Jewish & Gentile Relationship

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Grandpa

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We are told over and over that sin brings on death, and this death is the curse of the law. The law certainly is not cursed, but sin is a curse. The law points to the sin that, without Christ, is a curse for us.

If the law is cursed we would have to dispose of all of psalms. The entire 119th psalm is about the blessing of the law. We have only one God who speaks with one voice. God doesn't disagree with God. God would not say the law is a blessing in one scripture and that it is a curse in another. If God did, God would not be God and we all would be dammed.

We are told we are to die to sin with Christ and put on the spirit of God. That spirit obeys the spirit of the law. The spirit of the law obeys the legalistic law, also.
Those who work at the law are under the curse.

Cursed is everyone who works at the law but doesn't do ALL of what is written.

No one has said the law is cursed. It is the worker of the law that is cursed. The law is perfect. The person working at it is not.

We are told that we have to die to the LAW so we can live for God.

The Spirit obeys God. Not a carnal understanding of the shadow of Christ. There is a difference and the difference is Judaism and Christianity.

2 Corinthians 3:6-8
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

This isn't college calculus. This is really simple stuff. That's what I like about Christianity. Its simple, black and white.

If you work at the law you are under the curse.

If you come to Christ and receive rest from your work at the law you are no longer condemned or under a curse.

Galatians 3:2-3
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
 
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Ah I like this convo! Hahaha of course. I never said Jews weren't stubborn. Lol I am an assistant to my Rabbi and I tell you Yeshua's lessons come to life when dealing with them LOL. But I love them regardless :)
Jesus informs us to call no man on earth Rabbi as master or teacher And in the same way we are to call no man father on earth .The unconverted Jew violates both commandments

He warns of those who do insist we need a man seen the temporal to teach us regardless of what nation to include a Jew.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.1 John2:26-27

The Holy Spirit is the teacher and the person in whom we seek the approval of. Why would be put our trust in the things seen the temporal" It is usually there where the Judaizers hide. And in doing so expose themselves as antichrists (many) . They need a fleshly man to teach them as a law of the fathers. Just like the Cathlics
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What I state here is in reference to the Jewish - Christian relationship (the Jesus - Nation relationship is very different because they never knew G-d and who he really is, so knowing G-d through Jesus is amazing, of course if done righteously)
LOL Done righteously through the Rabbi's? Of course they know who God is .He gives us his living abiding word as the faith that works in us to make it possible . God is not a man as us. Neither Gentile or Jew, male nor female

a) I do not know your stance on scripture and that is fine but the evidence proves that the 2000+ years of Christian's theology unfortunately for (Jews, not necessarily the nations) has not been "productive". Strangely though, in the 1st century MANY if not most believers were, in fact, Jews (and there was no secular or conservative Jews, just Orthodox and maybe rebellious of course lol). So put the math together, there must be something "wrong" with Christian theology (not necessarily people) in proving that Yeshua is the Mashiach.

God isnot been bringing any new revelations the last one closed the cannon .We are warned not to add or substract from the whole the perfect has come. Why go above that which is written?

b) For any believer, if I simply say "I believe in Jesus", is that all there is too it? What is valued more? Striving as a human being to be like Avraham, loving your enemies, living for G-d and His ways and fighting your temptations OR simply stating I believe in someone and being a hypocrite in your lifestyle? (For Yeshua's commands are high!) (The context of this questions is which one is better if you cannot do both.).
Striving to be like Jesus the Son of man .Abraham a sinner is not the one set aside to follow after.

c) If you actually get to know and study the Jews and their culture and even the Talmud...you'll be fascinated to see that they "naturally" follow many of the commands Yeshua stated and what the disciples did, especially on Shabbat! But yet those who "believe" struggle to get to church and yet condemn those who don't believe and think everyone else is going to "hell" (for the most part). So what would you choose? The people who actually live like Yeshua commanded and G-d of course, or join the people who confess with their lips...but their actions are weak? (Of course I have met amazing Christians too but for the most part)
But for the most part? For the whole part it has nothing to do with the flesh Gentile or Jew .When it comes to salvation God puts no difference between the two. He does not look to the pigment of sinful flesh or the sound of their language (tongue)



d) Did you know that most Jews, especially Orthodox Jews hate Jesus not on the account of reading the NT (For MOST never even laid hands on it, because it would be like studying witchcraft in their eyes), but on the account of Jesus's followers and the Christian bloodbath towards them (just as recent as the Holocaust). Would you even read about a "guy" and under who's name has been used to slaughter and torture Jews verbally and physically? ("You Christ-Killer....You G-d Killer...You Legalistic Jew....etc. which I hear many Jews today tell me when they were kids)
Satan is a murder from the beginning.

e) Do you know what it means to blaspheme a name? It is not simple "stating His name" in a foul sense, but...it is how you "represent" that name. For if I say I am Professor so and so's best student and then you are challenged and you fail miserably, who looks worse, the student or the one who taught them?
Blaspheme is like plagiarism which is to attribute the work of the author to another party . It the same as the first commandment, don't usurp the teaching authority and give it to other gods in the likeness of men . Because you insist we do need to be taught by a Rabbi as that seen then a person has violated the first commandment. It protects like flaming sword the one author and finisher of our new faith that alone come from hearing God

*So I pointed these facts out not to insult the Christian's relationship to Jews, but to bring to light so facts that hopefully can be resolved through using all the tools we have! (Spririt, Love, Our Minds, Our Hands etc). For all has been given by G-d for a reason, even down to our small little toe! It can all be used for the glory of G-d and if we proclaim to LOVE Him and His Son....then we better get to work!
Using the right tools...….. like according to His loving commandment to rightfully divide His word as we seek His approval .Not the approval of Jew or gentiles as the things of men

I would think that if Jesus wanted to say study to shew thyself approved unto the Rabbis as that seen rather than God not seen he would have moved Paul to write those words

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth
 

Dan_473

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If you thinks it’s a 5 second fix or a comment, then I’m sorry I cannot help.

Just like anything, you cannot fix a problem until you admit there is a problem and that was the purpose of it.

Sorry if it looks harsh to Gentile Believers but is any info false or untrue?

But...wise and humble people ADMIT their mistakes and from their not only are loved more, but they just opened their minds to learn more! But if all you see is a harsh critical rebuke, then I cannot help. It starts there..... again put yourself in “their shoes”...that’s how anyone in business, life or humanity begins to repair and build relationships!
Oh no, it's not that I think there's a 5 Second fix. But I'm not sure what you're saying the solution is.
 

Dan_473

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Where in the bible did Paul make Jews Christians?

Jews are to be Jews and still believe in Yeshua. See that’s the problem. You want Jews to give up the Torah and by church fathers theology.....hence why real Jews hate Christianity. What do you think Christians have done for 2,000 years to the Jews? So that isn’t the way clearly and nor is it biblical.

That’s why Paul’s writings clearly show a “separation” but a spiritual “oneness” in Yeshua. Everyone has a different role. Jews hold “spiritual gifts” like Paul says (Romans 16) this Gentile bring “physical ones”. But that doesn’t make anyone less or more.
No, I don't want Jews to stop being Jews.

I'll rephrase.

Please tell the story of sometime when you were talking or interacting with a Jewish person, an Orthodox Jewish person, and largely based on their interaction with you they believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah.
 

Dan_473

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I don't think I have been successful, for none have said they now believe in Christ.

I do know I have opened the door to all their minds, except for one couple. We were at a retreat to learn to write our autobiography and a group of 8 Jews attended. One couple let me be friends with them, most kept their distance. At least I astonished this couple by pointing out we worshipped the same God.

When we acknowledge only Christ as our God and ignore the Father we are not only not following truth, but alienating the Jews.

I wonder if success in evangelizing is only when someone accepts what Christ did for us then and there, or is success also when we open the door? That is all I have been able to do.
I think it's great that you've open the minds of some Jewish people, open some doors! But yes, I think success would need to be measured by Jewish people believing that Jesus is the messiah, since in the opening post Mountain dude talked about Jewish people coming to know the Messiah!
 

Blik

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Those who work at the law are under the curse.

Cursed is everyone who works at the law but doesn't do ALL of what is written.

No one has said the law is cursed. It is the worker of the law that is cursed. The law is perfect. The person working at it is not.

We are told that we have to die to the LAW so we can live for God.

The Spirit obeys God. Not a carnal understanding of the shadow of Christ. There is a difference and the difference is Judaism and Christianity.

2 Corinthians 3:6-8
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

This isn't college calculus. This is really simple stuff. That's what I like about Christianity. Its simple, black and white.

If you work at the law you are under the curse.

If you come to Christ and receive rest from your work at the law you are no longer condemned or under a curse.

Galatians 3:2-3
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
To say you are cursed if you love Christ and as He said, if you love me you will keep my commandments. It would have to read if you keep my commandments you are cursed.

Paul spent almost the entire book of Hebrew explaining to the Christian Jews and gentiles in Rome about law. The only curse connected with law is the sin it points to. Otherwise we are told it is a wonderful guide.
 

Grandpa

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To say you are cursed if you love Christ and as He said, if you love me you will keep my commandments. It would have to read if you keep my commandments you are cursed.

Paul spent almost the entire book of Hebrew explaining to the Christian Jews and gentiles in Rome about law. The only curse connected with law is the sin it points to. Otherwise we are told it is a wonderful guide.
If you loved Christ you would come to Him and receive Rest.

You would have the vail taken from your mind that causes you to twist all of scripture into Judaizing, anti gospel, philosophy.

But you would rather work at the law and worship the shadow rather than the Truth.

Which is fine, I guess, if that's what you want to do. You just won't be able to call it Christianity.


The Lord didn't say if you love me you will work at the law. He said you will keep His commandments. Not the 10 commandments.

Matthew 17:4-5
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

No mention of Moses or the 10 commandments. Because that covenant was being fulfilled.

Doesn't make much sense to tell people to go back to a covenant that has been fulfilled.

It makes no sense to tell someone that they aren't under law but under Grace, and yet still required to work at the law.

It makes no sense to tell someone to die to the law so they can live unto God, and yet still required to work at the law.

It makes no sense to tell people to come to Christ to receive Rest but yet still required to work at the law.

It makes no sense to ask people if they are so foolish that they think they will be perfected by their work at the law if they are in fact required to work at that law. The question would be re-stated in judaizer "are you so foolish to think you are not required to work at the law?" But there is no such question.

Instead, the question is "You who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?"

The obvious answer is "No, you don't". Not if you still desire to be under it.
 
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To say you are cursed if you love Christ and as He said, if you love me you will keep my commandments. It would have to read if you keep my commandments you are cursed.

Paul spent almost the entire book of Hebrew explaining to the Christian Jews and gentiles in Rome about law. The only curse connected with law is the sin it points to. Otherwise we are told it is a wonderful guide.
i guess one is cursed if they follow the way of Christ. lol
 

Dan_473

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To say you are cursed if you love Christ and as He said, if you love me you will keep my commandments. It would have to read if you keep my commandments you are cursed.

Paul spent almost the entire book of Hebrew explaining to the Christian Jews and gentiles in Rome about law. The only curse connected with law is the sin it points to. Otherwise we are told it is a wonderful guide.
As a footnote, I think the idea that Paul wrote the book of Hebrews is a mostly human tradition.