[Author's note: The following article is a response to questions raised by a serious student of the Holy Scriptures.]

SHOULD THOSE WHO ARE IN YAHWEH INVENT NEW TEACHINGS?

• New Teachings Should Not Be Invented

DO YAH'SHUAH'S WORDS CONTRADICT WHAT HAS BEEN SAID HERE?

• Wherein Lies the Contradiction?
• All Provisions of the Law Remain Intact
• Are We Contradicting Yah'shuah's Words?
• The Sofrim and Perushim Lacked Righteousness for Salvation

Shalom Shabbat, Brother Isaac,

Shalom Shabbat, Brother

To clarify, those in Yahweh ought not and should not "invent" new halakhah. As the article shows, servants of Yahweh simply repeat or replicate what has been given them to speak by the Holy Spirit. For just as Yah'shuah simply repeated or replicated what he had heard from the Father, so also the Holy Spirit does, doing this by Yah'shuah's authority. The faithful servant of Yahweh therefore simply conveys whatever he receives from the Holy Spirit. And if he does this, whatever he conveys is truth from Yahweh, conveyed by Yah'shuah's authority. The faithful servant of Yahweh is therefore just a messenger, conveying to the world truth originating with the Father. He therefore does not "invent" truth, but only passes it on.

Well, I find that acceptable only when it agrees with what Yahweh or Yahshua has already revealed. The idea that in the "new" halakhah certain parts of the law (namely the one not containing His righteousness) are obsolete contradicts what Yahshua himself said. On this basis I have to question the "new" halakhah.

Let us now get into the specifics, for it appears that we are agreed on the generalities. Can you show me clearly where what I have said "contradicts" what Yah'shuah himself has said?

For clarification, you might remember that I have already said that ALL of the Law is still applicable, including the portions dealing with blood. Only that not all of it is applicable to all people in all geographic parts of the world. Therefore, with respect to Yisraelites in the land of Yisrael, it should be clear that there is no difference in what I have said with what the Law says of them. What is at issue here is whether my assertion that not all of the Law is applicable to all people in all geographic parts of the world contradicts what Yah'shuah said.

It is your view that those portions of the Law dealing with blood were fulfilled at Calvary and therefore no longer need to be observed. Did Yah'shuah say that after his sacrifice the portions of the Law dealing with blood would be rendered obsolete, and therefore no longer applicable? If so, how would such a comment tally with Mattityahu 5: 17-20?

As Yah'shuah did not come to destroy the law, the clear implication one draws is that the law is still applicable, even the portions of it that have been fulfilled! As heaven and earth have not passed away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke has passed away from the law. As these may only pass away from the law when all is accomplished, and as they will not pass away while heaven and earth have not passed away, one concludes that all will not be accomplished until the time for the passing away of heaven and earth. And as heaven and earth have yet to pass away, ALL the provisions of the law remain intact, including those pertaining to blood!

If by asserting that not all of the law is applicable to all people in all geographic parts of the world, despite acknowledging that it is applicable in its entirety to Yisraelites within the land of Yisrael, I am breaking some of commandments of the law and teaching men to do so, I shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven! Likewise, if you are teaching that blood provisions in the law are no longer applicable, presumably all over the world, including in Yisrael, yet heaven and earth have not passed away, you shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven!

It is also evident, from Yah'shuah's words, that the Sofrim and the Perushim were not doing all the law, for if they were doing all the law it would not be possible for one to exceed their righteousness, for the law contains Yahweh's righteousness. But that their righteousness could be exceeded suggests that they were not doing all the law. The implication being that there were portions of the law containing righteousness that the Sofrim and Perushim did not do.

Therefore, if we are to enter the kingdom of heaven, we must do these portions of the law that the Sofrim and Perushim did not do, for these portions do indeed contain righteousness. Am I doing these portions? Are you doing these portions?

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