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Sorry I've been absent a couple of days with
appointments so wasn't able to get back to this thread Slade. Below is one
of the points I have been trying to get across but this Messianic
Jewish person says it so much more eloquently: It's not about Hebrew or
Greek mindsets and it's not about dividing spirit, soul, and body. Basically it
is about the truth of God's Word.... and this is where we disagree ..
Can you see this Slade? Jesus was talking about the Rabbinic teaching
when he referred to Corban. judyt
As Messianic Jews, we do not agree with this
foundational principle of Rabbinic Judaism. To us the
written Word is authoritative, not Oral Torah. We don�t accept it as
binding. In fact, we do not believe that it was given to
Moses at Mt. Sinai. This does not mean there are not some good things we
can glean from these writings, but they cannot and should not carry the same
weight as the written Word and certainly are not a source of spiritual
enlightenment and guidance. What do we base this on? Several scriptures tell us
that Moses wrote down what God spoke to him. Deuteronomy 31.9 �So Moses wrote
down this law.� Deuteronomy 31.24 �After Moses finished writing in a book the
words of this law from beginning to end.� In other words, he wrote it all down.
Other Scriptures tell us not to add to what has been
written (see Deuteronomy 4.2 and Revelation 22.18). Also, there is never
any mention or allusion to an oral law. In fact, God is always giving us
instruction to be careful to observe the things
written in the book of the Law. (See
Joshua 1.7,8 and Joshua 23.6). Furthermore, when King Josiah
finds the written Torah (2 Chronicles 34) it is something that the people had no
knowledge of. It had been lost to them. If you were to believe in the
transmitting of the oral law, then it would have had to have been transmitted to
the sages of Josiah�s day. If they knew of the oral law, they would have had to
have known of the written law because according to Rabbinic Judaism the one is
incomplete without the other. The oral law expounds the written law.
Again, this would mean Josiah and his people would have had to have recognized
this written law as what had been transmitted orally. Again,
there is no proof that oral law was given at Sinai. Even Jewish scholars
state, as quoted earlier, that we do not hear of this oral law until the time of
Yochanan ben Zakkai, Akiba, Judah, etc., hundreds of years after Moses.
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