The rejection of Torah

Dvrh,

You are absolutely right. Praise God for your wisdom.

Israel was God's vessel to the nations. Surely God intended to be inclusive rather than exclusive just for the Jews alone.

I personally believe that because Christendom rejected a lot of God's commands and laid down in Torah, God allowed the rise of Islam as a counterweight to Christianity because in terms of style, Islam is a lot closer to Judaism than Christianity.

I'll give you one example. There are many young women in places like America and Singapore who call themselves Christians but dress like sluts and have no hesitation in offering their bodies as sex symbols. But this runs contrary to the modesty called for in the Bible which Islam tries to emulate but goes overboard on. The Bible does not call women to hide their beauty but only to be modest about it.

Also Christianity repudiates the dietary principles that were laid down in Torah for all believers of YHVH to follow, not just the physical descendants of Avraham. Again Christianity failed but Islam has taken up those principles.

So Christianity is not perfect and neither is Islam pure evil so we cannot judge who is going to heaven or hell at the end of the day as all monotheists who believe in the one God may have a righteous place at the end of the day. I have deep respect for Islam, seeing in as imperfect but in some ways tying to embody the principles and values of Torah.

What I can say is if Christians truly believe in the Old Testament, then they should take up on their cross, the laws that have been laid down by YHVH. After all if they claim to follow Jesus, Jesus after all was a reforming Jewish rabbi that came to reform Judaism and not start a new religion. As you know, his original followers didn't even have a name for their "new religion", they just called it the Way. Simply because there wasn't a new religion, the only departure from the "old" was the repudiation of man made rules that were laid down by the Pharisees. Jesus himself was schooled in the thought of the Pharisees and was intimately familiar with what they taught.

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Clrnce