The ancient Jews and modern Christians believe the same lie about Paul!

Romans 3:7, As we are slanderously reported…let us do evil, that good may come. “Evil” in Hebraic thought is simply another way of saying, “violating YHVH’s Torah-law.” There were those of Paul’s day who were perverting his message of salvation by grace through faith by turning it into a Torahless message. They were slanderously claiming that he was teaching against the Torah. Sadly, this same lie is taught universally in mainstream Christianity to this day. 

In the book of Acts, we find much evidence of Paul being slandered again over the same issue as well (Acts 21:27–28). This time, it resulted in his arrest by the Romans and his defense against these false accusation (of him teaching against the Torah) in two courts of law where he confesses that he “believes all thing which are written in the Torah and the Prophets”(Acts 24:14) and “neither against the Torah-law of the Jews…have I offended anything at all”(Acts 25:8). Paul made these statements in Acts about the year A.D. 58 prior to his trip to Rome while the book of Romans had been written about two years earlier in A.D. 56. 

Ironically, the very false accusation against which Paul had to so vigorously defend himself was the same accusation leveled against Stephen by his accusers in Acts 6:13. Paul was the one ultimately responsible for the death of Stephen (Acts 7:58). This slanderous report­—that both Paul and Stephen were speaking against and changed the Torah—is the very lie that mainstream Christianity teaches today under the guise of the theological term dispensationalism, where it is taught that the Jews were “under the law” , that the law was “done away and nailed to cross” and that Christians are now “under grace” and the “law of Moses” is of little or no relevance to believers today.

Not only did Paul NOT teach against the Torah, but he was defending it against the Jews’ perverted or caricaturized view of Torah by which they had largely nullified the Torah through their religious traditions. (See Yeshua’s comments about this in Mark 15, Matthew 7 and 23.) The same thing can be said of modern Christian teachers who assert a similar anti-Torah bias.

Romans 3:8, Let us do evil, that good may come. This is another way of saying, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Elohim forbid” (heaven forbid, CJB Rom 6:1–2). The prevailing idea in mainstream Christianity is that New Covenant or Gentile believers are no longer bound to Torah-law obedience, therefore, since we are under grace, they some of the more liberal Christians will affirm, anything is acceptable. On this basis, I have heard “Christians” justify homosexuality, fornication, marijuana smoking and a host of other sinful practices justified on the basis of the this fallacious and libertine reasoning. This goes to show that human nature has not changed much in 2000 years since Paul’s day. The warped, twisted and sinful mind of man (Jer 17:9) is still prone to rebellion against the laws of Elohim and refuses to be subject to them (Rom 8:7). 

Sadly, mainstream Christian dispensational theology has laid the groundwork for the rationale that we can sin (i.e. violate the Torah [see 1 John 3:4] that grace may abound). Such a belief system is actually a form of circular reasoning meaning that the premise is only true if the conclusion is true. This errant reasoning goes something like this: New Testament Christians are “under grace” and not “under law” and that grace and law are mutually exclusive concepts. Christians are under grace (or free and unmerited pardon) because of their past sin [i.e. the violation of Torah-law (1 John 3:4)], yet because they are “under grace” (or under the so-called “dispensation of grace”) and they are no longer “under law,” for the law is now annulled (the very violation of which caused them to need grace in the first place), and is no longer binding upon them; therefore, they can violate the law (especially laws concerning the Sabbath, the biblical feasts and the biblical dietary laws), the violation of which caused them to need grace in the first place. Can you see the circular reasoning of this argument?

 

6 thoughts on “The ancient Jews and modern Christians believe the same lie about Paul!

  1. “Chrisanity” is insanity for they teach that grace is a license to go on sinning! Yeshua told the adulteress woman “go and sin NO MORE” now that she was forgiven-not to just stop committing adultery but to stop all sin, of course if you break one law, you’ve broken them all or rather THEY BREAK YOU (in two)! Take 2 tablets and call on me in the morning!

  2. Malachi 3:6 “But because I, Adonai, do not change,…..”
    This means that Adonai hates sin now as much as before Yeshua died. We were given a second chance to become children of the Most High through Yeshua; why tempt Adonai by blissfully keep on sinning? I don’t think there is a third chance.
    Sonja

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