The letter Shaul (Paul) wrote to the Galatians tells how faithful trusting makes Gentiles who accept Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah adopted children of Abraham, and also children of God.
So do they get their own rules or do they follow the rules the natural born children follow?
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Christianity has misused the letters written by apostles to neophyte, Gentile believers who have accepted that Yeshua is God’s Messiah, and that through following him they can receive eternal life. The way those letters have been misused is to interpret them as being anti-Torah, which was never their intention.
Shaul wrote to congregations to get them back on track in learning the proper (meaning Torah) worship of God, but Shaul knew he had to do that slowly since this was such a paradigm shift in lifestyle for these Gentiles, who were raised in a self-indulgent, hedonistic religion.
Hey, it’s hard to sell being righteous now for rewards later when your whole life you have been told it is good to be sexually perverse, eat to excess, and drink until you can’t see straight.
Now, add to that you also have to have the top of your penis cut off, and that’s when people say, “Sorry, I hear my mother calling and I’ve got to home now.”
Even James and the Elders in Jerusalem knew that Shaul was doing things the right way, in that the letter they wrote supporting Shaul’s activities was predicated by James saying (in Acts 15:21) that these Gentiles would eventually learn the Law of Moses (meaning the Torah, of course) because they would hear it in the synagogue at every Shabbat service. I think that is clearly indicating that they expected these adopted Gentiles would learn to live as the rest of their adopted family lives, which would be a Torah observant lifestyle.
I’m going to go off on a bit of a tangent for a moment…
You know, Christianity doesn’t even call Yeshua what he is: he is the Messiah, in Hebrew Maschiach, which means “anointed one”. That clearly indicates he came from God, but they use the word “savior”, which is just someone who rescues from danger or peril. Yes, Yeshua saves us from ourselves, but is that really as definitive or spiritually important as being anointed by the Almighty?
I think they prefer “Savior” to “Messiah” because it doesn’t sound so “Jewish”.
Christ comes from the ancient Greek verb chriō (χριω), meaning to smear or rub with oil, which was the closest thing in the Greek language to the word “Maschiach”. You know what else? It seems strange to me that a religion which teaches to worship Yeshua, at the same time, reduces him from God’s anointed to some superhero status.
Alright… back to the main message.
Abraham is the father of the Jewish people, and through his descendants we received the Torah which, as children of Abraham and who worship the God of Abraham, we are required to obey.
So if Christians are adopted children of Abraham, they are now in the same family with us Jews.
Therefore, if you are adopted into someone’s family, are you expected to follow the family rules or do they give you a totally different set of rules, saying you don’t have to do what the natural born children have to do?
Don’t give your answer to me, but think of what answer God would want to hear.
Thank you for being here and please comment and 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 today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!