The Gospels...The Source of Hate? ( Archived) (44)

You referred to Paul's writing about Jews doing this and that. He did not refer to righteous Jews who did not instigate the death of Yeshua ben Yoseph, but the evil religious Jewish leadership. He certainly did not have all Jews in mind, but only a few and those who followed them.

It was not until after the Bar Kochba revolt was crushed that the Gentile congregations became antisemitic and excommunicated all the Jewish believers. From that point the Hebraic thought was lost and these Gentiles no longer could make sense of the Jewish writings, therefore, they began to interpret them by employing a mixture of Platonism, Zoroastrianism and Pagan religious ideas, and hence historical Christianity was born.

This was the "falling away" Paul prophesied. The mystery of lawlessness (ie Torah-lessness = rejection of the Torah) was already at work, it was the Jewish disciples and their scripture teaching that restrained it. Once they were removed from the Gentile congregations the doctrinal decline was rapid and soon the man of iniquity (lawless one = Torah-less one) appeared, about whom it was believed that he claimed himself to be God.

Do you realise that the virgin-born god-man saviour, who abolished the Torah of God is the fulfillment of this prophecy?

On the contrary, the historical Yeshua ben Yoseph, the patrilinear son of David worshiped his God and upheld/strengthened/established His Torah in his life, so that those who followed in his footsteps would also do the same ("walk as he himself also walked").

Contrary to the general belief Paul did not teach Gentile converts that they did not have to keep God's laws. As we read in Acts, Jacov (incorrectly called James in English bibles) asked him to offer a sacrifice to *prove* that the accusations were false.

The quest of that time was what the minimum set of laws were that new Gentile converts were required to observe. These laws, that were required of Gentiles who lived among Jews, were derived from Lev. 17-18. Gentiles were trained up in the full Torah and could convert to be part of the covenant people of God later on, but this training took years.

There was no new movement. The early disciples were considered a sect within Judaism. It became a new movement after the Jewish disciples were excommunicated after the Bar Kochba revolt was crushed and the Gentile leadership replaced Hebraic thought they did not understand with a mix of Platonism, Zoroastrianism and Pagan religious ideas they were familiar with when they interpreted the Jewish writings we publish as the bible today.