there to get us back to a point that sin isn't in control any more. This continues in the NT with Jesus coming and being our example and then dying in our place so that we have a chance to come back into covenant with God.
It wasn't to change anything or start a new religion or whatever. It was purely to point us back to what God has wanted all along, for us to live good lives. How do we know what a good life looks like? By God's instructions, His commandments. We even see Jesus telling several people to obey these commandments. We see the apostles, decades after Jesus rose, still doing the commandments.
If the whole idea was to change things to where all we had to do was believe, why does James give us a warning that even the demons believe and shudder?
I don't know about you, but I don't want to be on the same level as a demon.
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