{"id":13769,"date":"2018-12-29T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2018-12-29T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T16:23:19","slug":"torah-of-yhvh-vs-the-law-of-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/torah-of-yhvh-vs-the-law-of-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torah of YHVH Vs. the Law of Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moses-shining-face.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13770\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moses-shining-face.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Luke 2:24, <i>Law of the Lord\/YHVH. <\/i><\/b>This phrase is found only three times in the NT\u2014here and in vv. 24 and 39. The same phrase is additionally found 18 times in the Tanakh and obviously refers to the Torah (e.g. Pss 1:1; 19:7; 119:1). Is the law of YHVH the same as the law of Moses?<\/p>\n<p>The phrase <i>the law of Moses<\/i> is found a similar number of times in the Bible: 15 times in the Tanakh and seven times in the NT. Obviously the phrases <i>the law of YHVH <\/i>and <i>the law of Moses<\/i> are synonymous terms in that they refer to the same thing: the Written Torah. From the obvious meanings of these two terms, we learn that YHVH Elohim is the divine source or origination of the Torah, while Moses was merely the one who first wrote it down or codified it, and as the leader of the nation of Israel, he administered it.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting, if not ironic, how the mainstream church chronically refers to the Torah as \u201cthe law of Moses,\u201d when Scripture refers to the Torah as \u201cthe Torah of YHVH\u201d the same number of times less one. The mainstream church&#8217;s choice of one term over the other seems to reveal, sadly, its apathy, if not, at times, its outright antipathy, toward YHVH\u2019s Torah. To justify this ungodly attitude, it has chosen to use the term that casts the Torah-law of Elohim in the most negative light possible by inferring that its source is man and not Elohim. This furthermore underscores the truth of Paul\u2019s words in Rom 8:7 about the carnal mind of man being at enmity with the laws of Elohim in that it refuses to be subject to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'The Torah of YHVH Vs. the Law of Moses',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/torah-of-yhvh-vs-the-law-of-moses\/',contentID: 'post-13769',suggestTags: 'Law of Elohim,Law of Moses,Torah',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:24, Law of the Lord\/YHVH. This phrase is found only three times in the NT\u2014here and in vv. 24 and 39. The same phrase is additionally found 18 times in the Tanakh and obviously refers to the Torah (e.g. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/torah-of-yhvh-vs-the-law-of-moses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[1269,535,34],"class_list":["post-13769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-law-of-elohim","tag-law-of-moses","tag-torah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Torah of YHVH Vs. the Law of Moses | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/torah-of-yhvh-vs-the-law-of-moses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Torah of YHVH Vs. the Law of Moses | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luke 2:24, Law of the Lord\/YHVH. 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