I cannot even count how many times I have been falsely accused, condemned to hell, accused of being Satan, ad naseum.
And this is usually by people of ‘faith’.
But, in regard to religious condemantion and false accusation, it is usually done by people who have no idea what I actually believe, and DENY it when I tell them, show them, and give the EVIDENCE of what I actually believe.
These people are the ones who hang on to the christmas ham, and that is usually the only thing keeping them from walking in a manner more like Yeshua walked.
“Hereby we know that we are in Him: 6he who says “I am in Him” ought himself also to walk His halakha.” The term ‘His Halakha’ is actually in the greek as well: ‘the way HE walked’ and all the various translations of it. This is telling us that Yeshua is OUR RABBI, our ONLY Rabbi, and that those who SAY they follow Him should follow the way HE teaches THE TORAH. “Halakha” is the concept of following what ‘your Rav’ teaches. MY “Rav” or “Rabbi”, is Yeshua ALONE, thank you.
The ‘christmas ham’ about which I speak is this: the two things that keep many believers from seeing the BEAUTY of the Torah are: christmas and food.
It just so happens that a favorite christmas meal is the ‘christmas ham’ hearkening back to the Yule of nordic cultures that sacrificed a pig on the winter solstice. True, most people today do not know that is its origin. But, they don’t care to ‘ask.’ I asked.
People simply do not want to give up their favorite food, bacon, and their favorite holiday. They know that if they begin to observe the SABBATH on the SEVENTH day of the week, that it casts a shadow over the rest of their belief and practices.
So many people today ‘think’ that Yeshua did not practice a ‘religion’, but He most certainly did: HIS!!! HE gave the Torah, His genetic blueprint, to the Jewish people, and came to earth as a Jew! He lived as a Jew, DIED as KING OF THE JEWS, and will come back AS A JEW, being our High Priest. He will judge the world ACCORDING TO the TORAH. He will RULE THE EARTH according to the TORAH.
Folks who disparage me fail ever to prove that GOD changed the Sabbath. They have to use greek, socratic logic to justify THEIR observance of ‘sun-day’ as their ‘sabbath’, and cannot find ONE verse that actually supports that.
Vain philosophy is keeping many believers walking in error:
8Beware, lest any man mislead you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the teaching of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Messiah. ~ Col 2:8
They THINK that the “NT” overturned the kosher laws, but cannot find ONE JEW in the NT who ever ate pork. They misquote Acts 10 and 11, and where Peter explains that his ‘vision’ was NOT about food, while affirming that NEVER IN HIS LIFE, INCLUDING the twenty-some-odd years of BELIEF in Yeshua AFTER His resurrection, had he eaten unclean meat. And he NEVER DID after that! So much so, that years later he would not even eat with Gentiles for fear that Jews would think he was unclean! They IGNORE Paul’s testimony before JEWISH and ROMAN kings and rulers that he had NEVER violated the Torah! That he still lived as a Jew, and that he taught the Torah in Ephesus for two years, every day, and did so all around the known world, wherever God sent him.
They ‘think’ that God sanctified the unclean meat of pig, which is known to be bad for you, and that He sanctified the birthday of Mithras and the feast of Saturnalia. They impose the birth of Messiah over a pagan date, and celebrate it and DEFEND it as truth, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW HE WAS NOT BORN ON 12/25, BUT ON 07/15 of the biblical year, IN THE FALL, proven by simple reading of the NT account of his annunciation and birth.
These two things are idols that believers simply cannot give up. It is spiritual harlotry, mixing the worship of יהוה with the worship of Ba’al, as did Israel. Yet they condemn any Jew who believes in Yeshua and worships Him on the day GOD said to worship HIM.
It never ceases to amaze me how willing people are to perpetuate the lies of the past in order to maintain the status quo: fear keeps people from doing what is morally right. Very few people today have the courage to obey God, so they spin the scriptures to fit what they have inherited.