The Torah is the scroll containing the first five books of the Bible, and most Christians, and even most Jews, know it as “the Law”.
But the word “Torah” means learning, or teaching, and even though The Torah has laws, it is really God’s “User Manual for Righteousness”.
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Let’s start off by trying to agree on something: when we disobey God, that is a sin. So far, so good? OK, then the next thing to agree on is that sin is “lawlessness”.
Are we also okay with that? Good, because now we are all in agreement with the Bible because the apostle John tells us in 1 John 3:4 (NIV):
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
So, sin is not obeying the law, but what law was John talking about? Well, truth is, at that time there was only one law- the Torah.
So, nu? Where are we?
Christianity has taught you that Yeshua (Jesus) did away with the law, which if that is true, means that the son of God told you to ignore his father and live a life of sin.
That doesn’t really make sense, does it? The Messiah, son of God, was sent by God to be a means for us to be forgiven of sin, so what he does is teach everyone to sin.
What is that, some sort of job security?
Yes, it makes absolutely no sense, so what did the early Christian leaders do? To make it seem sensible, Christianity has come up with the idea of moral and ceremonial laws, and that even though they say Yeshua did away with the law, now they don’t mean ALL the law, just the ceremonial ones.
Which, of course, begs the question: who decides which is ceremonial and which is moral?
Isn’t God moral? If he is, then he wouldn’t tell us to do anything that wasn’t morally correct…. right? Well, God told us how to worship him (Leviticus 23), what social and familial relationships are righteous and which are sinful (Leviticus 18), which foods are best for us and which we should avoid (Leviticus 11), and many other ways to live a righteous and worshipful life throughout those first five books.
Now ask yourself this: if God is moral, and everything he tells us to do is morally correct, then although people try to separate moral from ceremonial, isn’t it all moral, anyway?
Of course it is! Whatever God tells you to do is not just righteous but morally correct, and anything God says you should do that you refuse to do, is a sin, which is lawlessness, and the wages of sin is…death! (Romans 6:23)
The choice is yours. I have given you biblically correct information so that you can make an informed and biblically correct decision; you can continue to follow some man-made religion (for the record, every single Christian religion is man-made) or you can decide to follow God.
I can tell you, and I am sure you will agree, that to reject God is not a good idea, yet remarkably enough, that is what Christianity tells you to do.
In nearly every respect it rejects God: it doesn’t celebrate the Sabbath when God said to, it doesn’t honor any of his Holy Days, it eats all the foods God said not to, it teaches that Yeshua did way with his father’s commandments, and there are some forms of Christianity where the people pray to statues and their houses of worship are full of graven images, and …well, you get the idea.
Follow a Christian “torah”, or follow the Torah that God gave to all humanity so that they know what is right and what is wrong. The choice is yours, but let me give you one more thing to consider….
When you face God at Judgement Day, which we all will do, he might ask you why you lived the way you did, and when you tell him, “I was just doing what they told me to do.”, I can’t speak for the Big Guy upstairs, but I think he will respond with something to the effect of:
“I know you did what they told you to do, but it is what I say that counts!”
Thank you for being here, and please remember to share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for this week, so l’hitraot and (an early) Shabbat Shalom!