by Ami

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:46:50 +0000

In Deuteronomy, it says that all the commandments are easy enough to understand and to do. It's true that after 3,300 years, there are some difficult passages in the Hebrew Bible. But overall, there are no mysteries. And as there are no mysteries, there is no need for an additional Divine teaching to explain them.

It is ironic that an Orthodox Jew essentially admits that there is an equivalence between the New Testament and the Oral Torah. As for the assertion that the Oral Torah was sweeping through the Jewish world, what is the evidence? Pharisees, who claimed the Oral Torah, were by that time a major religio-political party, but they were one among many.

Finally, to the question of why Jews reject Jesus. I suppose the question has been vexing for a lot of Christians. The assertion that it is because of the Oral Torah is not true. Jews who reject the Oral Torah also reject the New Testament, even more so. It's simple, really. Did Jesus teach a new teaching, one not found in the Hebrew Bible? If no, then why follow him? Just follow the Hebrew Bible. If yes, then why should we follow this new teaching, if we already have a teaching that works, and that has stood the test of time, which, by the time he came around, was 1,300 years.

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by Ami