DAILY TRUTH - Why “Judeo-Christian” Is An Oxymoron!
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Summary
Judaism and Christianity are not the same thing. In fact, they are very different from each other, and that's why they are so different. In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken discusses the difference between Judaism and Christianity, and how they differ in their understanding of the Bible.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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it's important that we remember that that the problem with judaism today as we find it and i
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think that our text is saying you were already starting to see the beginnings of this concept
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that i'm about to espouse but the problem with it today is not that it's half of the christian
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religion there's a lot of evangelical christians i think that operate underneath that presupposition
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and and we just haven't been properly or thoroughly educated about judaism we just we just don't
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understand we think the problem with judaism is it's the old testament minus the new right that
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it's half of the bible or or if we're you know saying you know literal counting you know word
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count then it's you know two-thirds of the bible give or take but the problem is it just doesn't
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include the new testament and and with that you know the biggest problem is it doesn't include
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christ that they don't see christ as the messiah that they're still waiting for some other messiah
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that they think jesus wasn't it and and that's a big problem now if that was the only problem with
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judaism it would be a significant enough problem to send anyone who prescribes to judaism to hell
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so it's a big that's that's enough of a problem any problem that's sufficient to get you to hell
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is a big problem. It's a sufficient problem. But Judaism is far worse than that.
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It's not just, you know, we have the Old and New Testament as Christians, and Jews have the Old
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Testament. No, the better way to think of it is that we both have the Old Testament, and then we
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each have two separate, completely contradicting lenses, hermeneutical tools for interpreting
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that old testament so the christian has the old testament and then we have the new testament we
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read the old in light of the new one theologian once said that the old testament is like a richly
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furnished room but it's dimly lit and only in the light of christ primarily as christ is in the old
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testament but christ clearly espoused by the apostles in the new do we have the light then
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shed in this old testament richly furnished room where we can actually appreciate what's there
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that i can appreciate this beautiful room in the light of the new testament for the jew it's not
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just they only have the old testament or missing the new they have the torah old testament and the
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talmud the talmud is their hermeneutical tool for interpreting the teachings found in the torah
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so just like we read the old testament in light of the new testament they read the teachings of
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moses what's actually in the old testament that actually is the inspired breathed out word of god
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they read that but in light of the talmud which is in light of certain interpretations and exegesis
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They have the truth, but just incomplete truth.
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No, we both share the truth of the Old Testament
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and then theirs has been thoroughly perverted
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and dismantled and ours has been fleshed out the truth that was always there about christ
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all the types all the shadows pointing towards the messiah but now clearly revealed in the writing
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of the new testament by the apostles commissioned by christ himself that's the difference and so
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what we see in judaism still to this day is not just diverse teachings all the the requirements
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That if you're on an elevator and it's the Sabbath
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a small little spark and that's lighting a fire
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if you're in Israel, the elevators stop on every floor
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right and that's the same way for the record that the pharisees and sadducees were starting to
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misinterpret the sabbath even at the time of christ 2 000 years ago right that some of his
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disciples they were plucking heads of grain as they were walking with jesus and eating the grain
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and the pharisees complain and say your disciples are doing what is not lawful on the sabbath
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now do you know why that's not lawful because i mean you could take something off of a plate
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and do the physical motion with your hand of taking food
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they had determined that you could pick up a chair
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in your home and you could walk with it a certain distance,
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he was carrying his mat too far but you could on the sabbath according to the pharisees and scribes
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and religious rulers you you could pick up a chair in your house and go a short distance and move it
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but you couldn't drag the chair why could you not drag it that that's literally less energy being
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exerted so it actually would be less work seems counterintuitive but the reason why you couldn't
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drag it is because if you dragged a chair on the ground with dirt floors it would pierce the
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surface of the ground and that would be plowing right so you can't harvest and you can't plow
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now jesus comes and says hey forget the sabbath no that's where the evangelicals are wrong
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98 of them but no he doesn't say forget the sabbath he says i'm lord of the sabbath
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i'm lord of the sabbath which means i get to decide how the sabbath works you don't tell me
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how me and my disciples should observe the Sabbath,
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it's not as though God created the Sabbath on the sixth day
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and now I've got to create image-bearing creatures
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and now i need to make you know just little little peons to you know to pay credence proper
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credence to my special day no no god created man on the sixth day and he created the sabbath
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for man on the seventh the sabbath is not a day of rest because god was weary that's blasphemy
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that's heresy he is the lord he does not grow weary nor does he grow tired god does not rest
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on the seventh day and blessed to make it holy because he just worked so hard on the first six
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days that he was out of breath that's not what takes place god rest as it were we should understand
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that analogically but god rest as it were on the seventh day to set a pattern and an example for
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his finite god who is infinite needs no rest but he sets an example for his finite creatures so
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that we might imitate his example and find the rest that he doesn't need but we do the sabbath
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is actually a gracious gift of god to man and jesus is reminding the religious rulers of his day
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who already they weren't just they weren't just weighing the people down with diverse doctrines
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meaning a bunch of doctrines but that actually were technically true within the ceremonial law
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category of the old covenant no they were they were wearing people down with strange doctrines
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aka certain interpretations of the ceremonial law that really did come from god but them
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twisting it and tweaking it to where they could uphold it but everybody else couldn't can i be
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