What Do We Miss? 1

Last time I left off with some serious questions about how you live and whose directions you follow for that life. Reading the letters from Paul I can see the confusion he must create in some Christians lives who see the contradictions within those words.

I would like to take a closer look at the disciple’s lives and their teachings. First of all, do you ever stop to think about why Jesus would have chosen the 12 men he choose? Why 12 normal under educated Jewish men? Why didn’t he choose 12 Pharisees or Sadducees? There are greater soulful reasons than I will get into today.

What I do wish to discuss here is how they lived their lives, they followed the Torah, raised in its word, wore tzitzit on the corners of their garments (Tallis or Prayer Shaw) followed the Shabbat did no work on the Lord’s Day, praised him and gave to those who were needy. Three times a year went to the Temple with there Sin offerings. Lived a life of simple means like you and I do going to work to provide for our families needs while helping those who are less fortunate then us I hope. Gave their 10% to the Levites as prescribed in the Torah and every seven years released those who owed them anything.

In addressing the differences we go to the book of Acts. First look at Peter’s vision about the issue with food. Peter had never dined with the Gentiles in his life. He had never eaten any of the foods that were no clean as denoted by the Torah. It is considered a Sin to eat Pork, Shrimp or of any animal that does not have a split hoof or crawls across the bottom of the sea. Jesus explains to him in this vision that through his Sin offering he has returned us back to the words in Genesis where God told Adam he created all animals for our consumption. I have always had questions over this conflict. First we are given the direction we are able to eat of any animal. Then when we get to the desert God had changed the game plan. So hear we see God separating the People of Israel from the rest of the world through all these directions.

Here’s the conflict, Jesus informed Peter in this vision that in His Sin offering these items are now clean again. Paul on the other hand claims that Peter is a hypocrite because he requires Gentile converts to follow Torah scripture by wearing Tzitzit on the corners of their garments, and binding them for a sign upon their hand and for frontlets between thine eyes (Tefflin) and becoming circumcised.

Peter and John still continue to follow the directions of Jesus given during their years spent with him. We have no way of knowing just all the things Jesus taught the disciples during his time with them all we have to go on are the words that were written and published in the texts that were left behind.

Paul on the other hand not having spent any time with Jesus during his life time takes the opposite direction, and educated man and he goes on to preach that since he is a Jew he must follow these commandments and Gentiles only being graphed in to the family of God need not follow the Torah Commandments. Acceptance of Jesus as your Sin offering then releases you of those Commandments.

Like today it is the general consensus and belief that when Moses received the written word from HaShem he also received the Oral Law (Talmud) Paul was one of these Jewish men who was raised that the Oral Law was as much a part of the Torah as the written words. When I attempted to post this question “Why do we follow the Talmudic Law which relieves us from giving our 10% to the Levites, there is justification by the Rabbi’s written in the Talmud that we not continue this practice. Yet the Torah states 3 times that it is considered a Sin if we refuse to care for the Levite amongst you”. HaShem didn’t tell Moses by the way this only pertains if you’re in the Land I will give to you, no he was quite clear that this was to happen where ever they carried the name of HaShem.

So the Rabbi’s way around that was to honor the Levite with the first and last readings of the Torah during the services. It is the Levite that is given the Honor to remove the Torah from the Ark, carry it around and return it to the Ark. This is how the Talmud gives tribute to the Levite that’s a far stretch from handing over 10% of your income to this group of people.

Isn’t that the same way of thinking Paul uses in his justifications, because I am a Jew I must do these things but you as a Gentile believer who have Accepted Jesus as your Sin offering are relieved from doing so?


Yet my question from a past article still stands, doesn’t one need to know what a Sin in God’s eyes was in order to be released from it an offer a Sacrifice to the Adonai for it?

So I pose this to you, the reader, open your eyes and step back look at Paul’s writings from the perspective I have just offered draw your own conclusions with the help of the Holy Spirit. Go to the Torah and find out what HaShem considers a Sin, find out just what you have agreed to accept Jesus to cleanse you from.


The Lord Bless you and protect you!
The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you!
The Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace!

The Articles presented here are copy written by The Light In Christ Ministry in Sherman, TX