You don't understand what the once a year sacrifce was for. You can't enter heaven, which the holy of holies represented unless sins are removed. That is the principle of Christianity which originated in Eden and is foreshadowed in the tabernacle services.
I am not making up anything. If the tabernacle services had not been fulfilled by Jesus, then the temple would not have been destroyed.
Christianity is not a religion. It is a relationship with God that you never had, or you would not have left Jesus.
And among those same 613 laws it says that your rebellious teenager can be stoned to death along with adulterers. There is a reason why the Lord made a New Covenant which would bring the law up to its fulfillment and a higher level. When the Old Covenant was given through Moses it was given to a very primitive people that needed to be kept from the pagan nations around them in order to keep them pure so the lineage would not be polluted. Their lineage was ordained to bring in the Messiah and if they had mixed it up with the pagans then the salvation the messiah was ordained to bring could not have happened. Under the New Covenant the law is ministered under grace, which means you forgive the adulterer and you patiently work with your teenager instead of killing him.
Actually the entire Old Covenant is designed to show the connection to Jesus but you can see it because you have a heart of stone as in Zech. 7:12.
God is a higher authority over the court and that is the authority Jesus had because God was speaking though Him. That court, the Sanhedrin was eliminated by God when He permitted the temple to be destroyed.
You are mentally incapable of understanding the gospel. God says he rejects the proud and gives grace to the humble. I guess you are not on His list, because if you think you can keep all His laws perfectly all your life in order to be justified, then you think you can be perfect and that is the sin of pride that God says He will reject. It takes humility to accept Jesus and admit you can't be holy enough on your own.
Was Paul advocating that we do those things? No. He was keeping the law and teaching it. He said that the law shows us how sinful we really are that is why we need redemption.
Well, you certainly see things different than I do. The command to not eat food sacrificed to idols wasn't about "protecting people's health." It's about disrespecting Almighty God.
I'm assuming you are referring to the Yom Kippur sacrifice and not the Passover sacrifice. It was for atonement. Not salvation in the Christian sense. Torah doesn't even mention an afterlife. You need to get used to the idea that things like forgiveness aren't necessarily for eternal life. Israel is promised blessings if we obey God, and those blessings are taken away if we disobey. Yom Kippur is a chance to return to obedience its blessings, prosperity in the Land.
I'm sorry, but my IQ is not dependent upon believing in Jesus. This is one of the most ridiculous things you've said.
Wow... I have to agree you here. Nice job!
40 years later? Sorry, but that tells me that it is unrelated.
Yes, this bumper sticker saying came around in the 1970s. It is flagrantly not true. Christianity has a deity, other heavenly beings, prayers, rituals (communion and baptism), a sacred text, and a moral code to follow. If that isn't religion, nothing is.
This has been answered in other posts.
You make it sound like the only purpose of an Israelite is to pass on DNA!!! Outrageous. God said that Abraham's seed, seed meaning his uncountable offspring through Isaac and Jacob, would be a blessing to the world. Your understanding nixes that. Your understanding says that Jews are of no purpose, its only the one seed that has a purpose.
If you have linen and wool in the same garment, you have mixed them. The idea is to avoid that. Obviously you don't care to. You are not following the commandments.
There are health issues associated with the food laws. Obeying them is also honoring God, but He wants to protect His people. If you eat too much shellfish you can get horrible food allergies. You can get rabies from bats, viruses from wild rabbits and mice, etc.
And what did Abraham have? A relationship with God. That relationship can only be had through accepting the New Covenant. Whenever anyone accepts that covenant he is accepted as God's people as God said. You can have that relationship without converting to Christianity. There are Messianic Jews and Messianic Muslims. It is the relationship, the union with Jesus that is salvation.
No, I understand what the commandments are for. You can look at them as a list of rules to follow or as a guide for successful living, I prefer the latter.
Nonsense. And why forty years precisely? That is the number for being tested and tried. It was the designated time that God allowed for the gospel to be preached in that area before He shut down the system.
No I am not referring to the Jew's present day concept of Yom Kippur. The once a year sacrifice in the tabernacle was designed to be a foreshadow of Messiah's future sacrifice which would remove all sin. The Holy of Holies represented heaven and God's presence. Only one High priest was allowed to enter "heaven" so to speak, once a year to make atonement for himself and the people. That sacrifice was designed to foreshadow Messiah's sacrifice, who literally did enter heaven on our behalf. Atonement is salvation for the life of the soul, Leviticus 17:11.