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To: Teófilo
Are the Torah and the Gospel mutually exclusive?

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Jesus very specifically stated that nobody comes to the Father except through Christ. At a time when he was exclusively preaching to the Jews, so quite obviously he meant that Jews could not come to the Father except through Christ.

So as I see it someone who believes Christ meant what he said must believe that for a Jew to be saved he must accept Christ as his savior. Since many Jews, quite understandably given history, view such an acceptance as very nearly the ultimate betrayal of Judaism, I think it unlikely many will accept Him.

Christians believe the Torah to be fully a part of Christian scripture. But Jews totally reject the Gospel. So if it's an incompatibility, it's a one-way incompatibility.

BTW, I think a better headline might have been, "Are the Talmud and the Gospel mutually exclusive?" And I think the answer to that one would have been a more emphatic Yes.

12 posted on 07/26/2012 12:32:51 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

I personally do not think Jesus was ministering only to those who were Jews


33 posted on 07/26/2012 1:44:10 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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