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Tuesday 5 October 2021

Law of Moses

 I get fed up with the hypocrisy of zeal for keeping the Law of Moses which tries to say Jesus wants everyone to keep the whole Law of Moses. Look. For Jews to keep the law of Moses today, there would have to be Taliban-like authoritarian drastic measures. For example, destruction of all buildings with any mildew. That alone would be beyond what is feasible. That is even without the measures requiring mass executions. So if Jews keeping it today is beyond what is feasible, how would anyone who isn’t a Jew even consider keeping it. They would have to become circumcised Jews but even then they would find it is utterly impossible to keep. If a Jew can keep it by some drastic change of lifestyle and creation of a community and government system that facilitates it, fine. But it is well beyond the vast majority. We can all take lessons from the Mosaic Law as well as the prophets, which is why we preserve the scriptures, but to meet the requirements of the One True God we should take on our shoulders the teachings of Jesus, who God has sent, and live by the spirit, with the Holy Spirit leading the way, and let the righteousness of God bring us into the will of God. That is why Jesus Christ was sent by God and died for us on a cross and was raised to help us still. He knows how to please God in a feasible way that persuasive faith facilitates.