{"id":3451,"date":"2013-08-15T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:31:07","slug":"jewish-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/jewish-fables\/","title":{"rendered":"When Paul Says &#8220;Jewish Fables,&#8221; Does He Mean the Torah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Titus 1:14, <i>Jewish fables<\/i><i>.<\/i> <\/strong>Paul can\u2019t be referring to the Torah here, which he strongly upholds and defends in numerous other places in his writings (Rom 3:31; 7:7, 12, 14; 13:8\u201310; 1 Cor 7:19; 9:21; Gal 3:10; 6:2; 2 Tim 6:14; Tit 2:14) and even claims to follow (Acts 21:24; 24:1425:8; 28:17; 1 Cor 9:21). He must be talking about the Jewish traditions of men, which Yeshua said in Matthew 15:3\u20139 and Mark 7:7\u20139 make of non-effect the word of Elohim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/jewish-fables\/attachment\/21643975\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3452\" alt=\"21643975\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/21643975-300x254.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/21643975-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/21643975-353x300.jpg 353w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/21643975.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is exactly what Paul is referring to here in this verse when he says \u201cJewish fables and commandments of men.\u201d This is not a reference to the Torah, which came from YHVH Elohim, and not froms men. In the same verse, Paul contrasts these commandments of men with \u201cthe truth\u201d from which men have turned away.\u00a0 What is this truth? The Bible defines its own terms. Elohim is the source of truth (Deut 32:4 cp. Pss 86:11; 89:14; 117:2), he is truth (Ps 25:10; 31:5; 33:4), and his Torah is truth (Ps 119:142, 151).<\/p>\n<p>One example of a Jewish fable and a commandment of men would be the idea that one can\u2019t be saved unless they\u2019re first circumcised, which was the subject of the Acts 15 council. Paul vehemently fought this Jewish fable, and the whole Book of Galatians, for example, largely deals with this issue. If Paul had meant the Torah when mentioning \u201cJewish fables\u201d then this makes Paul into a schizophrenic liar (since he promotes and lauds the Torah and claims to follow it elsewhere), and it makes the word of Elohim contradict itself, and it puts Paul at odds with Yeshua who upheld the Torah (Matt 5:17\u201319) and with himself when he said to imitate Yeshua the Torah-keeper as he himself did (1 Cor 11:1).<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'When Paul Says \\&quot;Jewish Fables,\\&quot; Does He Mean the Torah?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/jewish-fables\/',contentID: 'post-3451',suggestTags: 'Jewish Fables,Titus,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>Titus 1:14, Jewish fables. Paul can\u2019t be referring to the Torah here, which he strongly upholds and defends in numerous other places in his writings (Rom 3:31; 7:7, 12, 14; 13:8\u201310; 1 Cor 7:19; 9:21; Gal 3:10; 6:2; 2 Tim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/jewish-fables\/\">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":[589,590,34],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-jewish-fables","tag-titus","tag-torah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When Paul Says &quot;Jewish Fables,&quot; Does He Mean the Torah? | 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\/2013\/08\/15\/jewish-fables\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Paul Says &quot;Jewish Fables,&quot; Does He Mean the Torah? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Titus 1:14, Jewish fables. 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