jeremiah1five
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Mosaic Christianity? What is that? I never heard the word "Mosaic" and "Christianity" together, you may say. But that is exactly what it sounds like and exactly what Saul taught. He not only taught Christianity from the Law of Moses but also from the Psalms and the Prophets. Saul utilized the totality of the Hebrew Scripture of the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets to teach a salvation of the Jews, the same salvation Jesus taught. Think about it. It's not hard if you are honest with Scripture.
First, Moses prophesied about a Prophet like him to be raised up from among the Hebrew people:
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Deuteronomy 18:15 (also verse eighteen.)
And when this Prophet did appear He taught the Hebrew people from out of the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:25–27.
Enter Saul, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and as touching the Law, a Pharisee. Saul describes himself in his letter to the Jewish Christians living in Philippi:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. Philippians 3:5–6.
Not only was Saul zealous of the Law but his walk with God was blameless, no one could accuse him of teaching as a Pharisee anything not contained in the Law. Others also saw this zeal he possessed as a rabbi and Pharisee - even AFTER he became born-again on the road to Damascus:
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. Acts 21:23–24.
Here, James, the Lord's (half-) brother, states that Saul was obedient to the Law of Moses. But there were Jews who believed Saul taught things not found in the Law of Moses:
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Acts 23:1.
and
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Acts 24:14.
We all speak (and teach) things we believe to be true. Saul not only believed zealously the Law of Moses but also taught the Law of Moses to born-again Christians. For Christ and Christianity both come from the Law of Moses. That's what Jesus said in Luke 24:25-27, right? (see above.) But Saul's teaching was seen by some Jews as something else, something they themselves did not grasp not having the Holy Spirit. How could they? They only understood the letter of the Law and not the spirit of the Law which both Jesus and Saul taught - both having the Holy Spirit.
Jesus and Saul both taught the Hebrew people from out of the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets. Both declared this to be true.
Both taught Mosaic Christianity. Both taught Psalmic Christianity. Both taught Prophetic Christianity.
The Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets: Biblical Christianity.
If Christianity is not Biblical, then it is NOT Christianity.
First, Moses prophesied about a Prophet like him to be raised up from among the Hebrew people:
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Deuteronomy 18:15 (also verse eighteen.)
And when this Prophet did appear He taught the Hebrew people from out of the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:25–27.
Enter Saul, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and as touching the Law, a Pharisee. Saul describes himself in his letter to the Jewish Christians living in Philippi:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. Philippians 3:5–6.
Not only was Saul zealous of the Law but his walk with God was blameless, no one could accuse him of teaching as a Pharisee anything not contained in the Law. Others also saw this zeal he possessed as a rabbi and Pharisee - even AFTER he became born-again on the road to Damascus:
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. Acts 21:23–24.
Here, James, the Lord's (half-) brother, states that Saul was obedient to the Law of Moses. But there were Jews who believed Saul taught things not found in the Law of Moses:
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Acts 23:1.
and
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Acts 24:14.
We all speak (and teach) things we believe to be true. Saul not only believed zealously the Law of Moses but also taught the Law of Moses to born-again Christians. For Christ and Christianity both come from the Law of Moses. That's what Jesus said in Luke 24:25-27, right? (see above.) But Saul's teaching was seen by some Jews as something else, something they themselves did not grasp not having the Holy Spirit. How could they? They only understood the letter of the Law and not the spirit of the Law which both Jesus and Saul taught - both having the Holy Spirit.
Jesus and Saul both taught the Hebrew people from out of the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets. Both declared this to be true.
Both taught Mosaic Christianity. Both taught Psalmic Christianity. Both taught Prophetic Christianity.
The Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets: Biblical Christianity.
If Christianity is not Biblical, then it is NOT Christianity.
" Romans 10:7 "Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
