And you are infected with a false Jewish theology that Jesus came to correct.
John 1:9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
"Infected with a false Jewish theology"?
True, Biblical Christianity is tied to the Law and the Prophets:
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them,
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
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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 24:24–28.
The true gospel
of God concerning His Son is written of in the Law and the Prophets. It was the Law and the Prophets the Jews possessed that enabled them to recognize the "Prophet like unto Moses" and the Promised One in the Prophets' writings that spoke of Who He was and what He was to do when He came the first time, and it will be the Law and the Prophets that Jews will 'search' to identify their Messiah and King when He returns a second time. Without the Law and the Prophets, the Jews would be at a loss and know nothing of their Messiah and Redeemer, the Christ, who was prophesied to Israel and came to Israel as John said:
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be
made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
John 1:31.
"Manifest" is a synonym to "appear[ing]" and God gave clues in the Law and the Prophets to help the Jews recognize their Messiah when He did come. The true witness of Jesus the Christ comes directly out of the Law and the Prophets, as Saul said:
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:22–24.
Many so-called Christians believe and teach the Law is "abolished" and "obsolete", but according to rabbi Saul, Pharisee Saul, the Law is used by God to bring His people to their Messiah. Take away the Law and NO ONE can be saved. This is what Saul said about himself and his relationship with God through the Law and the Prophets:
10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation,
I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Acts 24:10–16.
Saul was a man, a Christian, who was able to recognize Jesus on the road and call Him "Lord." Not as a word of respect but a word of intimacy, and notice Saul declares that he believes all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets, for it was the Law and the Prophets that he used to identify not only Christ but many things the Holy Spirit was doing in Israel since His arrival in Acts 2. The elders (men who were of the Sanhedrin) respected Saul and the Christianity he lived and had a witness of himself that was exemplary among the Jews from the high priest on down to the man in the street:
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 21:24.
Keeping the Law in Christianity was a natural thing he did, as did all Jews who were born-again. Saul's knowledge, education, and training as a rabbi allowed him to be used of God to help Israel understand the New Covenant era they found themselves in for the things the Spirit did is witnessed in the Law and the Prophets, from Joel's prophecy that stated God's promise of giving His Spirit to Israel to Ezekiels prophecy explaining the "new heart" experience.
No one can divide the Law and the Prophets from true, Biblical Christianity. God anchored it (Christianity) to the Law and the Prophets so Israel would be able to understand the Acts of the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant era.
