{"id":7112,"date":"2015-09-12T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2015-09-12T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T14:58:35","slug":"torah-the-ministry-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/12\/torah-the-ministry-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: Is the Torah the Ministry of Death &#038; the Letter That Kills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the mainstream church have been led to believe that the Torah or law of Moses is the ministry of death and the letter that kills, and now that we&#8217;re under grace, we are free from haveing to obey the letter of the law as 2 Corinthians 3:7\u201317 would seem to suggest. Is this a correct understanding of these verses? What is the truth? 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