Why do people ASSUME Jesus meant the commandments of the Mosaic Law? Maybe when he said, “my commandments” (John 14:15), he literally meant what he said: the ones spoken by him as Messiah, in the flesh? Update: please reconcile Jesus words from John 15: I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in […]
REVISITED and EXPANDED: Jesus said he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill (Matt 5:17). Here is the full statement: 17 p“Do not think that I have come to abolish qthe Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but rto fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, […]
There are 1,050 commands in the New Testament for true followers of Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus) to obey. Due to repetitions we can classify them under 69 headings. They cover every phase of a persons life in his relationship to God and fellowmen, now and hereafter. There are several groups out there in both the Hebrew Roots and […]
Orthodox Jews maintain that when God gave Moses the written commandments, he also gave him a secret Oral Tradition or Torah she-be’al pe. This was a purportedly a code of conduct and interpretation passed down from generation to generation. The Oral Law supposedly was God’s instruction on how to live out the 613 commandments in […]
