Yes, you must deflect and change the subject away from your preaching and onto something else. You have become quite good at it. But I'm going to stick to the issue here and that is your preaching.
Interesting how preaching against what you guys call "Mosaic Law" that you say nobody can follow, and those who try are "legalists", leads you to Christ? How did rejecting His Laws lead you to Him?
If that were true then the Pharisees should have been model Christians.
I believe what Paul is speaking about in Galatians is the Jews version of the Priesthood and it's "works of the Law" that was to symbolize Christ's Sacrifice. Isn't that what the sacrificial "works of the Law" were really all about? He was speaking about "works of the Law". Do you teach that Loving God and others are "Works of the Law" the Pharisees were performing to "bewitch" the Galatians? Like you would ever engage in that discussion.
36 Master,
which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the
first and great commandment.
39 And the
second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets. These two don't erase the Law and Prophets.
The preaching that the "Tutor" is these Laws, and that we don't need them after we find Jesus is certainly not supported by the rest of the Bible. But I digress.
Zechariahs knew Jesus when He came. What was the difference between Him and the Pharisees?
Oops I forgot. To you it's either my way, or your way. God's Words really don't have much to do with it.
Jesus never taught that the Pharisees were trying to "Earn" Salvation by following God's Laws EG.
You preach this, the Pope preaches this, but Jesus never did.
The Pharisees had created their own Religion, with their own version of the Christ's Sabbath, He created for man. Their own version of God's Holy Feasts, their own image of God created in the likeness of man. There is no getting around this truth if the Bible is the source.
They also claimed to be Children of God. When Jesus showed them in the Same Scriptures they claim to abide by, that they had been deceived and were preaching falsehoods, did they repent? Or did they strike out at the vessel that showed them their error?
My beef with you is that you preach things about the scriptures that are not true. You can not defend them with scriptures, they are simply falsehoods. We have all been deceived at one pint or another. You have been shown this error in your preaching. The scriptures show examples of the two choices you have.
#1.
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Or
#2.Now when they heard
this, they were
pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men
and brethren, what shall we do?
I don't think God intended us to "LOVE" Him by creating our own religion and telling falsehoods about His Word to justify some ancient man made religious traditions, or to "LOVE" others by teaching them these same untruths. It didn't work for the Mainstream Preachers of His time. I don't believe it will work for you according to the Scriptures.
