[Elsie]

You’ve done what I never would have thought of doing, and it is stunningly perfect.

Thanks...

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Galatians 2:15-16

We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile ‘sinners’ know that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no one will be justified.

[editor-surveyor]

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To the observant, Belief in our savior is as the apostle John wrote in his first epistle:

To walk even as he walked (in perfect obedience to the commandments of the Father)

“The works of the law” have nothing to do with the Father’s commandments, since his commandments are not unto the Pharisees’ works but unto true righteousness.

Nowhere in the Bible is Torah equated with the Pharisees’ ordinances and works. They are in direct opposition to each other.

A read through Matthew ch 23 illustrates this completely. Yeshua tells us to do as Moses said, and not as the Pharisees said “for the say but do not do.”
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