It teaches neither. It teaches that the God who created the Heavens and the Earth is to be glorified above all else, and that He is pleased most of all with people who simply believe Him.
As a gentile lover of the TaNaK,I find it to be full of comparisons between those who believed God and experienced the sweet freedom of a right relationship with their Creator, and those who didn't believe Him, and thus were consigned to legalistic confines that could not set free, but could only place boundaries on their behavior.
It hurts me when I see Christian organizations in the same light. There are those who preach faith in Christ, and thus freedom; and there are those who preach religiosity and practice ritual and impose rules 'n regs, resulting in toxic bondage.
Seeing that Judaism is basically the Torah, that's nonsense.
It teaches that the God who created the Heavens and the Earth is to be glorified above all else, and that He is pleased most of all with people who simply believe Him.
And who obey His commandments. And btw, the entire TaNa"KH is about G-d and the Jewish People. It wasn't even given to non-Jews. Non-Jews who read it are reading someone else's mail.
As a gentile lover of the TaNaK,I find it to be full of comparisons between those who believed God and experienced the sweet freedom of a right relationship with their Creator, and those who didn't believe Him, and thus were consigned to legalistic confines that could not set free, but could only place boundaries on their behavior.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Nobody in the Hebrew Bible "got SAVED!!!" as you understand it. You're projecting your chr*stian beliefs into the Hebrew Bible exactly the way mormons project "the book of mormon" into the chr*stian bible.
It hurts me when I see Christian organizations in the same light. There are those who preach faith in Christ, and thus freedom; and there are those who preach religiosity and practice ritual and impose rules 'n regs, resulting in toxic bondage.
There's an awful lot of ritual commanded in the Torah.