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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; color: #2e75b5;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Taught A Pharisee Doctrine to Condemn </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; color: #2e75b5;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gentiles Who Tried to Follow Torah &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Paul's doctrine in Galatians that Gentiles who try to obey Torah damn themselves, and are cursed, was a Pharisee doctrine, as we will now prove. &nbsp;We will also prove Jesus in Mathew 5:17-19 intended to condemn this teaching.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Terrorizes Galatians Who Follow the Law</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">In Galatians, Paul bemoans Galatian Christians who wish to&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"> keep sabbath as provided in the Ten Commandments -- a </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">command specifically applicable to all Gentiles in community</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"> with Israel.&nbsp;See&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut%205:12-15&amp;version=YLT"><span style="background: white;">Deut. 5:12-15</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;("sojourner within thy </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">gates");&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2025:6&amp;version=YLT"><span style="background: white;">Lev. 25:6</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;("sojourner settling with thee");&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2023:12&amp;version=YLT"><span style="background: white;">Exo </span></a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2023:12&amp;version=YLT"><span style="background: white;">23:12</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;(sojourner).&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">Paul then says "anathema" -- cursed -- are those who wish to </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">be just / justified by keeping such parts of the Law,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #494a44; background: white;">i.e.</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">, </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">sabbath, etc. For otherwise, Paul argues, they will have to keep</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"> "all" of the Law, and not selected parts. (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+1%3A6-12&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">Gal. 1:6-12</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+2%3A14-16&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">Gal. 2:14-</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+2%3A14-16&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">16</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;(cursed if not continue in all points of law);&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A9-12&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">Gal. 3:9-</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A9-12&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">12</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;(under a curse, <strong>misquoting</strong> <strong>Deuteronomy</strong>, as explained at </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">this&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/topicindex/360-paul-misquotes-of-scripture.html"><span style="background: white;">link</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A21&amp;version=DLNT"><span style="background: white;">Gal. 3:21</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">. &nbsp;<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><br />(Paul thereby misrepresented the Law was all or nothing </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">for a Gentile, rather than tell Gentiles they were a </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">discreet category called sojourners in the Law which &nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">had a few provisions which they had to abide by. See </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><a href="/recommendedreading/98-law-applicable-today.html">The</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><a href="/recommendedreading/98-law-applicable-today.html">Law Applicable to Gentiles.</a>)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">As Bart Ehrman, a professor on the New Testament, explains:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">&ldquo;Paul is absolutely clear [in Galatians] that he thinks non-Jews are not to do these things [<em>i.e</em>., keep Sabbath, holidays, etc.] once they believe in Christ. In fact, in his most vitriolic letter, the one to the Galatians,&nbsp;<strong>he lays a curse on anyone who thinks that Gentiles who come to believe in Jesus should engage in such practices</strong>. (1:8-9; 2:15-16; 3:10-14.&rdquo; (Bart D. Ehrman, <strong>Peter, Paul &amp; Mary Magalene</strong> (2006) at 117.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, Paul curses those Gentile Christians who obey Sabbath for a Biblically-valid reason (i.e., <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=KJV">Exodus 20:6</a> - mercy to those who love and obey commandments of Yahweh). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul extends the same curse implicitly to Jews by saying that <strong>anyone</strong> who believes one is justified before God by "keeping the law" is actually lost if they did so.&nbsp; Gal. 2:15-16 ("no one" is justified by keeping the law.). Thus, implicitly Paul is saying Moses himself was a false prophet for in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A24-25&amp;version=NKJV">Deut 6:24-25 KJV</a> Moses said: </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"[YHWH] commanded us to observe all these statutes...Then it will be <strong>righteousness</strong> [i.e., <strong>justification</strong>] for us <strong>if we are careful to observe all these commandments</strong>...."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Paul's views are particularly ironic that Gentiles are </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">supposedly&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">cursed by obeying Sabbath and being </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">circumcised when in very narrow circumstances the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Law</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> required circumcision (e.g.,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">for a gentile to enter the&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Temple if he chose to enter&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">which&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">was optional) so as&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">to </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">be righteous&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">and continue as&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">salvation-</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">worthy&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">in&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">God's </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">eyes.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"><br />It is&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">especially noteworthy&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">that Paul&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">emphasizes&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">dissuading&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">Sabbath observance among&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">Gentiles by</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">laying a curse on &nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">Gentiles when their attitude is to&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">keep </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">a right standing&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">with God mandated in Deut 6:24-25&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">quoted above. The&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">irony is because Paul&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">claims Gentiles </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">are&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">the focus of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Paul's ministries. Yet Paul appears unaware of </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">verses on the promised new covenant, and the</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">conditions&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">for&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">the entry of Gentiles into it.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">The promise in Isaiah 56 of salvation to Gentiles ("my </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">salvation is <strong>about to come</strong>",&nbsp;</span><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-1.htm"><span style="background: white;">56:1</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">) through God's </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">suffering&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-size: 18pt;">servant in Isaiah 53 (whom was obviously </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus) was predicated on two&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">things: "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">keep the Sabbath</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">from profaning it and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">keep his&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">hand from doing evil.</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">" </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">(Isaiah&nbsp;</span><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-2.htm"><span style="background: white;">56:2</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">) or "who&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">keep My&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">Sabbaths</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">, and choose </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">things that please Me, and</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;take hold of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">my covenant</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">." <br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">(Isaiah&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/kjv/isaiah/passage.aspx?q=isaiah+56:4;isaiah+56:6" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background: white;">56:4,6</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">). The word covenant means the ten commandments, </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">such as in the Ark of the Covenant, i.e., the box holding the tablets of </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">the&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-size: 18pt;">Ten Commandments.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Paul's so-called 'gospel' thereby eviscerated one of the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">key&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">conditions of salvation for Gentiles -- the weekly&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">time out from&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">work -- despite Paul claiming he had the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">correct path of&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">salvation for them. Oh what man cannot </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">be led to believe! &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">In the same vein, Paul says to the Galatian Christians </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">about&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">those who obeyed God's commands as Christians </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">to stay in God's grace:&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">"You have been&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">severed from</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;">&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">Christ</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">, you who are seeking to&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">be justified by Law; you</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">have&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">fallen from grace</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">." (</span><span style="background: white;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-4.htm">Gal. 5:4</a>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-4.htm"><span style="background: white;">NASB</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">.) &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">So Paul acknowledges he is talking about true Gentile </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Christians. They are severed from Christ by obeying </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Sabbath&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">rest as a condition of salvation as expressed by </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">God in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=KJV">Exodus&nbsp;</a></span><span style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=KJV">20:6 KJV</a>. That verse says God grants </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">"<strong>mercy</strong> to those who love me and&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">o<strong>bey my </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"><strong>commandments</strong>."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Thus Paul teaches you are saved by faith alone, but&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">become&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt;">damned by obeying one of God&rsquo;s commands </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt;">in the Ten&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">Commandments if motivated to satisfy the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">requirement in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=KJV"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">Exodus 20:6</span></a><span style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=KJV"></a>&mdash; part of the Ten </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Commandments too. Paul is&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">talking about the Sabbath</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"> command in context -- a command&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">that was specifically </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">extended in the Law to Gentiles aka &nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">foreigners / </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">sojourners who dwelled among the sons of Israel.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">And again on the parallel topic of circumcision (which </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">the Law&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">necessitated a Gentile have done&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">only if</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;they </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">wished to enter&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">the Temple at Jerusalem per Ezekiel 44:9 </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">or wished to participate in&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">passover per Exodus 12:49),</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"></span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">Paul&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">says in the same context:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">"Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">yourselves&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">be&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">circumcised,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">Christ will be of no </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">value</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;to you at all." (</span><span style="background: white;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm">Gal.</a>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm"><span style="background: white;">5:2 NIV</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">Or as the KJV says, "Christ will&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">profit you&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">nothing.</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">" (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm"><span style="background: white;">Gal. 5:2 KJV.</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Thus, even a Gentile Christian who wanted to be </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">circumcised&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">solely to enter the temple to avoid being </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">damned by defiling&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">the Temple's holiness standard,&nbsp; Paul </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">says would&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">actually lose their&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">salvation for such clear</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;"> sin-avoidance</span><span style="background: white;">. Hence, Paul warned a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Gentile Christian </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">would be eternally separated from Christ by&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">that act of </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">obedience to a &nbsp;command &nbsp;that the Law&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">said a </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Gentile&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">must follow if they wanted to enter the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">Temple at Jerusalem&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">and pray. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;">Paul's statement is clearly a ludicrous principle -- you are&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">supposedly damned for obeying a principle which the Law said&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">you must obey so as not to&nbsp; be damned. How ridiculous! &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Where did Paul get this non-Biblical and silly idea from?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The Pharisees.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">But Paul twisted it even further as we shall see.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; color: black;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pharisee Doctrine on Torah for Gentiles</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did the Pharisees Warn Damnation to Gentiles Who Studied Torah?&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus gives us a clue to the answer in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+23%3A23&amp;version=NKJV">Matthew 23:23</a> when Jesus said the Pharisees neglected and did not teach the Law on its judgments (right from wrong), mercy (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+20%3A6&amp;version=NKJV">Exodus 20:6</a>, mercy for obedience and loving Yahweh) and <a href="/recommendedreading/606-septuagint-greek-usage-of-pisteuo.html">PISTIS</a> - which can mean obedience (aka 'faithfulness') or faith. The Pharisees, Jesus similarly said in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+16%3A6&amp;version=NKJV">Matt 16:6</a>, turned their pupils into twice the sons of hell as they were. Their Law-ignoring doctrine damned their students.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">But which students was Jesus concerned about? Jews or Gentiles? Or both?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Paul says as a Jew he learned strict obedience as a Pharisee, right? See <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2026:5&amp;version=KJV">Acts 26:5 KJV</a> ("I conformed to the strictest sect...the Pharisees.")</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">If that is true, and meant adherence to Torah (which Paul does not say clearly), then one way to reconcile Jesus and Paul is to ask the question whether Jesus meant here to condemn the Pharisee sects' doctrine toward <strong>only</strong> the Gentiles if they taught them <strong>not</strong> to learn Torah.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Let's see if that may explain Paul's experience versus what concerns Jesus in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+23%3A23&amp;version=NKJV">Matthew 23:23</a> about the Pharisee sect.&nbsp; Umm. Our detective story turns to this next question:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Who did the Pharisee sect neglect to teach Torah other than tithing? Jews, Gentiles or both?</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">Jesus Cites Specific Deficient Teaching to Jews.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">As to Jews, Jesus gave us an example of how the Pharisees used their Korban doctrine - a temple payment - to excuse the duty understood from the fourth commandment to "honor" one's parents. This is in Matthew 15:6. For full discussion, see <a href="/recommendedreading/230-korban-or-corban-jesus-criticized.html">Korban</a>. (The fourth command was construed that you must support your parents if they fall into poverty so they do not suffer dishonor. Jesus addressed the Pharisees' allowance that a certain Korban payment to the Temple -- which they could get their hands on? -- excused the duty to support your parents if they fell into poverty.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Thus, by a commandment of men, i.e., the Pharisees, a commandment of God had been negated. Because Gentiles had no duty to make Korban payments in the Law (see <a href="/recommendedreading/230-korban-or-corban-jesus-criticized.html">link</a>), Jesus was talking only about a command the Pharisees gave the Israelites. Jesus said the Pharisees thereby revised a command only intended for Israelites on the Korban so it negated their obligations under the fourth of the ten commandments.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Hence, that lesson from Jesus specified a deficient rule of the Pharisees towards their Jewish listeners' obligations after paying a Korban gift.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">By contrast, Jesus does not say who was being mistaught in Matthew 23:23 to neglect the principles of right-and-wrong, mercy and PISTIS (faithful-obedience or faith).</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Could Jesus have meant a teaching-failure by the Pharisee sect in relation solely to the&nbsp; Gentiles?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">What Did Pharisees Say on Whether Gentiles Can Study Torah?&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">What if we looked into the Pharisees' teaching to the Gentiles on whether to read the Torah? Could Jesus in Matthew 23:23 be addressing the Pharisees for entirely excluding Torah-teaching to Gentiles, just as Paul perpetuated?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Let's listen to Orthodox Jews today explaining the Mishna and Sanhedrin tractate from the Talmud which reflects Pharisaic teachings of Christ's era on this topic. This will help answer the question.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Why does the Mishna help? Because the Mishna from the early 200s contains the Pharisee doctrines at the time of Jesus.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">How so?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">First, the Mishna portion of the Talmud was written in the early 200s to codify the teachings of Judaism at that time. This is a mere 170 years after Christ's appearance.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Second, within the Mishna is the Sanhedrin tractate -- records of a judicial body that operated during the Roman era, including the time of Christ. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin_(tractate)">link</a>. The Pharisees were influential members of the Sanhedrin in that era.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">(Incidentally, the Talmud's other section, the Gemara, is from 500 AD. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud">link</a>.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Third, at the time the Mishna-Talmud was written, the Pharisees -- the Rabbinic class -- was the only institution of Judaism from the time of Christ which survived the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem by Roman armies. Prior to that destruction, the Sadducees and Levites had each a role as leaders of official Judaism, but their roles almost exclusively were tied to the Temple. Its destruction in 70 AD made those parties effectively defunct. This left the Pharisees as the sole effective remaining leg of a once three-legged table of Judaism. Hence, the Mishna written in early 200s reflected a Judaism as largely designed by the Pharisee sect.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Finally, the Mishna-Talmud embodies passages quoting known Pharisaic teachers from Jesus' era, such as Gamaliel. Hence, we can determine that the Mishna likely preserved Pharisaic doctrine. If Paul the Pharisee teaches the same thing we find in the Mishna-Talmud or the Sanhedrin-tractate in the Talmud, this <strong>proves Paul's view in Galatians simply reflected contemporary Pharisaic doctrine.</strong> The same doctrine Jesus condemned in Matthew 23:23.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Incidentally, it is generally understood that in time this controlling group from the 200s came to be known to us today as the Orthodox.&nbsp; By now the Orthodox have become a sect again within Judaism. Now there are divisions of teachers, some of whom are known as Reformed, besides those known as the Orthodox. Yet Nehemiah Gordon in his YouTube on the <strong>Our Father</strong> proclaims his family belongs to the Orthodox sect, which Nehemia said means they understand themselves as the same as the Pharisee sect at the time of Christ.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">The Pharisees Generally Bar Gentiles Studying Torah&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">In line with Orthodox doctrine, Avram ben Yaakov has a topic entitled '<strong>Should Gentiles Study the Torah?</strong>' in his article in the <strong>Jornal</strong> <strong>Mitsva</strong> at this <a href="http://jornalmitsva.blogspot.com/p/torah-for-nations.html">link</a>. The answer is surprisingly similar to Paul's horror at the Galatians wishing to study Torah. And Avram cites Mishna era teachings to support this.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">I want to include the entire context so we can gain a feel for what Pharasaic Judaism allowed to be taught, and how it evolved into this current Orthodox position explained by Avram Yaakov.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Here are his five points at this <a href="http://jornalmitsva.blogspot.com/p/torah-for-nations.html">link</a>. They reflect a position that the Talmud-Mishna, including the Sanhedrin Tractate, told Gentiles they would be executed (killed) if they should study Torah. Thus, Gentiles studied at risk of death if they studied Torah. The only exception was if they convert -- a code-word for those who became circumcised. This exception likewise fits that "certain men" in Acts 15:1-2 insisted Gentiles must be circumcised to be saved. No doubt these were Pharisees. However, they lost that point in the Jerusalem Conference under bishop James.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">With that introduction, here are Yaakov's five points verbatim:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; color: #e84c22; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Should gentiles study the Torah? by </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; color: #e84c22; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Avram Yaakov&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">The Torah was specifically given to the Children of Israel to guard and observe, and many of its commandments apply only to those who are members of the people of Israel, whether by birth or through voluntary, lawful <strong>conversion</strong>. At the same time the Torah is full of teachings that apply to all mankind, especially the Seven Universal Laws, and it is a treasury of eternal wisdom, guidance, love and compassion for all.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">1. Every gentile is obligated to learn and understand the Seven Universal Laws, which apply to all people. Under Noahide law a gentile may be executed for unintentionally violating one of the Seven Laws through ignorance, because he should have learned (Talmud, Maccot 9; Bava Kama 91).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">2. Every gentile is commanded to know HaShem (Introduction to Talmud by Rav Nissim Gaon, 990-1062). [NOTE: This means a Gentile must know THE NAME - the name of God, namely YHWH.]</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">3. It is <span style="font-weight: bold;">forbidden</span> for a <span style="font-weight: bold;">gentile</span> to <span style="font-weight: bold;">study</span> those <span style="font-weight: bold;">portions</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Torah</span> that <span style="font-weight: bold;">apply only</span> to the people of Israel as members of the Covenant obligated to observe all 613 Commandments of the Torah specifically given to Israel. According to the Talmud, a <span style="font-weight: bold;">gentile</span> who <span style="font-weight: bold;">studies</span> those portions would be <span style="font-weight: bold;">liable</span> to <span style="font-weight: bold;">death</span> from Heaven (<strong>Sanhedrin</strong> 59a). This would apply to in depth study of the Talmud and Kabbalah, for the proper understanding of which years of preparation are required. Without these, such study can be dangerous for the student and possibly for many others around him or her. Any gentile who sincerely wishes to make a deep study of Talmud or the original Kabbalistic texts should first convert.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">4. It is permitted for a <span style="font-weight: bold;">gentile</span> to study those of the 613 commandments for Israelites that a <span style="font-weight: bold;">gentile</span> may <span style="font-weight: bold;">observe voluntarily</span> without <strong>converting</strong>. Later commentaries in this series will set forth what these commandments are.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">5. Other Torah and works that gentiles <span style="font-weight: bold;">may study</span> with benefit and without danger would include the Bible and works on the fundamentals of Torah faith, belief and ethical self-improvement by <span style="font-weight: bold;">acknowledged rabbinical authorities</span>, including Rabbi Moses Maimonides ("Rambam", 1135-1204), Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzzatto ("Ramchal", 1707-47), Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe (1745-1812), and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Compared to This Pharisaic-Orthodox View.</span></p>
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<p><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Immediately, one should see a striking coincidence between&nbsp; Orthodox-Pharasaic records from Christ's era or very close which reflect a Gentile brought condemnation on himself by reading the Law, and Paul's similar notion in Galatians. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The Pharisaic records make one exception from this rule:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The Gentile can only study those portions he or she is permitted to voluntarily choose to perform.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The only two such categories are (in my study)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">1. observing Passover; and</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">2. seeking to bring atonement offerings for atonement.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Gentiles could voluntarily submit themselves to those two procedures, but had no duty to do so. See our article <a href="/recommendedreading/98-law-applicable-today.html">The Law Applicable to Gentiles</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Paul, on the other hand, makes only an exception for a single Torah-based rule for Gentiles to obey, namely that Gentiles supposedly must financially support figures like Paul and teaching elders based upon <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut+25%3A4&amp;version=NKJV">Deut 25:4</a> (the ox is entitled to feed from the grass as it treads out the field.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">In <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor.+9%3A9&amp;version=NKJV">1 Cor 9:9</a>, Paul construes its rule that an ox has a right to eat from the field as it treads the grain to mean instead that such church figures as Paul are entitled to payment for preaching / teaching from those they sowed the spiritual seed. (On the apostate rewrite involved, see <a href="/recommendedreading/855-outrageously-self-serving-rewrite-of-torah-in-1-corinthians-9-verses-9-to-10-.html">Shocking Rewrite of Deut 25:4 by Paul</a>.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">(Paul was unaware obviously that Jesus taught the twelve that when they preach the kingdom and minister, they should not burden their listeners with paying to listen, for "freely you received, so freely give." <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+10%3A7-8&amp;version=NIV">Matt 10:7-8</a>.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Otherwise, Paul declares that any effort by a Gentile to read&nbsp; and follow the Torah to satisfy God's requirements will lead necessarily to their personal condemnation by God, and severance from Christ, and Christ will profit them nothing.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Paul was thus <strong>virtually identical in every way to Pharisaic teaching that did away effectively with the Law / Torah for Gentiles</strong> except one provision that was financially advantageous for himself. Otherwise, Paul simply disagreed with the Pharisees that male circumcision was necessary to get saved.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Paul took it one insulting and blasphemous step further when he explained <strong>why</strong>. For Paul effectively forbid Gentiles from reading the Torah because its letter supposedly <strong>spiritually kills you to read</strong>. How so?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Paul claims the Law against coveting another's goods when read thereby incites the sin to steal them, as just an example. See Example #1 Law Incites Sin in our article <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/188-blasphemy-a-paul.html">Paul &amp; Blasphemy.</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Instead of our reading the letter of the Law, Paul claims we now only follow the spirit. Paul defined twice that principle to mean that all things are <strong>lawful</strong> but not all things are <strong>expedient</strong>. That is, you refrain from action only when the negative costs of action outweigh the gain it brings. It is all relative on the benefits versus the costs. See heading "A New Morality In Its Place," in <a href="/recommendedreading/106-chapter-five-jwo.html">Jesus' Words Only Chapter Five</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">This is how Paul rationalized lying to promote the gospel in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+3%3A7&amp;version=NKJV">Romans 3 verse 7</a> -- when the benefits of lying for the gospel outweigh the fact you lie. Expediency justifies your conduct. In fact, Paul, in reference to why he lies to advance his gospel, excuses himself by asking "why am I yet called a sinner?" for doing so with good intentions.&nbsp;<span>See our article&nbsp;</span><a href="/recommendedreading/283-guile-in-paul.html">Paul and Blasphemy.</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"><strong>This Explains Why Among Jews Post-Fall of The Temple That Only Ebionites Declare Paul an Apostate.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">I have long wondered why there is no Jewish record post-fall of the Temple from official voices of Judaism condemning Paul. Yes, today, Slobec will criticize Paul. But we now live in a diverse culture once more similar to the pre-Temple-fall&nbsp; Jewish culture. But the Pharisees after the Temple-fall, and as they morphed into the Orthodox, controlled the narrative post-Temple-fall.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">But for what we learn above about the Orthodox' position on Gentiles and Torah, you would think some forerunner of Tovia Singer or Slobec of yesterday would attack Christianity for having Paul's words in its canon. Until this very day, the voices in Judaism that show Paul an apostate are very few.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">But no Jewish authority ever spoke up to attack Christian Gentiles for following Paul. Only the Ebionites who were the original Jerusalem church did so. They declared Paul an apostate, and excluded reading Paul's writings. See<a href="/recommendedreading/840-ebionites-first-apostolic-church-rejected-writings-of-paul.html"> Ebionites Declare Paul's Writings Are From Apostate</a>. Now we know why. They agreed with Paul not to teach the Law to Gentiles.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"><strong>A Second Mystery Solved?</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The explanation for such silence from Judaism about Paul is obviously what we learned above. The Ebionites reflected the non-Pharisee position that Gentiles could learn Torah, and be God-fearers welcomed at synagogue. They spoke against Paul as an obvious apostate.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">However, when the Temple fell, and the Levites and Sadducees lost their positions, and Paul became the teacher to the Gentiles in denominations like Roman Catholics, the remaining voice of Judaism - the Orthodox - agreed with Paul.&nbsp; The <strong>Orthodox agreed</strong> with his conclusion that there is <strong>no Torah for Gentiles</strong>. And thus <strong>apostasy by Paul</strong> directed at Gentiles was <strong>tolerated by Judaism</strong> post-Temple fall because the succesors in charge of Judaism were the Pharisees-Orthodox who<strong> shared the same view as Paul</strong>. The Pharisees-Orthodox post-Temple would <strong>not teach Gentiles the Law either,</strong> making exception only for Gentiles who became circumcised first. A legacy teaching which Avram's article above proves never died.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The veil is being lifted as legitimate voices are now speaking up within Judaism that Paul indeed fits the label of an apostate under Deuteronomy 13:1-5, as the Ebionites long ago determined pre-fall of the Temple.</p>
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