{"id":8888,"date":"2016-06-11T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T17:28:52","slug":"torah-enter-at-mount-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/torah-enter-at-mount-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Torah &#8220;enter&#8221; at Mount Sinai?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/torah-enter-at-mount-sinai\/mt-sinai-2-20474010-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8889\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mt.-Sinai-2-20474010.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Sinai 2-20474010\" width=\"750\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mt.-Sinai-2-20474010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mt.-Sinai-2-20474010-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Romans 5:20,<\/b><b> <\/b><b>The law [Torah] entered.<\/b> The Scriptures reveal that the Torah pre-existed Moses and Mount Sinai. So what is Paul talking about in this passage when he says that \u201cthe Torah entered\u201d? Obviously, he is referring to the Torah in its legally codified form as given to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai. For the nation of Israel to function in a righteous, orderly and cohesive manner, it needed the Torah in written form (in a legal format), so that the leaders of Israel could refer to it even as lawyers and judges refer to a nation\u2019s written legal code when practicing law or making legal judgments.<\/p>\n<p><b>The offence might abound. <\/b>Of course, with the Torah written down in black and white, so to speak, and with an established and recorded legal code in place to which legal judges could refer and to which all of Israel\u2019s citizens were held accountable, the knowledge and awareness of what constituted sin (remember, Scripture defines sin as \u201cthe violation of the Torah\u201d in 1 John 3:4) would increase. The result was that all became painfully aware of what human actions constituted sin, and that man would have a harder time getting away with sins now that Torah was the legal code of the land with fines and penalties for its violation, and a judicial system in place to enforce the Torah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sin abounded\u2026grace did much more abound. <\/b>As the sinner became painfully more aware of his sin or his violation of the Torah, he also became more aware of YHVH\u2019s mercy and grace toward the sinner\u2014when the sinner would repent and fulfill the requirements necessary to receive atonement for his sins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Did the Torah \\&quot;enter\\&quot; at Mount Sinai?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/torah-enter-at-mount-sinai\/',contentID: 'post-8888',suggestTags: 'Law of Elohim,Law of Moses,Mount Sinai,Paul,Romans,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>Romans 5:20, The law [Torah] entered. The Scriptures reveal that the Torah pre-existed Moses and Mount Sinai. So what is Paul talking about in this passage when he says that \u201cthe Torah entered\u201d? Obviously, he is referring to the Torah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/torah-enter-at-mount-sinai\/\">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":[1269,535,150,110,493,34],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-law-of-elohim","tag-law-of-moses","tag-mount-sinai","tag-paul","tag-romans","tag-torah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did the Torah &quot;enter&quot; at Mount Sinai? | 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\/2016\/06\/11\/torah-enter-at-mount-sinai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did the Torah &quot;enter&quot; at Mount Sinai? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Romans 5:20, The law [Torah] entered. 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