It is clear that each of you believe that all of the Law is to be kept today. But at the same time I have heard you say over and over again that Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. So then, please articulate what is the consequence of not keeping Torah and instead walking in the ways of traditional Christian interpretation?
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B”H
Matityahu 5:19
Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Obedience produces reward…disobedience and teaching of such loses reward (to say the least)
Shalom Chris! If someone breaks the law in a way or another in your state does it make the law which have been broken against null and void? Of course not! If someone pays your debt because of breaking a parking law does it make the parking law null and void? Of course not!
YEs, Yeshua has redeemed us in His blood, but that just a beginning to grow in His grace towards Father’s image. Torah is for our growing process in His grace. Grace is the power (a “tool”) to grow in knowing of Him deeper and deeper. In Yeshua we are even more capable of keeping Torah simply because He is the Messiah and He has all the power to live in us. Keeping Torah is loving the Father and the Son (John 14:15).
Torah is more than the moral law a.k.a 10 commandments. Torah is Hebrew and it means “instruction” or “teaching”. Torah is Father’s heart. We ask often “what is God’s will?” His will can be found from Torah. Torah is His fatherly instructions and teachings to us that we could keep ten commandments not according to our wisdom and ways, but according to His wisdom and ways which is in Torah. In Yeshua we have power to do that in a revolutionary way.
Faith is not only believing something, but doing=obeying the Father in everything. Study the great letters of John. I think they are special kind of Torah defender -letters in Brit Chadasha (“New testament”).
Once we get saved we are cleansed from our sins but that’s not enough because the Father wants that we would grow in His grace too. To be cleansed and redeemed is just the beginning. To grow in His grace is to know and do according Father’s heart and His hearth is Torah. Every father thinks for the best of his children with rules and regulations. So do the heavenly Father. All believers have the same Father and same laws, rules and regulations are for everyone in His house (4. Mos. 15:14-17). Father does not give different rules etc for different kind of children. We are living in the same home of the Father as “Jews and “Greeks”.