Can Romans prove Paul lied against God and was a Biblical ignoramus? (Especially note Romans 10, as it defies Elohim and Jesus)

 

Following Romans review, "Galatians Should Not Be Scripture" is noted.  

 

 

Questioning Paul was a hot topic in the first centuries of the Church, before Rome hijacked the Christian faith.  Our own scriptures provided us adequate evidence that Paul was nothing but a liar, or severely delusional man - take your pick.  The words of Paul's own mouth condemn him!  But Christian scholars have not even tried to be reasonable to explain Paul's contradictions of doctrine or facts of his conversion.  We need to open our ears and stop putting blinders over our eyes - LOOK at Paul by his own testimony!

 

What about some objective historical proof about Paul?  For starters, he claimed to be a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin - Jew of Jews, a pinacle of virtue of the Law, understanding the depths of many things.  Well, that my dear friends was a lie, as all his writings are filled with lies.  Previous to this a mistake was made that said Paul was of the Flavian family.  I couldn't remember at the time if it was Flavian or Herodian.  Robert Eisnman, one of the best Christian scholars of record regarding ancient Christian and DSS writings - did an article identifying that Paul was a Herodian.  My apology for not recalling correctly.  This is a link to the findings of Eisenman.       

Robert Eisenman: "Paul as Herodian" (drew.edu)

 

(544) #1 "Paul Mystery Period" for 14-17 Years," in "Paul or James' Church - Which Was More Successful?" - YouTube 

 

This review will be to investigate if Romans uprightly handled the Doctrine of Jesus (Joshua) as taught in Matthew, and more specifically, the more original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  All of the writings of the New Testament should be reviewed with eyes open to the previously given words of God as found in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, THE VALEDICTION  OF MOSES (proto-Deuteronomy - "V"), and the Hebrew Scripture – especially as given in THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES, because the rest of the Bible is founded on the accounts from Moses, AND DEUTERONOMY WAS THE ONLY BOOK IN GENESIS WRITTEN IN THE FIRST PERSON BY MOSES.

The King James Version is much revised over 400 years, so the NIV will be sited, as it has some of the latest scholarship in translation and has corrected some of the pre-existing errors and archaic language of the KJV.  The source for Romans is from a link in the NIV.  The text will be noted for review and comments throughout.

Elohim gave Teachings that are to be used to determine if someone claiming to speak on His behalf is telling the truth – or if they prove themselves to NOT be speaking on His behalf.  These are found in Deuteronomy chapters 4, 12, 13 and 18.  The tests regard miracles and prophecies – and primarily focus on whether or not the proclaimer is remaining faithful  to the record of the same God and God given Instruction given to be the manner of faith, belief and life that God said His people are to observe and live by  – particularly as contained in the Ten Decrees, Blessings, and Curses, as given in His Everlasting Covenant that was ratified by Jew and non-Jew at Sinai. 

Comments will be inserted into the text of Romans, but in a different font, so as to avoid confusion and enable comment throughout the book  of Romans.

Details of the premise about Deut. 4, 12, 13 and 18 can be found at:

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Romans 1

¹Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—  [The only record that Paul was “called to be an apostle” is from his own pen.  Where does Acts claim Paul was an apostle?  His first account doesn’t make this claim at all.  It isn’t until Acts 22:21 that we hear Paul’s claim that Jesus said “Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.”  There is no witness testimony to this but Paul’s words to Luke. (Luke and Acts were written by the same person, and are second hand testimony until later in Acts.  Some believe  both were prepared for the trial of Paul in Rome.)  The most important evidence about Paul will stem from the Instructions of God to see if Paul remains faithful to the Teachings of God in the Covenant Standards.  As Isaiah said, "If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them."]² the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures ³ regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life^[a] was a descendant of David, ⁴ and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. [Note that the internet source provides NO footnotes scriptural support for the claims of Paul in verses 3 and 4 for “his earthly life” or that Jesus claimed to be “the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead”  In fact, the claims of Jesus in Matthew is to be a mortal man – not a pre-existent “Son of God – which In other writings Paul also claims to be co-Creator of the heavens and earth.”  In Matthew, Jesus was "begotten" by God at his baptism, not his birth in Bethlehem.  Israel was declared by God to be His son, and Jesus was the unique one, the one anointed by God to speak on His behalf in calling all men to repent and turn from iniquity (lawlessness - because they had altered His Covenant 1000 years before, and Israel was following their Rabbi instead of the Teachings of Elohim). See Jesus’ claim at the end of Matthew to be the one who would ascend to the throne on the right hand of God – as foretold in Daniel.  The false charge was Jesus claimed to be “the Son of God” to be blasphemy because there is only One God – see the Covenant and Isaiah 43-45.  ]⁵ Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from^[c] faith for his name’s sake. ⁶ And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.  [God said everything – all - including mankind – belong to Him, as He is their creator and source of being and that mankind was created in His image with specific purpose in His creation of the heavens and earth.  Jesus called all men to repent and obey God.  Proof texts given in the Sermon on the mount and the rest of his teachings prove they are founded upon, and in total accord with, the words of God in the Covenant and to those before Moses.  In Matthew the charge of Jesus was to make disciples of him from all nations – not just Jews.  The twelve apostles were already making disciples – so Jesus had no need to send Paul to do what they were already doing.  None of the chosen apostles of Jesus ever said Paul was an apostle – only Paul’s personal biographer Luke ever implied such – and he never said Paul was either.  Good evidence is that 1 and 2 Peter were not written by Peter, nor was John, 1, 2, 3 John or Revelation written by the disciple "John".  Jesus' Words Only youtube channel did a video on 2 Peter being mistranslated to support Paul, as our translations speak to the wisdom of Paul, but the Greek said his writings were nonsense. ]

⁷ To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. [It was Rome who gave authority to the Catholic Church, who put Paul into our New Testament records – and persecuted everyone who would not believe the lies of Paul and the Pope.  The murders and persecutions from Rome find no accord with anything Jesus taught or exampled.  If Paul found favor with Rome, it is because he was related to the Roman Herodian family – which is documented at: Jesuswordsonly.com and by Robert Eisenman.  One only needs to read the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew translation to know those God has grace and peace towards are those who love Him and observe His Commandments to be their manner of life.  God also said those who reject His Covenant Standards are His enemies.  Did Paul teach upholding the least of the Commandments of God – as Jesus did?  In some places Paul seems to, but then in other places he defies the good he did say - so if you believe Paul - you only show you have not judged Paul by his own words.  No wonder he said he caught some by his guile, and in another place that he strove to be all things to all men - to the Jews as a Jew, to the Gentiles, as a Gentile.  The Standards of Elohim Almighty defy this and condemn all forms of deceit and false testimony.]

Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. ⁹ God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you ¹⁰ in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. [Paul, or any other imaginator, can say they are following the “Spirit”, but can we also test “spirits” by the Instructions from God to know if they are to be believed or not!  Surely we can judge all by the word of God – and we cannot know the “spirit” of Paul aside from evidence of what he taught and did.  Paul could not have been serving as a messenger of God unless he was upholding every word of God – never defying His instructions, Covenants, Commandments or standards of justice and judging righteously. As for Paul coming to Rome – he came in chains and reportedly died there due to his incident at the Temple vows in Acts, and I no longer believe the claims made in Acts either.  In his letters, Paul certainly taught the middle wall of separation was done away with – his disciples defiled the Temple because they believed Paul and disbelieved the word of God.  Do your own evaluation of Paul - don't trust those 'faithful Bereans' who didn't have any of his writings. ]

¹¹ I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— ¹² that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. ¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,^[d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. [What “spiritual gift” is Paul known for imparting to anyone?  And what “harvest” is Paul hoping to receive from his followers at Rome?  In “Not Paul, but Jesus”, Jeremey Bentham proves Paul’s motives and greed – there is no record he ever gave money to “the poor” at Jerusalem.  Paul can get nipped by a snake in the dark – if it ever happened – and Luke recorded it to aggrandize Paul – no – he never gave them a thin dime – was his “harvest”  money?]

¹⁴ I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. ¹⁵ That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. ¹⁷ For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,^[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”^[f] 

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Footnotes

1. Romans 1:3 Or who according to the flesh

2. Romans 1:4 Or was declared with power to be the Son of God

3. Romans 1:5 Or that is

4. Romans 1:13 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 7:1, 4; 8:12, 29; 10:1; 11:25; 12:1; 15:14, 30; 16:14, 17.

5. Romans 1:17 Or is from faith to faith

6. Romans 1:17 Hab. 2:4

One Disciple to Another review comments:

1:1-7.  Note that no supporting passages are cited to support the gospel as taught by Paul in Romans subtext comments to support it in any of the gospel accounts in the New Testament – let alone the need to find alignment to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.  The supporting passages are to writings attributed to Paul, and per the Instruction of Jesus and God, the teachings would have to find total accord with theirs.  Since no verifying witness is provided, the standard God gave is violated, as even Jesus said if he testified to himself, without supporting testimony – his testimony would not be true.  So how can we accept the testimony of Paul without like supporting witness as is found in Jesus’ teachings?  It is needful to keep the gospel of Matthew in mind, as the Hebrew gospel of Matthew was accepted by the Jerusalem Church before 40 CE.  Since the HGOM predates Paul’s letters, it could have provided needful information to Paul of what Yeshua (Jesus) taught his disciples.  If Paul was teaching as Jesus taught when he claims the gospel of salvation by grace through faith – we must  note who Paul claimed to teach obedience to, and then double check what God and Yeshua had to say to us and see if Paul remained true to the “tests” God commanded we use. This is vital to keep in mind as we review Romans.  Jesus taught that faith results in obedience and is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and obedience is to be doing the will of God, as stated in the Everlasting Covenant and supporting Scripture in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms.  Jesus taught nothing new, and his teachings can be found in accord with the instructions of God and the rest of the Holy Scripture of his day (Dead Sea Scrolls and Hebrew Scripture).  Can the teachings of Paul also be shown to be true to God as were the Teachings of Jesus in Matthew? 

A side thought is what Paul claims of the Spirit.  Was Jesus’ birth said to have been accomplished by the Spirit, as Mary had known no man? (HGOM and GGOM).  Which gospel claims Yeshua was resurrected by the Holy Spirit?  “through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[b] by his resurrection from the dead.”  God showed Jesus as approved and to be representing him by the miracles he performed – they are but one of the proofs God gave to him – as God also did through Moses and other prophets.

What did God say at Sinai about those who love Him and keep His commandments?  His words from Sinai are very clear to define who He says love Him, as well as who are His enemies – in the first of the Ten Decrees.  Let’s keep the words of God in mind as we review the claims of Saul/Paul.

From web site onediscipletoanother.org, as found in the Hebrew to English translation.

Exodus 20: 1-14 (SE); “God spoke all these statements, saying: I am YHVH your God, who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.  (the children of Israel and a multitude of nations left Egypt together to serve the One True God)

1.    “You shall not recognize the gods of others in My presence. {{According to Rabbi Tovia Singer, this literally says in Hebrew, “You shall not put another god on My face” and in effect this is what the Trinity Doctrine does.}} You shall not make yourself a carved image nor any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or on the earth below or in the water beneath the earth.  You shall not prostrate yourself to them nor worship them, for I am YHVH your God – a zealous God, who visits the sin of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generations, for My enemies; but who shows kindness for thousands to those who love Me and observe My commandments.”  {{Those who love Me – not just Israel.  Jesus taught to worship God and pray to God, and incidentally, God said that He alone is “Savior”, and there is no other.  This is why we must stop worshipping Jesus as God: to do so is to not do the truth}}

2.   “You shall not take the Name of YHVH, your God, in vain, for YHVH will not absolve anyone who takes His Name in vain.” 

3.   “Remember to keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it.  Six days shall you work and accomplish all your work; but the seventh day is Sabbath to YHVH your God; you shall not do any work – you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your covert within your gates – for in six days YHVH made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day.  Therefore, YHVH blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.”

4.   “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days will be lengthened upon the land that YHVH, your God, gives you.”

5.   “You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness against your fellow.”

6.   “You shall not covet your fellow’s house.  You shall not covet your fellow’s wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your fellow.”

“The entire people saw the thunder and the flames, the sound of the shofar and the smoking mountain; the people saw and trembled and stood from afar.  They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we shall hear; let God not speak to us lest we die.”  Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for in order to elevate you has God come; so that awe of Him shall be upon your faces, so that you shall not sin.” {{The Law was given to bless (elevate means to bring them closer to God) those who take the NAME of God as their God – to be His people.  The Law was to be the accepted standard for life and justice – the curse was for those who rejected the Law to be their manner of life and justice in serving God – that was the “blessing and the curse” – read it again for yourself and see that Paul totally misrepresented those words of God as he did others.}}

From "THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES" "v":

..." Know today and keep his decrees and commandments, so that it may go well for you and so that you may live long upon the land that Elohim, your god is giving you.  Listen, Israel: Elohim, our god, is a single god.  So love Elohim, your god, with all your heart and all your soul, very much, and keep these proclamations that I command you today upon your heart.  Teach them to all your children and recite them when you sit at home, when you go on your way, when you lie down, and when you rise.  Tie them as a declaration upon your arm, and they shall serve as an affirmation between your eyes.  Inscribe them upon the posts of your home and gate.  For Elohim made a pact with you at Horeb on the day of the assembly.  I stood between Elohim and you at this time - for you were afraid on account of the fire and did not climb the mountain - to tell you the word of your god, as follows:

I am Elohim, your god, who freed you from the land of Egypt, from the slave-house.  You shall not have any other gods.  You shall not make a carving or any image that is in the heavens above or the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth.  You shall not prostrate yourselves before them, and you shall not serve them.  I am Elohim, your god.

Sanctify the seventh day and rest on it.  For in six days I made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, and I rested on the seventh day.  Therefore you too shall rest, along with your livestock and all that you have.  I am Elohim, your god.  (Proof of alterations and false doctrines of Judaism can be seen in this simple Statement of Elohim being turned into over 500 pages of Rabbinical requirements in "THE OHR OLAM EDITION MISHNAH BERURAH.")

You shall not slay the soul of your brother.  I am Elohim your god. 

Honor your father and mother.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not commit adultery with the wife of your fellow.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not steal the wealth of your brother.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not swear in my name falsely, for I shall avenge the transgression of the fathers against the sons, grandsons, and great grandsons for those who bear my name falsely.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not submit against your fellow a false judgment.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not desire the wife of your fellow, his male slave, his female slave, or anything that is his.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart.  I am Elohim, your god.

It is these ten pronouncements that Elohim uttered to you upon the mountain from amid the fire."

Had Israel been infused with the knowledge of the Covenant, there is no way that the Ten Decrees could have been altered by the corrupted priesthood and scribes near the time of Ezekiel, and the obvious fact "V" tells is that they did, and all should repent to believe the unaltered words given by Elohim, which are now restored after almost 3000 years!!!!  Jesus did teach according to the Original Decrees - as we can note his sayings about what one calls another - such as "you fool!" to be a dangerous thing to do - which is in total accord with "You shalt not hate your brother in your heart.  I am Elohim, your god." (the deleted commandment)

We must also note who God declared "Blessed" or "Cursed", as we consider these things every day we live, in what we say and do.  As for me, I choose to believe God is true to His word - but not the alterations of the Pharisees or Rome.  Our hope should be that, as God told Cain, he was responsible and capable to repent and do rightly to be in proper relationship with both God and his brother.  May Elohim be merciful towards those who did the best they could with what they were able to know, but surely, since we can now know - we must surely repent to believe His words as given, not as altered by those of the evil one - who was cursed for doing so!  As Isaiah 42 foretells: Restore!

The tribes of Israel were divided, half on Mount Gerizim (the blessings) and half on Mount Ebal (the curses), and the Levites were between them and calling out in a loud voice, to which, upon pronouncing each, the people respectively were to call out Amen.

The blessings

Blessed is the man who has Elohim as his god, and who prostrates himself only to him, and who serves him alone."

Blessed is the man who sanctifies the seventh day and rests on it.

Blessed is he who honors his father and his mother.

Blessed is the man who does not avenge or exact retribution for the soul of his brother.

Blessed is the man who does not defile the wife of his fellow.

Blessed is the man who does not cheat his fellow.

Blessed is the man who does not swear in my name falsely.

Blessed is the man who does not deceive or lie to his fellow.

Blessed is he who does not lust after anyone belonging to his fellow.

Blessed is the man who loves his fellow.

Blessed is the man who upholds all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them.

See, if you truly heed the voice of our god, taking care to do all his commandments, then all of these blessings will befall you:

Blessed in the field, blessed are you in the city, blessed are you in the field, blessed are your firstling and your remnant.  Blessed are the fruit of your loins and the fruit of your land, the wombs of your cattle and the bellies of your sheep.  Blessed are you in your coming, and blessed are you in your going.  Elohim will set your enemies - defeated - before you.  Elohim will order blessing upon all your handiwork.  Elohim will establish you as a holy people, all the peoples of the land will behold and fear you.  Elohim will open the heaves for you, to give rain for your land in its season.  You will lend to many nations: you will not borrow.  You will be only on top: you will not be on the bottom.  Elohim will make you abound only in goodness upon the good land that Elohim, god of your fathers, is giving you.

The Levites shall then turn to stand opposite Mount Ebal and call out in a loud voice,

Cursed is the man who does a carving or a casting, the handiwork of a craftsman.

Cursed is the man who does work on the seventh day.

Cursed is he who disgraces his father and mother.

Cursed is he who strikes down his fellow in secret.

Cursed is the man who approaches any of his kin, or who commits adultery with the wife of his fellow, or who copulates with any animal.

Cursed is he who moves the boundary marker of his fellow.

Cursed is the man who swears falsely in my name.

Cursed is he who takes a bribe to give false judgment against his comrade.

Cursed is the man who desires and lusts after the wife of his fellow, his daughter, his female slave, or anything that is his.

Cursed is the man who hates his brother in his hearts.

Cursed is the man who does not uphold all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them.

The Levites shall continue calling out in a loud voice and say, If you do not heed the voice of Elohim, taking care to do all his commandments and decrees, then all of these curses will befall you:

Cursed are you in the city,  cursed are you in the field, cursed are your firstling and your remnant.  Cursed are the fruit of your loins and the fruit of your land, the wombs of your cattle and the bellies of your sheep.  Cursed are you in your coming, and curse d are you in your going.  Elohim will set you - defeated - before your enemies.  Elohim will cast the execration upon all your handiwork.  Elohim will make you an epitaph, a proverb, and a saying among all the nations of the land.  Elohim will stop up the heavens.

The stranger settled in your midst will rise higher and higher; your will descend lower and lower.  He will lend to you; you will not lend to him.  Elohim will demolish and eradicate you from the land that you are going into to possess.

...... Be strong and resolute; do not fear and do not panic.  For Elohim, your god - he is the one who walks alongside you.  He will not let go of you; he will not abandon you.  Now write down this teaching, so that this teaching may be a witness before you, since it will not be forgotten from the mouths of your descendants, for I know the schemes that you devise.

These are the words that Moses instructed all the children of Israel according to the order of YHWH on the plains of Moab before his death..

 

Romans 2

God’s Righteous Judgment

¹You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. {The Law is the set Standard for living justly.  It’s a common ploy of a guilty person to accuse another of what they do – as we’ve all seen in the Democratic Party and Deep State accusing Trump of collusion with the Russians, when in fact, they are the ones who were colluding against Trump and the people of the United States of America.  Read your Bible.  Revisit the words of God in Isaiah 1 and Ezekiel 18.  Note that many have never testified falsely, stolen from another, committed adultery, or been idol worshippers.  Few are likely to have gone around coveting the property of others – why covet when you can earn your own money and buy what you want?  Paul is making blanket false accusations – which is what Satan does – as “satan” means accuser – and from what I’ve observed so far – a false accuser.  Paul gave no proof to show his charges against everyone were true.  Even if one were to violate a commandment of God, God commanded forgiveness when the conditions for forgiveness were fulfilled!  Repeatedly He said: “And so he shall be forgiven.”  It was those who refused to forgive when God said to forgive that were “cut off”, not the penitent sinner.} ² Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. ³ So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? ⁴ Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? {No, God did not forgive without repentance – read the Torah – see what God actually said!  Forgiveness follows repentance – not the other way around!!!  Paul has reversed the ways of God!!}

At this point it will be necessary to interject comments into the text because Paul is making so many false presumptions against the words of God and the teachings of Yeshua.  To understand the gospel message of Yeshua it is necessary to first read and comprehend the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew to know what he taught.  This is the link to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and supporting texts from the pre-existing Hebrew Scripture of his day – which WAS NOT the Greek Old Testament. http://www.onediscipletoanother.org/id6.html

The core Teachings of Yeshua are in the Sermon on the Mount, so at least review chapters 5-7 to know them, as Paul is defying them already.  Yeshua’s teaching was in accord with the words of God.  We are to judge according to the judgment God gave us from Sinai and through Moses – and accept that Yeshua was giving their proper interpretation and application to the lives of his disciples.  If we judge in accord to the words of God – it is doing the will of God – it is accepting His judgments, as we also accept what He declared just restitution to be performed by those who “keep His word”, and as He decreed: “And so he shall be forgiven” – repeatedly commanded by God in Leviticus.  If we judge not according to His decree and justice, we are spurning or ignoring His justice and mode of maintaining an orderly, just and merciful society among those who claim His NAME.  Judgment is part of the commandments of God so that we can be found by Him to have been living justly, to have loved mercy, and to have been walking humbly with our God through the obvious TRUTH that He decreed we use for our manner of life to possess His kindness and to also reside in His love and care.  All the ways of God are pure, just and true – He gave us wonderful standards to live by.  Read Psalm 119 and see what David had to say about the Law of God.  No wonder God said David was a man who was approved by Him, and man after His own heart – and God does weigh the hearts of men.

 

⁵ But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. {God revealed Himself and His Instruction in Righteousness at Sinai and supporting Scripture!  There is no waiting to know what God has already revealed!  It appears to be Paul and his disciples who will be in for a stark awakening to the Truth of God and His faithfulness to His word and covenant.  If the Bereans had Romans and Galatians in their hands, they should have been able to see that what Paul said is NOT according to the word of God or Jesus’ teachings from God.  Dare we judge Paul according to the word of God – and according to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew?} ⁶ God "will repay each person according to what they have done.”^{[a] 7} To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. ⁸ But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. ⁹ There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ¹¹ For God does not show favoritism.

God deserves all the glory and honor – according to God and the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus).  Those who place their judgments above what God decreed – by either ignoring, adding to, or subtracting from His stated standards given to live by are those who are not being faithful to God.  This is why Yeshua’s first Teaching is that “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  As for “First to the Jew, then to the Gentile”, both were present at Sinai, both ratified the Everlasting Covenant at the same time, and the same Law was for all men and includes distinction for some things between the offspring of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but in matters of living justly and loving mercy – the Covenant has certain conditions and was never unconditional.  It is because God does not show favoritism that both were present at Sinai.  It is because of the promise of God to Abraham’s descendants that possession of the land was for the children of Israel.  As for the instruction of God, He said, regarding keeping the Law: “Choose life, that ye might live!”  When God gave the Covenant at Sinai, it was to bless men of all nations!!!

¹² All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. ¹⁴ (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) ¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

In these verses Paul brushes up against a truth that is universal and then takes his train off the tracks – very odd indeed.  Regarding the Law, God declared it very near to them.  The most obvious thing would be to consider the last five of the Ten Declarations being in our nature to keep, as we know when we have been wronged, and should therefore not do to others what we would consider to have been a wrong against us: false testimony against us, murder of a loved one, stealing that which belongs to us, defiling the marriage bed, or others being jealous of our possessions and looking for ways to take them from us or to treat us badly because they don’t have what we have – which could well lead to a number of wrongs.  In this limited sense the Law God declared is very near us if we have not been so abused as to deny what is built into us by our Maker.  One Law is for all and most people will have heard the shortened version of the Ten Commandments and never pondered the full account as given by God.  In a normal state of humanity people can live upright lives and not commit evil, but do they realize that God, who created man, is the one that they can thank for creating us in His image – above all the other creations of the earth to posses an innate sense of right and wrong and morality and capable to define some system of justice? 

These matters are unique to humans of all the creatures on earth, and man is at his lowest when he denies his higher self to then behave as a mere animal.  These things are to take place during our lives if we open our eyes to observe reality.  If these things take place in our lives – and the lives of others for thousands of years – how is it that Paul says: “¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.”?  The Torah is no “secret”.  Matthew is no “secret.”  God was open and transparent to give us just and reasonable standards to live and judge by – that we do the truth by relying on His revealed Standards/Law.

 

The Jews and the Law

¹⁷ Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; ¹⁸ if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; ¹⁹ if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— ²¹ you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? ²² You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ²⁴ As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”^[b]

I’m continually surprised of the respect for Paul that was drilled and beaten into me as a child – perhaps this is why I have so little regard towards his writings and write these reviews today – to free others of trusting in his nonsense and lies against God and those that God says  should be  considered to be “My people.”  I don’t think Paul/Saul capable to handle any God given principle uprightly in any of his writings, but perhaps one will be found.  Do all teachers of the Law commit such sins?!  Evil characters exist in Christianity, Judaism and Islam – if evil is what God declared to be evil – if the word of God is true – but no one should brand all as evil because all are not evil and all do not reject His word.  As Ezekiel 18 clearly says, each person is responsible for their own sins.  If God declared this through Ezekiel, who was a true prophet, we should exercise judgment to not condemn those that God said are “My people” – whether Jew or non-Jew.  Israel is a nation before God.  Other nations come and go – and God has no regard for nations – but does regard what each man does – whether he will obey God – or not.  The references to this section include Isaiah and Ezekiel.  Paul would have done well to support that thousands of people have lived just and righteous lives in the eyes of God and encourage all to repent to do the will of God with all their heart, mind, body, soul and strength.  As for Jews – they don’t believe Christians account of Jesus because Christians deny the Laws of God and have altered their  Hebrew Scripture.  If you don’t believe the book of Mormon because it doesn’t keep to the Christian Bible – you should easily see why Jews don’t believe Christians when they have altered the words of God and pretend their account is true because the Pope declared it so and publishers published it as a “Bible”.  Both Isaiah and Ezekiel wrote their message to a fallen and corrupted Israel.  To judge all Jews today for the sins of their “fathers” is to violate Ezekiel 18 and the Law.  Also, God has not been without grace towards man since the “fall”, as told to Cain, Noah, giving His Covenant through Moses, and through Ezekiel, the evil man who turns to do righteousness will be forgiven as though the sins were not committed, just as the righteous man who turns from his righteousness to then do evil – his righteousness will not be remembered.  In the Hebrew gospel of Matthew, Yeshua taught the same principles about forgiveness as had been revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures.  The idea some Christains have of “eternal security” or “once saved, always saved” is in direct opposition to the decree and word of God.   To the unsuspecting Paul seems to be someone to believe, but after a life of trying to live by his standards – I can certainly testify against every one of his writings to have twisted the word of God and to be nothing but the imaginations of a deluded man.

²⁵ Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. ²⁶ So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? ²⁷ The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the^[c] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

As God declared when giving the Law, there is one Law for both the circumcised and the uncircumcised.  The Law is the conditions for the Everlasting Covenant made and ratified at Sinai by the Children of Israel and the “multitude of nations” preserved by God from Egypt to Sinai.  Yes, if we observe the Law – whether Jewish, or not – we reside in the kindness and promises of God.  If we break the Law – whether Jewish,  or not – we bring judgment upon ourselves as noted in the Law.  God made distinctions in the Law that show breaking particular matters have different consequences, depending on the severity of the matter broken – the penalties were not universal condemnation and eternal damnation for minor issues and also often for more significant infringements against the Everlasting Covenant standards.  The matter is that all who call upon His NAME as their God are to make the Law the universal manner of life Guide for us as He gave it – not altering it to either diminish or add to it.  In fact, circumcision was no aid to a Jew who broke the Law, but to be a Jew and not be circumcised was to break the Law – in fact circumcision is a pre-Law condition as it was given to Abraham and reaffirmed in the Law.  So to be a Lawkeeper requires the system of justice as commanded by God, including the provisions for mercy – as given by God – such as Joseph not desiring to put away Mary.  Note that God is specific to say what sin is, and in Paul we have nothing but imaginations such as what is “expedient” or that whatever one believes to be a sin is a sin – regardless of what God declared!!  Although God never commanded perfection to attain to His glory to any man, this is what we hear from Paul in “for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”.  Paul was truly a very tricky character and the likely source of most all divisions in Christianly have some root in a doctrine from Paul.  Just look at the Doctrinal Statements for each different Church or Sect of Christianity and how many supporting passages are from Paul – rather than the words of God and the Anointed One – “Son of man”.

²⁸ A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. ²⁹ No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

Keeping the Law was universal to all God said are “My people” – whether Jewish, or not – this is clearly the only conclusion that agrees with the words of God.  If you don’t believe it – prove it by the words of God in the Hebrew Scripture and the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  The Christian published Bible is not reliable enough to trust in many passages.  See “Let’s Get Biblical” volumes 1 and 2.  Watch some of Rabbi Tovia Singer’s videos on Youtube.  Singer makes many good points to prove the matter, but do keep the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew front and center as you consider what Singer says.  Recall the words of God in the Ten Decrees – Paul is testifying against God.  God wrote the Ten Decrees on stone – not a material that decomposes and passes away with time.  The Law is the standard those of God will observe to do.

^“29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.”  In this verse Paul says it is the “Spirit” who circumcises the heart.  Ezekiel 37 says God gave His Spirit to write the Law upon the heart as an aid to keep it.  Did God not say that He gives His Spirit to those who obey Him?  Obey what?  Obey the manner of life that God says His people will live – the Law.  Obedience is to grow in our knowledge of the will of God and to continue in our faithfulness to make His will to be our will.  This is our work: to believe God and repent to live just and reasonable lives that are in accord with His Everlasting Covenant – and as Yeshua taught – to “live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God; and in his prayer that “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”  To be a “Jew” is to be of the seed of the flesh of Abraham.  Get a genetic test kit to see if you are a Jew or not – it’s that simple for us today.  Then do as God taught and commanded.  A note regarding the footnotes – see the DSSB and Hebrew Scriptures.  The Septuagint (LXX) was not accepted by Jews because it was poorly done – reality is not what we have been taught.  Our scholars have failed us.  The Jewish translation to Greek of the Hebrew Scripture was only the Torah and did not include Isaiah or Ezekiel, and it was burned in a fire long ago.  The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, which preceded the Greek translation and alteration, used the Hebrew Scriptures, not the LXX.  Due to the texts that are mistranslated in the LXX (Greek), there is no doubt in my mind that the LXX is a work of disciples of Paul – not Jews who knew the Hebrew language.

 

Footnotes

1. Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12

2. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22

3. Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a

    

Romans 3

God’s Faithfulness

¹What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? ² Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.

³ What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? ⁴ Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:

“So that you may be proved right when you speak
    and prevail when you judge.”^[a]

⁵ But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) ⁶ Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? ⁷ Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” ⁸ Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

No One Is Righteous

⁹ What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. ¹⁰ As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
¹¹     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”^[b]
13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”^[c]
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”^[d]
14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”^[e]
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     ruin and misery mark their ways,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they do not know.”^[f]
18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”^[g]

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. ²⁰ Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Well, I’ve never been able to note anywhere God said any such thing.  The Teachings of Jesus were noted in “One Disciple to Another” to have many references to the Hebrew Scripture that says the opposite, that keeping the conditions to the Everlasting Covenant is our righteousness – whether Jew or Gentile.  We need to observe what God said sin is if we desire to honor God as true.  We also need to note what God declared holy, and also what God declared to be evil, as He said to “do no evil.”  One should easily see that the words of God are His “gracious instruction in righteousness.”  Ignorance is no excuse from the Law.  Jesus said his disciples are to keep the Law, and that unless our righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees of his day that we cannot enter the kingdom of God by ANY means!  Is Paul teaching something different?  Has no one else read the Torah?!  Paul’s accounting of his gospel seems to be “fake News”, not true religion that lives by the word of God.  How is one to reconcile this passage of Paul to Ezekiel 18, or other places where Paul is defying the words of God?  I doubt one can find a Jewish Rabbi that would consider Paul anything but a biblical ignoramus or a bold two-faced liar.  Should you find one who doesn’t, you should greatly question his being honest with you.

Righteousness Through Faith

²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in^[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,^[i] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. ²⁸ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, ³⁰ since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. ³¹ Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

Yeshua scolded the religious leaders of his day for majoring in minors (tithing) and neglecting weightier matters of the Law – which absolutely included faith.  Faith is of the Law.  Jesus said when we do the will of God that our good deeds are to be observed by others so that they will glorify God – not for our boasting!  God, Yeshua and all the Law, Prophets and Psalms affirm that if one loves God, one must observe His instruction in righteousness.  The first commandment says those who are the enemies of God are those who reject His law.  Paul is lying here – if God is true.  Paul is doing nothing but the work of Satan – trying to cause you to think God said other than He clearly said, as well as testifying against the Gospel as taught by Jesus!  You are not an illiterate soul if you are reading this.  Don’t take my word for it – read your Bible – do some study – as we’ve been lied to by “Christian” scholars and publishers.  If you want to pay to hear the message to hell – by all means – ignore the words of God!  However – ignorance is no excuse, as the time for ignorance has long passed.  Looks like the time of the Gentiles is up, as they reject the instruction of God and that Prophet – to believe the nonsense of Paul and Rome.  Am I to be considered a liar because I’m telling the truth on God and Jesus?  Will you also hate the truth taught by Jesus?  Do you want to remain in the dark prison houses manufactured to keep you deluded from the Truth?

In which Gospel did Jesus declare himself to be the blood sacrifice for the sins of mankind?  In which prophecy did God declare He would make His only Son to be a sacrifice for the sins of mankind?  How can this be true if God said those of Israel who offered the fruit of their body for the sins of their souls to have been evil – and done that which had never entered the mind of God?  God said so – so if it had NEVER entered His mind – then how is Jesus “the lamb slain from the foundation of the world”?  In which prophecy does God declare “that prophet” or “the son of man” or “the son of David” to be a sin offering for the world to excuse all who believe such nonsense?!  Do tell – and search it out to the Hebrew Scripture, Dead Sea Scrolls and the original Zodiac, Enoch, Job and Jubilees!  Paul is a liar, and if he knew Hebrew, he lied about it – as “seed” is always plural – not singular as taught in his nonsense gospel of pretended grace.  No wonder Yeshua declared he will tell many “depart from me, ye who reject the Torah”, as “anomia” *iniquity is to be against or without the Torah (Law).

²⁸ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.”  This is certainly not the word of God or Jesus, or any Prophet approved by God.  God said it is by works – living as He said to – that we are justified in His sight.  As James said: “faith without works is dead.”

Footnotes

1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4

2. Romans 3:12 Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20

3. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9

4. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3

5. Romans 3:14 Psalm 10:7 (see Septuagint)

6. Romans 3:17 Isaiah 59:7,8

7. Romans 3:18 Psalm 36:1

8. Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of

9. Romans 3:25 The Greek for sacrifice of atonement refers to the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant (see Lev. 16:15,16).

   By all means – read all these support passages – in their entirety – and stop “cut and paste” religion that pits one verse against what God declared.  Read Psalm 1, 2 and 119.  Read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel – read them all and see if you can find any support for what Paul taught!  As Yeshua taught: blind leaders and blind followers will all fall in the ditch.

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    ¹What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? ² If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. ³ What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

    
    

    What does Scripture say is the reason God found Abraham faithful to Him, that the promise continue through his son Isaac?  Genesis 26: 2-5 defies this claim of Paul.  Read your Bible – in fact, get the Hebrew Scriptures that you rid yourself of Christian perversions of the Holy Scripture that altered any word of God.  Genesis 15 is about Abraham having and heir.  Genesis 17 is about the promise to bless all the nations through his seed – which was fulfilled at Sinai.

    
    

    “Jehovah appeared to him and said, “Do not descend to Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall indicate to you.  Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you; for to  you and your offspring will I give all these lands, and establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father: ‘I will increase your offspring like the stars of the heavens; and will give to your offspring all these lands’; and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring.  Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Torahs.”

    
    

    ⁴ Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. ⁵ However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. ⁶ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

    
    

    ⁷ “Blessed are those
        whose transgressions are forgiven,
        whose sins are covered.
    ⁸ Blessed is the one
        whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”^[b]

    
    

    ⁹ Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. ¹⁰ Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! ¹¹ And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. ¹² And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

    
    

    ¹³ It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. ¹⁴ For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, ¹⁵ because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

    
    

    ¹⁶ Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. ¹⁷ As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[c] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

    
    

    ¹⁸ Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”^{[d] 19} Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. ²⁰ Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, ²¹ being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. ²² This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” ²³ The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, ²⁴ but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. ²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

    
    

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    1. Romans 4:3 Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22

    2. Romans 4:8 Psalm 32:1,2

    3. Romans 4:17 Gen. 17:5

    4. Romans 4:18 Gen. 15:5

       Abraham believed and obeyed God; Abraham was not justified before God by faith alone or grace alone – but by faithfully doing as God instructed him.  David never said God justifies His enemies – in fact, no where did God say such a thing.  Prove this wrong if you can – but do so by uprightly handling every word of God as given in the Hebrew Scriptures.  If Jesus taught salvation by mere belief and trust in his death on the cross – why did he teach the need to repent and do as God instructed – to keep His commandments faithfully?  Paul did nothing but twist the word of God to make up his lies.  Carefully note how absent the words of Yeshua are in the writings of Saul.  The best accounts of the Teachings of Yeshua are in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, which was written before 40 CE by his chosen emissaries, the apostles – the original disciples who were direct witnesses to his teachings, miracles, death, resurrection and ascent to Heaven to sit on the throne on the right hand of the Power on High – the Ancient of Days spoken of in Daniel.  Most importantly – no where in the Holy Scripture does God justify the ungodly.

    
    

     

    
    

     

    
    

     

    
    

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    Peace and Hope

    
    

    ¹Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we^[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we^[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

    
    

    God gives His Spirit to those who do His will – to those who obey Him.  Ezekiel 37 is clear to say God gave the Spirit to write His words on our hearts to help us do them – not to excuse us from His instruction. We can hope in lies, or we can hope in the goodness of God towards those who observe His word that they might do it and make His instruction to be their manner and guide in life – to trust in His kindness towards those who love Him and keep His commandments.  See Exodus 20.  God defined love in the first commandment, and what Saul says above defies His definition.  Saul is selling nothing but what the old time false prophets taught: Peace! Peace!, yet God said there is no peace for the lawless wicked.  The peace of God resides in being faithful to the Everlasting Covenant and the Doctrine of God as taught by Yeshua.  Believe Yeshua, or believe Saul/Paul – but no man can serve two masters.  I’ll choose to believe those who testify according to the words of God.  Note the words of God in Ezekiel 34 about the shepherds that foul the waters of His sheep.  Surely this is exactly what Paul has done to all who trust in his nonsense instead of the just and reliable words of God.  Know it is NOT as taught by Paul – believe the word of God in Ezekiel 18!

    
    

    ⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    
    

    Who said we are powerless – aside from Paul?  Did God say we are powerless?  Did any true prophet say those who seek God in spirit and truth are powerless?  For that matter – man was not powerless after the “fall” in Eden.  Rather than being powerless, God clearly told Cain that he was capable and responsible to rule over sin that it not rule over him!  God clearly told Cain that by improving himself that he would be forgiven – elevated.  Read the account in the Hebrew Scripture and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  God made provision to forgive without blood sacrifice.  Read Ezekiel 18.

    
    

    ⁹ Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! ¹⁰ For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! ¹¹ Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

    
    

    Balderdash – this is nonsense.  If Jesus (Yeshua) is our “Lord”, we do as he commanded and instructed – which is to keep the Law and Covenant of God faithfully till death – to grow in producing the fruit that God created us to give to Him! Although everything belongs to Him already, living as He instructed is certainly a blessing to ourselves and to all those we live with, but first that we receive of the kindness and blessing of God Almighty.  The primary issues exposed in the Teachings of Jesus are these major alterations foisted upon us all for almost 2000 years:

    
    

    1. There is no vicarious or substitutionary atonement – the righteousness of the righteous is not imputed to the ungodly, wicked and sinners who rebel against the Ten Decrees of God.  Neither will God hold the righteous accountable for the sins of the wicked or those who spurn His instruction.

    
    

    2. Yeshua made no claim to be Divine, but clearly spoke of himself as mortal – which is what “son of man” means. 

    
    

    3.  The godly life is a process of growing – not something attained by a mere prayer any more than eating a magic cracker or sipping from a magic cup.

    
    

    4.  God never declared man totally depraved because of the “fall” of Adam and Eve – this is a total invention.  Shouldn’t we instead believe the words God spoke to Cain also apply to us?  Seems very reasonable to me.

    
    

     

    
    

    Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

    
    

    ¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

    
    

    God doesn’t apply the sins of one person to another (vicarious atonement) – see Ezekiel 18.

    
    

    ¹³ To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

    
    

    If there were no Law – how did God judge the world before Noah?  Also, God declares in the Torah that sin in ignorance is still sin and accountable to the person, and that when they discover their sin – then just measures He prescribed are to be followed.  Death was caused by separation from the Tree of Life – not something as Paul describes herein.  Search the Hebrew Holy Scripture and Torah and see if you can find an account that says Adam and Eve “sinned” and doomed all their offspring to depravity.  Such a thought doesn’t exist until Paul perverted the truth and introduced his imaginations and paganization of Christianity.  Live by the words of God – search His words out to the DSS and know the truth has no part in Paul.

    
    

    ¹⁵ But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! ¹⁶ Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. ¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

    
    

    “If” is a huge word, considering one cannot find such a teaching from Yeshua as told by his chosen emissaries, the apostles, who wrote Matthew as a collective effort well before 50 CE in Hebrew.  Study out the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew at onediscipletoanother and see that what Paul taught here is non-existent in the account of the apostles of Jesus – who gave us Matthew in the Hebrew – and which was altered in the Greek texts.  God has always had grace towards men – but He has never offered anyone vicarious atonement due to the righteousness of one being imputed to another.  See what Yeshua taught – pay close attention.  See what God commanded – pay close attention.  See what the prophecies foretell of “that prophet” and the “one to whom rule is due” and teaching so that the Gentiles would also consider keeping the Torah or God to be honorable.  Paul makes Jesus to say the words of God are a curse – which is a lie.

    
    

    ¹⁸ Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

    
    

    Neither of these premises from Paul are true – in fact, scripture defies them both!

    
    

    ²⁰ The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹ so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    
    

    God said He gave the Law to bless us and elevate us – to all who would make His Instruction and Decree to be their manner of life, faith, hope and trust.  One Law is for all, so that all might be blessed and abide in His everlasting kindness and that He might be gracious unto all who love Him as shown through their faithfulness to the Everlasting Covenant and the Teachings from Yeshua of the Doctrine of God – as given in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  The Law is inseparable from the Teachings of God and Yeshua.  As God said: “Choose life, that ye may live!”

    
    

    Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 5:1 Many manuscripts let us

    2. Romans 5:2 Or let us

    3. Romans 5:3 Or let us

       Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

    
    

    ¹What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

    
    

    ⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

    
    

    ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    
    

    ¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

    
    

    This chapter presents a number of false reasonings regarding sin and the role Yeshua has to his disciples.  In the gospel account the call is to first repent and turn to do righteousness as defined by the word of God.  Recall that God has always accepted those who repent and turn to do what He declared just and right – to live reasonable lives before God and man.  If this is the case – according to God and Yeshua – what is this that Paul is teaching that we die when we are baptized?  Yeshua was baptized, and per the gospel baptism was first done by John as the baptism of repentance to then be forgiven as we then do the will of God that we neglected to do beforehand.  John’s teachings were very simple – nothing hard to do or understand.  Baptism was first given in the Law for priests to wash themselves ritually before donning their priestly garments to serve God and the people in the Temple.  Some have called baptism the “outward sign of inward grace,” and this might be a way to look at it.  It would also be valid to view it as the time we make public profession of our faith and intent to faithfulness towards God in following in the footsteps and teachings of Yeshua, as he was also baptized to “fulfill all righteousness.”   No where did John or Yeshua or any of the Torah indicate baptism had anything to do with death or resurrection.  Millions have been baptized that it clearly had no impact on their life to then do righteousness because they had died and thereafter “Christ lived within them.”  If we repent, we turn from doing wrong to then do what is right – and it’s a growing process – not an instant remedy that imparts the righteousness of Jesus on us because he is now in us through the rite – as though it was some kind of magical rite or incantation.  The heart that turns to live uprightly before God has always been precious in His sight – and doing the will of God brings His blessings, promises and kindness towards us – repentance restores our relationship to God as we then turn to follow in the footsteps of Jesus through being his disciples, just as did the twelve disciples.  As Yeshua said: it is enough to be like him, but how can we be like him and pay no heed to what he said his disciples will do?  Paul never teaches anything practical like explaining how his teachings find harmony with those of Yeshua.  Recall Paul said he was unable to keep the Law, and if this is true, according to God, such a person refuses His instruction; according to Yeshua, such a person is not his disciple, as he taught his disciples to consider it honorable to keep the word and instruction of God.

    
    

    Slaves to Righteousness

    
    

    ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

    
    

    ¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in^[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.

    
    

    Yeshua would agree with God, that He gave His instructions to elevate us – that we know His will and not do evil.  The Law is still in effect – regardless of what Paul said.  The matter we’ve been told it must be perfectly keeping 613 commandments has no proof in the word of God or Yeshua.  Neither are there Seven Laws of Noah.  One Law is for all – one Everlasting Covenant is for all who turn to the pathways of life God desires we walk within.  God expects all His people to honor the Covenant Conditions given and ratified at Sinai.  God has not set His word aside as unable to accomplish that for which it was given; to bless us, and – to see if we will do as He commanded – or not.  Judgment has been decreed – Paul cannot annul a single word of God – neither can the Pope, Luther, Westly, Campbell, Joseph Smith, or Ellen White – no one can annul the word and Covenant of God, not even Paul or Billy Graham. Read Psalm 119 and see if you think the Law is God is useful as the Psalm says it is – or not.  Where in Psalm 119 do we find any accord to the teachings of Paul?  Is our soul restored by knowing we are doing the will of God, and thereby remaining in His sure mercies?

    
    

    Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless

    2. Romans 6:23 Or through

    
    

    Romans 7

    
    

    Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

    
    

    ¹Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

    
    

    ⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh,^[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

    
    

    Do you want to trust in dreams? Or reality?  One is an imagination, the other is born out by reality and observable and measurable facts.  One is seen, the other unseen.  God revealed Himself at Sinai.  God showed Yeshua approved by his Teachings, works, death and resurrection – all in accord to His word – if we but correct the false accounts and perversion of His word that were foisted upon mankind by Rome and their followers.  God is not mocked, and certain judgment is decreed towards those who do the works of Satan to falsely accuse others, and who falsely accuse His good word and will towards mankind.  From the first of the Ten Decrees we know that the definition of love for God has observable actions – there is no mystery of who really loves God, and anyone can easily determine who loves God by what they say about His Instructions in Righteousness and warnings to do no evil.  Nothing He asks “My people” to do is too hard to hear, understand or do.  So why is Paul so averse or against the Law as to say that in Christ we are freed from the Law – when Yeshua said his disciples will not even think that he came to loosen or do away with it.  This is but one proof that Matthew is the only valid gospel account: the Sermon on the Mount and it’s obvious ties to teach the Law, Prophets, and Psalms in almost every verse.  Search the teachings of Yeshua out and you should easily see that Paul is not telling us any upright truth of God.  In Paul the Law is a curse and impossible to keep.  As disciples of Yeshua, we are empowered to know the Law is good and recognize those who have altered it or who speak against it are those who have made themselves enemies of God by rejecting His word and declaring what God said is good to be evil and a curse.  Paul taught a gospel of nonsense that has no part in doing the will of God or abiding in His kindness and blessing.  Divisions between Churches all center from false doctrines of Paul – look at each churches Doctrinal Statements and note how many passages of support are from books in the NT written by Paul.  Stop being deluded by lies against God.  God has said we all belong to Him.  Our eyes should be on Him first.  We don’t belong to each other.  We should respect each other and live in equality because He alone is God and the right to “rule” belongs to him to whom it is due (Gen. 49:10).  If Jesus set the rules – it is easily observed Paul is teaching AGAINST Yeshua’s right to rule and inserting lies and declaring them true because he said so.  Determine if you believe God – or not.  Stop the pretending and imaginations of “Spiritual mysteries” and observe the plain truth of God.  No one needs to be “Spiritual” to judge Paul a liar.

    
    

    The Law and Sin

    
    

    ⁷ What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”^{[b] 8} But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. ⁹ Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. ¹⁰ I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. ¹¹ For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. ¹² So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

    
    

    This is the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever read.  Where has God said anything like this?  Where has any true prophet spoken these things?  No where, that’s where.  Think back to what God told Cain.  God declared Cain responsible for his own actions and that if he didn’t take control of his own actions that sin would rule over him.  All this passage does is let us know the true relationship Paul has with God – that sin was ruling over Paul – and this was due to his own lack of self-control – and rather than blaming himself for his own actions, Paul blames the Law of God!!!  Paul  interjects his nonsense of “sin deceived me” – when he is self-delusional.  Do you think yourself incapable to do good because God said it was good?  Do you think yourself incapable to not do an evil thing?  Do you believe because the Law says to “do no evil” that all you are capable of from that moment is doing evil because God said to do no evil?  Church is not a hospital for sinners – it is the assembly of called out believers to worship God in spirit and truth.

    
    

    ¹³ Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

    
    

    Paul was not dead to anyone but God and speaking the truth of God.  Are the people of God to consider themselves living zombies?!?  God gave the Law – His gracious instructions in righteousness – that we should become wise to reality and living a life that God can bless.  As God said: “Choose life, that ye may live!”  God nor Yeshua ever called anyone to be “Zombies for Jesus.”

    
    

    ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

    
    

    Did God sell Cain, or any man, to sin or the Serpent or Satan (accuser)?  No, God said otherwise in warning Cain to not let sin become his ruler!  Paul is providing us all direct evidence from his words to let us know who he belonged to.  Think about it very carefully.  Also, God declared His word is very near to us – within our nature since we were created in His image – to become wise and like Him as humanly possible – by being taught His pathways of justice and righteousness and mercy.  God has instructed just the opposite of what Paul says here – that we are sold out to sin and incapable to do good from our nature.  Did God create Adam in His image – or the image of the fallen angels? (I Enoch and Genesis)  In fact, Yeshua taught that what comes out of the man defiles the man, not what goes into him (speaking of food).  Is our heart our nature – the essence of who we are?  What we do proceeds from within our nature – and we have to deny the reality being created in the image of God to pretend this nonsense of Paul.  I can’t speak for anyone but myself – but it isn’t against me to do good to others as it is within my ability and resources to do.  No – it’s quite easy to do what is good.  No one is perfect, but God has long ago decreed justice in the Torah whenever He decreed: “And so he shall be forgiven.”  It was whoever did not accept the justice of God that was to be “cut off from amongst the brethren.” (Leviticus)  We cannot blame our sin on sin or sinful nature – sin – defying what God said is just and good – comes from within us if we reject the gracious instruction in righteousness – and we have no one to blame but ourselves.  God declared Cain responsible – and thereby gave this knowledge from before the flood.  Once again, as God said: “Choose life that ye may live!”

    
    

    ²¹ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ²³ but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

    
    

    So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature^[d] a slave to the law of sin.

    
    

    Yes, Paul was a wretched man.  Don’t judge me for saying this, as I’m just agreeing with his own assessment of himself.   He spoke honestly when giving us that information!  We all make decisions in life.  We’ve all been lied to when the writings of Paul were put into the Bible and New Testament.  As one passage tells of the Gentiles – we have inherited lies.  Rather than believe the apostle who lies against God – we should choose to abide in the words of Almighty God and the prophet who taught that it is honorable to keep the Instructions of God in the Torah (Isaiah 42).  God did not create Adam to be a slave, but a free man – to rule over and subdue the earth.  As Yeshua said, he is the Christ – and all of us – including the Apostles, are brethren – not rulers or slaves.  Study the Ten Decrees – they are also based on equality.

    
    

    Jeremiah 16:19

    
    

    “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and wherein is no profit.”

    
    

    Surely this is because none of the Roman or Protestant reformers bothered to follow the words of God to make sure writings they put in the New Testament were in accord with the words of God, as were the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus). (Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18)

    
    

    Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

    2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21

    3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh

    4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

    
    

    Life Through the Spirit – Romans 8

    
    

    ¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you^[a] free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.^[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    
    

    To be a faithful disciple requires making the Torah and the Teachings (Doctrine of God) as taught by Yeshua to be our guide and manner of life.  If we are faithful to the words of God – doing His will is our righteousness – and it is of Him, as they are His instructions, not of ourselves.  What we do is agree with God’s standards as we do them.  We reform our conscience to be in alignment to His instruction.  It is His word that sanctifies us – that sets us apart to Him.  It is His word that is truth.  It is His will that we seek to do and grow in producing the fruit He desires in our lives as we mature.  When we do good – what is found wanting when we trust in His provisions and opportunities in life?  We look to do good, we spurn evil and association with those who are evil.  There is no evil in the Instructions of God as given at Sinai – only hope, trust and knowing good from evil, or secular from holy.  As we do His good will, we allow His Spirit to write His instruction on our hearts that we do them from our heart..  Nothing required of the “Spirit” to understand any “mysteries”, as God has fully revealed both Himself and His will and His plans towards those who do His will to be very different from those who refuse or reject His instruction.  All the Instructions of God can be observed – we can also observe those who make the claim to be a Christian and who don’t have the proof James spoke of, that he can show his faith by his works.

    
    

    Carefully read Matthew, especially the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  Where in all his teachings or the prophesies noted did Yeshua or the Prophets foretell Yeshua was to be a blood sacrifice for the sins of the world as Paul said?  I have yet to find it.  The passages from Isaiah 53 don’t make this claim.  Go back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Holy Scripture – read their study editions, such as the 14 volume set from Soncino – many are the claims Christians make for passages that are taken out of context or are absolutely mistranslated or altered in the Greek.  In the sermon of Peter on Pentecost in Acts the point is made that Jesus came to turn us from our iniquities – NOT to excuse our iniquity and promote Torahless living as taught by Paul.  We may pretend all our lives – but one day each of us will give account to God.  Will we be able to do so by the words of a false apostle?  I’d rather do my best to honor the word of God.

    
    

    ⁵ Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

    
    

    These words from Paul prove he was incorporating pagan ideas into Christianity.  Man is a living soul, and our flesh is not the cause of sin.  The “Spirit” doesn’t magically impart the words of God apart from His word.  The Spirit works with the word, just as told in the Creation account of Genesis.  Paul is great evidence to prove the point!  Paul consulted no man to know his gospel – he received it by “revelation” and not man.  There is no accord with the “gospel” of “revelation of Jesus Christ” received by Paul to the Teachings of Jesus.  There is no accord in the accounts from Paul of the Law or Jewish history that find accord to any sound principle or any True Instruction of God or knowledge of His will or Torah – abject ignorance is all Paul was capable of by his “Spirit” and “revelation”.  God is not the author of confusion.  The truth is simple – as with Cain, so with us: If we repent to do rightly (live according to the instructions of God – every word of God – no “cut and paste” options) God will forgive us and elevate us and we can abide in His presence, promises and kindness.  Life brings many tests of our faith – each of us are on an individual journey – but we must agree that we will do our best and get up when we trip or fall and continue on in His pathways.  As told in Exodus, God allows trials to come our way to see if we will obey Him – or not.  Trust in God.  God is good.  His words of life are everlasting and true.  “Thy word is truth”  Even the gospel of John claims “Sanctify them by Thy truth; Thy word is truth.”

    
    

    ⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[d] because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of^[e] his Spirit who lives in you.

    
    

    If God gives of His Spirit to write Torah on the heart to help us keep His pathways in life (Ezekiel 37), this is not the same as rejecting the Law as unable to do that for which God gave it – in fact – it is declaring God unfaithful and ignorant!  So long as our neighbors can see us, we are not “in the realm of the Spirit.”  Paul sounds more like a deluded mad man than someone who knows enough that we should listen to him.  Who put Paul into our Bibles?  Not God.  God gives life.  There is not a “Trinity” – there is One God – God said so, the Prophets and Psalms say so; and Yeshua definitely said so.  Trinity was developed hundreds of years after Jesus and the Apostles.  Trinity is a pagan belief system – and is found no where in the Holy Scripture.  All will be resurrected – some to receive their rewards from God as due – some to everlasting condemnation.  Since all are to be resurrected to face God and give account for themselves – does the Spirit also dwell in the enemies of God as in the faithful?  Hardly.  Paul was a poor religion inventor – he makes no sense at all and consistently twists or denies the words of God. It’s no wonder Paul is at the center of all Church divisions.

    
    

    ¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

    
    

    Are we incapable to resist sin or evil?  Must we do evil the more we know the manner of life that God desires we live if we call upon His NAME?  Hardly so. I know many people who will have nothing to do with institutional religion that are among the most moral and just I’ve ever met – and they don’t pretend to live by “the Spirit”, but according to their conscience – and they don’t want to treat others unfairly.  Fact is that much evil is done by those who claim to be “Christians”.  In fact, child predators are adept to search out Churches to accept them as they groom their victims.  Words are cheap.  There is no accord in the Pauline gospel of cheap grace to the Grace God has declared towards those who honor and keep His word faithfully.  If God is the Creator who created Adam in His image, if God created the heavens and the earth – our obligation is to Him by learning the pathway of life He said to live in: “The Holy Way.”

    
    

    ¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[g] Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

    
    

    Rather we share in the work of Yeshua – that we take his yoke upon us and learn from him.  Being yoked to Yeshua is to work along-side of him – not to ride on his back as a freeloader.  Through discipleship to Yeshua we are freed to obey God, rather than man or man-made imaginations that defy the Instructions of God.

    
    

    Present Suffering and Future Glory

    
    

    ¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

    
    

    God’s children can be observed by their living as He instructed all men to live.  This is why Yeshua said that men should see our works as good, that God be praised.  Yeshua also said one doesn’t light a candle and put it under a bushel, but it is lit and set in place that it provides light to all in the house – so it is with being able to observe who the children of God are – and who is not, but say they are.  God called Israel His son.  The unique prophet to come, Yeshua, was known as the “son of God” in the same sense, but in a unique and provable role.  No other Jew in all human history has been praised and honored above other men as is Jesus – even though the accounts have been altered, millions point to the Sermon on the Mount as perhaps the best teaching given in all human history.  Also, the angels were called “the sons of God.”  Yet both are spoken of in Scripture to have been created by God – not birthed by God as a physical descendant.  Perhaps the Psalms of David give the best evidence of the hope of those whose trust is in God for all things.

    
    

    ²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

    
    

    “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time”?  Where do we learn this?  I can find no other witness to this being fact in the Holy Scripture or the Teachings of Yeshua.  How can we know what Paul said we all know, when we don’t know and we can’t prove it either?  No, I don’t know – and given the limited view of the “whole creation” in Paul’s day, let alone in our day with the aid of the Hubble Telescope – it is quite unknowable – common sense should cause us to pause and evaluate the claims Paul made – who are the witnesses that prove him true?  I have yet to fine just one – let alone two or more, as God commanded.  Recall Isaiah’s words: “If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them.”

    
    

    Also, our hope remains for what God has in store in the restoration, when all things are made new.  What we do on earth – does it bind all creation to our fate from disbelief of the words of God?  There is no need to think God not capable to have populated unknown number of planets, and it is likely that not all refused to believe what He said is true.  Say a race in a universe beyond our sight were to sin and then God bound upon us their due penalty – would God be true to His word to hold the one who sins accountable, and that the righteous will not be held accountable for the sins of the wicked?  I can’t think of a reason in the world why I need to believe anything Paul wrote – let alone the forgeries that pretend his authorship.

    
    

    ²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

    
    

    ²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

    
    

    Matthew 20:14 and 22:16 both have Yeshua teaching that “many are called, but few are chosen.”  Romans 8:30 is one of the divisive verses in the NT, as it testifies against these passages from Yeshua in Matthew – formally known as the doctrine of predestination – the passages in Matthew prove Paul to have provided testimony against the Teachings of Yeshua.  Study Bible editions quite often support the teachings of Paul via other places where Paul wrote similar teachings of his gospel.  Is it curious that the on-line edition for the NIV made no mention of this teaching of Jesus that relates directly to verse 30.  It only proves what I’m bringing up is a problem.  God gave standards of testimony or witness.  We need to evaluate the writings of Paul by the words of God – not the rantings and imaginations of a man who defied the Doctrine and Law of God.

    
    

    More Than Conquerors

    
    

    ³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

    
    

    “For your sake we face death all day long;
        we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

    
    

    ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    
    

    Better to believe God than any man.  What brings us closer to God – elevates us?  Keeping His commandments as our manner and rule of life and conduct.

    
    

    What separates us from God?  Go back and read the first of the Ten Decrees given by God at Sinai – those who reject His word are His enemies.  If you think God promised what Paul said in Romans 8 – you’d better go back and see what God said. 

    
    

    All things do work for the good of those that love God.  The stories of faithful saints in the Bible repeatedly tell us this – such as Joseph saying to his brothers: “You meant it for evil, but God used it for good.”  God defined love in the First decree to be those who love Him AND keep His commandments.  If you believe otherwise – talk to God about it – read the Torah and see what God had to say – with the focus to do as Yeshua instructed: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  According to God, love is known by what it does.

    
    

    Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me

    2. Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.

    3. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin

    4. Romans 8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive

    5. Romans 8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through

    6. Romans 8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.

    7. Romans 8:15 Aramaic for father

    8. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. ²¹ For

    9. Romans 8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who

    10. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22

    11. Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers

    
    

    
    

    Romans 9

    
    

    Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

    
    

    ¹I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— ² I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, ⁴ the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. ⁵ Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised!^[a] Amen.

    
    

    According to early Christian history, Paul was completing a vow at the Temple to prove repentance or absolution of the charges against him.  Read Acts 20 – 23, as it is a book written to foster belief in Paul.  Were the charges against him to have been teaching Jews (Jewish disciples of Yeshua) that they no longer needed to keep the Law and Covenant as given by God?  Paul voluntarily submitted to the vow and paid for the witnesses to be present in the Temple with him?  The charges against Paul in the documents of antiquity found in the Damascus Documents are of one who was charged to be a liar, and the connection is to obvious to pretend to ignore or no directly suspect Paul – especially given the anti-Law teachings of Paul we have in the records of his writings in the New Testament.  To this point it has been shown that what Paul was writing was not in accord to the Teachings of God up through Yeshua’s teaching ministry.  Because Paul says: “¹I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit,” the matter is his conscience is not a valid witness to truth.  The word of God is a valid witness to truth.  The “multitude of believers” who complained to the apostles of Paul teaching contrary doctrines might be considered a valid witness, as they all testified to what Paul was teaching – and we can review the writings of Paul and observe the charges made were true – Paul was teaching against the Law – and the Teachings of Yeshua in the account written by his chosen disciples, the twelve apostles – in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.

    
    

    God gave standards of witness for trials in the Torah.  No where in all the Holy Scripture is one person claiming he hasn’t violated his conscience a valid standard of testimony of fact.  We can all have our own opinions and do things that don’t matter much, but to testify against God and call His Everlasting Covenant to have been done away with on the cross – at variance with the word of God and the Teachings of “that prophet”, Yeshua – these are VERY serious charges indeed.  Yet we have Paul call to witness his conscience and then claim the Spirit of God testifies against the Word of God?  Such a matter should be obvious that such a person is not to be trusted. No wonder Paul’s exclamation that “I am not lying.”  As the old television show, Dragnet, said: “Just the facts mam – just give me the facts.”  The fact is that Paul in every way lied about God, the Covenant, the Doctrine of God and the Teachings of Jesus.  No where in the in Matthew can a hint of the doctrines of Paul be found – yet he claims he is testifying that “his gospel” is true – and God and Jesus gave it to him by revelation?  Funny that God proved to me that Paul is nothing but a rank liar – even though I used to believe him faithfully as I was taught to do – until I discovered the Teachings of Jesus and their harmony to the entire Holy Scripture and Dead Sea Scrolls – and the evidence that our Bibles were altered by Rome – who has nothing to do with God or those who are faithful to His instructions.

    
    

    Where in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew does Yeshua say he is God?  Where in the Holy Scripture is there a prophecy that God will manifest Himself in human flesh and sacrifice Himself for the sins of the world?  Nowhere.  So why does Paul end this paragraph saying Jesus is God?  This is a violation of the first commandment as well, as the literal translation is “thou shalt not put another god on My face.”  God is God.  Jesus prayed to God when giving the “Lord’s Prayer.”  Was he praying to Himself?!  No, he wasn’t, and he never claimed to be God, but a man, a man who was to ascend to the throne on the right hand of the Power on High – the Ancient of Days in Daniel.

    
    

    God’s Sovereign Choice

    
    

    ⁶ It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. ⁷ Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^{[b] 8} In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. ⁹ For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”^[c] 

    
    

    ^? Who is a descendant but one who begotten through direct lineage?  The matter of Abraham having a descendant was the issue in Genesis 15 – that he have an heir to inherit his property, rather than his employee inheriting it?  God promised Abraham that he would have a descendant – even though Sarah was barren – that she would have a child – not that Abraham and Sarah having a child through the handmaid of Sarah to be the descendant of the promise.  Genesis 16 proves the point that the heir would be from Sarah, not the handmade – it would be proven that God would be true to His word, and although both Abraham and Sarah were beyond normal childbearing age – God would be true and do that which seemed humanly impossible.  The conflict between the offspring – Isaac and Esau – because of the dishonor of Esau, he and Hagar were not to dwell with the child of the promise – and although given a promise from the angel of God – the two descendants of Abraham – physical descendants – not imagined descendants – are at odds with each other to this day.  The children of the Promise are the children of the promise, but both were of the offspring of Abraham – but both were not offspring through Abraham and Sarah.  How is it as Paul says: “In other words it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring?”  Abrahams wife was Sarah – and the promises were made to Abraham and his descendants – and a different promise was made to the offspring of Abraham and Hagar – and both promises are of God, but only through Sarah and Abraham would come the fulfillment of the descendants who would inherit Canaan and receive the Ten Decrees at Sinai – the Everlasting Covenant which would be a blessing to all nations – whoever would honor the Decree and Covenant given by God Himself – not though and angel or elemental.

    
    

    ¹⁰ Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. ¹¹ Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: ¹² not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”^{[d] 13} Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”^[e]

    
    

    ¹⁴ What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses,

    
    

    “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
        and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”^[f]

    
    

    ¹⁶ It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. ¹⁷ For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”^{[g] 18} Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

    
    

    Where in the words of God in the Torah does He give us information about “election”?  God obviously foreknew Jacob and Esau – He is the one who forms the soul within each of us before we are born – it is the soul that either accepts or rejects God – it is the soul of a man that decides to honor God – or not.  God was proving Himself to Isaac and Rebecah – that He knows who we are before we are  born.  Our actions and decisions prove who we are – He foreknows – but we don’t – that’s because He is God and we are not.  Where did God ever say it was about “election”???  God has decreed who He will have mercy on, and who He will not – and His words about this are as true today as any of His word to Adam, Cain, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses or Yeshua.  This is why we need to go back and rid the Bible of false apostles writings and alterations and mistranslations to the pre-existing word given in the Hebrew Holy Scripture and the ancient records of the Dead Sea Scrolls – the Scripture of Yeshua’s days on earth.  God declared who He will have mercy on, and who are His enemies – in the very first of the Ten Decrees.  To deny this is to deny the most important commandment/decree God gave – believe God, choose life, and live it according to His gracious instructions in righteousness!!

    
    

    ¹⁹ One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” ²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^{[h] 21} Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

    
    

    Is it the will of God that anyone perish?  He said His will is that all would come to the knowledge of Him and repent, that He might save them.  He will be true to His word, and His word is just and righteous.  Do we have the ability to reject the word of God? Do we have the ability to observe the words of God?  Are we inclined to seek out His will that we might do it?  Are we inclined to double check what someone claims God said, so we can know if they speak according to His word – or not?  This is a time of great deception on earth – particularly in Western society.  Look at how the MSM has been foisting false charges to blind men from observing fact – to then rule by false accusation – certainly a work of those who rebel against God and seek to destroy what good remains!  God hates those who sow discord among brethren, but He doesn’t hate those who dare declare His word eternally true.  Isaiah 30:18; “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.  For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.”

    
    

    ²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? ²³ What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As he says in Hosea:

    
    

    “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
        and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”^[i]

    
    

    ²⁶ and,

    
    

    “In the very place where it was said to them,
        ‘You are not my people,’
        there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”^[j]

    
    

    ²⁷ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

    
    

    “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
        only the remnant will be saved.
    ²⁸ For the Lord will carry out
        his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[k]

    
    

    ²⁹ It is just as Isaiah said previously:

    
    

    “Unless the Lord Almighty
        had left us descendants,
    we would have become like Sodom,
        we would have been like Gomorrah.”^[l]

    
    

    Israel’s Unbelief

    
    

    ³⁰ What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; ³¹ but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. ³² Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. ³³ As it is written:

    
    

    “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
        and a rock that makes them fall,
        and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

    
    

    Read the passages in Isaiah as noted, but this is the Hebrew Scripture for 28:16,

    
    

    “Therefore, hear the word of HASHEM, O scoffing men, O rulers of this people who are in Jerusalem.  For you say, “We has sealed a covenant with Death and made a compact with the Grave; when the surging staff of punishment passers through it will not come to us, for we have made Deceit our shelter and taken refuge in Falsehood.”  Therefore, thus said my Oord HASHEM/ELOHIM: Behold, I am laying a stone for a foundation in Zion; a sturdy stone, a precious cornerstone, as secure foundation.  Let the believer not expect it soon.  I shall use judgment as a measuring line, and righteousness as a plumb bob.  Hail will sweep away the shelter of Deceit, and water will wash away the refuge of Falsehood.  And your covenant with Death will be annulled, and your compact with the Grave will not be binding; when the surging staff passes through, it will pass through every morning, by day and by night; understanding of this report will being them horror.”  Where is: “and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame?”  Yeshua’s teachings certainly include the judgment and righteousness God commanded of “My people.”  Where is judgment in the writings of Paul if he said the love of God is unconditional, yet in the first of the Ten Decrees – love, according to God IS CONDITIONAL – the condition being the Ten Decrees – just as said in Deuteronomy by God Himself!  All through the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew the references kept going to those who honor the Covenant by their faithfulness to it.  It is God given standards for justice and righteousness.  Would it not be deceitful to say God will not use them to judge those who speak falsely against the Decrees of God and that each of us is capable and responsible to repent – that we do them and do no evil?  Does Paul uphold the Law as everlastingly true standards of God that each of us is capable to hear, observe, and do them?

    
    

    Anyone who has read Matthew has to admit Yeshua taught doing the works of God.  He was careful to say his disciples are to live by every word of God.  The Ten Decrees are amongst the words of God, and in fact the words that God said will be used as His rule in judgment of Jew and Gentile.  God also spoke through Moses to say He would raise up a prophet from amongst Israel that whoever would not hear whatever he said to do would be “cut-off.”  If Yeshua (Jesus) is that prophet – and there exists very good evidence that he is in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew – then since Yeshua said we are not to even think he came to loosen or set the Law aside – if we believe Yeshua – we cannot believe the claims of Paul, because Paul defies doing the Torah and teaches it is not even given by God in Galatians 3 and 4.  See the review of Galatians.  Be it known that the Sermon on the Mount – and other passages – are altered in the Greek version.  See the link to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew:

    
    

    ^{http://onediscipletoanother.org/id6.html}

    
    

    ^{Deuteronomy 18: 17-22;} The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

    
    

    You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

    
    

     

    
    

    ^{Deuteronomy 4}

    
    

    ¹Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. ² Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

    
    

    ³ You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, ⁴ but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

    
    

    ⁵ See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” ⁷ What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

    
    

    ⁹ Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” ¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. ¹³ He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. ¹⁴ And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

    
    

    Deuteronomy 12

    
    

    ²⁹ The Lord your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, ³⁰ and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.” ³¹ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

    
    

    ³² See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

    
    

     

    
    

     

    
    

     

    
    

    Deuteronomy 13

    
    

    Worshiping Other Gods

    
    

    ^1[a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, ² and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” ³ you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. (Yeshua never claimed to be God or co-Creator) The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. (Yeshua taught his disciples to keep the commandments of God). ⁵ That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. (This is likely why they wanted to kill Paul when he failed to fulfill his seven day vow at the Temple.) That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

    
    

    ⁶ If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, ⁷ gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), ⁸ do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. ⁹ You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. ¹¹ Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

    
    

    ¹² If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in ¹³ that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), ¹⁴ then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, ¹⁵ you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,^[b] both its people and its livestock. ¹⁶ You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, ¹⁷ and none of the condemned things^[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors— ¹⁸ because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

    
    

      Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!

    2. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12

    3. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14

    4. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23

    5. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3

    6. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19

    7. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16

    8. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

    9. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23

    10. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10

    11. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)

    12. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

    13. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16

        None of these passages refute that truth is not what Paul was teaching.  Interjecting some passages to support basic facts doesn’t make what Paul was teaching true.  Beware any references for the Septuagint, as the Greek is altered text – check the Hebrew Scriptures and the record from the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.

         

         

         

         

         

    
    

    Romans 10

    
    

    ¹Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. ² For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. ³ Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. ⁴ Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

    
    

    ⁵ Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^{[a] 6} But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. ¹¹ As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^{[e] 12} For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, ¹³ for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

    
    

    “5.  Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”  Verse 5 is an example of alteration of the Greek from what the correct Hebrew translation is.  From the Stone Edition, 4-5; “Carry out My laws and safeguard My decrees to follow them; I am Elohim, your God.  You shall observe My decrees, and My laws, which man shall carry out and by which he shall live – I AM Elohim.”  In Paul's "quote", the words of Elohim are altered to say it is not by doing the will of God as given, but by merely calling upon the name of Jesus:  "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."  Study of Matthew shows Jesus was teaching doing the will of God in reality - both towards God, as well as our fellow mankind, and that we judge ourselves first, so others won't have the need to judge us - and all the Judgments are to be based on how Elohim said we are to live.

    
    

    As for verse 11 to account “belief” to save – note the end of John 3 for some clarity that is in accord to the OT examples: belief saves, but those who don’t obey are condemned.  This shows that disobedience is equated to disbelief, as the principle taught in “Why do you call me “Lord”, and not do as I say?”  Go back to the Sermon on the Mount – those who do what he taught are wise – those who don’t will come to sudden destruction.  Also note to not keep the Law (10 Decrees Covenant Standards) (Greek “anomia”) are those he will say – in spite of what they wholeheartedly believed – “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity – I never knew you.”  The important thing to recognise in the Romans passage above is that Paul is directly defying the explicit words of God by completely altering the conclusion of what God had to say.  Elohim declared that by observing and doing His word there is life, we choose to live, that we live through doing them.  Paul cuts the verse short in his quote and then inserts his own imagination as the conclusion: "^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:" and defying what God said about living uprightly by His Standards in the Decree/Covenant.  Paul negates everything God said to do, Paul negates everything Jesus said to do, and you have to believe Paul is greater than God, the Prophets and Jesus if you are going to ignore everyone else in the entire Bible to think Paul told the truth.   By putting Paul's lies as "Scripture" - all the Bible Publishers and "Theologians" have given false testimony in the name of Elohim Almighty - just because some Council of men said to.   

    
    

    Did God make distinction between Jew and Gentile in the Ten Decrees, Blessings, and Curses? – as the One Law was given for all – by Elohim.  He also gave distinction regarding the Land and service at the Temple, also between Jew and Gentile for food laws and certain things about the “appointed times” feasts and such.  If God gave instruction – we need to know where we stand.  Can’t anyone get a genetic test kit to know if they are Jewish – or not?  There is no need to pretend or imagine – go with knowable fact and stop pretending..

    
    

    ¹⁴ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

    
    

    How can anyone know if they should be rejecting the teachings of Paul, unless they are taught the Torah of God that they know His commandments and know who He commanded that we reject?!  Paul is not jumping off the page to tell you he is a liar – you have to observe the Truth to know a lie.  It’s no wonder God also declared from of old: “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”

    
    

    ¹⁶ But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”^{[h] 17} Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

    
    

    “Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
        their words to the ends of the world.”^[i]

    
    

    ¹⁹ Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,

    
    

    “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
        I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”^[j]

    
    

    ²⁰ And Isaiah boldly says,

    
    

    “I was found by those who did not seek me;
        I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”^[k]

    
    

    ²¹ But concerning Israel he says,

    
    

    “All day long I have held out my hands
        to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

    
    

    Go to the passages referenced and see the message they should have believed.  Yeshua taught the proper interpretation and application of the Law, Prophets and Psalms – he taught nothing new.  Recall Ezekiel 18 and consider if it is hard to do what is just and right before God and honest men.  Which of the Ten Decrees – or any commandment of God – is too hard to understand or do?  Which of them causes us to sin?  Are you inflamed to dishonor your parents because God said to honor them?  Are you inflamed to commit murder, adultery or theft because God said not to?  Are you inflamed to covet everything you see that you don’t have – because God said not to covet what others have?  Such thoughts are total nonsense.  There is no commandment of God or Teaching of Yeshua that is too hard to do or understand – and we not only receive the promised kindness of God for living by them, we should also be a blessing to our family, community, and show how wonderful and simple the Pathway to Life Everlasting is to all who desire to live a just and reasonable life as God wills for all men.  We should treat each other with respect and kindness – because we are created in the image of God.  We should seek to live in peace with all men – as much as within our ability – but we also see from Abraham that it is just and righteous to rescue the righteous from the wicked.  I can think of no other descendant of Abraham to have captured the interest of all the nations as did Yeshua (Jesus).  I can think of no other prophet in all Jewish history that should be credited to have done as foretold in Isaiah 42, that he would make keeping the Torah honorable for the Gentiles.  I think it’s about time we say “Restore!” and “Give it back!”, as told in Isaiah 42.  Let’s get real with God and the Desired One of the ages – “that prophet” Moses foretold of.

    
    

     

    
    

    Footnotes

    
    

    1. Romans 10:5 Lev. 18:5

    2. Romans 10:6 Deut. 30:12

    3. Romans 10:7 Deut. 30:13

    4. Romans 10:8 Deut. 30:14

    5. Romans 10:11 Isaiah 28:16 (see Septuagint)

    6. Romans 10:13 Joel 2:32

    7. Romans 10:15 Isaiah 52:7

    8. Romans 10:16 Isaiah 53:1

    9. Romans 10:18 Psalm 19:4

    10. Romans 10:19 Deut. 32:21

    11. Romans 10:20 Isaiah 65:1

    12. Romans 10:21 Isaiah 65:2

         

         

    
    

     

    
    

    Romans 11

    
    

    The Remnant of Israel

    
    

    ¹I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: ³ “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”^[a]? ⁴ And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”^{[b] 5} So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. ⁶ And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

    
    

    Where in Ezekiel did God say the 7000 others had not bowed the knee to Baal because of the grace of God towards the 7000?  God was letting Ezekiel know he was not alone – even though he felt at that time he alone stood up for God to the false prophets of Baal and the corrupted king and queen of Israel.  Read Ezekiel sometime so you know what went on and that you observe if the grace of God caused the 7000 to remain true to Him – or if the 7000 being true to Him is the reason He will be gracious unto them.  Did not God say He had kept them BECAUSE they had not bowed their knee to Baal, nor kissed him (Baal) I Kings 19:18?  God doesn’t go by grace alone – God said to base our decisions on living by His word and dong no evil.  Honoring another as God that is not God, but falsehood – that is the source of evil.  God warned of the “alien gods” and “gods come lately who are no gods. (Baal and the like)  The principle is not hard to grasp – as it was in perfect alignment with Ezekiel 18, wherein God is clear to say the soul that sins will be solely responsible for their sins – but the soul who repents to do justice and righteousness in His eyes (by keeping His Decreed Covenant Conditions) will live.  The one thing God said He will not absolve anyone of is what?  If God is true, this also is important foundational TRUTH – In the Ten Decrees – does God say He will not absolve anyone who takes His NAME in vain?  God is just – and it would not be just to punish those who do the will of the Father, and then reward the disobedient with good for being evil or unjust.  Paul is artful in his twisting of Scripture and historical fact – but early evidence from the Ebionites says Paul was not a Jew by birth – which would explain his ignorance of the Hebrew Scripture and history – but not his artful twisting of fact to defy the Instruction and goodness of the Everlasting Covenant and how it relates to the Teachings of Yeshua and the judgment of God to be completely just.  Did the 7000 not bow their knee to Baal because God did it for them, yet didn’t for others?  God is not unjust,  but rewards each according to their works – not faith alone or grace alone – but by their works.  Even Revelation ends on this same note.  Paul was not speaking of behalf of God when saying He preserved the 7000 by grace – not that God defies being gracious – but His grace or kindness has purpose.  So will we stand with God and believe He is just – or will we stand behind Paul and pretend the Torah is unjust and a weapon formed against us – to lead us to know we cannot do His will and therefore God sacrificed His only Son to serve as a sin sacrifice that He might gain the ungodly by grace alone or faith without works?  Was Israel pardoned of their evil by their blood sacrifices?  No, as they did not seek to follow the conditions of the Everlasting Covenant ratified at Sinai. 

    
    

    ⁷ What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, ⁸ as it is written:

    
    

    “God gave them a spirit of stupor,
        eyes that could not see
        and ears that could not hear,
    to this very day.”^[c]

    
    

    ⁹ And David says:

    
    

    “May their table become a snare and a trap,
        a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
    ¹⁰ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
        and their backs be bent forever.

    
    

    Elect?  Where in the Hebrew Scripture or the Teachings of Yeshua do we find that God “elects” one person above another? In the First of the Ten Decrees of God, nothing is said of any “election” of God, but that God is giving instruction via commandments that we prove to God and ourselves and all other men – if we are being faithful and true to God by keeping His just standards of righteousness – or not.  Nothing about any election of God – just clear – plain – easily observable – perfectly reasonable – perfectly true principles of how God says we are to live.  We choose to do what we do – which is why God will hold us accountable for whether we choose life as He gives it – or not.  Those who have a spirit of stupor are so because they have not paid attention to believe and observe the true words of God and Yeshua.  God makes men wise via His word.  Those not of God are the fault of stupors – those who reject His instruction are those who are not wise – BECAUSE THEY REJECT HIS INSTRUCTION AND BELIEVE LIES SPOKEN IN HIS NAME.  Again – where has God said who He will be gracious to is based upon His election?  God declared the difference between Jacob and Esau before they did good or evil – but this was His foreknowledge of what they would choose regarding the promises He had made to Abraham.  One would desire His blessing, the other counted it as worth no more than a bowl of food.  Why did God say Noah found grace in His eyes?  Because of his living justly in the face of injustice, violence and wickedness that prevailed among the evil souls upon the earth?  God is not unjust or unreasonable or unfaithful to His word or in giving mankind His word via the descendants of Abraham.  Our greatest challenge is to stand up for the unaltered words of God and to reject the altered word and those who  altered it or continue to alter it. (Jeremiah 29:23; “Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.” And “we have inherited lies and vanity.”  Romans shows this is very true.

    
    

    Ingrafted Branches

    
    

    ¹¹ Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. ¹² But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

    
    

    God gave instruction before there were  Jew and Gentile.  In the creation of man, a God given sense of discernment was built into Adam.  This is why man is not like any of the other animals of creation, who are indiscriminate about things men are discriminate about by nature.  God declared Noah just before the Law was given at Sinai.  In fact, God declared Cain was capable to do good and improve himself – after the “fall”.  Abraham was declared righteous before the Law at Sinai.  In fact, Abraham was not found faithful to God based on his genetics – but by his faithfulness to God’s leading and instructing him.  Those of a multitude of nations left Egypt before the giving of the Law – and also ratified the Law at Sinai to be the Covenant – to both Jew and Gentile!  Yeshua was doing nothing new to renew the Covenant to Jew AND Gentile!  The first renewing of the Covenant was done as they entered Canaan.  The 160 CE Aramaic English New Testament has Yeshua saying he came to renew the Covenant – not give a New Covenant – our records are evidently altered – but God is true, and by going back to see what He declared – we can still know the truth He gave.  God did not alter it.

    
    

    ¹³ I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry ¹⁴ in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

    
    

    “In as much as I am the apostle to the Gentiles?”  In Acts, it is Peter who brought in the first Gentile, but since Acts is suspect at best, we should look to Matthew – wherein Yeshua clearly said to make disciples of all nations – not Jews first, and then Gentiles.  The role of Yeshua – the proofs – were not known fully until his death, burial, resurrection and ascension to the “right hand of the Power on High.”  There is no mystery regarding Gentiles in Matthew, and it was written before Paul appears on the scene – had Paul bothered to check with the Apostles when he was baptized – if he was baptized.  Had he been told to go to someone, that he might know what he must do – I find no reason to think someone as near as Damascus who was a disciple of Yeshua would have not told him of the account of Yeshua by his chosen disciples – how else did Paul come up with pretending to be an “apostle” to the gentiles?  How come Paul goes where he can find gentiles who are ignorant of the Torah to foist his “gospel” upon them – pretending to be someone who knew the Torah – when he obviously was a biblical ignoramus and not even knowing “seed” and “seeds” to be nothing but an invention – as in Hebrew – the language of the Torah – “seed” was always plural – not singular. (so claims Jewish rabbi Tovia Singer)  This premise is further known by his alterations of historical fact and citing a Greek translation?!, when someone he claimed to be his teacher would never have supported or used such a faulty “translation”.  All Paul is doing is inventing his “lore” to make biblical ignoramuses of those who would know better if they consulted the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew and the Hebrew Scripture that the gospel is based upon.  Again – Ezekiel 18 would have been sufficient.  Let’s see where Paul goes with his invention.  In the Torah and Prophets, God spoke of Israel not keeping to His Torah, and as a result they would be cast out of the land of promise and remain few in number – but that a remnant would return to Him in the latter, or end, of days.  As God said would happen did happen, and Jews remain few in number to this day – many seek to establish their right to the Land by evil means – and those will end as God declared – as those He will show kindness towards are those who are faithful to do His Covenant conditions faithfully because of His love for them and the faithfulness and reliability of His word and promises.

    
    

    ¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, ¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

    
    

    What nation since unfaithful Judah of Yeshua’s days has kept the Torah of God to be their manner of life and faith?  Yeshua said God was tearing the Kingdom from them and would give it to another who WOULD produce the fruits of the Kingdom of God.  Has Rome been faithful to the Everlasting Covenant?  Too much evidence of evil exists to pretend this so.  They were the ones who killed thousands, forbid the reading of the Holy Scripture by their membership, and foisted the false apostle to be true and put his nonsense into Christian Bibles.  God will be true, and we are called to “wait upon the LORD” and trust in His faithfulness to His word.  If one trusts in God, one has to take His word as a guide and stay in life – not alter it.  However – all the alterations foisted upon us only prove it is time that we non-Jew believers in God acknowledge the passage has now come true that “we have inherited lies and vanity” from those who killed the first generations of faithful believers in Yeshua – both Jew and Gentile.  As Yeshua said; all things spoken in the Law and Prophets will be fulfilled – which brings us to Jeremiah 16:19 in the Christian Bible and Jewish Bible (JPS).

    
    

    King James Version: O Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”

    
    

    New King James: “O Lord, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”

    
    

    NIV: “Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.”

    
    

    JPS: “HASHEM, my Strength, my Stgronghold and my Refuge on the day of distress!  To You nations will come from the ends of the earth and say: “It was all falsehood that our ancestors inherited, futility that has no purpose.  Can a man make gods for himself? – they are not gods!” (This passage appears to be missing in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.) 

    
    

    Yeshua never claimed to be God – he prayed to God – he said to keep His commandments faithfully – to the least of the commandments! – so long as the heavens and earth shall last – not until he was killed on the cross!  The Everlasting Covenant was given to Jew and Gentile at the same time – the gospel message taught by Yeshua was also given to Jew and Gentile – because Yeshua was renewing the Everlasting Covenant – not doing away with it!  It’s time to repent of Paul!!!!!!!

    
    

    ²² Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. ²³ And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!  

    
    

    Gentiles being included with Israel in the kindness of God is based on the Torah – the very words already spoken by God at Sinai – in fulfillment to His promise to bless all nations through the seed of Abraham.  Read your Bible and see this is so.  Lies against the Everlasting Covenant are a great evil – whether foisted by fake Christians or fake Jews.

    
    

    All Israel Will Be Saved

    
    

    ²⁵ I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶ and in this way^[e] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

    
    

    “The deliverer will come from Zion;
        he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
    ²⁷ And this is^[f] my covenant with them
        when I take away their sins.”^[g]

    
    

    ²⁸ As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, ²⁹ for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. ³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, ³¹ so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^[h] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. ³² For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

    
    

    God has bound no one to disobedience – rather God has said that He desires all men to repent that He might save them!  Go to the Holy Scripture and pay attention to the words of God – very close attention – stop trusting in those who testify against the Law and the Testimony.  God gave His Instructions in righteousness to elevate and bless us – if we will observe His Instruction to do them!  The main passage sited in the footnotes is from Isaiah 59: 20-21.   God did not “harden” Israel in Isaiah 59.  In fact, God was pleading for them to return to Him by doing as He instructed – they had no fear of God and were bent on following their own ways – not the God given pathway to life!  Read all of Isaiah 59 and see it was not God who hardened Israel’s heart – so Paul once again testifies against the Law and the Prophets.  Why have we and our “fathers”  been so blinded all these years? It’s time to return to God and believe His word, Covenant and will for men of all nations.

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12. "But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

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14. Look back at the dialoge of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 4.  Elohim said the Standards of the Covenant are near to us, in our hearts and mouth - they are perfectly reasonable - they are universal standards - anyone should realize each of them is based on the differrences between what is good and what is evil to any reasonable and normal human being.  He also said we are capable and responsible to both Him and our fellow.  No where is it possible or implied that anything was a mystery that one might ask who will ascend to the heavens to get it to tell us, or who will cross the seas to find it for us?  No, God said it is near to us and in our hearts and mouths!, not some "Mystery" of any kind.  Think this over.   Look at the Covenant Standards from the days of Ezekiel, although not as deeply rooted to the teachings of Jesus - look over the current account in all our "Bibles" - the fact is that Paul was retelling his delusions - Paul was not faithful to tell us what God or Jesus taught!!!!  In fact - Paul was defying God, Moses, every person present at Sinai, all the Prophets, as well as the very one he claimed to have appointed him to tell his lies to the non-Jew Gentiles!!!!  If you cannot see that flagrant lie - you'd just as well stop reading the Bible and join Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, or the Church of Satan - because you do not believe God or His holy prophets!!!.

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16.  Jesus never taught that his keeping the Torah would be substituted for us not keeping the Torah.  No, instead he taught repenting and going back and keeping the Covenant as God gave it – not as the unfaithful of his days commanded that was not in accord to the Covenant decrees God.  According to Jesus, faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and per the example of Abraham and all those counted as faithful to God – their faithfulness was accounted to them.  As Yeshua taught about the resurrection – we trust not only in the blessing and kindness in our current life – but also in the rewards to come when God judges the just and the unjust – the righteous and the wicked.  Reward is based on our works – to have done the works of God, as instructed by God – or to have refused to walk in the pathways of life as He instructed.

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   Doxology

   
   

   ³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and^[i] knowledge of God!
       How unsearchable his judgments,
       and his paths beyond tracing out!

   
   

   God gave Instruction via Moses and at Sinai directly – His word is not hard to understand or to keep and He invites us to know and do His will that He might bless us.  Read Psalm 119 if one seeks to regard His good will.  The Law is wisdom and knowledge given by God Himself and are not beyond discovery or understanding!  God said so.  Do you disbelieve God because Paul said His word is too hard to understand or do?  What seems “impossible” in the Sermon on the Mount is viewed “impossible” because the words of Yeshua were altered.  See the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and carefully note the alteration and the impart it has towards understanding the truth Yeshua spoke.  Yeshua didn’t alter the words of God – the words of Yeshua were altered.  This alone proves John questionable as it testifies that “my words shall by no means pass away”, as they were altered.

   
   

   
   ³⁴ “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
       Or who has been his counselor?”

   
   

   How can we know the mind of God if we don’t first hear what He had to say, and then judge if Paul spoke on His behalf or not?  How can we “know” the gospel of God taught by Yeshua unless we first grasp his teachings in Matthew as they also find accord to the words of God in the Torah and prophets?  How can we judge justly unless we see if Yeshua spoke the truth in Matthew?  Matthew is the best record of his teachings and is reported to have been written by his apostles in Hebrew very early in Church history.  What God has given us to know is what we need – but we cannot say YHVH is our God and then spurn and reject His instruction and commandment (Torah) – as those who reject doing His will are His enemies – not those He will bless. (so says the first of the Ten Decrees)

   
   

    
   ³⁵ “Who has ever given to God,
       that God should repay them?”^{[k]
   36} For from him and through him and for him are all things.
       To him be the glory forever! Amen.

   
   

   If God says He will bless and show His kindness towards those whose love for Him is true to His Covenant – it is His goodness and blessing to give those who “earn” it by love and faithfulness and trust in Him and His instructions.  His instruction was given that we not be foolish – but become wise through knowing His instruction and the pathway for which mankind, according to mankinds God given nature,  was created to live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with Him.  His blessing and kindness are His just reward!  Where does God ever say He will reward the wicked the same as He will those who are righteous in His sight?  In one hand the discovery of the God given pathway to life and freedom to live life at its fullest – on the other is a life than leads to death and multitudes of problems – which God was true to tell: “Choose life, that ye may live!”  The letters of the Law no more bring death and a curse, than the flesh of a person cause sin – the soul chooses life or death by whether it chooses to trust in God and His faithfulness to His word - or if the soul does not trust the pathway of justice, fairness, mercy and truth given by God.  God is being true to His word to give just recompense to what a person chooses to do.  Paul is creating a “straw-man” argument and evidently has no knowledge of the Torah or God or His word or promises and Covenants.

   
   

   By all means – check out the passages in the footnotes – but do so with eyes open to seek to understand the will of God – especially in context to claims from Paul – see if Paul is taking Jewish scripture in proper context – or if the passage is not being taken in context.  Sometimes study Bibles and Paul use scripture in  a “cute and paste” manner that shows lack of understanding.  Most are hit and miss.  Sometimes they prove mistranslations exist in Christian Bibles.  These kind of things are what made discovery of the truth difficult – not God. 

   
   

   Don’t forget who Yeshua claimed to be in Matthew.  The proof between a true prophet and a false prophet is what they tell you to believe or do – is it in accord with the words of God to Adam and Eve, Cain, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses – the prophets – and finally the teachings of Yeshua in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew – or is it only true to the Greek to English translation of Matthew?  Come to know the truth, as it will set you free indeed as you are a disciple indeed.

   
   

   Footnotes

   
   

   1. Romans 11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14

   2. Romans 11:4 1 Kings 19:18

   3. Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

   4. Romans 11:10 Psalm 69:22,23

   5. Romans 11:26 Or and so

   6. Romans 11:27 Or will be

   7. Romans 11:27 Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34

   8. Romans 11:31 Some manuscripts do not have now.

   9. Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the

   10. Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13

   11. Romans 11:35 Job 41:11

   
   

   Romans 12

   
   

   A Living Sacrifice

   
   

   ¹Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

   
   

   Where in the Everlasting Covenant did God say He demands man to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice?  No where that I’ve found.  Is this what God meant when saying: “What does God require of thee, O man, but to live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God”?  Is this what the wise man who said: “Fear God and keep His commandments – this is the duty of man.”?  God declared “My Covenant” to be the Ten Decrees – not “613 Laws” that are impossible for any man to keep.  God did warn not to be conformed to the world of those who serve other gods – gods of their own creation, or the “alien gods” who “are no gods” and “gods come lately.”  God revealed Himself to Jew and Gentile at Sinai – and we would do well and review His words that we might be amongst those who are blessed by knowing His revealing of Himself at the same time that He gave just and righteous commandments that are completely true and that were given to elevate all who would repent and turn to observe and do His will and Covenant.

   
   

   If God gave His word to bless and elevate us – to cause us to grow in doing what is just and right in His sight – then we absolutely must align our conscience to the words of God – that we might be walking humbly with our God in accepting His pathways and walking within His stated pathway of life.  If we cast aside His pathway to then walk on a pathway that He warned against – we have not trusted God, just as Adam and Eve didn’t trust God in the Garden by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but chose to believe a lie of the Serpent.  Trials are given along our lives so that both God and ourselves can know whether we will obey Him – or not.  I’ll choose this day to follow God – even though and old song says: “It was good for Paul and Silus, it’s good enough for me.”  No, rather: It was good for Moses and Jesus – that’s good enough for me!  I’ll choose to live life that is true to God and that gives me full freedom to do justly and rightly – to live life in equality with other men, and a life that gives God given rights – not servitude or communism.  See the Ten Decrees: they don’t support servitude, Communism, or Socialism – the words of God tell us what the best pathway to  live within!  It’s a mystery to me how both Communism and Psychology were both birthed by Jews…. God gave no such instruction to them.  And what was the message of Jesus to the Jews, since he knew the kingdom was being torn from them and the Temple would be destroyed and the remnant scattered throughout the world?

   
   

    

   
   

   Humble Service in the Body of Christ

   
   

   ³ For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. ⁴ For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. ⁶ We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your^[a] faith; ⁷ if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; ⁸ if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,^[b] do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

   
   

   Where is Paul’s telling of the God given pathways established throughout the Hebrew Scripture?  Judgment should be based on judging as God decreed – not according to some imaginary “faith” that God distributed among the disciples of Paul – those who put the words of Paul above the words of God and Yeshua.  I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me – each of us belong to God – but who choses His pathways to live by?  Where did Yeshua teach God would give us differing “gifts”?  Where did God say he would give us each different “gifts”?  I’ve heard many who claim the gift of prophecy that made no sense at all.  I’ve seen many who pretend the “gift” of speaking in tongues – but no such thing is found in the mouth of Yeshua in Matthew – only in Mark – a reported disciple of Paul.  I’ve seen many who claim the “gift” of miraculous healing – but have also seen corruption and guile amongst them enough to know that what they did was not of God – because God let us know how to tell who speaks on His behalf, just as we were also informed how to tell those who DO NOT – miracles alone were not proof.  God does not want His people to be ignorant of His will, as He said “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”  Surely the knowing of His will.  Paul claimed to have great knowledge – but was an abject ignoramus of God’s will.  Did he teach others to value him more than he deserved?  It sure appears so to me.

   
   

   Love in Action

   
   

   The following is perhaps the closest Paul gets to the truth of God.  Much of this can be referred to from the teachings of Yeshua in Matthew – although footnotes give no credit to showing principles from the Law being in the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.  Where Paul goes off track is that God created men to live in equality – not that men were told to put everyone else above themselves – God and Yeshua taught equality among men, as men are created in the image of God – and that He alone is God – and we are all brethren who abide in His will and care.  The Ten Decrees are based on this principle – not the principle of servitude to anyone but God and “him to which it is due.” In the Torah, the unity between men of all nations (Jew and Gentile) was found in all having the same law to live by – the gracious instructions in righteousness – as given by God.

   
   

   ⁹ Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. ¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. ¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. ¹² Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. ¹³ Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

   
   

   ¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.^[c] Do not be conceited.

   
   

   ¹⁷ Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. ¹⁸ If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. ¹⁹ Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”^[d] says the Lord. ²⁰ On the contrary:

   
   

   “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
       if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
   In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”^[e]

   
   

   ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

   
   

   Footnotes

   
   

   1. Romans 12:6 Or the

   2. Romans 12:8 Or to provide for others

   3. Romans 12:16 Or willing to do menial work

   4. Romans 12:19 Deut. 32:35

   5. Romans 12:20 Prov. 25:21,22

   
   

   Submission to Governing Authorities

   
   

   ¹Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. ² Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. ³ For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. ⁴ For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. ⁵ Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

   
   

   ⁶ This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. ⁷ Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

   
   

   Where did God say this about Roman rulers – as these are who ruled over the land in Paul’s days – and God allows trials to see if we will obey Him – or not.  What was the instruction of God to Israel after the remnant returned from Babylon?  What was Yeshua’s instruction to Israel when he arrived on the scene?  Were they being faithful to God as He had instructed them?  No.  A group of the faithful had long since separated themselves from Jerusalem with cause and gone to Quamran, and evidently John the Baptist was from this group.  Jews have long held the view that Rome is their perpetual enemy – and Roman influence continues to this day – in government and in Scripture for Christians – books the Roman Church decreed to be in the Christian Bible, and Rome also went along with alterations to the Hebrew Scripture in the Christian Scripture – for the benefit of our belief in Paul – particularly as found here in Romans 13.  In Matthew we see Jesus showing that it is possible to be a Christian in a Roman ruled world.  The Roman rulers sought to free him – it was the Jewish leadership that desired his death.  Jesus taught paying taxes and living justly – and no government that rules justly would demand otherwise.  What we should all see is that by our time many governments have been corrupted to do evil and lie to their people directly and via control of the propaganda spewed by the licensed News Media – lies prevail – not truth.  Accusations are pretended to sway public “opinion polls” to lull our minds from obvious facts – if they were ever reported on.  God is who we owe allegiance to – not government.  Did Danial obey God when he prayed towards Jerusalem?  Did Peter obey God when saying he must obey God, rather than man?  God gave instruction to know who He said to obey.  As Jesus pointed out about taxes: “Whose image is on the coin?” and that we are to give to God what is rightfully His, and to man, that which is of man and due a man.  No man is God – in spite of what Roman rulers or the Pope call themselves.  If you think the USA is of God to be obeyed without question – read “Apollyon Rising – 2012”, or watch “Brotherhood of Darkness” on Youtube by Stanley Montif.  Rome put Paul in our Bibles to get us to obey them – not to cause us to serve God according to His word.  Have not governments sought to stamp out belief in God and His pathway to live life?  If you don’t see this – you’ve blinded yourself by believing Paul or disbelieving God.

   
   

   Love Fulfills the Law

   
   

   ⁸ Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”^[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^{[b] 10} Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

   
   

   Here is another bait and switch job by Paul.  Go back to Matthew and focus on what Yeshua taught.  Yeshua taught that love is a principle that proper understanding of the Law requires – love – the Law hangs on the peg of love as a secure foundation.  First that love for God observes His word to do it – second – that doing the Law is to be done with love towards God – to then be reflected in our love towards others in keeping the more obvious commandments of how we live towards each other.  The love of God has observable definition – identifiable by what it does – not some imagined standard that flows outside the boundaries given by God.  Is love a debt?  Or is it the response of what should come naturally to someone who lives by the word of God?  Does love excuse us from the Law – or is love in full accord with the Law and Covenant ratified at Sinai?

   
   

   The Day Is Near

   
   

   ¹¹ And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹² The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. ¹⁴ Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

   
   

   Once again, Paul pits flesh against the soul, as though the flesh is the cause of sin, not the heart that is outside the pathway of life given by God.  Paul is presenting extremes, so there isn’t objection to say those extreme behaviors are some kind of enlightenment that can only be discerned by the “spirit” or spiritual armor.  However – since we should all be able to see the lies Paul foisted in the NAME of God and Yeshua – the time has come to awaken from our spiritual slumber to have not noticed following Paul requires disrespect and disregard for the words of God in the Torah.  True life is known when one is walking in the God given pathways of life – not the imaginations of Paul – who didn’t tell the truth on the words of God – but sowed discord instead.

   
   

   Footnotes

   
   

   1. Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21

   2. Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18

   3. Romans 13:14 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

   
   

   Romans 14

   
   

   The Weak and the Strong

   
   

   ¹Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. ² One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. ³ The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

   
   

   On the surface this seems reasonable – not to quarrel over disputable matters.  However, are the matters Paul defines as disputable that  the Instructions of God in the Everlasting Covenant deem prohibited?  Indeed, the perceptions given by Paul disregard the distinctions God gave!  Every word of God was given for a purpose – don’t set them aside because Paul said so!  What has faith to do with what we eat, except if God had commanded or prohibited something, or had prohibited it for one group (children of Abraham), and not for another (those of the multitude of nations).  For example – there is prohibition against eating blood – for both Jew and Gentile.  Since God prohibited this because the life is contained in the blood – all who seek to do His will must not do that which He prohibited – because He said so, and because the oldest records in the Dead Sea Scrolls also affirm this is not an addition or alteration.  And what of being a vegetarian?  What has God said?  When Daniel refused the kings food  it was likely with cause that he had no assurance it was in keeping with the food laws for the children of Israel.  Daniel likely chose to eat vegetarian so he could know he was not eating anything God prohibited him to eat.  Daniel was very beloved by God.  God never said Daniel was “weak in the faith.”  Another example is Peter – who is said to have been a vegetarian.  I can’t help but think of the words of Paul against Peter in Galatians.  Peter likely chose to eat vegetarian to ensure he was not eating prohibited things when visiting gentiles taught by Paul – or Jews taught by Paul, if the Jews dared believe him.  Note in Acts that Peter’s conclusion about a vision of detestable food had to do with taking the gospel to the gentiles – not God altering His food laws for the children of Israel.  If you want to know if you are Jewish or not, so you might be faithful to every word that proceeds from the mouth of God – by all means – get a genetic test and see fact – not some imagination from Paul that would have God defying His own Covenant and word.

   
   

   If we serve and obey the one true God – it is to Him we stand or fall.  God does not make His enemies (those who reject His word) to stand.  As Yeshua taught in Matthew, there would be a day that many would call him “Lord!”, and he would tell them; “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity (Torahless), I never knew you.”

   
   

   It’s also needful to know the Instructions of God to Israel in the dispersion amongst the nations of the world, which is a study I’m reviewing now from the writings of “Jews Against Zioinism” from Monsey, NY.  They have much to say against the Jewish Zionists to be a very evil influence that has no part in the Torah of God.  How much have Jews been lead away by Zionists from the paths God declared they were to live in the despora?  As Yeshua said: all has to be fulfilled.  How can believers in God, the one true God, who seek to worship Him alone, find accord to support faithful Jews in spite of the Zionists?  Surely we should give ear to their cries and pleadings and warnings.

   
   

   ⁵ One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. ⁶ Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷ For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. ⁸ If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

   
   

   Did God, at Creation, distinguish and set aside the Seventh Day as holy?  In the Ten Decrees given by God as Sinai, did God restate the importance to keep the Seventh Day holy and distinguished from the secular six days that preceded it?  Did He say that we are to accomplish our work in six days, but the Seventh Day is Holy and a day of rest from labor/work?  If God gave this decree to all present at Sinai – Jew and Gentile – keeping the Sabbath holy is for all who claim to believe God.  The Sabbath was given as an everlasting ordinance – not temporary until the cross.  Yeshua taught keeping the Sabbath.  The distinction given in his teachings is to know it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath – through preserving life and through healing or rescuing from danger. 

   
   

   God also gave appointed times in various special days that have distinction between Jew and non-Jew.  For example, God gave the Passover, but a non-Jew was not to partake of it with a Jewish family unless they had been circumcised.  Another would be the feast of Tabernacles – Jew and Gentile were to keep it, as it was a reminder of God leading them both out of Egypt to freedom to worship Him alone the One True God.  These matters are needful to look into further, once our hearts and minds are freed from the lies taught by Paul.  If God declared differently than Paul – be advised – God is allowing us to be tested – to see if we will obey Him – or not!  As for me – I’m through with Paul.  I’m putting this information out there so you don’t have to be ignorant as others – this information is for those searching for and seeking TRUTH given by God and Yeshua.  Also review Matthew (HGOM) and see why Yeshua rose from the dead.  God is the God of the living and the dead, and Yeshua never claimed to be divine or God or a literal half-God, half man.  As “son of man” he was mortal – God raised him up and he ascended to the right hand of the Power on High as prophesied in Daniel.

   
   

   ¹⁰ You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. ¹¹ It is written:

   
   

   “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
   ‘every knee will bow before me;
       every tongue will acknowledge God.’”^[b]

   
   

   ¹² So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

   
   

   ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. ¹⁴ I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸ because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.

   
   

   No man has the authority or right to set aside any word of God – not Moses, Jesus or Paul.  Don’t let what God said is good be called evil.  Don’t let the judgment God commanded be used to be set aside for anyone claiming to speak on behalf of God.  See if they tell the truth – See if they tell you to set aside what God said those who love Him will do – see if they speak according to the Law and the Testimony – or not.  If you choose to disbelieve God – don’t blame God for your disbelief and disobedience.  The kingdom of God is about those who believe and obey God.  Those who follow their own hearts have not humbled themselves before God.  The “Spirit” will not testify against the words of God – so beware thinking you are following God by doing as Paul says – you are likely just going to be as ignorant as he was and be following your own imaginations/interpretations of Paul  and thinking it is God speaking to you.

   
   

   ¹⁹ Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. ²¹ It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.

   
   

   It’s far better to know the one true God and what His will and blessing are.  Did the true prophets cower in the face of the false prophets?  Do true prophets believe false prophets?  One does not need to be a prophet or “spiritual” to see Paul was a total ignoramus who came to lead people away from God given truth – to believe lies.

   
   

   ²² So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ²³ But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

   
   

   God defined sin – not Paul.  Yeshua affirmed that his disciples will live by every word of God – and being humble before God is to accept His judgments to be completely true and reliable.  What God said is sin is sin.  What God said is just and right.  It is not about what we believe, unless we believe what God said.  Rather than pretend it is about human individual opinions – it’s time to re-investigate what God said sin is and stop pretending that what we think is more valid than the word and decree of God.

   
   

   The passage from Isaiah 45:23 is true, but Paul is not using it uprightly.  Since every knee will bow – it’s better to repent and believe God now than after it is too late.  “Choose life that you may live.”

   
   

   1. Romans 14:10 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verses 13, 15 and 21.

   2. Romans 14:11 Isaiah 45:23

   3. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

   
   

   Romans 15

   
   

   After many years of studying Pauline letters, particularly Romans, as understood by Protestant and Reformation viewpoints – one thing that helped me understand Paul better was to take what he said one thing at a time and see if it contains common sense advice and then to double check his material quotes to the Scripture – in particular the Teachings given by Jesus, which led me to the words of God in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms – as these were well understood by Jesus and represented very well in his teachings.  Since we are reaching the end of Romans – it might prove helpful to examine  each statement by Paul individually so we don’t mentally draw a blanket over his claims and pretend we understand what he said – we can see if he is making good clear sense - or not.  Mainly to see if he was teaching according to the word of God or not.

   
   

   ¹We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

   
   

   Paul’s definition of who is weak and who is strong is backwards to the Instructions given by God, and often is devoid of acknowledging His stated standard – the Law and Torah.

   
   

   ² Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.

   
   

   Then why did Paul put down the apostles of Jesus and Jewish Christians who followed the pathway to life as taught by Yeshua?

   
   

    ³ For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”^{[a] 4} For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

   
   

   Now Paul flips on his head to give a truth.  God gave the Torah to bless and enlighten all who seek to do His will – to elevate us towards Him – to become all we can be – to be transformed from ignorance to wisdom.  We learn from God, as He is our Teacher when we live by His word and search out His Law as did David – which is well spoken in Psalm 119.  If God said we are capable and responsible to do better and overcome sin, that it not overcome us – why put down the Law as some impossible feat to know and do – when God said it was not too hard to understand or do?  True hope resides in God being faithful to His Torah and Covenant.

   
   

   ⁵ May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, ⁶ so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

   
   

   God spoke clearly when giving the conditions to the Everlasting Covenant. There are those He will bless, and there are those He holds in judgment – even though judgment is delayed – time and trials in life are what proves our faithfulness to Him.  This is told throughout Jewish history in the Bible.  This is also spoken of in Yeshua’s parables about the Kingdom of God and who were faithful and wise servants.  Both agree that God does not give endurance – that is our responsibility to develop throughout our lives.  If God is the one giving endurance – are those who accept His instruction readily, but fade out and die because they have little or no root within themselves to sustain doing rightly and justly – is God to blame for their NOT continuing on in faithfulness?  If it is a gift of God – how can He be just to judge the unenduring who turn from righteousness to do evil?  God forbid any man judge God for what the man was responsible to do!  God can give us good instructions, but we have to participate in doing His will!  This is the main problem with the mistranslations of “seed” versus “seeds” – from the beginning God said it is our responsibility to do justly – to live according to His word.  Those who disregard His instruction as needful are in for a world of hurt when they realize Paul told a story on God that just isn’t so – and as Yeshua said, those who are anti-Law of God are those he will tell: “Depart from me, I never knew you.”  Jesus said to honor God by doing His will.  One either follows the instructions of God and those found true to His instruction – or one does not.  The Law brings life and order.  Following the Teachings given by Yeshua result in living life to be reasonable, just, merciful and blessed of God.  Pretending God has grace towards His enemies is denial of the Covenant and every warning or promise God gave.  There is no accord with truth and lies – and this is the source of great evils for centuries.

   
   

   ⁷ Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. ⁸ For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews^[b] on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed ⁹ and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written:

   
   

   “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles;
       I will sing the praises of your name.”^[c]

   
   

   ¹⁰ Again, it says,

   
   

   “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”^[d]

   
   

   ¹¹ And again,

   
   

   “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles;
       let all the peoples extol him.”^[e]

   
   

   ¹² And again, Isaiah says,

   
   

   “The Root of Jesse will spring up,
       one who will arise to rule over the nations;
       in him the Gentiles will hope.”^[f]

   
   

   ¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

   
   

   Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

   
   

   ¹⁴ I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. ¹⁵ Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me ¹⁶ to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

   
   

   ¹⁷ Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. ¹⁸ I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. ²⁰ It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. ²¹ Rather, as it is written:

   
   

   “Those who were not told about him will see,
       and those who have not heard will understand.”^[g]

   
   

   ²² This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

   
   

   Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome

   
   

   ²³ But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, ²⁴ I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. ²⁵ Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem. ²⁷ They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. ²⁸ So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way. ²⁹ I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.

   
   

   ³⁰ I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. ³¹ Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord’s people there, ³² so that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed. ³³ The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

   
   

   Go back and review comments on what Paul said previously, especially chapters 5-8.  There is no possibility that Paul handled the Holy Scripture uprightly in all his accounts.  There is ample evidence he directly misrepresented the words of God and the Teachings of Yeshua.  God does not elect who is saved and who is unsaved.  Each person is responsible for themselves to Him.  This is why Yeshua warned to “be careful who you hear”, because “blind leaders of the blind will both fall into the ditch.”  It is indeed time to discover that we have “inherited falsehoods” that are useless to accomplish the fact that the Spirit works with the word of God to accomplish what God gave His instructions in righteousness to accomplish – that we are wise to the pathway of life God gave – and thereby know who speaks according to His everlasting Covenant – and who does not.  Yeshua came to renew the Everlasting Covenant and to show the Gentiles it is HONORABLE to keep the Decrees of God!  Yeshua came to call us from iniquity to then do what God decreed just and right, or sin, evil and abominations.   All things are not lawful – God said so; Yeshua said so, and so did all the true prophets of God.  Believers in Judea, who had the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, were those who knew the Torah and the Teachings of Yeshua.

   
   

   Footnotes

   
   

   1. Romans 15:3 Psalm 69:9

   2. Romans 15:8 Greek circumcision

   3. Romans 15:9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49

   4. Romans 15:10 Deut. 32:43

   5. Romans 15:11 Psalm 117:1

   6. Romans 15:12 Isaiah 11:10 (see Septuagint)

   7. Romans 15:21 Isaiah 52:15 (see Septuagint)

   
   

   Romans 16

   
   

   Personal Greetings

   
   

   ¹I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon^[a][b] of the church in Cenchreae. ² I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.

   
   

   ³ Greet Priscilla^[c] and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. ⁴ They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

   
   

   ⁵ Greet also the church that meets at their house.

   
   

   Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

   
   

   ⁶ Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.

   
   

   ⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among^[d] the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

   
   

   The twelve apostles are named in Matthew, and there is no record of Andronicus or Junia – let alone Paul or Saul or Saulus.

   
   

   ⁸ Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

   
   

   ⁹ Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.

   
   

   ¹⁰ Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test.

   
   

   Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

   
   

   ¹¹ Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew.

   
   

   Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

   
   

   See the link on Paul being related to the Flavians, which can be found in topical articles at:  http:// jesuswordsonly.com/

   
   

   The Herodions were not Jews.

   
   

    

   
   

   ¹² Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.

   
   

   Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.

   
   

   ¹³ Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

   
   

   ¹⁴ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them.

   
   

   ¹⁵ Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord’s people who are with them.

   
   

   ¹⁶ Greet one another with a holy kiss.

   
   

   All the churches of Christ send greetings.

   
   

   ¹⁷ I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. ¹⁸ For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. ¹⁹ Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

   
   

   Balderdash.  It is shown it was Paul who taught a gospel NOT in accord with the records given by the disciples of Yeshua in Matthew.  In fact, the “gospel” of Paul is not in accord with the Torah, Psalms or Prophets either.  This is written that all seekers of truth will be enabled to see through the lies of Paul and be able to see the truth is that God has grace towards those who repent and turn to Him wholeheartedly and faithfully abide in His word and the Teachings of Master Yeshua – the one prophesied of in Genesis 49:10 to be the one to whom the “rule” belongs – attested to by God through his teachings, miracles, fulfillment of prophecy, giving true prophecy, and ascension to the throne on the right hand of God.  Yeshua taught freedom to love and obey God and live a just and righteous life that will bring God the glory – Paul taught freedom from the Law and that the Law was a curse, the letter of the Law kills, and that God will hold the righteous accountable to pay the debt of sinners who will not live by the Instruction of God – but by imagined “spirit” without the clear, reliable, everlasting  and true words of God Almighty.

   
   

   ²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

   
   

   The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

   
   

   ²¹ Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.

   
   

   ²² I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.

   
   

   ²³ Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings.

   
   

   Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings. ^[24] [e]

   
   

   ²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, ²⁶ but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from^[f] faith— ²⁷ to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

   
   

   God gave the Torah to Jew and Gentile at the same time.  Yeshua commanded the same teachings given in Matthew to be given to men of all nations.  Yeshua said all things had to be fulfilled in the Law and Prophets.  We can now know we have inherited lies in the “Christian Bible”, and it is time to repent and return to the pathway God gave for those who claim Him as their God – those who call upon His NAME.

   
   

   Footnotes

   
   

   1. Romans 16:1 Or servant

   2. Romans 16:1 The word deacon refers here to a Christian designated to serve with the overseers/elders of the church in a variety of ways; similarly in Phil. 1:1 and 1 Tim. 3:8,12.

   3. Romans 16:3 Greek Prisca, a variant of Priscilla

   4. Romans 16:7 Or are esteemed by

   5. Romans 16:24 Some manuscripts include here May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.

   6. Romans 16:26 Or that is

   
   

   Jeremiah 16:19

   
   

   “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and wherein is no profit.”

   
   

   Surely this is because none of the Roman or Protestant reformers bothered to follow the words of God to make sure writings they put in the New Testament were in accord with the words of God, as were the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus). (Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18)

   
   

   Galatians - truth or lies? Scipture, or lies?

   
   

    Galatians – Truth or Lies?

    

   (441) 753 - Did First Century Christians DESPISE Paul? With Rabbi Tovia Singer - YouTube 

    

    

   This link provides the general Christian view of Paul and the book of Galatians:

    

    

    

   https://www.biblestudytools.com/galatians/

    

    

    

   
   

   
   

    

    

   1 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

    

    

    

   2 and all the brothers and sisters with me, To the churches in Galatia:

    

    

    

   3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

    

    

    

   4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

    

    

    

   5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

   Paul made these claims in most all he wrote, but can they be proven true?  Acts proves useful to prove one thing: Paul never told the truth to Luke about what really happened (if anything) on the road to Damascus.  Although accounts are given throughout Acts, the problem is that Paul testified against what he testified to earlier.  Take each of his statements of testimony to his calling and it is easily seen they testify against each other!  Which is the “true” account?  In one the others saw, but did not hear.  In another, they heard, but did not see.  In one he says he has to go to someone else to hear “what you must do.”  In others, he made no contact to know “what he must do”, but rather separates himself to then pretend further “revelations” from “Jesus” and God, and even eludes to someones mystic experience of being caught up to the “third heaven” and not even knowing if it was in body or spirit only.  Which testimony from Paul are we supposed to believe if he didn’t tell the same story twice?

    

    

    

   Paul reminds me of Joseph Smith pretending to see God and Jesus in his backyard in “the sacred grove.”  In fact, Paul flaunts that he didn’t go to Jerusalem to the apostles there.  Later we will see that he had no love for Peter or any other apostle, and that the records of antiquity will tell us an account about the rift between Peter and Paul to have concluded in a trial, which Paul refers to in 2 Timothy 4:16 that all but Luke abandoned him after his first defense.  Acts loosely accounts for an event at the end of Paul’s freedom, but which ended with Paul’s seven day vow to have found him guilty as charged and worthy of death right there on the Temple grounds – and of his rescue by a Roman guard because he was a Roman citizen.  Was Paul related to the Roman family of those who crucified Jesus at the behest of the corrupted Jewish Priesthood in charge at that time? The author of “Jesus’ Words Only” has proofs of these matters in the topical index of articles found in a book titled "Jesus' Words Only"  

    

    

   (Note on the passage about ransom, or being set free, being the work of Jesus.  The passage is simpler in the HGOM than in the NKJV.  This is one of the few references to Matthew found in Galatians.  From my review of the HGOM, 20:28; “28.  (just as) the Son of Man did not come that they might serve him, but that he might serve and give himself as a ransom for many. [Ransom, not sacrifice.] [[Ransom is the price to set the prisoner free – we cannot be set free from falsehoods until we are willing to observe and do the truth of God as taught from the Torah by Yeshua, “Salvation” is of him, and it was freely given to us to know if we believe him and what he said is the Doctrine of God by whether we repent and obey – or not.

    

     

    

   No Other Gospel

    

    

    

   6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

    

    

    

   7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

    

    

    

   8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!

    

    

    

   9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

    

    

    

   10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    

    

    

   Does a faithful servant defy his master and lie about what he said to do? We can know whether Paul is a liar or not by observing whether he taught us to do what Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew, and particularly the Hebrew account.

    

    

    

    

    

    

   The author of “Jesus’ Words Only” has ample proofs at his topical index to prove Paul failed the tests that God commanded we use to know who speaks on His behalf and who He said to reject.  God said if Paul gave true prophecy and even worked wonders (miracles) that if he taught taking from or adding to what He decreed as His pathways to live by, that we are to ignore Paul because he taught people to set aside the pathways that God commanded.  God also said if anyone teaches another God than He (YHWH) that is equal to altering His Instructions in righteousness – the Ten Decrees and associated passages.  This is the basis of God upholding His word and being true to His word – whether for blessing or judgement.

    

    

    

   Yeshua upheld EVERY word of God as it existed in his days, and God is not bound to keep the word of those who altered what He said.  Yeshua said we are to particularly hold to the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount – and Moses said we are to hear “whatsoever that prophet shall say unto you.”    I would simply challenge anyone who thinks Paul had any part in the truth of Jesus or God: Where is the evidence Paul taught what Jesus taught?  Where are all the quotes or references to the teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew?  Paul said he was a Jew.  The HGOM was written before 40 CE and surely existed and was accepted by the Church of God in Jerusalem before Paul comes on the scene in Acts!  Double check the few quotes Paul does give from Jesus and you also can observe he couldn’t tell the truth on Jesus or YHWH in any of his writings!  It’s also curious the lack of proof that Paul was considered an “apostle” in Acts.  Take off your shades that cast shadows upon the Decrees of God Almighty and the teachings and example of the Anointed One He raised up.

    

    

    

   Paul was certainly not trying to be approved of by God when he flaunted the Law was not given by God!  Paul has provided NO evidence that he spoke the truth of God.  Paul’s parting words of being a servant of Jesus  can now be seen to be nothing but a lot of hot air.  The Ten Decrees of God, as given at Sinai, are clearly never to be altered to diminish or add to, yet Paul says God told him they were nailed to the cross – nullified by Jesus – yet Jesus said they are the foundation of living justly and righteously – repeatedly throughout Matthew.  Therefore if you believe what Paul said, you have to of necessity set the Instruction and Teachings in righteousness of God and Yeshua aside!    This is exactly what Paul taught, as it is a repeated theme in his writings!

    

    

    

   Paul Called by God

    

    

    

   11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. (In Matthew one title of Jesus was “son of man”, which per the Hebrew Scripture means “mortal”, son or descendent of Adam – Jesus was a mortal man.  Was Jesus “that prophet” spoken of by Moses? Was Jesus  uniquely anointed by the Spirit of God to give God’s Teachings directly as no other prophet in Jewish history?  Have not men of all nations found great regard for the teachings of Jesus?   What Paul is saying is true – the gospel he taught was not given by any Prophet of God, or the one who had resurrected and was on the right hand of God and who warned of those who would say he was the Christ, yet teach against believing and doing as he taught in Matthew.)

    

    

    

   12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. (Are we to believe the resurrected Jesus Christ to teach against what he said was needful for all his disciples to believe and do?)

    

    

    

   13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. (Our New Testament contains books that testify against what God and Yeshua said is necessary.  According to the Ebionite records it was found out that Paul was not a Jew by birth.)

    

    

    

   14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. (His “fathers” were Roman, Paul was a member of the ruling Roman family of the Flavians).  Paul melded pagan Roman beliefs into his new faith of “Christianity.”  Most pagan religions were based on inventing stories to go with the Zodiac – and Paul even quotes a famous poem in Acts from a poet of his own home town – so he was very familiar with the poem and largely melded his pagan beliefs with belief in Jesus to be the replacement – hence the version of Roman Christianity is NOT what the unpaganized understanding was.  Paul even taught Jesus to be co-creator of the heavens and earth, thereby being the one to whom it belonged, but no where do we find any such teaching in all the words of God in the Holy Scripture – and putting the thoughts of Paul into the same book cannot make them true either.)((Paul’s abject ignorance of Hebrew shows he was advanced only in his own imagination – he didn’t even know “seed” was plural – not singular – nor did he know the difference between the wife and concubine of Abraham and what God had to say about it – Paul turned the Bible upside-down to advance his schemes.)((Some have maintained that Jesus was slang for “hail Zeus” – the paganizing of Yeshua by Rome – barely veiled – and certainly not transparent – which is why I use his name in the ancient Aramaic – Y’shua, or Yeshua or Yahshua..similar to the name of “Joshua” in the Hebrew Scriptures.)

    

    

    

   15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased

    

    

    

   16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. (How can Paul be revealing the unique son of Israel – that prophet and coming king – when he defied the Everlasting Covenant conditions?  God said those who reject His commandments are those who are His enemies.  Did Paul reject the Everlasting Covenant given at Sinai?  Did Paul teach others to reject it as he did?  Why not repent and believe God?  Since Paul was defying God – we have no reason to believe God called him to “reveal” Jesus to us by one who was clearly the enemy of God.  Only non-Jewish pagans would believe what Paul said about the Everlasting Covenant – and they could also be deceived that “seed” was singular – not plural – because of their ignorance of the Hebrew Scriptures and language.)

    

    

    

   17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus. (So who told the truth?  In Acts, Luke says he went somewhere and was instructed to be baptized and was healed of his blindness.  Did Luke lie?  Or did Paul lie in Galatians?  Both cannot be true, but both can be wrong if Luke was nothing but the personal biographer of Paul and was simply writing what Paul told him to write {writing as Paul dictated his lore].)

    

    

    

   18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days. (If Paul lied about being called by God and Jesus – there is no reason to believe Paul stayed with Cephas – and why does he not call him “Peter”, as the Lord had named him?)

    

    

    

   19 I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord’s brother. {What other early account says James was not James the disciple of Jesus?  Why believe Paul about James being the brother of Jesus?!  See the term James uses in the 160 AD Aramaic English New Testament – James was calling himself an apostle – not the brother of Yeshua.}

    

    

    

   20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie. [Paul repeatedly says “I lie not!” And “is no lie”.  This is because he was being actively accused by the disciples of Jesus to be a liar.  Proof of this can be observed from several ancient sources – mainly the writings of the Ebionites (the poor), who were the original Christians with the apostles of Yeshua at the lead in Jerusalem.  It can easily be determined that Paul is the one they called “the sprouter of lies.”]  (If Paul couldn’t preach the Law was given by God – we know Paul lied – if we believe God, the Prophets, Psalms and the words of Yeshua in Matthew {HGOM})

    

    

    

   21 Then I went to Syria and Cilicia.

    

    

    

   22 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

    

    

    

   23 They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

    

    

    

   24 And they praised God because of me. (Note the account of Paul going to Jerusalem in Acts 20 – 21.  Luke records they heard he was teaching against the Torah of God.)

    

    

    

   Paul Accepted by the Apostles

    

    

    

   1 Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

    

    

    

   2 I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.

    

    

    

   3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

    

    

    

   4 This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.

    

    

    

   5 We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

    

    

    

   6 As for those who were held in high esteem—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—they added nothing to my message. (This whole account is fictional – had Paul any “revelation” it was from a lying spirit – not God or Yeshua.)

    

    

    

   7 On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised. (Fiction at it’s best – even Luke was recording that it was a revelation to Peter to take the gospel to the gentiles – Peter baptizing the first gentile convert.  So if it was already given to Peter, God gave no revelation that the Gentiles were to have a different gospel than the Jews.  As there is one Law – there is one Gospel message given by Yeshua – the established rules and manner of life instructions that are to remain to the end – see the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew – the same message – the same teachings – were to go to men of all nations – not one message for the Jews and another for the non-Jews.  In effect – Paul is spitting in the face of God by defying His truth and fabricating a paganized Roman Jesus.)

    

    

    

   8 For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. (Paul was a bigot (see verse 15), prejudiced, and a liar.  Had God had His work in Paul – was  working in Paul – Paul would have been teaching what Yeshua taught in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and uprightly handled the words of God )

    

    

    

   9 James, Cephas and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. (Balderdash!  Records of antiquity are just the opposite.  The gospel of Paul finds fulfillment in the heretic Marcion – who taught lies based on Paul.  The True disciples of Yeshua spent centuries contending against the lies from Paul.  See “Against Heresies”.  The truth is that the Reformation and Restoration movements both failed because they accepted the lies of Paul to be true!  Therefore Rome and Luther and Calvin defied God and Yeshua because they believed the lies of Paul are the words of God.  Most don’t know it, but the term “New Testament” was birthed by Marcion and rejected by the Church in Jerusalem.  They rejected all of Paul’s writings.  How can we be “First Century Christians” and believe one they were specific to condemn as a liar and trouble-maker?)

    

    

    

   10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.  (Balderdash.  Where is the record that Paul gave the poor at Jerusalem a thin dime?  Paul’s motive was greed – TV preachers?  This is well noted in Jeremy Benthan’s book, “Not Paul, but Jesus”, written in the 1800’s)

    

    

    

   Paul Opposes Cephas

    

    

    

   11 When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. (Although this is claimed by Paul to the Galatians, to be fair we should consider other accounts of the incident.  Scripture says only a fool decides a matter before hearing the evidence out.  You may recall in Acts that there was a reported rift with some Jews demanding the Gentiles be circumcised and that Paul was among those selected to carry the words of the apostles back to set the matter straight. The Instructions of God about circumcision are based on Genesis 17 and are said to be everlasting.  The Torah instructions are in complete accord to Genesis 17.  As I’ve shown by scriptural references at http://www.onediscipletoanother.org , everything Yeshua taught the disciples and the crowds who followed him was in total accord to the words of God to Israel and all of mankind.  The only accounts that Jews were requiring circumcision of the Gentiles has Paul in the picture in one way or another.  Also see that reports had gone back to Jerusalem that Paul was teaching against the Law of God in saying it was no longer necessary for Jews to be circumcised.  We can observe in Galatians, Romans and 1,2 Corinthians that Paul taught against the Torah being in effect and that food laws for Jews, circumcision, Sabbaths, and even eating meat sacrificed to idols was covered as OK now because the Law had been done away with.  In one he says the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile was torn down – yet the only account in the resurrection events says the curtain between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom = no record of the middle wall of partition being torn down.  The instructions to the Gentiles from the apostles, as recorded by Luke, is not in accord with the Teachings of Yeshua or the Everlasting Covenant ratified at Sinai – thereby we can know the Acts account is not correct, because Jesus taught no such thing, nor had God.  Charges were made to the apostles in Jerusalem that Paul was not heeding the decree to the Gentiles – whatever it was.  It is likely that Peter and a delegation went from Jerusalem to double check on Paul and what he was teaching.  Peter arrived and was conversing with the Gentiles about what Paul was teaching, then some others arrived from the delegatioin from Jerusalem and Peter went over to talk to them.  At this point we see Paul claiming that Peter stood condemned!??  How so?  Peter’s reputation was not what Paul painted here, and ancient records give Peter’s side of the account.  Since Paul couldn’t truthfully say who gave the Law at Sinai – why should we believe he would be honest to tell us that he is the one who stood condemned – not Peter?!  Also note in II Timothy 4 that he was put on trial and was abandoned by everyone but Luke at his first defense.  Again – evidently it was Paul who stood condemned.  Then upon return to Jerusalem to show proper repentance in the vow at the Temple – Paul failed again and was going to be put to death on the spot because his transgression at the Temple was so vile – when he was rescued by a Roman guard and then Paul chose to take his case to Rome – rather than the Church or Jewish court.  Paul was evidently a bold two-faced liar.  As he told us – he became all things to all men, that perhaps he might cause some to believe him, and in another that he had caught them by his guile.  This is also discussed and well documented in the topical index at: http://www.jesuswordsonly.com/ )

    

    

    

   12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. (Peter had no fear of the Jews or the Gentiles, and it was his duty and charge to follow up on Paul if Paul was teaching the Gentiles to disregard the Decrees of God or anything Yeshua had taught in Matthew (HGOM).  Paul is making unfounded accusations – one of the works of Satan – as Satan means “accuser.”)

    

    

    

   13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. (There is no hypocrisy at all if the Gentiles were eating food that was prohibited by God for Jews to eat…no hypocrisy at all.  That Barnabas recognized Peter was right does not make Barnabas a hypocrite.   This is only one reason I place no confidence in the accounts of all the other books of the New Testament beyond Matthew, and I’ve also accounted for the main alterations in Matthew from the pre-existing Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  God’s commandment to all – Jew and Gentile – was prohibition of eating meat with the blood in it, as well as a prohibition of eating meat sacrificed to idols – which God terms as sacrifices to demons – and God never said demons are nothing – and He called them “alien gods” and “gods come lately that are no god.”  When Paul taught eating meat sacrificed to idols was nothing, he was teaching against the everlasting and true words of God Almighty – likely because of his ignorance of Hebrew Scripture and the Torah – he was certainly not advanced in his knowledge.)

    

    

    

   14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?  (Remember, “accuser”, what it means.  Peter was checking facts – the facts of the words of God and Yeshua to what Pauls’ words to the converts of Pauls’ gospel to be widely against the gospel as taught by Yeshua.  With God we see He instructed that disobedience is equated with unbelief.  With Paul, we don’t sin – it is sin that dwells within us – not our “spirit”, as we can call God our “Father” if we merely believe – regardless of what we do – SO LONG AS WE HAVE FAITH THAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS SHED ON THE CROSS CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN – SAVED BY GRACE ALONE AND FAITH ALONE – IRREGARDLESS OF DOING AS GOD INSTRUCTED.  Peter knew better.  All the Jews knew better.  It was Peters’ love for the Gentiles that compelled him to ensure they were told the truth instead of lies.  We will soon see just how widely Paul had departed from the Everlasting Covenant.)

    

    

    

   15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles ((The Ebionite records of the trial of Paul record that he was not a Jew by birth, but a relative of the Roman Flavian family.  This is also noted in the articles at: http://www.jesuswordsonly.com/  This statement proves Paul was a bigot of the first order – to say sin is based on race – “Jew by birth, and not sinful Gentiles.”  Recall that God warned Israel not to think they were blessed solely upon their blood-line to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – but by their faithfulness to keep the Covenant – that His blessings are conditional.  Also note Jerusalem will be redeemed by justice and righteousness.)) 

    

    

    

   16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.  So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.   (Jews who believed Yeshua was who he claimed to be, and thereby knew they needed to heed whatever he had taught before ascending to the right hand of God – they knew Yeshua taught we are justified when we repent and turn to do the works commanded by God – and that God desires all men to repent of evil and do what is good that He might save all men who do so.  The words of God in the Torah are explicit to have Him say that doing the Law is their righteousness!  Read Genesis through Deuteronomy yourself and stop trusting in those who have told you to put your trust in Paul’s gospel!  See what God said!  Don’t take my word for it!  The Psalms are easily understood.  Four Psalms should make the matter clear – 1, 2, 5, 15.))

    

    

    

   17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! (This is nonsense.  We cannot be justified or in Christ by rejecting living as he said to – to live by every word of God and to become faithful disciples of Yeshua – learning to live out what he said we should believe and do, as well as the surety of our hope in the kingdom of God.)

    

    

    

   18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.  (God gave the Law at Sinai – and it was added upon the previous instructions He had given men – as recorded by Moses’ accounts up to that time.  God never set His instruction aside as invalid or to have passed away to be replaced by something else.  No, it is given “line upon line, precept upon precept, as well as covenant upon covenant.”  God said heaven and earth will pass before one of His words will pass away.  Yeshua taught in total accord with the Law and the records of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible and Hebrew Scriptures – in fact, he was giving God inspired instruction about the Law because the Jewish leadership and priesthood had so corrupted it as to make it of none effect because the people were not being instructed by them of the needful and weightier matters of the Law.  Read Matthew again and see if you can find accord therein to any of these words from the little accuser satan Paul.)

    

    

    

   19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.  (Another nonsense statement that finds no accord with any teaching of God or Yeshua, or any prophecy of record.  Read Isaiah 42.  Yeshua came to Teach and example to all men – that the Gentiles might see that keeping the Torah is honorable before God and man.  Don’t be deceived by Jews or Messianic Christians to pretend the only “law” need of the Gentiles are the Seven Laws of Noah – that is a lie.  Neither is it 613 commandments as noted by Rambam in 1300 CE.  The truth is easily seen by any faithful disciple of Yeshua – the smoke and mirrors are removed so we can clearly observe the faith of Master Yeshua and the will of God toward all men AND that God is totally faithful to His word and Covenant and the conditions He gave that we might love Him and not become His enemies by rejecting His word.  How can Paul say this when Yeshua said we should live by every word of God?  Likely because Paul was ignorant of the Holy Scripture and never received any true revelation from Yeshua or God – as God cannot lie or go back on His word.)

    

    

    

   20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  (Where did Yeshua ever teach to be crucified with him and that we ”spiritually” die so he can live in us?  Yeshua said to repent and prepare for the kingdom of God.  As God told Cain, and as Jesus taught his disciples – repentance – even severe repentance is required that we take charge of our life and stop doing evil to turn and do good – to live as God instructed all through the Holy Scriptures. The passage early on in Matthew about “take up your cross and follow me” was added – it is absent in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  Surely it was added to our current editions to foster a twinge of support to the teachings of Paul, because Rome wants to promote the gospel of Paul so you won’t realize the truth of God and Yeshua.  If we repent to do the will of God, then as disciples of Yeshua, grow and mature to become what God created us to be – well and good!  What good did Yeshua teach his disciples to do that was not already told by God to the children of Israel and the multitude of nations that left Egypt to serve the One True God?  The important question is if Yeshua taught Truth and said we are to keep to his Teachings from the Father.  If Paul was teaching a different standard than Yeshua (Paul’s gospel is without the Torah – against the Torah) – this is the warning to those Yeshua said he would deny he ever knew them – in spite of their hollow claims to have believed in him. How can we know Paul was “in Christ” if he rejected teaching others what was taught to the chosen witnesses of Yeshua (HGOM)?  Search all the books and writings of Paul and see how absent they are of any upright account of the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew.)

    

    

    

    

   21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (The four gospel accounts don’t totally agree.  Since Matthew (HGOM) is the account from Yeshua’s disciples – see what Yeshua said regarding why he came – what his mission was – and why he had to die on the cross.  Don’t take this simplistic view presented by Paul – see what Yeshua said; see what prophecies said that he had to fulfill – then you should see that what Paul said has no accord with the Holy Scripture or the express word of God. What is the “grace of God” that Paul said he did not set aside?  If “grace” is that God is willing to set aside sin we have committed and bless us, or have kindness towards us, we have the stated conditions God gave from the Garden, then to Cain, then Job, then Mount Sinai where the Everlasting Covenant was ratified between God and man, through the resurrection of Yeshua to be that He will not consider our sins against us if we but repent to do whatever He instructed – that repentance to obedience has always been His pathway of kindness and blessing toward whosoever will live by His instruction faithfully and “do no evil.”  How can Paul not be setting the grace of God aside if he is preaching God instead forgives because of the blood shed by the Deified Jesus on the cross – not repentance and obedience to living by His Instructions given at Mount Sinai, throughout the Torah, Prophets, Psalms and Writings?  Most are not aware of this, but the standards given by God and Yeshua are easier to live by than the imaginations of Paul.  For one thing, sin, according to God, has a different definition – He is explicit to say what sin is, what evil is, and what an abomination is – telling us explicitly not to add to it or take away from it as given.  Paul flips these words on end to then say because someone thinks something is a sin it is a sin – rather than simply noting what God said is sin.  It’s all those imagined sins that are not sins that confuse people and when they see the hypocrisy of Christians then they can honestly say they can’t believe that nonsense.  Thereby those who have taken His NAME in vain by defaming God because of their disregard for His word as unprofitable, unreliable and done away with on the cross  – all the while claiming His Name! So why did Christ die?  Paul said Jesus died in vain if it wasn’t for the cause Paul gave as the gospel of “grace” being “the cross.”  Yeshua said he had to die to fulfill scripture – and to be a ransom for many, and to “renew” the Everlasting Covenant.  Ransom is the price of freedom – given by another.  Freedom from what?  Freedom from sin?  God and Yeshua said this is each person’s responsibility to overcome sin that it not possess them.  Go back to the history given in the Bible.  God set Israel free to serve Him by taking them and seekers of God of a multitude of nations out of Egypt and teaching them His pathways – which are conditional – just as it is today – conditional upon doing as He instructed, and the cause of the Law was to see if we will obey God – or not, thereby showing to all who loves God VS who are His enemies.  Paul is leading the unsuspecting mind astray – not teaching the truth of God or Master Yeshua.  Yeshua died to fulfill prophecy – to confirm the words of God to the Prophets about him, that men might be better enabled to identify he was “that prophet” foretold by Moses.  He lived and taught and those records are in Matthew – that we might be set free from lies of men to then be set free to obey the upright and reliable words of God from the heart.  Yeshua came to teach all men – including Gentiles – that it is honorable to keep the Torah/Law/Mitzvot of God; read Isaiah 42 and Genesis 49.  He came to establish the rules of living justly and loving mercy and walking humbly with God – the God given standards revealed in a new way that makes righteousness evident to men of all nations.  Finally, be aware that the “seed” of Eve is plural – not singular – further cementing the fact that Paul was an ignoramus in many of his accounts and the foundation of his imaginations are without merit to anyone who simply goes back, as the Bereans, to see if what Paul said was so – or not.  Are we commanded by God to believe everyone who claims to speak for God?  Of course not – God gave us commandments on this vital subject in Deuteronomy 4, 12,13 and 18 – read it and then decide for yourself who told the truth of God.)

    

    

    

   Faith or Works of the Law

    

    

    

   3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. (The mindset of Paul is evidently in the realm of spiritualism and Gnosticism, as he constantly appeals to the “spiritual” discernment, rather than simple observation of the teachings of God and Yeshua.  In their teachings truth can be observed – it has no necessity of “spiritual discernment” if the truth of God is plain to anyone who observes it – the fruits of righteousness are observable in the fruits to be doing the observable matters God said to do, and the absence of doing anything God said was evil.  One who knows the conditions of the Everlasting Covenant can see there is not one commandment or condition that is “spiritually” known – it is a matter of aligning our lives to trust in God completely for all things as we do His will.  God said nothing He commanded or taught was hard to understand, or hard to do, or hard to know.  So what’s up with the charge that if one doesn’t believe Pauls’ all-out assault against the Teachings of Jesus and the Instructions in righteousness given by God, or any of His commandments or statutes, that one must have been “bewitched” to believe God?)

    

    

    

   ² I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? ³ Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?^[a] 4 Have you experienced^[b] so much in vain—if it really was in vain? ⁵ So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? ⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”^[   (Again, we see Paul appealing to things “spiritual.”  Prophecy about the giving of the Spirit was well told in Ezekiel 37.  All one needs to do is read it again.  Nowhere in Ezekiel, or any prophecy I’ve been able to find to date, says anything that the “Spirit” works miracles.  Rather, God said through Ezekiel that the Spirit would aid to write His Instructions on our hearts so we would do them – the Spirit was to aid with doing the work of God.  The Spirit worked with the word of God in creation of the earth, and the Spirit works with the Instruction/Word of God to help us do the will of God and thereby become what He knows we can be.  Where in Matthew does Yeshua hint of the work of the “Spirit?”  Do note there are some alterations in the Greek Matthew that the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew should clear up.  What are the “works” of the Law?  Which of the Ten Declarations of God is unprofitable to observe and do?  Which of any of God’s commandments or precepts are done in vain?  To repent and do the will of God is not a “work of the flesh” – it is the work of our soul and will controlling our body and mind to be submitting to the goodness of God and His knowing what is best for us, and to do that which He will bless, and thereby reside in His everlasting kindness.)  (( The quote Paul uses about Abraham twists the fact that God found Abraham to have been faithful – as told to his son Isaac in Genesis 26:4-5 – which includes Abraham keeping the commandments of God – Paul is showing nothing but ignorance.  

    

    

    

   “and all the nations of the earth  shall bless themselves by your offspring.” Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Torahs.”
    The promise of the future covenant is in a different chapter.  Paul’s quote is from chapter 15 in which God promises Abram an heir of his own flesh to inherit his property; the foretelling of the Covenant to bless all nations is in chapter 17.  Paul couldn’t even cite the correct passage about the Covenant.)

    

    

    

   ⁷ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. ⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^[d] 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. (Better to take the words of God uprightly in Genesis 26: 4-5, to see why God told Isaac that Abraham was found faithful in His eyes.  Was Paul faithful to what God said through Moses’ account – or was Paul making up his version of events that only those ignorant of the Jewish Holy Scriptures wouldn’t know any better than to believe him?  The Everlasting Covenant applied to men of all nations, as well as the seed of Abraham – since deliverance from Egypt and ratification of the Covenant at Sinai shows both groups present - yet God gave Israel distinctions.  The issue is not to become “children of Abraham”, but to be found amongst those God said are “My people.”  Those of all nations were blessed by Abraham’s seed at Sinai! Because the Everlasting Covenant was made on their behalf – and included those of all nations who would keep the Covenant as given by God.  It would be an error to pretend ourselves Jewish if we aren’t, as certain commandments were only for the Jews to keep – not the sojourners.  Just stay with the Instruction of God and stop imagining things – pay attention to what God said – don’t get casual with His instruction, commandments, precepts or promises.)

    

    

    

   ¹⁰ For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”^[e] 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”^[f] 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[g] 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”^[h] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.  (These sayings from Paul absolutely defile what would otherwise be an upright soul towards his Maker.  First – read Exodus and Deuteronomy.  Paul is cherry-picking a couple of partial statements and then twisting them totally against what God declared and promised and instructed.  On no account is Paul uprightly handling the words of God.  First, in Matthew Yeshua scolded the Pharisees for neglecting the weightier matters of the Law – and specifically notes that FAITH is one of the weightier matters they neglected!  Faith is our trust that God will be true to His word and that we will continue to do His will in spite of the trials faced in life, even under persecution for doing His will.  Faith is that we will repent when we err from the Law – no one is perfect – God never demanded anyone achieve to be the same glory as His!  David is a good example of the principle that God will forgive, but we need to acknowledge our sin and confess it to Him, and then turn to do what He said is right and just.  Many of the Prophets wrote about this, and perhaps Daniel keeping to the Commandments of God during the exile in Babylon is a great example of faith and faithfulness and God’s response and care for those whose trust is in Him by their faithfulness.  Second, God said that keeping His Law would be the righteousness of those who do so.  Third, Yeshua said in the Sermon on the Mount to not even think he came to loosen or set aside a single letter of the Law – that all would be in effect for his disciples to believe and do.  This is exactly the parting point of Paul from easily seen truth – the truth of God and Yeshua and all the Holy Scripture – to then pretend a lie is true.  Those of all nations who become faithful disciples of Yeshua are as included in the Everlasting Covenant as were any present at Mount Sinai.  Jesus did not become a curse – he was “cut off” from the living without descendant because this is what prophecy said would be done.  Also note Psalm 22 says God did not abandon him, in spite of what the scoffers said at his crucifixion.)

    

    

    

   The Law and the Promise

    

    

    

   ¹⁵ Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. ¹⁶ The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”^[i] meaning one person, who is Christ. ¹⁷ What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.  (The passages noted are about the land, and possession of the land was contingent on their keeping the Law.  God gave the land as a promise with conditions – not the fake “grace” taught by Paul.  What Paul is saying here is total nonsense – plus the fact that “seed” in Hebrew was plural – not singular – showing Paul to be a Hebrew ignoramus.  That the Land was conditional upon keeping the Law is well noted in the Torah words of God – the promise was conditional: Lev. 26: 14-43 and Deut. 28: 15-69. (Lev. 26:14?)  Also read “Exile and Redemption: The Torah Approach, by Neturei Karta.  Zionism, as Paulism, is against the Torah of God.  Thereby the partnership between Pauline Christians and the State of Isreal are both against the Covenant of God Almighty.)

    

    

    

   ¹⁹ Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. ²⁰ A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.  (The NIV is covering over the matter that Paul also said the Law was given by angels or Elementals, who are no God.  Some places Paul says the Law was given by angels – angels and elementals are very different beings.  God said He gave the Law to bless those who abide in it as their manner of life and  conduct – standards to govern the lives of those He calls “My people.”  The Law does contain judgments, blessings and curses – and these were clearly given – as God said – they are not hard to do or to understand.  God said the Law is everlasting – not “till the seed should come” – that passage of Genesis 49 gives the parameter that the Messiah would set the rules – and this is exactly what Yeshua did.  Those of all nations honor Yeshua – but they have been deceived by Paul.   How could Israel have been counted to fully return to God wholeheartedly when they didn’t build the Temple that Ezekiel said to build – and implement the matters given through Ezekiel?  Jesus and John both came to the Temple – and both were unjustly killed through the unfaithful leadership in Jerusalem – the same priests that Paul was cohort with, and Paul was also related to the Flavian family – who were not Jews.)

    

    

    

   ²¹ Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. ²² But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. (Curiously, this reference to “Scripture” has none noted in the footnotes – and no wonder – as one did not exist!  If “Scripture” has “locked up everything under the control of sin”, how was it possible that God told Cain that he was in control – that he was responsible – to overcome sin, that it not rule over him?!  Has no man ever been incapable to resist sin?!  Has no man ever been tempted to do wrong that he was able and capable to resist doing what God said is sin or evil?!  If you believe this statement from Paul  – I have a bridge to sell you!!!  Of course men are capable to resist and overcome sin – when they have chosen to believe God and do what He said is just and good!  Who has never done anything good?  Paul is talking absolute nonsense here.   We need to realize the promise to the children of Abraham is contingent on doing the will of God because God said so – repeatedly throughout the Torah, prophets and Psalms!  Paul is indeed “kicking against the goads”!  Because Paul chose to ignore God and be overcome by sin, and then manufacture a paganized version of Jesus is no reason we must believe in lies instead of the steadfast and reliable Instruction of God!  Another needful thing to note as you study the Scripture is that God counts disobedience as unbelief, and obedience to belief.)

    

    

    

   Children of God

    

    

    

   ²³ Before the coming of this faith,^[j] we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. ²⁴ So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.  (The Law is everlasting since Sinai, and Yeshua said his disciples will not think to disregard it.  Yeshua taught it honorable for all men to keep the Torah of God, just as Isaiah 42 told us – can anyone effectively dispute this?)

    

    

    

   ²⁶ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, ²⁷ for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (No one who disobeys or disbelieves God or Yeshua can be considered “children of God.”  Non-Jews cannot presume the promise of the Land – but we can know God shows kindness towards whosoever will live by His word.  God made distinction between the children of Abraham (Israel) and those of the nations – and God said to never get casual with His word – which is what Paul is doing right here – setting aside the distinctions God commanded of Israel.  Yeshua never taught against the word of God as did Paul.)

    

    

    

   Below are typical references for Galatians 3 from Christian study Bible editions, as found on-line.

    

    

    

   1.   Galatians 3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

    

   2.   Galatians 3:4 Or suffered

    

   3.   Galatians 3:6 Gen. 15:6

    

   4.   Galatians 3:8 Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18

    

   5.   Galatians 3:10 Deut. 27:26

    

   6.   Galatians 3:11 Hab. 2:4

    

   7.   Galatians 3:12 Lev. 18:5

    

   8.   Galatians 3:13 Deut. 21:23

    

   9.   Galatians 3:16 Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 24:7

    

   10.                     Galatians 3:23 Or through the faithfulness of Jesus … ²³ Before faith came

    

    

    

   A.      Per Genesis, God said man is responsible and capable to overcome sin so that it doesn’t possess him or rule over his life and what he does.  This was said after the “fall” to Cain.  Christian translations obscure the fact, but not completely.  Also look carefully at the texts again and see where God said what they did was a “sin” that separated them from Him.  They were separated from the Tree of Life – He was still around.  Our nature is dual – flesh and spirit – but we are commanded to bring the flesh into harmony and control of our soul/spirit to both be in the pathway of life as God has always desired of man: live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God.

    

    

    

   B.       No comment should be needed beyond what is said just after verse 4.

    

    

    

   C.       Genesis 15 is about God saying Abraham would have offspring of his own flesh to inherit his possessions – rather than the inheritance going to one of his household that was not physically descended from Abraham.  Then God goes on to say the promise was not through the handmaid, but would be through Abraham’s wife, Sarah.  There is nothing in Chapter 15 or 16 about the Covenant God would establish with Abraham’s offspring that would bless men of all nations.  The chapter about the Covenant that would be ratified at Sinai is in Chapter 17.  Finally, that Abraham had “faith” and was thereby blessed so much by God ignores the causes that God told his son Isaac in Genesis 23: 2-6; (6) “because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”  This one passage completely refutes Paul’s premise.  So why is it that our study Bibles don’t note Genesis 23: 2-6?  The answer is obvious – the words of God Himself said prove what Paul said is NOT true.  Also note Christian Study Bibles don’t refer to Genesis 17 here.  The truth has been in our face the whole time if we but go back to the words of God and see if what Paul said is true or not.  It’s that simple.  Stop being deluded away from the reliability of the words of God.

    

    

    

   D.      If the Covenant is Everlasting – and God said it was – then the blessing of God to all nations happened at Sinai, as a multitude of nations were present with Israel and all present ratified the Covenant that day – and their children – per the Torah words of God.  All men are created in the image of God, and God is no respecter of persons – and will judge all according to His word and His mercy – but He does not save His enemies – which is stated in the First of the Ten Declarations to be those who refuse His instruction.  Those who love Him keep His commandments – and He will bless them for this – His words, not mine.  Check it out into the Hebrew Scriptures and the records of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Paul erred greatly.

    

    

    

   E.       Deuteronomy 27:26 (Gal.3:10).  It would display disregard to the word of God to isolate one verse to the exclusion of others regarding this particular verse in Deuteronomy, as context is extremely important.  This would be like saying all men are evil continuously and ignore passages that prove otherwise – as He has said who He considers righteous and that they will live, or that He approves of and shows His kindness towards them.  Deut. 27: 26 should be taken in context of chapters 27 – 30, not one isolated verse.  The NKJV says: “Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law by observing them; and all the people shall say “Amen!”  The Hebrew Scripture says pretty much the same thing: “Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them.  And all the people shall say: Amen!”  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible says: “Cursed is the one who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.  And all the people shall say, Amen.”  The people were also given positive statements about keeping the Law.  If a curse was invoked for any violation of any part of the Law – how is it possible that all through Leviticus we find God saying upon what is just retribution for failure to keep the Law – “And so he shall be forgiven.”?  No, the curse is invoked to those who would not say keeping the commandments of God was to be their manner and rule of life and conduct – not that breaking some minor commandment was as bad as breaking the commandment not to murder or not to commit adultery or to blaspheme God.  The Torah was to be their manner of life, conduct and judgment – to judge by the standards given by God – not to put their judgment above or equal to His Instruction in Righteousness.  Yeshua also confirmed the Torah to be the standard of God to live by: “Don’t think that I came to set aside the Law of God.”  Do Christians who believe Paul set the commandments aside as invalid?  Let each judge as God would judge the matter.  If we need to repent of believing Paul – so be it.  If we need to repent of mistranslated Scripture – so be it.  In all things we must never put ourselves above God or His decree, judgment, or the conditions ratified in the Everlasting Covenant.  God seeks those who will worship Him in spirit and truth, and Yeshua affirmed: “Thy word is truth.”

    

    

    

   F.       Hab. 2:4/Gal. 3:11.  Comments noted in text of Galatians – no need to rehash them.  This is the one passage used to refute Paul early on, and as James says – “Faith without works is dead.”  James was obviously instructed by Yeshua and knew the Hebrew Scripture much better than did the supposed apostle Paul.  Abraham was not justified by faith alone – the passage later to Isaac clearly shows otherwise – Abraham was faithful – not a one time belief in one word of God – Abraham was faithful to God in all things, as we should be faithful to God like he was and Yeshua was.  Life is a growth process, but the life that is of God finds fulfillment and growth IN HIS WORDS of LIFE.

    

    

    

   G.       Lev. 18:5/Gal. 3:12.  Also see Romans 7: 10-12.  Comment inserted into the text of Galatians should be adequate, as it proves Paul had great disregard for the Commandments of God.  This is also proof that Paul didn’t understand anything Yeshua taught as the gospel in Matthew.

    

    

    

   H.      Deut. 21:23/Gal. 3:13.  Yeshua was not cursed of God.  Read Psalm 22.  Context is everything.  Read verses 22 and 23.  Read Matthew – especially the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew at the end link on the web site.  Yeshua did nothing deserving of death in violation of the Torah of God!  The passage Paul quoted has to do with one who was hanged for a capital offence, and it had to do with not defiling the land.  Once again – Paul is only showing his ability to twist the words of God to deceive Gentiles who were not familiar with the Hebrew Holy Scripture – which is perhaps the greatest sin one can commit – as it parallels the works of Satan himself.

    

    

    

   I.         Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7/Gal. 3:16.  To understand this passage correctly you must know that Hebrew “seed” is always plural, as in God telling Abraham that his “seed” would be a numerous as the stars in the night sky.  There was no “seed” and “seeds” as we have in English – and I’ll let the Greek scholars argue over this in Greek, but the fact is Genesis was written in Hebrew in Yeshua’s day, and Hebrew developed over time.  The statement to Eve and the Serpent was plual seed – not singular seed.  We are all to be doing the works of God to do our part in the battle of good and evil taking place on earth since man turned to serve alien gods and demon worship, or simply refused to acknowledge the goodness of God.  The fact is that seed is plural – not singular as Paul says in this passage.  Therefore Paul’s entire argument is nothing but hot air – giving birth to wind as Scriptures say, rather than a coherent thought that shows any knowledge of the Everlasting Covenant between God and mankind.  Genesis 12:7 is about the land – not the covenant – and the land was also conditional upon the Covenant.  The covenant is mentioned in 12:3.  13:15 is also about the land, and as the Torah and Prophets say – their possession of the land was contingent on their keeping the Covenant.  Again, 24:7 is also about the land – not the Covenant that those of all nations are blessed through Abraham and his descendants as it was ratified at Sinai to Jew and Gentile.  Yeshua said his teachings were for men of all nations.  In fact, Matthew 24 has Yeshua saying that “this gospel of the kingdom” – as he preached it – would testify to the world of him, and then the end will come.  This is why I write these things – because it’s about time someone stands up for the TRUTH of God that Yeshua taught all men need to repent and obey to have hope in the Day of the LORD and the restoration of all things.

    

    

    

   J.         Galatians 3:23.  No supporting passage – possible alternate translation.  The fact is that Yeshua said faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law!  Yeshua was calling all men to repent and obey God.  Yeshua wasn’t teaching a new “faith.”  Everything he taught was from the Torah, Prophets and Psalms!  Yeshua came that all men – even Gentiles – would realize it honorable to keep the Torah of God!  This was clearly foretold in Isaiah 42, and has been lost to Christians for far too long.  Paul taught his perversions – it is ample from review of Galatians 1-3 that he didn’t know what he was talking about – he had no understanding of God or Master Yeshua – and as he said, he heard it from no man – but received it “by revelation”.  If from some spirit – it was a lying spirit – and certainly not YHWH or Yeshua.
   
   

    

    Galatians 4 is copied from the NKJV website at noted at bottom of chapter.

    

   Comments interjected by onediscipletoanother.org

    

   Galatians 4 New King James Version (NKJV)

    

   Sons and Heirs Through Christ

    

   4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, ² but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. ³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. ⁴ But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born^[a] of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

    

   ⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, ^[b]“Abba, Father!” ⁷ Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir ^[c]of God ^[d]through Christ.

    

   (Paul is weaving a complex tale here.  The fact is that God did not die, that we be under guardians and stewards “until the time appointed by the father.”  “Jesus Words Only,” in chapter five, untangles the statements of Paul very effectively – so much so that I don’t want to pre-empt his analysis of the text, but must say I heartily agree with his construction of what Paul was claiming – although not so clearly represented by Paul himself, as Paul was a master at obscuring established truth of the Holy Scripture and easily understood words of God.  Jesus claimed to be servant – not Master of All.  We’ve already noted that all belong to God, all are to be subject to God because He alone is God, but that God is seeking those who are faithful to Him.  All men descended from Adam are in a sense begotten of God or sons of God.  God called Israel His first-born son, so that term should not be limited to Yeshua (Jesus).  The only upright thing Paul said here is that Yeshua was born of a woman, born to a descendant of David, and that one of the works of Yeshua was to redeem those who strayed from the Law – not to redeem them from the Law to become sons of God – as all men were already created in His image.  Paul is teaching freedom from the Law – whereas Yeshua taught that it is honorable for men of all nations to keep the Law (Torah) of God.  In Yeshua there is freedom to know, understand and do what God desires of all men; in Paul, there is presented freedom from the law – not only freedom from it, but total disrespect and disregard of the fountain of wisdom and  truth that is able to transform the lives of all who come to know the reliability of the word of God and God’s faithfulness to uphold it above all of His Names.  If there is a God who upholds His word and established the heavens and earth by it – Paul has no knowledge of His word or will.)

    

   Fears for the Church

    

   ⁸ But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? ¹⁰ You observe days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain. (These words are particularly vile if you see through the “spiritual” fog Paul is weaving throughout Galatians.  I’ve heard it argued this was written about Jews, I’ve heard it was written about Gentiles – but the undeniable fact is it is in reality against both, but mainly towards Jews, as Paul hates everything about the Instructions of God – likely because he stood condemned by God for his lies against God’s word and character and all that He has made known to mankind until Paul came on the scene to destroy as many souls as possible.  The Torah contains far more than the Ten Decrees (Commandments) of God.  Among the instructions are Appointments given by God for Israel to keep – some for all to keep – and most particularly the Sabbath and Sabbaths.  These require keeping track of “days and months and seasons and years”, and it is ill advised to pretend Paul was not speaking against the Times established by God within His Instructions in Righteousness.  If keeping those things is to be pleasing to God by acknowledging He declared the Sabbath holy at creation, plus His Appointments and Times – if God judged Israel for failure to keep them – the charge Paul makes here is particularly vile and against God in the worst way – to say His instructions are first – not from God, but from soulless elementals – “beggarly elements” is a poor translation of what Paul is charging against God Almighty.  Keeping the Appointments and Times by following the Calendar God gave is not being “weak” – it is to honor God and what He declared as Instructions about time and what He has set apart as holy from what is secular.  How could Paul say we  are “in bondage” to hear and obey God? Go back to Declaration One and Two and  see who God declares loves Him, and who He said are His enemies.  Don’t let Paul make a fool of you – listen to God!  Again – Yeshua sets us free to see the will of God, but Paul puts us into bondage based upon his own imaginations to be superior to God Himself.  Some contend that the Sabbath was not “reaffirmed” by Yeshua, but that is delusional because he clearly said it is Lawful to do good on the Sabbath – reaffirming it and providing clarity to better understand what God wants us all to know – Jew and Gentile.)

    

   ¹² Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. ¹³ You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. ¹⁴ And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an ^[e]angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ^15 [f]What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (There is no way that Paul has become our enemy because he told the Galatians or us “the truth.”  Paul was doing nothing but weaving clever lies to deceive those who were ignorant of the words of God.  As Yeshua said: “Thy word is truth.”  If Paul is teaching against the words given by God – Paul must be judged for what he was – a rank liar and deceiver.)

    

   ¹⁷ They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. ¹⁸ But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹ My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, ²⁰ I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you. (The Doctrine of God taught by Yeshua will prevent anyone who believes Yeshua from continuing to regard Paul to have ever told the truth about anything.  The best of liars will present some truth, but then twist it or fail to hold it uprightly as given by God to start with.  We must return to the Teachings of Yeshua in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew to rid ourselves of the lies promoted when revising the Scriptures since 50 CE.  The words of God in the Dead Sea Scrolls will enable us to identify the errors of significance – we need to repent of the lies that we were told to believe.)

    

   Two Covenants

    

   ²¹ Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. ²³ But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, ²⁴ which things are symbolic. For these are ^[g]the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— ²⁵ for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— ²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. ²⁷ For it is written:

    

   “Rejoice, O barren,
   You who do not bear!
   Break forth and shout,
   You who are not in labor!
   For the desolate has many more children
   Than she who has a husband.”

    

   ²⁸ Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. ²⁹ But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. ³⁰ Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” ³¹ So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. (Once more, we find total misrepresentation of fact – Paul is a master at myth and lore – he loves to twist things up to confuse the ignorant.  This is what the author of “Jesus Words Only” calls “the great inversion.”  We all need to read chapter 5 of this book to help us set the record straight and see through these lies of Paul:

    

    http://www.jesuswordsonly.com/books/jesuswordsonly/106-chapter-five-jwo.html

    

   Scroll down to the heading of “Why Be Subject To Those Who Are Not Gods?”)

    

   Footnotes:

    

   1.   Galatians 4:4 Or made

    

   2.   Galatians 4:6 Lit., in Aram., Father

    

   3.   Galatians 4:7 NU through God

    

   4.   Galatians 4:7 NU omits through Christ

    

   5.   Galatians 4:14 Or messenger

    

   6.   Galatians 4:15 NU Where

    

   7.   Galatians 4:24 NU, M omit the

    

   Cross references:

    

   1.   Galatians 4:3 : Gal. 4:9; Col. 2:8, 20; Heb. 5:12; 9:10

    

   2.   Galatians 4:4 : [Gen. 49:10]

    

   3.   Galatians 4:4 : [John 1:14]; Rom. 1:3; 8:3; [Phil. 2:7]

    

   4.   Galatians 4:4 : Gen. 3:15; [Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:25]

    

   5.   Galatians 4:4 : [Matt. 5:17]; Luke 2:21, 27

    

   6.   Galatians 4:5 : [Matt. 20:28; Gal. 3:13]

    

   7.   Galatians 4:5 : [John 1:12]

    

   8.   Galatians 4:6 : [Acts 16:7; Rom. 5:5; 8:9, 15, 16; 2 Cor. 3:17]

    

   9.   Galatians 4:7 : [Rom. 8:16, 17]

    

   10.                     Galatians 4:8 : 1 Cor. 1:21; Eph. 2:12; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8

    

   11.                     Galatians 4:8 : Rom. 1:25

    

   12.                     Galatians 4:9 : [1 Cor. 8:3]

    

   13.                     Galatians 4:9 : Gal. 3:1–3; Col. 2:20

    

   14.                     Galatians 4:9 : Heb. 7:18

    

   15.                     Galatians 4:10 : Rom. 14:5; Col. 2:16

    

   16.                     Galatians 4:11 : 1 Thess. 3:5

    

   17.                     Galatians 4:12 : 2 Cor. 2:5

    

   18.                     Galatians 4:13 : 1 Cor. 2:3

    

   19.                     Galatians 4:14 : Mal. 2:7

    

   20.                     Galatians 4:14 : [Luke 10:16]

    

   21.                     Galatians 4:17 : Rom. 10:2

    

   22.                     Galatians 4:19 : 1 Cor. 4:15

    

   23.                     Galatians 4:21 : Gen. 21:8–21; Is. 54:1

    

   24.                     Galatians 4:22 : Gen. 16:15

    

   25.                     Galatians 4:22 : Gen. 21:2

    

   26.                     Galatians 4:23 : Rom. 9:7, 8; Gal. 4:29

    

   27.                     Galatians 4:23 : Gen. 16:15; 17:15–19; 18:10; 21:1; Gal. 4:28; Heb. 11:11

    

   28.                     Galatians 4:24 : Ex. 24:6–8; Deut. 33:2

    

   29.                     Galatians 4:26 : [Is. 2:2]

    

   30.                     Galatians 4:27 : Is. 54:1

    

   31.                     Galatians 4:28 : Rom. 9:7, 8; Gal. 3:29

    

   32.                     Galatians 4:28 : Acts 3:25

    

   33.                     Galatians 4:29 : Gen. 21:9

    

   34.                     Galatians 4:29 : Gal. 5:11

    

   35.                     Galatians 4:30 : [Gal. 3:8, 22]

    

   36.                     Galatians 4:30 : Gen. 21:10, 12

    

   37.                     Galatians 4:30 : [John 8:35]

    

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   Review other “Versions”, but the basic premises remain unchanged.  If we want to judge as God commanded and instructed – we will judge everyone as they compare to the Testimony of God in the Torah, Psalms and Prophets.  To say the Law was given by Angels or Elementals is to lie and derail us from the truth God wants us to know – the truth Yeshua (Jesus) testified to be truth.  If Paul testified against the Instruction, Commandment, Covenant and Promises of God in the Holy Scripture – to site Paul as a reference to support his own testimony is twisted and perverted = it is not enabling us to clearly see what God and the prophets in the Hebrew Scripture declared – but we will find the quotes to the Holy Scripture to have been altered in some way if Paul was not telling the truth and the Bible publishers are changing the words of God to seem to support Paul.  That’s a huge issue in my opinion – and the passages noted to support Galatians will show us this is the situation we face – man has altered the words of God to promote Paul/Saul.

    

   Note how many supporting texts are to Paul’s writings, at least half are from Paul or Luke.  Some are from added gospel accounts the original disciples did not support as true, as they held to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  If what Paul was claiming has any support in the Holy Scripture  it will be observed in the Hebrew Scriptures to be correct – or incorrect, noting also that the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible provides evidences of alterations/mistranslations to the text from the Greek (150 CE) texts.  Let’s return once again to the first Teaching of Yeshua in Matthew to judge the matter rightly as God desires His people to do; “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”

    

   1. These passages are from those who said God did not give the Law, so they are without light, as “If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them.

   2. Genesis 49:10 supports that we hear the only person I’m aware of that could fit all the prophecies as “the one to whom it (set rules to live by) belongs.”  It says nothing about the Law of God being temporary because “the one to whom it belongs” said to not think he came to do away with even a letter of the Law – let alone nullify it totally.  Therefore it only supports what Yeshua taught in Matthew.  Paul made no claim to prove he was “the one to whom it belongs” and was also of the wrong tribe of Israel by his own claims.

   3. Paul proving himself is not right, as the standard of judgment from God is the testimony of two or more witnesses.  John was not written by the Apostle John and was the last “gospel” to become known of the four we have in the New Testament.  John also equates Jesus to be divine – not a mortal man – and to have been co-creator – a doctrine of Paul that is not supported in the gospel of Matthew or the Hebrew Holy Scripture. 

   4. Genesis 3 is no support, as the “seed” is plural.  Isaiah 7 is no support because the “young woman” had already conceived – the prophecy was not of a virgin birth, but about how soon God would rid Israel of the ones they feared.  I’ve written more on this topic in my web site if you want to do a site search for Isaiah 7:14.  Matthew 1:25 was not in the more original HGOM, it was added to the text in the Greek version.

   5. Matthew 5:17.  This is a curious passage to gain support for the doctrine Paul is teaching in Galatians 4:4, as the Teaching of Yeshua is expressly about the Law of God and proper judgment and relations between men and the effects of injustice being rectified by the just principles of God.  Again, taken in context from the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew with notations: “14.   You are light in the world.  A city built upon a hill cannot be hidden. 15.   They do not light a lamp to place it in a hidden place where it cannot shine; but they place it upon a lamp stand so that it might shine for all in the house. 16.   Thus let your light shine before every man to show them your good deeds which are praised and glorified before your Father who is in heaven. Ex. 10-20. [Consider the righteous until Abram were not “Jews” or “Israel”, but men who feared God and lived circumspect lives in faithfulness to Him and teaching their children the pathways given by God.  It was not until Jesus (Yeshua) that we find the call to make disciples of His pathways as taught in Matthew – which was soon overshadowed and confused by alteration of and addition to what Christians call the “New Testament” – a term curiously used by the first heretic – Marcion.] [[All three Abrahamic faith divisions divide over who Jesus was – then further divisions were introduced by Saul/Paul.]] 17.   At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Do not think that I came to annul the Torah, but to fulfill it. Du. 4, 12, 13, 18, 34. Lev. Gen. Num. Ex. Nu. *Exodus 20;

    

         Is 42.18.   Truly I say to you that until heaven and earth depart not one letter or dot shall be abolished from the Torah or the Prophets, because all will be fulfilled. [[Ps. 89; Torah established as an eternal and everlasting covenant – Genesis through Deuteronomy]]. 19.   He who shall transgress one word of these commandments and shall teach others, shall be called a vain person in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever upholds and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20.   At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, if your righteousness is not greater than the Pharisees and the sages, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 21.   Have you not heard what was said to those of old: You shall not murder and whoever murders is guilty of a judgment of death? [[Exodus 20 and supporting passages]] 22.   But I say to you, he who angers his companion is guilty of judgment; he who calls his brother inferior shall be guilty of judgment before the congregation; he who calls him a fool is guilty of the fire of Gehenna. [The principle is what leads to sin, and to cut off the practice before we trespass.  Note Jesus teachings about being angry without cause, as the aim is to not give cause for offence that could lead to murder among brothers, as was the case with Cain and Abel – to say we believe we have been offended and discuss it – work it out between parties, and if necessary to be established by witnesses when a brother is not being just, right, or fair.] 23.   If you should offer your gift at the altar and remember that you have a quarrel with your companion and he is complaining about you because of this matter, 24.   Leave your gifts there before the altar and go to appease him first and afterwards offer your gifts. [[Later prophets warning that sacrifices were useless if they weren’t living by His standards of justice and righteousness, which includes what God said is just restitution.]] 25.   Then Jesus said to his disciples: See that you hasten to appease your enemy while you are walking with him in the way lest he deliver you to the judge and this judge delivers you to the servant to put you into prison.[Context is the Jewish court that met to take matters to the priests to decide a case, which would be binding is Torah instruction – their ruling would be as binding as the word of God.  This practice seems to have been  abandoned well before the Babylonian exile.]

    

    

    

   1. There is no support in prophecy to being adopted as sons to Abraham.  All men are created in the image of God and those who are “My people” are those who live according to the Instructions of God to be their manner of life.  God gave the process to convert to be a Jew, and it took generations – not as presented by Paul – which is no surprise. The reference is to Matthew 20:28.  This is that passage, with comments to it’s basic meaning, from my review of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, which must be understood in the context of verse 28.  25.  Jesus (brought them near) to him and said to them: Know that the princes of the Gentiles have dominion over them and their great ones seek (to subdue them). 26.  It will not be so among you, because he who wishes to be great among you (will serve) you.  27.  He who among you wishes to be first will be your servant, 28.  (just as) the Son of Man did not come that they might serve him, but that he might serve and give himself as a ransom for many. [Ransom, not sacrifice.] [[Ransom is the price to set the prisoner free – we cannot be set free from falsehoods until we are willing to observe and do the truth of God as taught from the Torah by Yeshua – “Salvation” is of him, and it was freely given to us to know if we believe him and what he said is the Doctrine of God.]] 29.  They entered into Jericho and a crowd followed him.

   2. In Matthew, being a disciple of Yeshua and being restored to proper relationship to God is by belief that repents to do as God instructed.  There is nothing “magical” about the gospel presented by Yeshua in Matthew, but is perfectly clear, orderly, understandable, and in accord with the words of God and the prophets throughout the Hebrew Holy Scripture.  I set John aside to find the clarity in Matthew.  What power is required to repent from evil to then be faithful to your Creator and His just, reasonable and reliable instructions to us?  Did God prescribe some magical rite for Cain to find uplift towards God?  Did Noah perform some magical rite to find favor with God?  What is the power needed to realize we need to abandon the lies we’ve been told and then seek out the Truth of God with all our strength within our heart, body, mind and soul?  What magical power was possessed by the servant who went to find a wife for the son of Abraham but to have been taught the pathways of God from Abraham and to be faithful to them?  John introduces many things not in accord with the pathways of God, such as Jesus being God manifest in human flesh.  It’s no wonder we also see a somewhat magical thing in John about the “power” to become sons of God.  We have more power within us than Paul, Hebrews, Mark or John has to say – the power to believe we are to live by the word of God – not the one who says God didn’t give the Instructions.

   3. Circular reasoning.  If Galatians cannot be proven true to the Instructions of God and the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew – then all the citations to writings of Paul and those who were his disciples are null and void as witness to truth.  Therefore – to judge righteously, we must set aside the references from 8 to 26.

   4. Ibid

   5. Ibid

   6. Ibid

   7. Ibid

   8. Ibid

   9. Ibid

   10. Ibid

   11. Ibid

   12. Ibid

   13. Ibid

   14. Ibid

   15. Ibid

   16. Ibid

   17. Ibid

   18. Ibid

   19. Ibid

   20. Ibid

   21. Ibid

   22. Paul is proven a liar of the worst order.  Read the link to chapter 5 of “Jesus’ Words Only” provided above, just before the footnotes.

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   Freedom in Christ

    

   5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (God never considered “My people” to be His slaves, and those who were faithful to Him never considered themselves to be Slaves of God – no where I’ve ever been able to locate yet in the Holy Scripture of Yeshua’s days – from Adam till John the Baptist – no where does God consider them slaves either.  So if Yeshua came to show men the words of God were not compatible with the things bound upon them by unfaithful leadership through the years – Yeshua came to set them free of man made doctrines to be enabled to see, know and experience the Freedom of God to do His will and to thereby abide in His kindness, blessings and promises!  With God instructions are very clear and doable – and reliable to accomplish what God gave His word to do.  With Paul, we see nothing but division between groups of Christians to be along lines that were invented by Paul.  No, should anyone take the time to note the simplicity and beauty of the Instruction of God the vague imaginations of Paul can be seen to sow discord to this day – just as they did in the days of the Apostles.)

    

   ² Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. ³ Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. ⁴ You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. (I marked the words of Paul most of my life and found them to be done in vain – you can waste your time on him if you want to – but from personal experience I know better now.  The matter remains that God gave instruction with the Everlasting Covenant at Sinai, which all present, those He had preserved to the mountain – ratified.  Whatever those instructions at Sinai were, it is also easily discerned that the matter of circumcision PRECEEDED Sinai, and was included in the Law – but the source was between God and Abraham for the descendants of Abraham to do – even Moses – BEFORE Sinai – had to obey the commandment of Circumcision – so Paul errs to say circumcision comes from the Law of God.  All who desire to be considered “My people” by God are to keep the conditions ratified at Sinai – not just Jews.  Finally, if Yeshua affirmed the need to keep the Law – to the letter – to the least of the commandments – if we are disciples of Yeshua we will seek to do this by learning the commandments, precepts and judgments of God.  If we are merely disciples of Paul – we can choose to ignore what Yeshua taught in Matthew and pretend those words don’t exist in the records of his teachings.  You can’t say you believe Yeshua and then ignore Jesus to do what Paul said because Paul threatened you with a curse if you don’t believe him.  Yeshua is alive at the throne on the right hand of God – Paul is long dead and gone to the reward he deserves.)

    

   ⁷ You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? ⁸ That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. ⁹ “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” ¹⁰ I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. ¹¹ Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. ¹² As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! (So much for Paul’s example to show his agape love for everyone – so much for the “spirit” that indwelt Paul that allowed him to so freely condemn those who fear God and keep His commandments wholeheartedly.  So  much for the promise of God in the Ten Decrees from Mount Sinai to those who love Him and keep His commandments.  No – Paul is greater than God Himself if you believe Paul!  We first discovered how little Paul knew about the Law, Torah, Prophecy, and basic vocabulary of Hebrew – all prove Paul a very ignorant man who presented himself as an expert to the unsuspecting – sort of like the swindler that makes all kinds of promises to woo unsuspecting women of their money – but it should be evident by now – if you are paying attention to the points brought up in my review of Galatians – that Paul was not only a liar – he testified against the Ten Decrees of God and even testified God didn’t give them to mankind – but they were from angels who are no god, and in another place in chapter 4 that they are given as a  curse to Israel from Elementals – who don’t even have a soul.  Believe Paul at your own peril.  I choose to believe God and the records of the Hebrew Holy Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scroll records, and the Hebrew record of the Gospel according to Matthew as written by Yeshua’s disciples.  If there is still error I have not noted yet – at least it’s a start in the right direction to restore what was stolen from us by Rome and Paul.  Who, according to Isaiah 42, is one who is willing to say: Give it back! Or Restore!  I for one, and I hope many others might be set free from the lies of Paul to repent and observe the fully reliable words of God Almighty.)

    

   Life by the Spirit

    

   ¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. (Yeshua said the Law and Prophets HANG upon the command of love for God and neighbor – not that love no longer has definition to be what God said it is.  I Corinthians 13 is nothing but vain imaginations from Paul that he himself was woefully inadequate to bring to reality in his own life and writings.  If “all things are lawful”, then why can’t we bite and devour each other?  Everything is lawful?  Then why does Paul condemn obedience to the instruction of God to be a curse, when God said it would be their righteousness and means by which He would bless them?  Paul was a very confused man.)

    

   ¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever^[c] you want. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. (Here we see the Gnostic Gospel unveiled.  Rather than being as God instructed to Cain, that he was responsible for his own sin, and he was capable to overcome sin so it wouldn’t posses or overcome him.  That takes effort to change our ways when they are not in alignment to the Instruction of God, but God is rich in grace to forgive those who turn to do good – just as He clearly said through the prophet in Ezekiel 18.  We are to be reformed to have our conscience and living our life to reflect the Instruction and goodness of God towards ourselves and others.  The Spirit is to work with the word to help us do this (Ez. 37).  If the Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, and Yeshua said the word of God is truth, and that we are to live by every word of God – we cannot set the Instruction or Covenant of God aside as null and void if we believe God or Yeshua.  If you do set their word aside – the proof is that you take the words of Paul to be more attractive to you than the truth of God.  Adam and Eve fell for a lie too.  Wouldn’t it be better to just believe God? When we believe God we will know He gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.  God does not give His Spirit to cause His enemies to obey Him – God gave His Instruction to know whether we will obey Him – or not.  It’s your choice to believe God and respond to Him according to His words of life and to test those who say they speak for God, but upon examination those who fail are to be ignored – God said so. (Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18, 34)  If Yeshua said “Take heed that no man deceives you”, does that make it OK to let a lying fake apostle, spirit or demon deceive you? YHWH is real, not an imagination.)

    

   ¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    

   ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. (These parting comments of Paul sound absolutely wonderful – how can I say there is anything wrong with the positive attributes mentioned?  I would only ask this one thing – that of self-control?  To say “self control” is the work of the Spirit – then how can it be “self-control”?  Doing the “works of the Law” is about self-control.  Doing the “works of the Law” causes us to bring our works – what we say and do – to be in line with the good will of God in all things He has Instructed of “My people.”  Rather than considering the “works of the Law” to be against us, in fact, doing the “works of the Law” are done from love towards God and mankind – not to mention appreciating the love He has for us, which will help us better understand His love for us and others!  Judging from the sins some of Christian leaders (Particularly in the Catholic Church) – who resoundingly hold to Pauls’ doctrines – evidence is that Paul’s invention to pretend our flesh has been crucified with Christ is utter nonsense – just a nice smelling fake flower.  What Paul taught here cannot annul any of the words of God.  God has told us what is sin, what is good, what is secular, what is holy – and Yeshua came to teach that it is also honorable for Gentiles to keep the Instructions of God (Torah/Law).  Why does Paul bring dishonor to the Law of God and those God says are “My people”?  My friend – stop believing lies and start believing God and His anointed prophet – Master Yeshua – as told by his chosen eyewitnesses.  Paul lied – pure and simple – it’s a no brainer.)  Read  the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and then see if you believe Yeshua – or not.  But don’t say you believe in Jesus and then do whatever Paul taught.  Enough review of Paul’s claims are in the chapters above – I’m tired of noting the proof Paul lied and mishandled Scripture – if you can’t see it by now, no more posting of the true Scripture is going to help you.  For the sake of completion, I will cover the references to Matthew, but it is taking false witnesses into consideration to quote from Paul’s writings or the writings of his disciples or those who testify against the words of God.)

    

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   1.   Galatians 5:13 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24; and in 6:8.

    

   2.   Galatians 5:14 Lev. 19:18

    

   3.   Galatians 5:17 Or you do not do what

    

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   1.   Galatians 5:1 : ver 13; Jn 8:32; Gal 2:4; S Ro 7:4

    

   2.   Galatians 5:1 : S 1Co 16:13

    

   3.   Galatians 5:1 : S Mt 23:4; Gal 2:4

    

   4.   Galatians 5:2 : ver 3, 6, 11, 12; Ac 15:1

    

   5.   Galatians 5:3 : Ro 2:25; Gal 3:10; Jas 2:10

    

   6.   Galatians 5:4 : S Ro 3:28

    

   7.   Galatians 5:4 : Heb 12:15; 2Pe 3:17

    

   8.   Galatians 5:5 : Ro 8:23, 24

    

   9.   Galatians 5:6 : S Ro 16:3

    

   10.                     Galatians 5:6 : S 1Co 7:19

    

   11.                     Galatians 5:6 : 1Th 1:3; Jas 2:22

    

   12.                     Galatians 5:7 : S 1Co 9:24

    

   13.                     Galatians 5:7 : Gal 3:1

    

   14.                     Galatians 5:8 : S Ro 8:28

    

   15.                     Galatians 5:9 : 1Co 5:6

    

   16.                     Galatians 5:10 : S 2Co 2:3

    

   17.                     Galatians 5:10 : Php 3:15

    

   18.                     Galatians 5:10 : ver 12; Gal 1:7

    

   19.                     Galatians 5:11 : Gal 4:29; 6:12

    

   20.                     Galatians 5:11 : S Lk 2:34

    

   21.                     Galatians 5:12 : ver 10

    

   22.                     Galatians 5:13 : S ver 1

    

   23.                     Galatians 5:13 : S ver 24; 1Co 8:9; 1Pe 2:16

    

   24.                     Galatians 5:13 : 1Co 9:19; 2Co 4:5; Eph 5:21

    

   25.                     Galatians 5:14 : Lev 19:18; S Mt 5:43; Gal 6:2

    

   26.                     Galatians 5:16 : ver 18, 25; Ro 8:2, 4-6, 9, 14; S 2Co 5:17

    

   27.                     Galatians 5:16 : S ver 24

    

   28.                     Galatians 5:17 : Ro 8:5-8

    

   29.                     Galatians 5:17 : Ro 7:15-23

    

   30.                     Galatians 5:18 : S ver 16

    

   31.                     Galatians 5:18 : S Ro 2:12; 1Ti 1:9

    

   32.                     Galatians 5:19 : S 1Co 6:18

    

   33.                     Galatians 5:21 : Mt 15:19; Ro 13:13

    

   34.                     Galatians 5:21 : S Mt 25:34

    

   35.                     Galatians 5:22 : Mt 7:16-20; Eph 5:9

    

   36.                     Galatians 5:22 : Col 3:12-15

    

   37.                     Galatians 5:22 : Mal 2:6

    

   38.                     Galatians 5:23 : S Ac 24:25

    

   39.                     Galatians 5:23 : ver 18

    

   40.                     Galatians 5:24 : ver 13, 16-21; S Ro 6:6; 7:5, 18; 8:3-5, 8, 9, 12, 13; 13:14; Gal 6:8; Col 2:11

    

   41.                     Galatians 5:24 : ver 16, 17

    

   42.                     Galatians 5:25 : S ver 16

    

   43.                     Galatians 5:26 : Php 2:3

    

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         Reference number 3.  Galatians 5:1 is about not being yoked to slavery to the Law of God.  Let’s see what Matthew 23:4 says in context: 1.      Then Jesus spoke to the people and to his disciples 2. saying: Upon the seat of Moses the Pharisees and the sages sit. 3. Now all which [he said] to you keep and do; but according to their ordinances and deeds do not do because they say and do not. [Correction to “he said”, based on the textual criticism of Nehemiah Gordon – Jewish scripture authority – video on YouTube that covers this passage particularly – definitely altered in the Hebrew and Greek accounts .] 4.  They demand and set forth great burdens which the shoulders of men are not able to bear; but they themselves even with their finger are unwilling to move.5. All their actions they do for the sake of appearances, they wear expensive garments and large tassels, called phiblios; 6.      they love to recline first in the banquet halls, to be seated first at the synagogues, 7. to prostrate themselves in the streets, and to be called Rabbi.  [These sayings are warnings about those who consider themselves “Rabbi”.  Interesting is that according to one internet resource the Jews consider themselves to date to 300 BC, when the Rabbinical tradition started gaining momentum.  Anyone can get a copy of their Scriptures at this time and note that study editions have comments from various Rabbi’s through their history.  Some comments provide insight that is wonderful, but unfortunately others tended towards elevation of Jews over Gentiles to be a matter of race and not faithfulness to God – a very sad condition.  The greatest blessing I’ve noted is to understand what Jesus taught and view the unaltered Hebrew text to gain greater understanding with the OT, rather than cast it aside and think you understand Jesus fully without study of the words of God, the Prophets, Psalms and Writings and to ALSO note which have been significantly changed in the Jewish record and even more altered in the Christian records of the Jewish Holy Scripture.  Both Jews and Christians have altered Scripture – but only Christians have allowed false reports to be considered the “word of God” just because it was said by a book in the NT – which factually have been altered – who else has told us about this before and pointed to the truth?????] 8. But as for you, do not desire to be called Rabbi.  One is your Rabbi and all of you are brothers.  [Jesus did not claim the title Rabbi for himself, but taught as a prophet of God.  Hebrew Scripture says God is our Teacher, and Rabbi means teacher. Exodus 4:15; Deut. 4:36; Psalm 25:12; 32:8; 71:17; 94:10; Isaiah 2:3; 28:26; 48:17; 54:13; Jeremiah 32:33; Micah 4:2] 9. Call no man upon the earth father. One is your father who is in heaven. [In context of title apart from fact – note Scripture and even the Ten Declarations deal with “father” as one of the parents and in genealogies – Jesus was not setting the word of God aside, but saying that “father” was not to be a title among men as Rabbi was not to be used amongst them either.  Note the equality between believers didn’t even establish one of the apostles above another – they were to be brethren, as Jesus previously pointed out that those who hear him and do the will of God are his “brothers, sisters and mother” – family – with God as Father, Creator and Teacher – even Redeemer, per the Hebrew accounts.]  For the life of me, I just don’t see any of Paul’s point in this passage, aside from not being in bondage to those who are false teachers who lead others away from the plain, righteous and upright words of God.  The fact is that Paul knew less of the Instructions of God than the corrupted headstrong Rabbi’s that Yeshua was talking about in this passage.

    

    

    

   Comment 25 references Matthew 5:23 and Leviticus 19:18 to support Galatians 5:14. “¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”   To show the context in Matthew *HGOM, verses include 22 – 25.  In this passage Yeshua upholds the Torah instructions, and does not limit the commandment of God to the one commandment of Paul in Galatians 5:14.  22.   But I say to you, he who angers his companion is guilty of judgment; he who calls his brother inferior shall be guilty of judgment before the congregation; he who calls him a fool is guilty of the fire of Gehenna. [The principle is what leads to sin, and to cut off the practice before we trespass.  Note Jesus teachings about being angry without cause, as the aim is to not give cause for offence that could lead to murder among brothers, as was the case with Cain and Abel – to say we believe we have been offended and discuss it – work it out between parties, and if necessary to be established by witnesses when a brother is not being just, right, or fair.]23.   If you should offer your gift at the altar and remember that you have a quarrel with your companion and he is complaining about you because of this matter, 24.   leave your gifts there before the altar and go to appease him first and afterwards offer your gifts. [[Later prophets warning that sacrifices were useless if they weren’t living by His standards of justice and righteousness, which includes what God said is just restitution and thereby receive just judgment to what God said: “And so he shall be forgiven.”(see Leviticus)]]25.   Then Jesus said to his disciples: See that you hasten to appease your enemy while you are walking with him in the way lest he deliver you to the judge and this judge delivers you to the servant to put you into prison.[Context is the Jewish court that met to take matters to the priests to decide a case, which would be binding is Torah instruction – their ruling would be as binding as the word of God.  This practice seems to have been  abandoned before the Babylonian exile.]  What Paul said in Galatians 5:14 defies what Yeshua said: that the Law is supported by love for God and love for our fellow man – the Law hangs from those two principles:  God is God, and man is created in the image of God.

    

         Reference 33 is for Galatians 5:21 and lists Matthew 15:19.  The reference is actually to a longer list than is in verse 21, so this is this is the passage: “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”  Dare it be interjected of Paul’s harsh words that he wished those who still practiced circumcision as commanded by God that Paul wished they would go all the way and cut off their penis?  No fit or rage? Hatred? Discord? Jealousy? Dissension? Faction?  If you can’t see it by now – God help you.  As for the reference to Matthew 15:19; “17.  Do you not understand that every thing that enters through the mouth goes into the belly and all of it goes on to the natural place? 18.  But that which goes out through the mouth is moved by the heart; this is what soils the man. 19.  Because the defiled heart brings forth deceitfulness, murder, adulteries, robberies, the witness of liars and curses. 20.  All these things are what (soil) the man.  Indeed eating without washing the hands does not soil the man.”  Jesus clearly spoke truth, and the evils proceeded from the defiled heart – not the “work of the flesh.”  The Gnostic mindset was the physical is sin, the spiritual is pure, and then pretend our sin is only due to our flesh – whereas in our mind/spirit we are pure.  The Instruction of God is that we are responsible to overcome our sin so that it doesn’t rule over us.  No amount of pretending is going to make those words of God or Yeshua vanish into thin air – their word is the Truth – the defiled heart brings forth evil – the heart of those who are stayed upon God do good through seeking first His Kingdom. As the prayer Yeshua gave in Matthew says, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”  Who will recognize the variance Paul poses to the words of God in the Hebrew Scripture and the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew?

    

   34: Matthew 25:34; 34.  Then he will say to those on his right: Enter blessed of my father and inherit for yourselves the kingdom of heaven prepared for you from the creation of the world until now.”  Recall, Yeshua was teaching it is honorable for all – including Gentiles – to keep the Law of God.  This blessing from Yeshua is towards those who are doing as God instructed – which Paul said were cursed to do so because the Law was a curse and not given by God.  Therefore, the passage only condemns Paul because he became the enemy of God according to the first and second Commandment Declarations in Exodus 20 because he rejects the commandments of God and teaches against them.

    

    

    

    

    

   35: Still with Galatians 5:22; Matthew 17: 16-20.  14.  It came to pass when he approached the crowds, a man came to him, bowing on his knees. 15.  He said: Have mercy on me, Lord, and pity my son because he is terrified of an evil spirit and is very sick.  He grinds his teeth, (foams) at his mouth, falls from his place to the ground, and falls sometimes into fire and sometimes into water.  

    

        16.  I brought him to your disciple(s), but they were unable to heal him. 17.  Jesus answered and said: Evil generation, woe to you who deny; how long will I be with you, how long will I bear your trouble?  Bring him to me. [Context of Jesus bearing our infirmity, not our sin.  God had already said that the sins of the unrighteous will not be imputed to a righteous man, nor the righteousness of a good man be imputed to the wicked.  See Ezekiel 18:20.  To declare otherwise is to testify against God and a true prophet.]18.  [[The text of Shem Tob switches to quotes from Mark 9:20 through 28, rather than staying with Matthew – curious at best if he was making an account of Matthew to debate or argue against Christianity to Jews.  The Mark account is not the focus of my study, so the 160 CE AENT account is hereby substituted in place of the copied verses from Mark.  In Matthew Jesus addresses their lack of belief; in Mark it is their lack of faith – by faith rather than belief that results in works is a primary difference between the teachings of Jesus and Paul.]]  ***”  And  Y’shua rebuked it, and the demon went out from him.  And the boy was healed from that moment.19.  Then the disciples drew near to Y’shua while he was alone and said to him: “Why were we not able to heal him?” 20.  Y’shua said to them, “Because of your unbelief.  For truly I say to you that if you had faith in you like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move away from here, and it would move.  And not a thing would be able to prevail over you.  [Jesus was clearly speaking to the twelve disciples, to whom he had already granted authority over such things.  Due to the number of proofs against those who claim such powers today to have done such miracles in Jesus name, and his comments about those he said he never knew – working miracles cannot be more important than teaching what Jesus taught – the proper interpretation and application of the Torah, Psalms and Prophets.  Also keep in mind that Jesus said an evil generation seeks a sign.]21.  But this kind of demon does not come out except by prayer and fasting.”

    

   35.  Error in reference above, but left in because it is a good point anyway.  Matthew 7: 16-20 is for the same verse in Galatians 5.  To show the context and detail this is 13 – 26.  “13.  At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Enter in the narrow gate because the gate of destruction is wide and deep and many are going through it.

    

               14.  How narrow is the gate and grievous the way that leads straight to life and  few are those who find it. 15.  Again he said to them: Beware of false prophets who come to you in wool clothing like sheep, but inside are tearing wolves. 16.  By their deeds you will know them.  Does a man gather grapes from thorns or figs from briars?

    

    

    

   17.  Every good tree makes good fruit and every bad tree makes bad fruit.  

    

   18.  The good tree cannot make bad fruit, nor can the bad tree make good fruit. 

    

   19.  Every tree which does not make good fruit is to be burned by fire.  

    

   20.  Therefore it is according to fruits, that is, by their deeds, you will know them.

    

   21.  Because not everyone who says unto me, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter the kingdom of heaven. 22.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name cast out demons and do many signs in your name. 23.  Then I will say to them: I never knew you.  Depart from me all you workers of iniquity. [those who were not living by the Law of God] [Ps 6:8-9; Mt 7:21; 12:50]  The Greek “anomia” is against or without the Law/Torah.) 24.  Again he said to them: Everyone who hears these words and does them is like a wise man who built (his) house on a rock. 25.  The rain came down against it and the winds beat it and it did not fall because its foundation was a rock. 26.  Everyone who hears these my words and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. [Scriptures noted are not inclusive, as many more might be noted throughout the Hebrew Scripture.  Being “that prophet”, we need to live by his words of life and even Revelation repeatedly makes the point to live by the Testimony he gave and that those who enter the City are those who enter by right – not by grace alone or faith alone – and certainly not those who claim him “Lord!” and don’t do as he taught and who ignore anything he said.  It’s about how we live life and our relationship to God and others.  Rather than being little kernals of grain with no life in them, we are enabled by His instruction to become all we were created to be – now and forever.]

    

    

    

   1.  Malachi 2:6.  Read it in your own Bible – it has no support for the doctrine of Paul to count the Law to have been given by angels or Elementals or to have been temporary or by faith and not observably doing the works God commanded of “My people.”

    

    

   
   

    

    

   
   

    

   
   

    

   
   

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