How does one admit that they did not create this story?
It is dangerous to declare that, that what you are saying is not something new. That what is being declared is not news but simply showing what IS.
Now I have become a reporter, an investigator, an intelligence source, but not a doer of evil things. Instead of being one which has been complained about, I strive to be one that does what so few are willing to do. I follow the Living GOD Of Israel, and no other. My defense, my blessings and all that I am comes from HIM. Why should any intelligent human, turn away from HIM?
An example of Knowing the truth but running in the opposite direction would be: “Rabbi Kelemen – How Do You Know the Torah is True A Study in Comparative Religion”. In this you will find a great amount of logical reasoning. Comparing various religious foundation and demonstrating how to know if a religion has any truth. He gets to the point of showing how the Written Torah must be true, and then adds to that all of the rabbinic teachings to declare they are true. It is in the second half of the last sentence that Rabbi Kelemen loses his argument with me.(If I were there to present the argument or rebut his lie.) The best lie has a portion of truth which can be accepted by the audience. This gives the liar, the ability to add to that truth, lies which will then be accepted as truth with out question.
Where does he go wrong? The Written Torah, also known as the Writings of Moses; the First Five Books of the Bible; The Torah Scroll between the Two Sticks in most Jewish gathering places; Rabbi Kelemen proved logically to be True. Had he left his discussion there, I would have sought him out for more discussion, he did not leave it there. Instead he did what the most common practice of religions against which he is arguing. That being, he started with the truth and then added lies.
Where is my proof of this falling down? Of being like most common religions? In Kelemen’s process, he uses one person getting the discussion with god then coming to give it to the followers. What he leaves out is that connection between the TORAH and Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in that each start by showing their connection to Torah, Tanakh(all of the Old Testament), thereby demonstrating their connection to the Creator.
Example: “The Ten Commandments, a movie produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille” is not a Jewish movie, it is a Christian movie.
Judaism, also starts with the Written TORAH , but then adds all of the writings of the sagas or rabbis, giving preference to the add-ons and not following the Written TORAH. They would not have power if they kept the Written TORAH (Word of GOD), as commanded by the Living GOD Of Israel. Like everybody else, when you replace the Written TORAH with something else, it is a Replacement Theology.
Christianity, started, as only Jews(all members we Jewish) and then over-riding the Written TORAH with a replacement theology, to the point of Paul declaring that, they don’t need the Laws of Moses(Written Torah). Note- Paul was Saul of Tarsus, a disciple of Rabbi Gamliel head of the Sanhedrin(Chief Rabbi in Jerusalem 2000 years ago, who also believed in his own power and not that of GOD. This is demonstrated in the Talmud, with the interactions of Rabbi Gamliel and Rabbi Joshua, an on going dispute ending with the removal of R. Gamliel as leader of the Sanhedrin, being replace with a rich young mad to deal with Rome. . . . )
The last starts by using the Book of Genesis, story of Abram and Ishmael, and then for a while, attempt to use the Written TORAH to convert Jews to his side. This did not work, so he ends by declaring hatred of the Jews, such that rocks and trees will call unto his followers, that a Jew is hiding behind me –come kill them. Also a replacement theology.
I admit it, I do not like anything attempting to replace what The ALMIGHTY has spent so much of my life to teach me was the truth. Yes, life’s blessings, trials, learning experiences abound, all to strengthen a person’s soul, mental, and psychical abilities.
The truth is the truth, and will never be a lie. But, the same is true for a lie, it will never be the Truth, no matter how many believe it, it is still a lie.
If you are intelligent enough to know that you have a soul, and where it came from, then you are intelligent enough to know that you must find out what GOD demands and just do it. Save your soul, for it is more important than anything you could possibly conceive.
It seems painfully obvious to me that knowing there is a truth; knowing that there is a LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL; knowing that there is only ONE GOD; knowing that HE has gave us a proof text of what HE wants, that to then ignore what you actually know and go anther direction is going to be painful. This last as for the Children of Israel, has been an absolute truth, for while we are not allowed to disappear, we have also not gotten numerous, so that we are still a small people. Here is an observable TRUTH. The GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob has shown HIMSELF by doing the impossible.
Examples:
1) Exodus 8:18 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end that thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
2) Exodus 9:4 And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.’
3) Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
So in response to those that say we need what the Sages and Rabbis have written even if they are in opposition the Written Torah:
First Witness: Leviticus 26:
14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant; . . . .All of the Curses as punishment until we return.
Second Witness: Deuteronomy 28:
13 And the LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;
14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
In summation: If we have the ability to declare that the WRITTEN TORAH is TRUE, because 3 million people heard this at a mountain on the plain of Sinai, and we have so much proof that OUR GOD IS GOD, why do you think you are less accountable than others which do possess so much proof? How could anyone knowing this, still turn away from The ALMIGHTY and not believe that ALL OF HIS WORD WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
Should we not just do what the LORD our GOD commanded, instead of fighting against HIM?
My prayer is that The LORD grant you eyes that see, ears that hear and an understanding heart, then you may return unto HIM soon!
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