“You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life...
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope. If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?” -Jesus Christ, John 5:39-47
The entire Scriptures are about Jesus Christ. I love the “Old Testament” but as the above indicates someone greater than Moses HAS COME. He chose Paul to preach what I gave you from Galatians. That’s from Him, it’s not my concoction.
If you really do believe the OT it will lead you to Jesus Christ.
“I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST.”—1 Cor. 10:1-5
That is yet another update from Christ through Paul. There are more...
Ever find it odd that the Torah testifies to every Jew receiving G-d’s word at Mt Sinai, and that such an event will never happen again, and that the covenant is eternal, yet when you make a claim, it’s from one man’s vision (long after the death of another man) and insist that that has the force to abrogate the mass-revelation in Exodus?
I mean, ya could pretty make up anything at that point.
avenir, everything that you say in Post #21 is part of a self-serving argument - made either by my distant cousin, the carpenter (or those who followed him and created a new religion), or by yourself. I simply do not - CAN not - believe that the person you revere as the Messiah is, in fact, the actual Messiah as foretold in the Hebrew Scriptures. Why? Because, very simply, believing Jews cannot accept the Christian Bible (the so-called “New Testament”) as being valid or true.
Again, WHY? Well, for one thing, there are numerous contradictions and inconsistencies between the Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible (which bases its very validity on the Jewish Bible - so guess which way logic would dictate that any contradictions get resolved?). Read and learn: https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/why-jews-cannot-accept-the-new-testament/
Further, as to your claims that the “Old Testament” foretells the coming of Jesus, here is an explanation as to why Jews DON’T see Jesus anywhere in their own scriptures: https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/why-dont-jews-see-jesus-in-the-scriptures/
Finally, as to why Jews do not (and never will) accept that Jesus is the Messiah foretold in our scriptures: https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/messiah-the-criteria/
I offer these explanations (incomplete as the authors admit that they are - meaning that there is MORE proof than they’re citing) ONLY for the purpose of showing you that things are not quite as theologically cut-and-dry as you think they are, that there are MANY reasons why Jews do not and CAN not accept your theology. However, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I (as a Jew) still view you as having a place in the World to Come (i.e. Heaven), so long as you abide by the 7 Noahide Laws. Though I disagree with you on fundamental matters of theology, I wish you well - but please study and learn more, it will help your soul.