It is indeed very interesting how many viewpoints folks have of the same passage. Most of the trouble though comes from people starting with what in hermeneutics is called “pre-understanding” instead of what is required which is a perspective of Tabula Raza or blank slate. In other words, taking everything we have learned from extrabiblical theology and doctrine developed over later ages, all family tradition and cultural indoctrination and set them aside…to resolve to know nothing but the text as written in its grammatical, historical and cultural context. Unfortunately the vast majority of people who bother to study the Bible do so from their preferred translated version viewed through the knowledge of later developed doctrines and interpretations and of the fewer who bother to study the manuscripts of the Bible they too tend to view the Text from a prejudiced late Christian perspective usually framed around a medieval British cultural structure especially here in the West, instead of a first century Hebraic one, that of the people in the stories being studied. It’s almost universal that those who read about Yeshua and decide He taught against Torah have little to no knowledge of Torah at all, its details and nature and promises.

When we start from where they were, however and build our understanding from there the Scriptures don’t need to be twisted to fit external narratives but flow unbroken from start to finish, with Moses delivering Torah & foretelling the coming Messiah, prophets sent to call the rebellious people back to Torah, then Yeshua showing up to do likewise & be the one Moses said would come to complete the Torah, to establish it and to strengthen it. If we start with the later gentile perspective however we will redefine Torah as the “Jewish law” and call it a curse and be glad we are freed from what Yeshua called life and blessing.

Around here we don’t really do the “agree to disagree thing” since these issues aren’t open to interpretation or opinion. (Sadly for so long the studies have been dominated by those foreign to the culture of the text and the tongue and the people of the Scriptures. So that now almost everyone is infected with that viewpoint.)That’s not a knock on anyone either. It takes so much self-assessment & scrutiny to crawl out of the doctrinal trap set for us over the centuries.

Very much like getting out of the Matrix in the movies…until we wake up and see the real world we can’t understand the fake one made to fool our minds for so long.

No one starts out fully awake and true unbiased study is a series of stages of waking up. It starts with lucid dreaming and then opening our eyes and not rightly discerning dream from reality. Hiding your eyes from the harsh light of day, while stumbling to the coffee machine and slowly gaining wakefulness bit by bit.

Questioning Everything is the only way to wake from blind obedience.

Question what you are expected to believe. Question what everyone is so certain of but never checked out. Even question the tenses you use… people say, “Yeshua ‘was’ a Jew”….yes, but what if He Whom Scripture says is the same yesterday, today, and forever still “is” a Jew? What if He “will be”returning as a Jew soon? What if that’s what He taught us to be and to do? Or what if He came to fulfill the prophecies of restoring all the other tribes of Israel and taught us how to live obedient lives in accordance with Scripture and our Israelite citizenship?

Questioning Everything is the only thing we encourage people to do. If you truly believe all that you say about the importance of knowing the Old Testament and Torah in order to understand the New Testament and the teachings of Yeshua, you will do well in time. You may disagree with us now on matters that were never up for debate until a century after Yeshua’s ascension. But if you keep questioning everything, who knows what you will believe in years to come.

None of us start out knowing the truth of Scripture. We usually start out fast asleep , buried deep in orthodox doctrine or walking in lockstep with every approved church position …until we encounter opposing doctrines in violation of the laws of logic. We tested them and with the slightest challenge one or more dogmas crumble. Then we tested more.

The usual takeaway is that we are knowitalls art this point, when we say that the definitive issues not open to interpretation which the church has chosen to definitively declare as being the opposite of what is written, are infact not open to interpretation.

When we study the Torah we find it declared to be established to the end of time with no expiration date nor the ability to invent one. Its end is the destruction of heaven and earth. When we don’t begin with church doctrine as the established perspective and instead restore the original view point of the Torah as the foundation, back when it all began, no matter how unfamiliar, then we find the prophecies of Messiah restoring Israel not establishing a new entity called a church or a new religion called Christianity.

When we start with the beginning we find Torah is said to be life and blessing, light and truth…and not until Greco-Roman philosophers dominated the assemblies in the 3rd generation did the notion of an end to its perfection come into perspective…a view brought about by those who had no knowledge or consideration of the subject…and possessed a mindset that all this stuff was Jewish and therefore “other”.

But when we start to ask questions about everything, especially why we should assume a set of instructions, spoken by the Creator Himself to all His people not just Jews, are somehow just for the Jews or elsewise abolished, even though they are said to stand as long as heaven and earth, we find our former beliefs to be baleful lies.

Or we wonder why we can think that our Savior violated these righteous principles the breaking of which is the eternal measurement of sin, and yet somehow still qualify as our payment for our own breaking of them? Questions. Questions. Questions

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