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Many of the Jews with whom I've dialogued are fiercly defensive of the
covenant that Moses' people entered into with God per Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy because it defines their ethnic identity, i.e.
taking away the first covenant effectively takes away the one thing that
makes the Jews feel special.
However, their defense is little more than jousting windmills because no one
has been able to practice Moses' convent properly since 70 AD when Titus
destroyed Jerusalem. As a result, the Judaism that most Jews practice today
isn't Moses' Judaism, rather, it's a rabbinical form of Judaism adjusted to
compensate for the Jews' lack of access to the covenant's atonement
system.
Well; unfortunately: God prohibits adjusted versions of the covenant.
● Deut 4:2 . .You shall not add anything to what I command you or take
anything away from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God
that I enjoin upon you.
● Deut 5:29-30 . . Be careful, then, to do as the Lord your God has
commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left: follow only
the path that the Lord your God has enjoined upon you.
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