That's interesting. What are your thoughts on God superceding Creation with a Flood and repopulation of the earth? As a Noachide, surely you don't believe that just because God ordained something, He won't decide to turn it upside down and do something new, do you?
As a Noachide, surely you don't believe that just because God ordained something, He won't decide to turn it upside down and do something new, do you?
As a child of the Reformation ... certainly not.
It makes no difference. If the Torah was to be "superseded" by merely another legal system then it was unnecessary, whoever founded it.
That's interesting. What are your thoughts on God superceding Creation with a Flood and repopulation of the earth? As a Noachide, surely you don't believe that just because God ordained something, He won't decide to turn it upside down and do something new, do you?
How did He do anything new? The entire Torah, Genesis to Deuteronomy, was written by G-d 974 generations before the Creation of the World. There is thus no prior religion or prior "testament" since the Torah given to Moses at Sinai contained all of Genesis.
Moreover, the Laws given to Adam are still in effect for all non-Jews. The only change was that after the Flood man was given permission to kill animals for food (before this it was forbidden) provided no meat be taken from an animal while it is still alive. These same Seven Noachide Laws were reaffirmed at Sinai when the Ultimate Revelation was given. So how has anything changed, other than the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob meriting to be given the 613 commandments?
Also, just as there is no prior "testament" in existence predating the Holy Torah, there is no religious community practicing a pre-Mosaic religion for the Torah to have "superseded" (the "Samaritans," sometimes invoked as such a community, claim to be Mosaic and not remnants of a pre-Mosaic religion which Torah superseded).
And finally, if G-d is going to be continually "changing His mind" and starting over, where will it end? With J*sus? Mohammed? J. Smith? Sun Myung Moon? As the old saying goes, 'im ken, 'ein ladavar sof ("if that were so, there would be no end to the matter").