Why Christians don't keep the Jewish Laws
Q: Jews judge Christians by saying they aren't keeping and obeying all the Laws, saying they're eating pork and shellfish. Is there something they're missing here, can you explain?
A: To those in Jewish religion, I ask if you have read the Hebrew Old Testament yourself. The actual book of the words of God. You need to read it & study it.
To the Christian, I will say they're very much misleading about both Jesus work, and the laws. If theyre open minded and willing to listen to a Christian answer this topic, they'll learn something they never understood before. If not, their self righteousness will keep them from truth, and it will be among the sins that condemn them on Judgment Day.
Answer:
Jesus perfectly fulfilled keeping all of the Law on mans behalf. We do not need to keep through Law. Our Redeemer did it for us. This is in part why He is our Savior. His total and perfect work on our behalf saved us [who believe].
The moral law seen in the 10 Commandmrnts shows us like a mirror of the perfect holy nature and character of God [His Attributes], and how far we who were made in His image [able to rightly lived out the Communicable attributes] fall far from it (due to the Fall & our sins nature). Only what is perfect can be in God's presence. Thus on judgment day people will be judged against God's holy perfection, and if someone die in their sins, the punishment is eternal damnation. GOD made the way for us to be saved through the perfect life, sacrifice, death and resurrection of the God Man Jesus Christ. Only through Him redemption is available.
The OT sacrifices point to Him as Redeemer, even as far back as Eden. The OT sacrifices, The Exodus blood etc all those point to Jesus as the One who would come and fulfill those temporary shadows, as the real thing; the true sacrifice. Without his blood covering you, there is no hope only a expectation of God's wrath and justice falling on you. Jesus traded places with believers on the cross, bore our sins, and when we repent and obey the Gospel, we recieve His righteousness on our behalf. It is imputed to us. We are forgiven & free from the Law (of sin and death), because He paid our sin debt in full. He bought us with the price God set, to free us. He Redeemed us.
Scripture is very clear the focus on salvation being about "holiness" and it's based on who God is; morally perfect. Jews have a stumbling block with a superiority complex and think their salvation is by being a ethnic Jew. Salvation is not about the non moral Laws, not about earthly temporary things (commanded by God, or the 40 volumes of do not dos created by the Jews that wrongly burdened the people). Non moral Laws like not eating shellfish & other things were simply just meant by God to 1. keep Israel people alive by not getting diseases, or dying fro. brain worms from uncooked pork, (which other nations were plaged by, by bad cooking methods), and to not eat blood or meat sacrificed to pagan God's (so you wouldn't become idolators running after foreign gods. etc). And 2. to show the nations around Israel that they were different. Just as all redeemed ones are; set apart for God. His people. Those from Eden to Abraham to Jacob were saved not by keeping laws that were "given to the future nation of Israel" but by faith in the Messiah who would take away their sins. Nothing has changed.
The Moral Law; God's righteous character and nature, is what men will be judged by. But... most miss this basic truth: since all are sinners, all are already Hell bound. Their only hope is if they get right with God by the one way He offers -Jesus Christ. By Him they can be redeemed from the curse of the Law (it is actually-the law of sin and death). The Law doesn't save, it condemns.
What saves you is Jesus. Not having the Law, not failing at keeping it, not yourself. It's only by God's grace offered to you, through Jesus, that one can be saved. So no one can boast. We must come on GOD'S terms.
It is clear in all of old testament that by faith in the Messiah, one is made right by God; saved. The NT reveals Jesus as the Messiah.
God calls us all to repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus.
Obey the Gospel today, and God will transform you into a new creation.
Then you will keep the Law in spirit; Loving God and Loving others, because God has given you "spiritual life" to do so, when he caused you to be born again.
Once saved you are restored by God to who you were supposed to be; designed
to reflect God's holiness.
⭐️This is the most urgent and important matter to get settle in your life.
⭐️Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
⭐️Get right with God today.
God bless
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