{"id":17178,"date":"2020-06-09T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2020-06-09T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:51:56","slug":"the-ancient-jews-and-modern-christians-believe-the-same-lie-about-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/the-ancient-jews-and-modern-christians-believe-the-same-lie-about-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"The ancient Jews and modern Christians believe the same lie about Paul!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Romans 3:7,<\/strong> <strong><em>As we are slanderously reported\u2026let us do evil, that good may come.<\/em> <\/strong>\u201cEvil\u201d in Hebraic thought is simply another way of saying, \u201cviolating YHVH\u2019s Torah-law.\u201d There were those of Paul\u2019s 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the book of Acts, we find much evidence of Paul being slandered again over the same issue as well (Acts 21:27\u201328). 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 \u201cbelieves all thing which are written in the Torah and the Prophets\u201d(Acts 24:14) and \u201cneither against the Torah-law of the Jews\u2026have I offended anything at all\u201d(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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00ad\u2014that both Paul and Stephen were speaking against and changed the Torah\u2014is the very lie that mainstream Christianity teaches today under the guise of the theological term dispensationalism, where it is taught that the Jews were \u201cunder the law\u201d , that the law was \u201cdone away and nailed to cross\u201d and that Christians are now \u201cunder grace\u201d and the \u201claw of Moses\u201d is of little or no relevance to believers today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only did Paul NOT teach against the Torah, but he was defending it against the Jews\u2019 perverted or caricaturized view of Torah by which they had largely nullified the Torah through their religious traditions. (See Yeshua\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Romans 3:8, <em>Let us do evil, that good may come.<\/em> <\/strong>This is another way of saying, <strong>\u201cWhat shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Elohim forbid\u201d <\/strong>(heaven forbid, CJB Rom 6:1\u20132). 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 \u201cChristians\u201d 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\u2019s 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).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201cunder grace\u201d and not \u201cunder law\u201d 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 \u201cunder grace\u201d (or under the so-called \u201cdispensation of grace\u201d) and they are no longer \u201cunder law,\u201d 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?<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'The ancient Jews and modern Christians believe the same lie about Paul!',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/the-ancient-jews-and-modern-christians-believe-the-same-lie-about-paul\/',contentID: 'post-17178',suggestTags: 'Paul',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>Romans 3:7, As we are slanderously reported\u2026let us do evil, that good may come. \u201cEvil\u201d in Hebraic thought is simply another way of saying, \u201cviolating YHVH\u2019s Torah-law.\u201d There were those of Paul\u2019s day who were perverting his message of salvation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/the-ancient-jews-and-modern-christians-believe-the-same-lie-about-paul\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2725],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah-law","tag-paul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The ancient Jews and modern Christians believe the same lie about Paul! 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