HI,
There is one serious problem with thinking good DEEDS are in. You see Good deeds are the preforming the statutes and commandments from the law, and Christians are taught to be careful to not follow them because they mistakenly think that to follow the law is to fall from grace. All The Apostle Paul was trying to explain in that very misunderstood passage, is that good deeds is not an "in" to enter the kingdom of God, it never was. If you THINK that it is, THEN you have fallen from understanding what grace is all about and the apostles efforts to teach were all in vain.
When Yeshua was asked by a young man what a person should do to enter, he said to obey what he understands of the law, and to come follow him. This was spoken to a Jewish person.
Paul wanted the Galatians (gentiles) to understand that they didn't need to go get circumcised to be accepted in the beloved kingdom. He explained that if you go that far that you obligate yourself to be beholden to the entire law, which they didn't even know how to preform and would get into trouble. That they were better off to be considered righteous (which would be the Noahide laws)
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/seven-laws-of-noah/
In Judaism, the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach), or the Noahide Laws, are a set of moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of laws for the "children of Noah" – that is, all of humankind.
According to Judaism, any non-Jew who adheres to these laws is regarded as a righteous gentile, and is assured of a place in the
World to Come (Hebrew: עולם הבא Olam Haba), the final reward of the righteous. Adherents are often called "B'nei Noach" (Children of Noah) or "Noahides," and may sometimes network in Jewish synagogues.[citation needed]
The seven laws listed by the Tosefta and the Talmud are:
The Noahide laws comprise the six commandments which were given to Adam in the Garden of Eden, according to the Talmud's interpretation of Gen 2:16, and a seventh precept, which was added after the Flood of Noah. According to Judaism, the 613 commandments given in the written Torah, as well as their explanations and applications discussed in the oral Torah, are applicable to the Jews only, and non-Jews are bound only to observe the seven Noahide laws.
The Noahide laws teach to avoid these 6 sins, and obey the 7th
1. Sexual transgression
2. Murder
3. Theft
4. Idolatry
5. Cursing the Holy name
6. Eating the flesh from a live animal
7. To have a fair system of justice to punish offenders
The way I see it, idolatry is to worship any god besides the ONE TRUE GOD, and I have to tell you folks....his name is not Jesus. Yeshua was SENT from The One God, he was not a god, he was not a demi-god, and he is not to be worshipped as a god. To consider him so, is a very serious offence to law of Judaism and Noah's laws. The worship of another god is to nullify everything offered and every door to salvation nailed shut.
There is one more train of thought that I want to address...the lost children of the house of Israel are the children of Isaac the child of promise, and all who are of that bloodline are Jews and beholden to the law.
Israel and Judah were separated after Solomon's death, the Messiah... to be called messiah the promised one...he has to unite Israel/Ephraim with Judah again in order to fulfill the prophecy. If he doesn't do this, he can not be called Messiah, the one promised.
Now, WHO IS ISRAEL? Paul wrote that the scattering of Israel brought salvation to the gentiles...
do you know how the scattering did that, and what he means? Christians THINK this passage pertains to Jews who don't know Jesus, but it's a prophecy concerning the scattered house of Israel, in the writings of the prophets AKA Ephraim. Paul says when Israel returns, it will be life from the dead, and all will be fulfilled. because of this passage Christians THINK they have a mission to save the Jews, but the Jews have the mission to teach Israel when they return, we have kept the books, and have kept the law just as it was when they were scattered, so they can return, and be a part of the Holy people that they were originally. If the roots are holy, so are the branches that came from it...God has not forgotten the scattered of Israel.
Yeshua said he was ONLY sent to the lost of the house of ISRAEL (Matt 15:24), that does not mean as Christians have been taught, that he was speaking about the Jews, nor is there a lost house...rather he was speaking about the scattered called Israel/Ephraim. He said the healthy do not need a physician, (that would be the Jews who were following the law (Luke 5:31). Yeshua considered the people who were already following the laws, as not sick, but the ones who were sinners were being called to repent. The prophecies say the forces of the gentiles will also be drawn in (Isaiah 49:5-7), he not only would bring glory to the house of Jacob, because they have followed God all along, but he would also RESTORE the remnant of Israel...so that God's promise of salvation will be for all the world, when all the prophecy is fulfilled, all the world will know that there is only One God, and his name will be the only God known by all. (Zac 14:9)
Israel must be separated from the nations, they look and act like every non-Jew... there comes a time when it is declared for Israel to come out of her...now that's a study of the scriptures worthy to be looked at.
Ofcorse, not. Good deeds and sacrifice is meaningless without obedience to God. I gathered that.
Are you saying that a fair system of justice is a yes or a no in God's eyes? Israel is awaiting the prophet, no?
