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Originally Posted by Ohio
Since exiting the LC's, I have often been surrounded by Messianic Jews. They long to introduce O.T. customs into the church, convinced of a great deficiency in the church. Having spent my Christian life in extremely "pro-Israel, anti-Jewish" Protestant customs, I find this somewhat alarming.
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Perhaps I turned the conversation wrong by mentioning it at all; my point was larger than simply that the fact that I never heard of the "Jewishness" of the characters of the NT; especially the King of the Jews, while with either the Baptists or the LC. A bigger point is that every one of us has a part to see of this Jesus. My sight may include some aspect like what I covered; someone else has another part.
ZNP is covering the blessings in the Torah;
ViW has a blog on the psalms... only then can we see the "real Jesus" begin emerge. If we restrict it to "one vision per age", with only one witness per age and everyone else supposed to "get in line", then our Christ will be so much the poorer. That is what I felt
Trapped was alluding to: a generation of "church kids" who never found their own voice or vision, who were force-fed Witness Lee's So-Subjective Christ. Yes, but it was his Christ, not theirs.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Should we celebrate the Sabbath, should we live according to the Torah, and is the Feast of Tabernacles for the church? It seems that both Messianic and the Pentecostal Christians have opened the door wide to OT practices.
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I daresay that I never meant to suggest anything like this in my writings. The Acts 15 conference settled this kind of issue forever. The Jews cannot force the gentiles to keep the law. It is written.