The Irony of Christianity Is in Missing the Point

Whenever a fellow believer finds out some of us in our walk with Christ want to walk as He walked, they feel stumped when we mention we keep the Sabbath on Saturday. Or that we don’t eat pork, for example. They can’t wrap their heads around the fact that we believe what Jesus said in Matthew 5:17-19.

This is not meant to be a malicious post, but the same people who claim to uphold the patriarchs of faith would kick those same individuals out of their churches today because of not adhering to their (the church’s) standards of marriage, food, and morality in general.

I’m sorry, but David would not eat a ham sandwich with you. To the Hebrew mind, pork is not food. I also do not eat pork, but I still like beef bacon and turkey bacon. I want to walk as Jesus walked, and that means not eating unclean animals.

To be clear, Jesus’s words in Matthew 5:17-19 don’t say mainstream Christians won’t make it, but they do say they will be least in the kingdom.

If heaven and the Earth have not passed away yet, then the Torah’s laws are still in effect, with some on pause because of the world situation and the lack of a Temple in Jerusalem.

We know the heavens and planet Earth don’t pass until after Jesus’s 1,000-year reign from Jerusalem on Earth. Which would mean—according to His words in Matthew—the Law and the Prophets will never pass in any minute way until that event, which is over 1,000 years away.

Mainstream Christian doctrine makes no sense on this. I don’t agree with Hebrew Roots due to their pride, but our Messiah expects us to keep the commandments we can keep in the modern age. How does it follow that Jesus expected His followers to follow the Torah, then when He dies and resurrects, we don’t have to keep it, but when He returns the Torah will be the law of the world?

“…and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us his ways and that we may walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3 [ESV]).

This is a millennium passage. So, how does the common notion of the Torah being done away with so we can eat all the pork we want make any sense? Jesus returns, and the Torah becomes the law of the world.

Let’s not get it backward. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Another reason I find the mainstream Christian interpretation to make zero sense is that they say the Law of God is bondage and impossible, when, in fact, they add laws that the Torah never has, and their walk is needlessly difficult due to this.

If it is not written, then it is not a sin. You can tell me drinking is a sin all you want, but Jesus Himself drank alcohol, and He’s the sinless Messiah. It wasn’t grape juice, either. That would spoil quickly in ancient times; thus, they made wine.

I’m not a big drinker, but I always use this to make my point. I’ve seen pastors lying to their congregations, telling them alcohol is a sin, then I’ve had a look at the perfect, sinless Jesus, who drank wine all the time.

I’ll take the Bible over men’s theology and traditions any day. Ironically, most Christian denominations today are worse than the Pharisees.

Notice they’ll say things are sin when they’re not, and then say things aren’t sin when they are.

Working on Saturday is a transgression of the Sabbath law. I work a lot on Sundays myself, due to this. I don’t add extra things to the text, but I want Shabbat to be a blessing.

The Church does not have the authority to change the day of rest. Doing so is akin to the rabbis who say they tricked and confounded God, that the Torah is not in heaven, and thus, we need an Oral Law of BS.

“But what about Acts 15?” What about it? The decision was that Gentile converts didn’t need to observe the whole Torah right away and didn’t need to undergo circumcision when they were adult males (the command is for Passover and eight-day-old males).

If the common interpretation of the text that Christians have is true, why are those four commands missing things like loving your neighbor as yourself? That’s not in the four restrictions, so what is the correct interpretation, then?

Either mainstream Christianity has a reading comprehension problem, or the Bible is lying to us. I’d err on the side of Scripture on this one…

They’d start with those four to prevent offending the Jews in the synagogues and learn the rest as they go.

Notice this:

“For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues” (Acts 15:21 [ESV]).

In other words, they’ll learn the rest as they go, and then the onetime command when they are ready for it.

The standards of the churches are not necessarily the standards of God Himself.

“You thought a woman was hot, so you’re going to hell!”

“You drank coffee, so you’re going to hell!”

“You think hell is the Lake of Fire and the destruction of the soul and body in a future event? You’re going to hell!”

“You like symphonic black metal. You’re going to hell!”

Yeshua’s yoke (His interpretation of the Torah) is easy, and His burden is light. This phrase He said means His Torah understanding was simple and easy, and added no further burdens to the believer’s walk.

Learn from Jesus Christ, not the traditions of men in the churches.

His ways are higher, and much better for the soul than the thoughts of mere men.

May you be blessed and have a week full of perfect shalom!