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Category: Messiah

Did Jesus break the Law?

The story of the woman caught in adultery and brought by the scribes and Pharisees to Jesus for judgment is recounted in John 8:3-11 as follows: “And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say…

A New Jewish Temple?

If Judaism ever builds a new Temple in Jerusalem, what attitude should followers of Jesus have toward it? In short, we should ignore it. A new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem won’t have any positive supernatural meaning for New Covenant believers or anyone else, and here’s why … Since the time…

Temper tantrum in the Temple?

Always at Passover, someone writes an article in a Christian magazine about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers and driving the merchants out of the Temple. All too frequently in recent years, they speculate that he was out of control with anger, throwing what would today be called…

Beware the Oral Law

Beware the Oral Law (the oral tradition) of the Rabbis, it isn’t from the mouth of Moses or God. Modern Rabbinic Judaism is primarily based on what is called the Oral Law. It consists of thousands of teachings that are not found in the written Bible, the Tanakh. In essence,…