I will check out the identity crisis video soon…hopefully later this week.

Could you explain what you meant when you spoke of what He said to Mary about “do not touch Me?” He did have the disciples touch Him, so why would it matter if Mary did?

Mark 7:19 does exist, not the paranthetical “In saying this, Jesus” as found in the NIV, but the “purifying all foods” as found in NKJV. I showed you that the original Greek is there in in your “No Pork?” article at http://www.new2torah.com/2011/05/no-pork-but-acts-ch-10-says.

Thank you for taking the time to get into some of the specifics, Zac! I think I have a better understanding of some of the tenets. Thank you, also, for the patience you displayed.

Bottom line is that we are to walk as Yeshua walked. 1 John 2:6. How did he walk? He kept the Torah perfectly. He gave us the example to follow. He was a perfect example.

You disagree, fine. Keep your sunday practices, your pagan holidays, your ham sandwiches. Its no skin off my back. That is between you and the Father.

Yeshua doesn’t preach to “keep the Mosaic law”. Where he speaks of it, he describes/teaches a fuller understanding of it and shows that even thoughts will contradict the law, not just deeds. He is the fulfillment of the law. We can never meet that standard.

He did, however, say “all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”

He said (John 15:12-13, 17 NKJV):

“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” … “These things I command you, that you love one another.”

Yeshua didn’t bring out a list of rituals, cleansings, etc., in duplication of God’s commandments to Moses. He gave other commandments, however: some of which are found in our New Testament and some of which, I can only assume, were given to His disciples but not written down (some of what the first generations referred to as traditions).

It seems like you’re putting God in a box to assume what He commanded His disciples cannot supersede Mosaic law because you interpret that they are different therefore not from the same Person. If all we needed to know was what was already written in the Torah, why would He have said (John 16:12-15 NKJV):

[12] “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. [13] However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. [14] He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. [15] All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.[c]

[c] John 16:15 NU-Text and M-Text read “He takes of Mine and will declare it to you.”

Less than 20 years after His ascension His disciples (apostles) and the first generation of elders, when considering the sect of believing Pharisees who said it’s necessary to keep the law of Moses, said (Acts 15:6-11, 24-29 NKJV):

[6] Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. [7] And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. [8] So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, [9] and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. [10] Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? [11] But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ[a] we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”

[24] Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law”[f] —to whom we gave no such commandment— [25] it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, [26] men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. [27] We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. [28] For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: [29] that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.[g] If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.

Farewell.

[f] Acts 15:24 NU-Text omits saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law.”
[g] Acts 15:29 Or “fornication”

Here is one of the first clear examples of the fullness of the apostles coming in one accord, together with the Holy Spirit, to not put the burden of “the law of Moses” on believers and that was in response to circumcision. Note that they didn’t just say that circumcision is the only part of the law of Moses that you needn’t be burdened with, but that the Holy Spirit (> from Yeshua > from God) has placed “no greater burden than these necessary things.”

You can ignore that by sending me to read a treatise on why Hebrews should be interpreted a certain way, but that treatise even points out that Yeshua is the new high priest, replacing the imperfect human priesthood. Just as He is now our mediator, what commands he gives, both in words while on earth and through the Holy Spirit, are from God. I do not see anything lacking in this. The Mosaic law was given to human priests. What God gives to His Son, He gave directly to His disciples and, once ascended, he gives via His Holy Spirit. That they are not the same is obvious on its face. That isn’t an abolishment of the law, but a transformation/translation/changing of the law, i.e. the law is now written directly on our hearts and minds and we can discern/test what is written there based on His words while on earth and his working through the Holy Spirit (which is a gift to all believers).

All of God’s laws are to be written on our hearts if we are to be obedient to him.

Yeshua said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” How can Yeshua and God be one if they both have different commandments?

Malachi 3:6 “I the LORD do not change.”

I think you need to deal with your misinterpretation of scripture.
http://q.b5z.net/i/u/10105283/f/FAQ_-_Hebrews_7-8.pdf

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NKJV):

[31] “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— [32] not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,[a] says the Lord. [33] But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. [34] No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

[a.] Jeremiah 31:32 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read “and I turned away from them.”

Hebrews 8:7-13 (NKJV):

[7] For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. [8] Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— [9] not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. [10] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. [11] None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. [12] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds[b] I will remember no more.”[c]

[13] In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

[b.] Hebrews 8:12 NU-Text omits and their lawless deeds.
[c.] Hebrews 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31–34

When referring to the new covenant, both of them state 1) His laws will be written directly in their minds and hearts 2) He will be their God & they His people 3) no one shall teach his neighbor saying “know the Lord” for they *all* shall know Him 4) He will forgive their unrighteousness and remember their sins no more.

Hebrews goes on to state that the first covenant is “obsolete”, contrary to what you claim in the video when you say “the laws or the commandments of God are not done away with by [sic] Christianity would have us believe.”

What is the first covenant? Jeremiah and Hebrews both make it plain that the reference is to the Mosaic covenant: “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,” which is the very foundation of the Torah beginning in Exodus chapter 19.

How does this intertwine with your new path of following the Torah?

Far be it from me to teach you that, as it is written “[n]one of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me.”

My unsolicited reading of this is that which was given from Sinai (the Torah) has been replaced with what G-d has directly written in your heart and mind.

What did Yeshua say?

Love the Lord our G-d with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Love your neighbor as yourself. (When asked what the 2 greatest commandments were)
Love your enemies.
Trust (like a child) in G-d and the ones He sent.
Follow Him and wear His yoke.
Forgive others.
Be poor in spirit/humble.
Do not worry.

What else are we to do?

Remain in continual communion/prayer with G-d.
Let the peace of G-d preside in/rule in/guard over our heart.

WOW

You have great insights, Brother – you should put these thoughts on vid