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Therefore unless we are continually keeping the 613 commandments then we do not have life.

That starts with circumcision.

 

Iniquity is the evil, crooked, perverse moral nature that exists within human beings.

Notice that their appeal was to their works, not the grace of God. They stand before the Lord trying to point to the good things that they had done.

Many people, people who are sitting in churches every Sunday believe they are Christians for reasons that have nothing to do with Jesus. They are counting on their own good behavior, or church attendance, or whatever. They participate in the external Christian community but have not embraced Jesus and do not know Him. They mistake their own merit and religiosity for knowing Jesus. They think they know Him on the grounds of their participation in the Christian "religion" and miss out on the actual relationship with the Person of Jesus Christ.

 

You lost at context not being applicable.

 

There is one God (being) but three separate Persons. That is a mystery. It doesn't make sense to us and it isn't supposed to make sense to us. The Trinity is one of those things about God that is currently beyond our understanding because there is nothing in our experience that serves as a point of reference for it. God is beyond our ability to explain Him. He transcends our understanding and the Trinity is one of those things that reminds us that God is unfathomable.

In addition, there is no such thing as "Ahashua." That is a made up word/name. It's kind of like some of those in the Yahwist cult that make up the name, "Yahushua." Neither words/names exist in the Hebrew language. Jesus' Hebrew name is Y'shua and means Salvation. Jesus/Y'shua is the eternally existing Son of God who existed in the dateless eternal past. He is not created, but is God and has always existed without beginning or end.

 

Of the 613 commandments of HaTorah one to two hundred mitzvoth require the Temple in Jerusalem to be standing and active along with the levitical priesthood maintaining the temple enforcing the Torah.

In AD70 the Temple was destroyed and the levitical priesthood murdered.

Biblical Judaism ended in that year. The Torah can no longer be kept every precept.

Break one break them all.

 

Trinitarianism took about 300 years to codify but resulted in a very simplistic formula which is the summation of the Council of Nicaea.

God is three distinct persons in one divine essence.

 

The 613 mitzvoth are taken directly from the scripture without anything of "tradition".
Nowhere in the scripture is the law divided up into parts. It is one entity.

You asked if Jesus was lying and made the pronouncement that what He said did not depend on context but then you yourself later JUMPED out of CONTEXT by further defining what he apparently meant by quoting James John and Paul. Confusing sir.

But apart from that if Jesus did not lie and what He said was without context consideration then keeping the commandments BEGINS with circumcision as was His example,

Would you say that you (if you are male) and I and all believers in Messiah should start there?

 

No, it is the truth.

Because He lives within me in the Person of the Holy Spirit and His Spirit bears witness to my spirit that I am a child of God. Father/child is a personal relationship. He is my Savior. That's pretty personal.

It has nothing to do with feelings, at all. It has to do with His promises and the fact that He is faithful to what He says. My faith is not rooted in emotion for feeling but on the solid rock of Scripture and the finished work of the Cross wherein Jesus paid for my salvation and offers me eternal life simply by placing faith in Him.

No, It is not based on how I feel about it.
I am totally different than them. They appealed to their works, their own merit, their own effort. They didn't appeal to knowing Jesus or personal relationship with Him. And Jesus simply told them that He never knew them and sent them into eternal destruction.

I know I have a relationship with Jesus for three reasons. First of all, Jesus died for me. The eternal work of Jesus on the cross paid for my sins and by that, I have eternal life, right now. Eternal life isn't a thing; it's a person. Jesus is eternal life. He is the both the giver and the gift of eternal life.

Secondly, I have internal witness of the Holy Spirit who lives within me. The Holy Spirit lives within me keeping me saved and reminding that I belong to the Lord: (Rom. 8: 15-17 I John 4:13)

Third, I have the record of Scripture which says: "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (1Jn 5:11-13)

So the Bible tells me that I can know, right now, that I am saved and it tells me in Eph. 1: 13 that I am sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. He not only saves me but keeps me saved.

So it is not based on feeling, but on the work of Jesus on the cross, the internal abiding presence of the Holy Spirit and the unchanging, infallible written record of Scripture. I don't have rely feelings at all, thank the Lord. Feelings are unreliable and fickle.

It is a warning to those who are relying their good works and what will happen to them in eternity if that is all they have to appeal to. Good works will not get anyone into Heaven.

Yes, we are to keep HIS commandments. But that is not the Mosaic commandments, he is referring to. He is referring to the commandments he delivered during His earthly ministry and the New Testament clarifies that fact.

Sounds like you have decided to assign false values to my previous statements because you couldn't actually respond to what I said. You assigned my words to "feelings" when feelings have nothing to do with anything I said.

 

Lol, talking to yourself now?...

 

No, Paul is not our "hero." I simply appealed the Word of God.

Paul found the Gospel and His life was committed to the Lord and he started churches and he preached the Gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone. He preached justification by faith alone.

Paul did not receive a commission to spread the Law of Moses. He was called to bear the Name of Jesus to the Gentiles and to Israel. Paul's life was committed to the Gospel. But he is not our "hero." He is simply a man who served the Lord faithfully in the preaching of the Gospel of salvation through Jesus alone.

 

If you want to keep the feasts and the Law of Moses, that is your business. You do what you want to do. But if you are tying those things to salvation, if you believe that you are inheriting eternal life because you are keeping the commandments and feasts, you are going to be disappointed when you stand before the Lord because you will stand before Him under the law and not under grace. If you are trusting in your Torah observance, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

Hmm, first you tell us the Law that Jesus referred to was without context, now you blend elements of the law with NT scripture concerning the levitical priesthood and in another post also confounding circumcision of the flesh and spiritual circumcision.

You sir are confused.

By your reasoning, if we don't need the levitical priesthood because Jesus replaced it then we don't need the earthly sabbath because Jesus replaced it with His rest.

Matthew 11
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Hebrews 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

 

John 6:29 KJVS
[29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.