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Sabbath Day Observance?

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Concerning Sabbath Day observance,

The Sinai Commandments (9 of the 10 Decalogue) are mere fragments of the spiritual law written upon the heart of human kind on Day-6; Commandment #4 is a civil edict given the children of Israel, exclusively. These nine moral laws were given Israel’s children by Elohim via Moses as guiding directives concerning their relationship with Elohim and their interpersonal relationships between the Tribes as they were embarking on a journey to the Promised Land that would entail encountering pagan tribes, pagan gods i.e., Baal, Molech, the deception of the demonic.

Sinai and Moses’ civil/ceremonial edicts were given to a specific group of chosen people, Jacob’s children, as these edicts were bulwarks against compromise with paganism, a compromise that would have thwarted Elohim’s objective of bringing forth His Messiah through Judah as prophesied.

Gentiles have never been obligated to observe a Sabbath regulation nor is there one example of a Gentile honoring a Sabbath; this, from Adam forward lest same was seeking inclusion in Israel’s theocracy subsequent Exodus 16 when Elohim commanded Sabbath observance via Moses, a directive given Jacob’s children, exclusively.

It is also interesting to note that Elohim was required to provide Moses exacting details as to how the Sabbath would be honored, why? Elohim provided Moses extensive details as to the Sabbath’s prohibitions due the truism that NO PRIOR PRECEDENT CONCERNING A SABBATH OBSERVANCE EXISTED.

Why do Christians reject Torah Law?

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Theological question: “Where do Christians get the idea that they no longer have to obey the law?” Romans 6:14

Christian response,

Has nothing to do with “NOT” keeping laws but that keeping letters, laws, days, diets, traditions, feasts, such as those legislated, mandated, in Torah no longer apply to those in the New Covenant as obedience, moral-judgment, pleasing the Father through obedience (John 15:8), changed; this, for a more efficient and exacting Way to pursue obedience that actually pleases the Father.

A New and NOVEL WAY to obedience,

Those redeemed by faith in Jesus in the New Covenant, uniquely possessing the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), are anointed by the Spirit to produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) and it is this fruit that replaces chasing letters and mandates, CODIFIED LAWS that are subjective and argued over concerning their meaning, their application, the definition of their particular legal elements; CODIFIED LAWS that are easily rationalized away by the sin-nature of the human conscience; this is confusion, this is fertile ground for obfuscation whereas the Spirit eradicates the confusion of letters and true obedience in the New Covenant is defined by the pursuit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and it is these attributes/divine fruit of the Spirit that fulfills all law; both codified and spiritual; this, void the legalese and subjectivity of letters.

It’s NOT that the Christian is disobeying Torah or rejecting Torah but that the New Covenant, due the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit residing within the redeemed in Jesus (Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 32:39–40; Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26–27) provides a better Way to please the Father, a better Way to walk in obedience to the Father’s will for our individual and corporate lives.

New American Standard Bible

“And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.” Ezekiel 36:27

Galatians 5:16-18

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. / For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. / But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

Law in the New Covenant?

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LAW in the New Covenant?

In the New Covenant, the redeemed in Jesus possess the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor and Seal of Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and the Christian is not under letters, days, diets, traditions, (Romans 6:14) but the Christian walks in daily sanctification via the Holy Spirit who produces divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) through the Christian and this fruit actually pleases the Father and proves one to be a legitimate disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

The Spirit works through the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), the new man, in Jesus via the redeemed conscience to seek obedience, NOT obedience to letters, but obedience to divine fruit which fulfills all law; both, codified and “spiritual” (that written upon the heart at conception – Romans 2:14-15).

Cult member mocks the virgin birth, deity of Jesus

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Cult member: Challenge their false doctrine. How is Jesus Christ Earthy conceived by the Holy Ghost? John 8:23

Elohim told you as early as Genesis 3:15 that there would be One who would enter the Realm of Time born of the “seed of the woman” (not the man which transfers the Adamic sin-nature, Romans 5:12) and this anointed One would do battle with Satan.

Elohim the Holy Spirit, first introduced in Scripture in Genesis 1:2, who is the Logistical Overseer of the Creation Narrative, the active, anointed, Elohim who is the One who accomplishes all things HOLY and eschatological in Scripture, it is the Holy Spirit who was tasked with fertilizing Mary’s womb with the Deity of the Son, Yeshua, who would be born holy, pure, anointed by the Spirit (Luke 1), to accomplish the primary objective of Genesis 3:15 via the battle strategy of the Gospel, ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:9-10), and first proclaimed by Elohim in Genesis 3:21.

The primary objective of Jesus, Elohim the Son, was “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b). Void Messiah’s virgin birth, the entire objective of Elohim the Father would have been nihilistic, as the Anointed One who would provide acceptable blood atonement must be pure, holy, unblemished, spotless, sinless, undefiled and only Jesus, void the Adamic sin-nature, could accomplish this (1 Peter 1:18-19).

No one keeps the Commandments but Jesus? Why?

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Skeptic-Legalist asked: “No one keeps the Commandments but Jesus?”

No one, no one born of Adam’s seed (Romans 5:12) keeps the Commandments (Romans 3:23), if that were possible, Jesus died in vain (Galatians 2:21).

Righteousness, a right standing with Elohim, mandates “perfection” in word, thought, deed, in order to appease Elohim’s wrath for sin; this, the very reason Messiah entered Time apart from Adam’s seed (the seed of the woman), walked in sinless perfection before the Father and humanity, gave Himself as blood atonement for sin (to destroy the works of Satan, 1 John 3:8b) and the Father interceded via New Covenant promise and agreed to impute, gift, the sinless perfection of Jesus over the life of anyone who trusts in Messiah as their propitiation for the Adamic initiated sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12).

Through this New Covenant promise, those who trust in Jesus are made “positionally” right with the Father; that is, the Father agrees to only see the perfection, righteousness, of His dear Son in the redeemed in Jesus, not their sin; this New Covenant promise pacifies the Father’s wrath and permits entrance into the Kingdom, a divine Kingdom where “nothing impure is permitted to exist” (Rev 21:27).

Commandment keeping is not an element of salvation nor do the Commandments, Moses, Days, Diets, have relevance in daily Christian sanctification as it is the Holy Spirit that conforms the human conscience of the redeemed to pursue the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) and it is the “fruit” that fulfills the intent of all moral law; it is divine fruit that actually pleases the Father and proves one to be a disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

The Christian and Sinai’s Commandments

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Christians don’t pursue Sinai’s Commandments given solely to Israel’s children and those seeking refuge in that theocracy.

Sinai’s Commandments are but a mere fraction of the comprehensive Spiritual Law infused within human kind on Day-6 of Creation (Romans 2:14-15).

Christians don’t pursue laws, days, diets, but Christians honor the entire LAW through the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) as He produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this fruit fulfills all law and actually pleases the Father and proves one to be a legitimate disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

If a Christian never observed the Torah, had no access to same, their walk with the Spirit would be unhindered.

The Millennial Kingdom; the fall of Adam; the Kingdom War; design…a divine battle strategy…

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The Millennial Kingdom; the fall of Adam, the Kingdom War; a divine battle strategy…

I do believe the fall of Adam and the atrophy of all things physical that followed, was by design as our Earth was created as an alternate repository for the Kingdom War, within the Spiritual Realm, that manifest before Time began.

We know that the Gospel, first pictured in Genesis 3:21, is the divine battle strategy that Elohim would employ “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) via the blood shed at Golgotha 4000 years subsequent a formal declaration of war as articulated in Genesis 3:15; we know that the Gospel was ordained “before Time began” for this divine purpose (2 Timothy 1:9-10).

Our entire creation is predicated upon war and our Creator is settling a score, righting a wrong via selfless love, a wrong initiated by an anointed cherub angel, a war that has been placed here, within the temporary constraints of Time and physics, while Elohim restores order and peace to His Kingdom; this, as He maintains intimacy with the faithful angelic creation that did not follow the corrupted cherub in the Great Rebellion.

The Millennial Kingdom will be a preface to the New Jerusalem for the Saints in Jesus to witness and the Millennial Kingdom will be a time of defining the true culprit responsible for anarchy in the Kingdom and abject horror upon the Earth during the previous 6000-years. As a result, the faithful angelic creation will wholly concur with Elohim that the rebellious cherub, their former leader, deserves eternal punishment in Hell, Elohim will be glorified for His unfathomable love and grace and patience.

Must you believe that Jesus is Deity, God, Elohim, I AM, in order to be saved from death in Hell?

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Must you believe that Jesus is Deity, God, Elohim, I AM, in order to be saved?

Believing with a sincere heart that Jesus is Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt owed the Father in conjunction with believing that Jesus was resurrected from the dead for your justification, these are essentials to salvation, the initiation of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Romans 10:9-10)……BUT……if one proclaims them self to be redeemed, a Christian, and they reject the Deity of Jesus, THESE ARE NOT CHRISTIAN, THEY ARE NOT REDEEMED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLY DOES NOT RESIDE WITHIN THEM AS GUARANTOR OF NEW COVENANT PROMISE (Ephesians 1:13-14) as the Holy Spirit teaches the necessity for Messiah’s Deity.

Jesus warned,

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am “He,” you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 (NASB)

In John 8:24, the word “he” is added by translators. While English Bibles (like the NIV or KJV) use “I am he,” the original Greek simply says “I am” (egō eimi). This directly mirrors the divine name used in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14), with Jesus claiming equality with God.

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” John 8:58 (NASB)

Again: the original Greek says “I am” (egō eimi). This directly mirrors the divine name used in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14), with Jesus claiming equality with God.

The Jewish audience and their religious leadership clearly understood Jesus’ proclamation of Deity and sought to murder Jesus by stoning; ultimately, charging Jesus with “blasphemy” and handing Him over to Pilate, Herod, for execution.

In Hebrews 1, the Father clearly proclaims Jesus to be “God” and Creator and the Father commands the angels to worship Him. I believe the Father. You should as well!

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Colossians 2:9-10 (NASB)

Religionist said: “It’s so weird when so called believers try to argue against following the Lord’s commandments.”

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Religionist said: “It’s so weird when so called believers try to argue against following the Lord’s commandments.”

Christian response,

Those who are “believers,” having been born again into the New Covenant, understand the process of “commandment” keeping as it relates to the Spirit’s work via the “new creation” in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17).

If one desires to honor Messiah’s commandments, they must first honor HIM and the Father through faith believing that Jesus is Messiah who died for them and was resurrected for them (Romans 10:9-10) and it is by “believing” that one receives the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14).

It is then, by the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit, that the redeemed, the new creation, begins a journey of daily sanctification (a setting apart from the World) and the Holy Spirit begins to produce divine fruit through the redeemed (Galatians 5:16-23) and it is this divine fruit that fulfills all law; both, codified and spiritual and it is that fruit that pleases the Father and proves one to be a legitimate disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

Christianity is NOT about pursuing laws, days, diets, traditions, clothing, but Christianity is about a personal, divine, relationship with the Father through faith in the Son and life anointed by the indwelling Holy Spirit, walking in peace with Elohim, producing fruit that furthers and honors the Kingdom. Christians serve the Spirit, not Moses.

What modern Church best represents the Apostles of Jesus

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Skeptic asked: “Which Church can historically trace itself back to the Apostles without interruption???”

Biblical response,

Any Church whose doctrine emphasizes that salvation, righteousness (a right standing) with our Heavenly Father, can only become reality through adherence to the precepts of the Gospel; that is, believing with a sincere heart that Jesus is our Messiah who died to pay our sin-debt owed the Father, a debt that cannot be paid by human effort, and by believing that Jesus rose from the dead for our justification leading to eternal life.

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.