Are you so sure that the Tenach/Torah does not apply to you as a
believer? See Numbers 15:15 For this community there will be the
same law for you (read Israelite) as for the foreigner (read
you)living with you; this is a permanent regulation through all
your generations; the foreigner is to be treated the same way
before Adonai as yourselves. The same Torah and standard of
judgement will apply to both you and the foreigner living with
you.
These "Jewish" feasts that you claim... read again Leviticus
23:1-2
1 And the Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
‘The feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, these are My feasts.
Whose feasts are they? So then who are you worshipping? Continue
reading Leviticus and it is mentioned a few times that these are to
be statutes forever in all your generations. If the same law
applies to the Israelites and the Goy (us as gentile believers)
then should not these feasts which are His feasts apply to us?
New question, does fulfill mean abolished? Yeshua Himself said
in Mattinyahu 5:18
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle will by no
means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
So has the heaven and the earth passed away yet? Has all been
fulfilled yet?
So Yeshua is your salvation, then what? How do you then lead
your life??
Yes, observance of the Torah is not necessary for
Christians. As St Paul writes in the new testament, it is faith in
Jesus Christ working through love that will save us, not the Torah
and its works.
The verses you quoted from Numbers and Leviticus are aimed
squarely at the Israelites and their descendents (as well
as foreign guests living amongst the Israelites), not
Gentiles (non-Jews) in general. If Christians did indeed have to
observe the Torah, why do we read in the book of Acts that
circumcision (a Torah requirement) is not necessary ? Why does
Jesus tell us in Mark 7:14-19 that it is not food that defiles us
but things that come out of us ? (The Torah has strict dietary
requirements). Why does St Paul also write in Col 2:16-17, "Let no
one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or
with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath. These are shadows
of things to come; the reality belongs to Christ." ?
Jesus who is God, did not come to abolish the Old Testament Law
but to fulfill it. As explained by the Catechism of the Catholic
Church (CCC 2053), "The Law has not been abolished, but rather
man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his
Master (Jesus Christ who is God) who is its perfect
fulfillment". (brackets added)
...Easter.. do a quick google search on the origins of easter..
.read for yourself and understand truth.
Have you ever stopped to consider that the church teaches half
truths and a whole lot of lies? Come back to the word, read it,
study it for yourself and see.
Maybe the church is Mr SA tan's way of luring a whole bunch of
people away from the truth of Yahweh. Sit down and listen to any
sermon you get in church today, they have very little meat in them.
Its even worse than homogenised and pasturised milk.
easter does not commemorate the ressurection of Yeshua. The time
of Passover does. The timing is not correct even.
you have to go back to the original intent of the celebration of
easter, just because it is clothed in a different light still does
not make it right. Is a wolf in sheeps clothing a wolf still or a
sheep? you then have to go back to the origins as to why the
celebration of easter was even brought into the church... do some
historical research.
the point to be made here is man does not dictate to Yahweh how
we should worship Him rather we should be led by Him as to how He
wants us to worship Him.
Does the church give the right guidance? So the church knows
better than Yahweh Himself what He wants? Certain things are very
clear in the bible. You do not need to be a scholar to understand
the meaning and the intent.
Why do you blindly trust the church of ancient time? this has
long since been destroyed by the romans. The church today is
nothing like what it was like during the time of the talmidim of
Yeshua. The church that you are referring to is the whole cause of
the problem today.
Yes, the church will give the right guidance in faith
and morals. St Paul describes in 1Tim3:15 that the Church is the
"pillar and foundation of truth". Jesus taught in Mathew
18:17-18 that the Church is the final arbitrator on matters of
faith and morals and gave the Church the power to bind and to loose
on earth. Jesus promised in Mathew 16:18 that the gates of hell
shall not prevail against the Church and in Mathew 28:20, he
promises to be with his Church always. The Church does not know
better than God himself what he wants but God will guide the Church
in teaching the truth (in matters of faith and morals) of what he
wants.
Regarding Easter, do you have a problem with Christians
celebrating the resurrection of Christ ? Or do you have a problem
with the day chosen for the celebration, that it should be done on
another day ? Or both ?
If it is about getting the day right, I think it is a non-issue.
If it is the former, I would say that it is perfectly fitting that
we celebrate the salvific work of Christ. Ask any person what
Easter is about and almost everyone will tell you that they either
do not know/are not sure (especially non Christians), or that it
celebrates the resurrection of Christ. Hardly anyone would
associate celebrating the ressurection of Christ with some
pagan festival (assuming that part is true in the first place).
So as the old saying goes, you would do well to stop making a
mountain out of a mole hill, about how 'pagan' Easter is. Just
be glad that Jesus came into this world to redeem us of our
iniquities by dying on the cross and rising from the dead.
