Is Keeping the Law Death? David Field September 12, 2011
Through the implementation of Christianity, Satan has convinced the masses that to keep the Torah (the instruction of YHWH) is death. This is the same tactic as in the garden convincing someone of the opposite. It worked on Eve, and it still works to the destruction of many today.
Most of the New Testament was written by Hebrew Jews. The language spoken at the time Yahshua (Jesus to Christians) walked the earth in the flesh was Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew. There is mounting evidence that much of the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic. The original writings of what is known to Christianity today as the New Testament were taken to Rome in 70 AD, during Jewish rebellion, and subsequent sacking of Israel. The manuscripts were then translated by non-believing Greek speaking Romans into the form we have today. The originals were most likely lost to the great fire of Rome under Nero.
Every place in the New Testament that uses the words "law" or "commandments", the Hebrew, or Aramaic word would have been "Torah", the five books of Moses. Now re read the bible to find the truth.
Matthew 5 17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Christians will go back and trump the words of the Messiah with the mis-quoted words of Paul, believing what they want to hear. Both Paul and Peter predicted this would happen (verses below). The Old Testament Torah is indeed more accurate than the New Testament writings because the Jewish Rabbis protected the Torah over history. So all things must be judged against the Torah, which is the actual word of YHWH. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the writings of any man that came after trump the original word of YHWH. YHWH’s word never changes. Did I say that Paul is a false prophet? No, but any interpretation of his letters is a falsehood if that interpretation differs from the original word of Yah. Not having Paul’s original wording leaves us with many misunderstandings in his writings.
2 Timothy 4 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Peter 3 15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
The scriptures were written by Hebrew Jews to Hebrew Jews. In Hebrew culture, wickedness, or sin is defined as disobedience to the Torah instruction of YHWH. But Christianity has re defined sin as dong what is wrong in the eyes of the western world. Yah does not subscribe to the traditions of the pagan western world.
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
This verse is an example that the New Testament writings were written to Jews abroad, not to gentile Greeks. Now because some of the tribes were scattered abroad, the message was released to the entire world, and all are invited to be grafted into the fold.
Christianity teaches that if one tries to keep the Torah, that he is replacing the sin atoning blood of the Messiah with the law. The teaching is that you must keep all the laws to perfection, never failing to succeed, or you can just rely totally on grace and forget the instruction of the Father. But the Messiah said otherwise. To “keep” the Torah simply means the opposite of throwing it out. To keep the Torah means to live by it. No one is perfect here on earth.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
James is saying there is no such thing as a believer that does not keep the Torah, because to a Hebrew Jew, good works is defined as keeping the Torah. And it still means that today. No man came after Yahshua the Messiah to change the word of the father.