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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear
That true worship slowly dwindled under the tyranny of Rome.

It is foolish to believe such nonsense...

Galatians 2: 14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

734 posted on 10/15/2013 3:21:52 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

The foolishness is in not grasping what Yeshua tried so hard to get across: the “Jewish Customs” were not his Torah; they were the ways of men that supplanted their own “oral Torah” for his perfect way.

Paul was talking about the Takanot and ma’assim of the Pharisees.


739 posted on 10/15/2013 3:28:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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