In short...from the bible...
The Word of God is forever valid. So is the Law. The law is the
basic foundation of morality, which every civil law in every
country is based upon, such as no murdering, cheating, adultery, a
rest day, etc. all of which are observed throughout the world as
the fundamental truth, even if they don't acknowledge God as
Creator.
So anyone who
tell you the law is invalid, is a liar.
Yet, the law cannot save, nobody can keep the laws. The bible
says, even if you break one, you break all of them. Therefore the
law was not sent by God as a 'requirement' to be saved, but is to
tell us what is right and wrong, that we've done wrong.
Yes, the Law
cannot save, but it has its purpose.
So by law, we can never be justified, never be saved. Therefore
salvation is by Grace alone, not by works. No amount of works,
ceremonies can save us. It is by grace, which we cannot earn and do
not deserve.
However, from the beginning of time, prophesied in the Old
Testament, God promised He will send His Son to die for our sins,
so that we will be forgiven and redeemed. Therefore, with Christ,
we can claim salvation and redemption, forgiveness of sin by
grace.
Law and
Grace
Law and Grace works together. The law is like a mirror, showing
us what is wrong with us, but while the mirror cannot clean your
face, Grace through the blood of Jesus can forgive and wash away
our sins.
Because the law is valid, that's why we need Grace. And Grace is
there because the law can't save us. It is as simple as that. If
the law can save, we need not have Grace.
This is the same concept of salvation in both the Old and New
Testament. In the Old Testament, before Christ came, God gave the
Israelites the tabernacle and festivals and ceremonies, signifying
law and grace. After Christ came, the ceremonies are no longer
necessary because it has been fulfilled by Christ, as the Lamb that
was slained.
The Wrong
Grace
The problem with 'extreme grace' preachers is that they distort
the meaning of grace to say that, because of grace, you will ALWAYS
be forgiven, regardless of what you do and we need not repent
anymore. Which is not true, as the bible also says if we take
Christ for granted, one day we will find no place for repentance.
In Ephesians, Paul also preached and warned against this
doctrine.
In theology, we call this doctrine, antinomianism - or the
teaching of lawlessness. It is an age-old heresy that appears every
few hundred years in the Church world. It comes and goes.
Yes, works can't save us, it is purely by Grace. Yet, if we take
Grace for granted, God will retract Grace from us. That's why in
Revelations, you will still read of churches being warned and luke
warm believers being spit out and rejected by God.
Torah, Judaism, Christians
The problem with people who claim that only the 'original' Torah
and Judaism is a true religion is that, they missed the point that
God said He will send His Son to atone for our sins.
And Jesus did came, He proved Himself, totally sinless,
blameless, died willingly on the cross. Moved in compassion,
preached and revealed the Word of God to us.
The New Testament and the Old Testament is a complete book that
does not conflict each other. It is from the same God that the Jews
worship, who has also sent Christ to reveal His love and salvation
to men.
Therefore, the Torah and the Old Testament for that matter, is
basically half-the-story of God, the New Testament completes
it.
If you read carefully. The Old and New Testament cross
references and proves each other's authenticity as the true Word of
God, from the same God, with the same character and the same
purpose and mission and plan for men.
I hope you will see the light and find Christ :)
Tongues
Tongues is preached throughout the New Testament as a gift of
the Holy Spirit. Admittedly, there're people who fake and make
strange noises, but that's their problem.
But the right teaching of tongues is that - Yes, it can be
spoken publicly with or without interpretation. If you are speaking
to God, nothing wrong. But don't speak to one another in tongues
like a mad person, which Paul said, I rather pray for a person in
understanding than only in tongues. But he also says he thank God
he speak in tongues more than anyone else. In the early church,
whenever the Holy Spirit came, everyone spoke in tongues
publicly.
I think some Christians mix everything up and think that all
charismatic people who believe in tongues are into extreme grace.
Its not true. Basically the extreme grace doctrine in Singapore is
only very subtly preached by one church in Singapore.
It seems that god places a lot of emphasis on blood rituals, and
your claim is that jesus removes the need. However why would a god
actually care about such rituals in the first place? With both
human and animal sacrifices? A higher power claiming to be
omnibenevolent would never require such things, the logical
conclusion is that such festivals and rituals are completely
man-made, or your god is not as nice as you would like to
believe
