We start with a discussion of a religion.
[Why Is This the Right Religion?
What is your source of authority?
It has two streams:
The Law VS Our Traditions
Two sources for religious actions and belief. First is the Written Text and the second is the Traditional texts of our teachers.
What happens when there is a conflict? That is why we have the teachers.
A meeting of religious leaders took place hundreds of years ago, where they determined and wrote down the traditions. This became the Orthodox version of our faith.
What do I need to do to be saved? Actions or faith; By grace or orthodoxy?
How does it happen that Tradition takes such a main role in this process? “We need clarity with regard to the Law, which his where Our Tradition comes from. When the LAW and Our Tradition are in conflict it is the teachers ruling that take precedence.
They determine how much we will take from the Old Testament and what we will leave out? ]
That was a general discussion of a religious process.
An exampe from Wikipedia:
Orthodox Judaism is the approach to religious Judaism which adheres to the interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Tanaim and Amoraim and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.
Orthodox Judaism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism
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It follows then that: {Orthodox has come to mean, one who has the strictest adherence to the traditions of ___________ and the traditional practices.}
The ‘___________’ is for any religion. They all seem to have the same process. Within each religion, there have come to be many fragments, each may lead in a different direction as long as then stay within one of the three main groups.
Group: A B C
Jewish Christian Mm
First 5 Books First Book only
This last line deals with which of the Writings of Moses were the originally starting point.
Although almost none of the groups actually follows the Writings of Moses, or the Tanakh or Old Testament.
It seems that if a person actually wants to know the TRUTH, the LAW and THE LORD, you will have to seek for yourself. Because it is so rare to find someone that actually knows and has been seeking THE ALMIGHTY to know HIS LAWS And TEACHINGS that they may be kept. (Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; 6 and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.’)
So why go to all of the effort? I guess you mean besides Exodus 19:5,6; then to save your own soul. To know and perform the LAW, and thereby to be a positive influence in: Your Family; Your Community; the World. Maybe to be what Jeremiah is told by GOD to seek in “Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.”
One last observation: These religions and the variations appear to play down the Written Torah by the Hand of MOSES, in favor of another definition. This seems like Numbers 16, Korah and the attempted Military Coup against Moses and Aaron, which THE ALMIGHTY was ready to end in an instant, and did end a short time later. Even though Korah worked in the Holy Places, he and his band real had no idea of what was going on. On the other hand, we really do not seem to learn much from our past either. Why the Writings of Moses? Advice from a father to his son: “3 and keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;” 1 Kings Chapter 2 מְלָכִים א
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