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To: editor-surveyor
Paul didn’t ever conclude that no one can keep Torah, you seem to be completely unable to differentiate between Yehova’s loving Torah, and the Pharisee’s false man made law of Takanot, and Ma’assim.

The 'Law' is referred to numerous times in the Pauline epistles...Can you show us when Paul speaks of the Law it is a reference to the Pharisee's law and not the Law of the Old Testament???

Gal 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

The Pharisee's law was our schoolmaster???

Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

92 posted on 10/03/2016 12:55:45 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

The law in Paul’s epistles as translated to Greek use the term “Law” to refer to both Torah and the Law of works.

We will probably never know exactly what he wrote in the original Hebrew letters, nevertheless it is necessary to deal properly with the two separate “Laws.”

Torah, Yehova’s law of love, is required of all.

The Pharisees’ Takanot and Ma’assim are required of no one.

To treat them as one is a sure trip to the Lake that burns.

Galatians refers only to the lack of correct teaching in the second temple period. Prior to that many believed by faith. See what Paul wrote in Hebrews 3 and 4, where he explained that the gospel he was teaching was exactly the gospel that Moses taught.

Israel lived in many periods of idolatry and darkness, and that definitely includes the latter portion of the second temple period, when the totally lost pharisees created their own man made path to “salvation.”

Undoing that error was what Yeshua spent the majority of his time on Earth doing. That was the “burden no one could bear.”

It was the purpose of every one of his miracles. Each one demolished one of the Takanot.

To bget a far better handle on it, read Paul’s letter to the Colossians, where he profusely praises them for keeping the appointed times and Sabbaths, and tells them to let no man judge them but one who is of the Body of Christ (ie, a believer, not a pagan)
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95 posted on 10/03/2016 3:47:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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