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Show 28: Why Christians Do Not Follow Torah Law, part 4 -Saint Justin Martyr · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's First of all, if you hear any
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banging and booming, it's a beautiful late June afternoon, and we have one
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of my favorite things in the world, which is a thunderstorm. I love
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summer thunderstorms. It's just, you know, it's hot and the rain comes
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in and it cools everything off. I love to sit on my porch and
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just watch it rain and just enjoy that cool breeze. It's absolutely one of
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my favorite things. To quote the movie one of my favorite movies, by
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the way, old brother Art, Now, I'll sweet summer rain like God's
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own mercy. It is a glorious thing on one of those hot, baking
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summer days in North Carolina when you hear the rain moving across the mountain and
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the breeze comes up and the leaves start to shake a little bit, and
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then suddenly it just boom. The bottom falls down and these torrents and gushes
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of rain and lightnings popping, and it's truly, I don't think there's anything
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quite like it. I've been at the beach in thunderstorms. I've been,
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I've lived in five different states. Oh my gosh. When I was in
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Athens, Georgia, those thunderstorms would come up, pop up in the blink
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of a knife. They can pop up thunderstorms, and I mean it would
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rain so hard, the streets would flood, and I mean literally you'd be
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hydro planning and you just have to pull over for a while. There's just
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something about being, you know, in the mountains, in the woods.
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It's just a totally different thing, and it's just magical. I guess I've
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said enough about that. But let's get into today's show. We're gonna start
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at least hopefully finish with Saint Justin Martyr on why Christians no longer followed Jewish
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Torah law. Saint Justin Martyr is a very interesting figure. He's considered to
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be like the father of all the apologists, those who explained the Catholic faith.
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He was a Greek philosopher. He studied all the schools of philosophy and
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then found the truth he was seeking in Christianity. He essentially memorized the entire
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Old Testament and was very conversant with the Gospels as they were presented at the
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time. The New Testament. Of course, it wasn't finished yet. The
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Bible had not been completed when he began to debate the Greek philosophers, and
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he began to debate various other Pagans, and especially a very religious Jew named
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Tripho. Tripho was a man of great character. In no way, shape
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or form, Tripho show anything but respect and interest, a genuine interest in
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God, and a great example of the truly religious Jewish mind of the time.
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Now, his companions were derisive, and often Saint Justin had chastised him
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once or twice. Sat Justin even got a little impatient with Trypho. But
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in the end, it seems that Trypho and his companions, like about half
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of all Jews during this era, did convert to Christianity, not by force,
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not by anything other than the explanation that the Apostles and their immediate successors,
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their disciples, their followers every day, every I mean every week and
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basically daily, they were going to the public square or they were going into
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the synagogues, and they were explaining through the prophets, through the Old Testament
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that Jesus was the Messiah, and they converted probably the majority of Jews within
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the first two hundred years of the Church. Most people don't know that.
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In fact, most people are taught the very opposite. But the truth is
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that the early Church was very Jewish, and it was through their knowledge of
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the Old Testament that they could see the Messiah that they could not see when
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he was living. So let's start with Saint Justin Martyr's dialogue with Triphos.
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It just bits some pieces. It's a very long document. I've just pulled
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some relevant paragraphs. Saint Justin says to Tripho, there will be no other
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God, o Tripho northwest there from eternity, any other existing. I thus
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addressed him, but he who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do
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we think that there is one God for us and another for you, but
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that he alone is God, who led your fathers out of Egypt with a
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strong hand and a high arm. Nor if we trusted any other, for
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there is no other but in Him in whom you have also trusted, the
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God of Abraham and Isaac and of Jacob. But we do not trust through
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Moses or through the Law, for then we would do the same as yourselves.
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But now, for I have read that there should be a final law
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and a covenant. The chiefest of all which is now incumbent on men to
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observe, as many are seeking after the inherence of God. For the law
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promulgated on Horeb is now old and belongs to yourself alone, yourselves alone.
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But this is universally for all. Now law placed against law has abrogated that
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which is before it. And a covenant which comes after is in like manner
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put an end to the previous one, and an eternal and final law,
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namely Christ, has been given to us. And the covenant is trustworthy,
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after which he says, there should be no law, no commandment, no
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ordinance. Have you not read this which Isaiah says, hearken unto me,
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hearken unto me me my people, and ye Kings, give ear unto me.
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For a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall be
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for a light to the nations. My righteousness approaches swiftly, and my salvation
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shall go forth, and nations shall trust in my own arm. And by
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Jeremiah, concerning the same new covenant, he speaks, behold the days come,
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saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the House
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of Israel. And when the house come, saith, and with the House
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of Judah, not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in
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the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of Egypt.
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If therefore Glad proclaimed a new covenant which was to be instituted. And
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this for a light of the nations, we see and are persuaded that men
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approach God leaving their idols and other unrighteousness, through the name of him who
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was crucified, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, and abide by their confession even
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unto death, and maintained piety. Moreover, by the works and the attendant
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miracles. It is possible for all to understand that He is the new Law,
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the new Covenant, and the expectation of those who, out of every
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people wait for the good things of God. For the true spiritual Israel and
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the sentence of Judah, Jacob, Isaac and Abraham, who in uncircumcision was
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approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith and called the father
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of many nations. Are we who have been led through God this crucified Christ,
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as shall be demonstrated while we proceed. You see, Trypho and his
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Jewish companions could not accept that Christians were well worshiping and appropriately worshiping. We
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shall say the same God as they did. Because Christians refused circumcision, Christians
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did not follow Jewish dietary laws, and they did not observe the Jewish Sabbath.
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That it's very very clear, my Torah observant friends, please read the
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early Church follows, beginning with the Ddak. The Christians, the first generation,
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the Apostles, and those immediately after them stated clearly, no longer do
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we go to church on the Jewish Sabbath. We go church on the Christian
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Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead. Here Saint Justin Martyr,
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who was martyred for his faith. He was killed because he was a Christian,
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is explaining that there's a new law. The old law is gone dead
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done, there's a new law in christ. Just as the Jewish Sabbath was
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the last day of the old week, the Christian Sabbath is the first of
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a new week, a new man, a new church, no longer bound
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by what had gone before. For since you have read O TRYPHO, as
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you yourself admitted the doctrines taught by our Savior, I do not think that
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I have done foolishly in adding some short utterances of his to the prophetic statements.
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Washed therefore, and now be cleaned and put away iniquity from your souls,
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as God bids you to be washed with this laver and circumcised with the
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true circumcision. For we too observe the fleshy circumcision, and the sabbaths,
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and in short all feasts. For we two would observe the fleshy circumcision and
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the Sabbath, and in short all feasts, if we did not know for
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what reason they were enjoined to you, namely on account of your transgression and
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the hardness of your hearts. For if we patiently endure all things contrived against
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us by wicked men and demons, so that even amid cruelties, unutterable death,
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and torments, we pray for mercy for those who inflict such things upon
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us, and do not wish to give the least retort to anyone. Even
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as the new lawgiver commanded us, how is it, Tripho, that we
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would not observe those rights which do not harm us? As speak of fleshly
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circumcision and sabbaths and feasts. He's sang very clearly, Christians will suffer all
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kinds of torments for their faith, but have no need of the toral law.
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If they had a need for it, if they were willing to die
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for their faith, they would certainly have adopted. But they didn't because that
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had passed. They had a new law giver, namely Jesus Christ, who
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gave his authority of the church to tell what he taught. It is this
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about which we are a loss, and with reason, because why you endure
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such things, you do not observe all the other customs we are now discussing.
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That was Tripho's answer. He says, this concision is not, however,
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necessary for all men, but for you alone. In order that I've
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already said, you must suffer these things which you now justly suffer. Nor
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do we receive that useless baptism of systerms, for it has nothing to do
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with this baptism of life. Wherefore God also has announced you of forsaken him.
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There was a Jewish tradition of baptism before Christianity. He's saying here that
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the Christian baptism cleanses one of sins. The Jewish baptism and the handwashing were
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merely outward forms of cleansing. Now, it's very important. The early Church
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made clear. One of the main reasons that the law of Moses, the
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Torial law, was so strict and stringent and had to be followed by the
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Jews was because when they were at Mount Sinai and God gave Moses the law,
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they turned and began worshiping idols. They had a simple ten commandments.
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Because they were hard hearted, stiff necked, it wasn't good enough for them.
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They had to be forced into complying with what God wished by a much
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stringent, more stringent, more complex law. The Christians are being different entirely
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from Judaism, were not under that law because they had not persecuted and killed
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the prophets, they had not worshiped idols, they had not you know,
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rejected while Moses was literally right up in front of them on the top of
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the mountain and they could see the cloud of God over you know. I
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mean, this is the thing, you know, when Jesus says the one
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unforgivable sin as sin against the Holy Spirit. That was when the you know,
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religious use at that time could not understand he was the Messiah and accused
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him of being demon posses. Think about this, their very ancestors. A
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few thousand years earlier. We're sitting at the base of the mountain looking up
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as a cloud of God descended on the mountain, and there's fire and smoke
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and lightning, and they can hear the voice booming, and they know God
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is giving Moses to Tea commandments. And they turned and said, no,
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we want to go back to Egypt. God just took us out of Egypt.
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Forget it. We want to go back. We missed our comfortable lifestyle
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and our good meals. Even though we were slaves. There were fleshpots and
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out here we're in the desert and we're suffering. And they started worshiping idols
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because of that. The law was a punishment. It's well, you can
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go back to the show last week, you know, Saint Paul specifically says
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that the law was a punishment, and salvation does not come through the law.
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Death comes through the law. Jesus crucified and killed and buried the law
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and rose again on as a new man with a new church and a new
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law. And we are, by no means, by no regard, bound
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by the law that was actually a punishment for the Hebrew people because of their
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turning against God. At Mount Sinai, because of their turning against Moses had
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complaining against about him, you know, lack of water, and he had
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to strike the rock, complaining against some manna in the desert. I mean,
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God was giving them bread from heaven, and they said, no,
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we want to go back to Egypt. We don't want anything to do with
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this. We want the meat and the festivals and the fun we had in
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Egypt, you know, refusing to go into the Promised Land. When God
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finally brought them to the Promised Land and they sent out people, look,
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they said, no, no, no, they're giants there. We can't
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defeat these people. They doubted God time and time again, and God had
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to chastise them to purify them. You know, much as we hope to
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be purified in purgatory, much as when we look at our sufferings in our
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lives, we accept it as penance. The law was essentially a penance,
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and it is in no way binding on the Christian who is a new man,
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whether Jew or gentile. Because when you go through a Christian baptism,
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you are reborn, You're born again, Jesus said it. Unless you are
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born again by water and of the spirit, you won't enter the Kingdom of
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Heaven. That's very In one way, I could say, it's so clear
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in the Bible, how can anyone understand it? But then again I look
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in there so many that misunderstand it. So I guess, I guess that's
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one reason I'm here is I'm trying to explain what, honestly to me is
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fairy obvious, very obvious. But if it wasn't, Hey, Saint Justin
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Martyr, when in his dialogue with Tripho, you cannot mistake it. He
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was really very clear he said this circumcision. Well, I just said that
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circumcisions only for the Jews. Wherefore, also God has announced that you have
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forsaken him the living fountain and digged yourself broken cisterns which can hold no water.
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Even you who are the circumcised, who are circumcised according to the flesh,
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have need of our circumcision. But we have in the latter do not
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require the former. In other words, you can find salvation through Jesus Christ
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through the circumcision of the heart, not of the flesh. But we don't
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need your law. We don't need your mosaic regulations, for if it were
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necessary, as you suppose, God would not have made Adam uncircumcised, would
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not have had the respect to the gifts of able when being uncircumcised he offered
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sacrifice, and would not have been pleased with the uncircumcision of Enoch, who
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was not found because God had translated him a lot. Being uncircumcised, was
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saved from Sodom, the angels themselves, and the Lord sending him out.
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Noah was the beginning of our race. Yet uncircumcised, along with his children,
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he went into the ark. Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High,
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was uncircumcised, to whom also Abraham, the first who received circumcision after
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the flesh gave ties, and he blessed him, after whose order of God
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declared by the mouth of Davia that he would establish an everlasting priest. Therefore,
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to you alone. This circumcision was necessary in order that the people may
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be no people, and the nation no nation, as also Josiah, when
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the twelve Prophets declares. Moreover, all the righteous men already mentioned, though
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they kept no sabbaths, were pleasing to God and after them Abraha him with
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all his decisions descendants until Moses, under whom your nation appeared unrighteous and ungrateful
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to God, making a calf in the wilderness. Wherefore God accommodate himself to
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that nation enjoined them also to offer sacrifices, as if to his name,
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in order that you may not serve idols, which precept, however, you
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have not observed. Nay, you sacrificed your children to demons, and you
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were commanded to keep sabbaths that you might retain the memorial of God. For
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his word makes this announcement saying that you may know that I am the God
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who redeemed you. That's just what I just said. Basically, Before Abraham,
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there were many people who love God, and God loved them, and
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they were righteous, and they were justified by their faith. To Abraham,
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he gave the circumcision. Remember, the law is very inclusive and comprehensive and
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very complex, and circumcision is an outward sign of the law. When one
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is physically circumcised, one has pledged to keep the law and to violate one
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iota one precept of the law is to violate the entire law. So when
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they talk with circumcision, they could easily be talking about, you know,
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keeping kosher, not even pork, or going to church, going to the
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temple on Saturday, etc. The law in its entirety, it was only
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imposed after the people rebelled against God at MALICINAI. And it's only for the
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Jewish people. That's what the earliest Christians believe, those who learn directly from
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Jesus and his apostles. Why would you think different just because the Old Testaments
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at the beginning of the Bible, flip it around, put the New Testament
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at the beginning of the Bible, start with Saint Paul saying, we no
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longer follow circumcision, we no longer celebrate the Jewish Sabbath, we no longer
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worry about what meats we eat, or the washing of hands or etc.
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Etc. And you'd have a very different, a very different picture, wouldn't
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you. So many people when they pick up the Bible, they start with
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Genesis and they don't get very far. By the time they get Leviticus,
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they're overwhelmed. Well, you know, the early Church wasn't They knew what
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was right and wrong, and they told you, And all you have to
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do is read what they said. It's really easy these days. You can
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literally just go on the internet and pull up all the writings of the early
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church fathers if you can't go to a library. You know, my ancestors
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didn't have that wonderful privilege. It is a privilege, and there's no longer
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any excuse to be ignorant. He says. Moreover, you are commanded to
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abstain from certain kinds of foods in order that you may keep God before your
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eyes while you ate and drank, seeing that you were prone and very ready
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to depart from His knowledge, as Moses also of farms. The people ate
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and drank, and rose up to play. And again Jacob ate and was
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satisfied, and waxed fat. And he who was beloved kicked. He waxed
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fat, he grew thick, he was enlarge, and he forsook the God
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who made him. For it was told to you by Moses in the Book
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of Genesis, that God granted a Noah, being just a man, to
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eat of every animal, but not a flesh with blood, which is dead.
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And he was ready to say, as the green herbs, I anticipated,
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why do you not receive this statement? As the green herbs, and
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the sense which it was given by God to wit that just as God granted
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the herbs for sustenance to man, even so he has given the animals for
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the diet of flesh. But you say a distinction was laid thereafter by Noah,
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because we do not eat certain herbs, and you interpret it. This
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thing is incredible. As you interpreted, this thing is incredible. And first,
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I shall not occupy myself with this, though I show though able to
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say and hold that every vegetable's food and fit to be eaten. But although
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we discriminate between green herbs not eating all, we were framed from eating some,
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but not because they are common or unclean, because they're bitter or deadly
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or thorny. But we lay hands on and take of all herbs, which
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are sweet, very nourishing, and good, whether they are marine or land
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plants. Thus, also God, by the mouth of Moses, commands you
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to abstain from unclean and improper and violent animals. When moreover, though you
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were eating man in the desert, and we're seeing all those wondrous acts wrought
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for you by God, you made and worship the golden calf. Hence,
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he cries continuously and justly. They are foolish children in whom there is no
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faith. So you know this is getting into the Jewish laws. Reference what
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I said last week from Saint barnabas of why the Jews were prohibited from eating
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certain foods. But he's making the point here. You know. It says
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the green herbs were given for food. Well, we don't eat all the
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green herbs, because, yes, some of them are poisonous. If you
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eat some monkshood aconite, for instance, you would die. If you eat
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poison hemlock, as the name intails, you will die. It's very close
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cousin. The carrot is very nutritious and almost identical, very good for you.
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So we have to discriminate amongst the green herbs. Wherefore meat and fish,
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with very few exceptions, are all good and nourishing. Barracuda, for
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instance, can be somewhat toxic. The liver, especially of blowfish, can
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be very toxic. For I. Well, okay, if you ate a
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polar bear liver, it's so high vitamin A it would kill you. If
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you ate only wild rabbits, they have so little fat, you would die
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of malnutrition because you're not getting a fat in your diet. Vegetarians and vegans
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beware, you'll often don't get fats in your diet. Your brain's atrophy and
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you have mistaken ideas and out of control emotions because you're not getting the nutrition
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you need in your diet which God gave you. As several of the early
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Church fathers and even I think Saint Paul implied, to turn up your nose
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to say I won't eat meat is actually an offense to God, who gave
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it to you as food. Now you can do it as a penance,
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that's difference. But if you if you do it as saying I am superior,
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I'm right, I am more moral because I'm vegeous hearing and a vegan,
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you're actually offending God, the creator, who gave you all this good
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meat to eat. So the Jewish dietary laws were put in place by God
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through Moses because the Jews were so prone to gluttony, so prone to be
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satisfied and well fed. Like I said, they wanted to go back to
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Egypt where they had all this meat. They didn't want to follow God.
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They would rather have been comfortable and well fed than to follow God. Again,
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it's not just something a problem among the Jews is a problem among all
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people today, But that was a specific punishment put in place because of how
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they had acted in the desert. Moreover, god enjoined that you keep the
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Sabbath, and imposed on you other precepts for a sign. As I've already
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said, on account of your own righteousness and that of your father's. He
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declares that for the sake of the nations, lest his name be profaned among
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them. Therefore he permitted some of you to remain alive. You remember,
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he wanted to kill them all in the desert, and then he, you
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know, through Moses intercession, said, you know, don't kill them all,
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or you know, the Egyptians are going to celebrate that the Jews died
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in the jew the Hebrews died in the desert. Well, yeah, he
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permitted some of you are man alive. These words of his can prove to
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you. They are narrated by Ezekiel. Thus, I am the Lord your
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God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and take no
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part in the customs of Egypt, and hallow my sabbaths, which is imploral
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by the way, interesting, huh, not Sabbath singular. And they shall
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be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am
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the Lord your God. Notwithstanding ye rebelled against me, and your children walk
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not in my statutes, and neither kept my judgments to do them, which
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if a man do, he shall live in them. But they polluted my
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sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in
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the wilderness, to accomplish my anger upon them. Yet I did it not
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that my name might not be altogether profane in the sight of the heathen.
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I led them out before their eyes, and I lifted up my hand to
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them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heath and disperse
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them through the countries, because they had not executed my judgments. Of it,
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had despised my statutes and polluted my sabbaths. And their eyes were after
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the devices of their fathers. Wherefore I gave them also statutes were not good
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and judgments, whereby they shall not live. And I shall pollute them in
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their own gifts, that I may destroy all that opened the womb when I
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passed through them. That's interesting, isn't it. God actually says I gave
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them statutes which were not good. In other words, he was punishing them
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for their rebellion, and their hard hardedness, and their stiff neckness, as
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he says a thousand times, and their wickedness. But if we do not
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admit of this, we shall be liable to fall into foolish opinions, as
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if it were not the same God who existed in the times of Enoch and
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all the rest, who were neither circumcised after the flesh, nor observe sabbaths
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nor any other rights, seeing that Moses enjoined such services, or that God
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who has not wished each race of mankind continuously to perform the same righteous actions
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to admit which seems to be ridiculous and absurd. Therefore we must confess that
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he who is ever the same, has commanded these and such like institutions on
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account of sinful men, and we must declare him to be benevolent for knowing
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needing nothing righteous and good. But if this be not so, tell me,
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sir, what you think of those matters which we are investigating. And
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when no one responded, I said, wherefore, trifo, I will proclaim
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to you and to those who wish to become I have trouble with this word
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proselyte p R O S E L y t E s. Followers students can't.
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I can't really pronounce that word very well. The divine message which I
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heard from that man. You see that the elements are not id and keep
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no sabbaths, remain as you were born. For if there was no need
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of circumcision before Abraham, or the observance of Sabbath or feasts or sacrifices before
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Moses, no more need of them is there now after that, according to
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the will of God, Jesus, Christ's son has been born without sin,
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a version sprung by the stock of Abraham, when Abraham himself was an uncircumcision,
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when he was justified and blessed by reason of the faith he reposed in
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God, as a scripture tells us. Moreover, the scripture tells us,
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and the facts themselves compel us to admit that he received circumcision as a sign
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and not for righteousness, so that it was justly recorded concerning the people,
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that the soul which shall not be circumcised when the eighth day should be cut
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off from his family, and therefore the inability of the female sex received fraustry
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circumcision proves that this circumcision has been given for a sign and not for a
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work of righteousness. For God has likewise given to women the ability to observe
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all things which are righteous and virtuous. Well, this is you know,
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uh, to at this point in time to say that women and men,
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you know, were equally wholy and equally well able to hold the law was
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a bit revolutionary. Uh. You know, this is a very important point
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of early Christianity that they said, you know, male and female can be
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equally holy and good. And just because a woman can't be circumcised in truth,
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I mean, aside from the horrible crimes that the Muslims commit against women,
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doesn't mean that they're any less righteous than the man who's circumcised, because
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both are equal in the sight of God. Oh that's something, huh.
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Anyway, But we see that the bodily form of the male has been made
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different from the bodily form of the female. Yet we know that neither of
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them is righteous or un righteous merely for this cause. But it is considered
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righteous by reason of piety and righteousness. Now, Sirs, I said,
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it is possible for us to show how the Eighth Day possessed a certain mysterious
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import which the seventh day did not possess, and which was promulgated by God
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through these rights. But lest I appear now to diverge on other subjects.
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Understanding what I say, the blood of that circumcision is obsolete, and we
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trust in the blood of Salvation. And there is now another covenant and another
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law which has gone forth from Zion. Christ Jesus circumcises all who will,
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as declared above, with knives of stone, that they may be a righteous
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nation of people, keeping the faith, holding to the truth, and maintaining
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peace. Come them with me, All who fear God, who wish to
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see the good of Jerusalem. Come, all nations. Let us gather ourselves
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together at Jerusalem, no longer plagued by war, for the sins of her
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people. For I was manifest to them has sought me. Not I was
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found of them that asked not for me. He exclaims. By Isaiah,
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I said, behold me unto nations which were not called by my name.
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I spread out my hands, and all the day unto a disobedient and gainsaying
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people which walked in a way that was not good. But after their own
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sins it is a people that provoketh me to my face. He's quoting the
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scriptures saying and again, I mean this is knowing no anti Semitic way.
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That the ancient Hebrew people, the ancient Jews, so rejected everything God gave
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them that he eventually walked away from him and started a new religion. Doesn't
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mean that all the words of the prophets were not true, But a lot
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of what was said was simply and specifically for the Jewish people because they were
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so rebellious. I'm sure I had God do the same way the Greeks,
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or the Romans or whatever. They would have been equally rebellious. Human nature
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is human nature. But this is the history as it's given to us through
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the Bible. He says. But if you deceive yourselves by ambiguous forms of
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speech, for where it is said the law of the Lord is perfect,
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you do not understand it of the law which was to be after Moses,
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but of the law which was given by Moses. Although declare, although God
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declared that he would establish a new law and a new covenant. Tripho asked,
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but if some even now wish to live in inservance of the institutions given
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by Moses, and yet believe in this Jesus who was crucified, recognizing him
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to be the Christ, and that it has given him to be absolute judge
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of all, and that this is the everlasting kingdom. Can they also be
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saved? He inquired of me. Tripho is beginning to turn his heart's beginning
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to open up to the truth of Jesus. And I replied, let us
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consider it that also together. Let us consider that also together, whether one
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may observe all the Mosaic institutions. And he answered no, for we know
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that, as you said, it is not possible either anywhere to sacrifice the
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lamb of the Passover, or to offer the goats order for the fast,
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or in short, to present all the other offerings. And I said,
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tell me then yourself, I pray some of the things which can be observed,
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for you will be persuaded that the one man does not keep or has
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not performed the eternal decrees, he may assurely be saved. He then replied,
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to keep the sabbath, to be circumcised, to observe the months,
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and to be washed. If you touch anything prohibited by Moses or after sexual
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intercourse. This is very clearly what our Tora observant friends would have us believe
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today, that we still have to keep at least the basic tenants of Tora
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law, beyond the Ten Commandments. Obviously, the Ten Commandments were instituted before
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the Tora law, which begins to come through Levitica, Suteronomy, some extent,
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etc. He then replied, to keep the Sabbath, to be circumcised,
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to observe the months there were certain holidays and holy times, and to
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be washed if you touch anything prohibited by Moses or after sexual intercourse, which
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is also very interesting. Under the Mosaic law, sex is somewhat dirty.
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In Christianity, it is a holy vocation, the foundation of the family and
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making children and elevated to its rightful place, which is why we don't practice
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birth control and such, and why we have monogamy. You know, Yes,
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sexual intercourse between husband and wife is a very holy institution, and under
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Mosaic law it was heavily regulated and not necessarily venerated. I guess would be
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the upper word, And I said, do you think that Abraham, Isaac,
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Jacob, Noah, and Job and all the rest before or after them
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equally righteous, also Sarah the wife of Abraham, Rebecca the wife of Isaac,
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Raciel the wife of Jacob, and Leah, and all the rest of
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them until the mother of Moses, the most faithful servant, who observed none
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of these statutes will be saved. And Tripho answered, we're not Abraham and
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all his descendants circumcised. And I said, I know that Abraham and his
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descendants were circumcised. The reason why circumcised was given to the m I say
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at length in what is going before, and if what said does not convince
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you, let's search again to the matter. But you're aware that up to
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Moses, no one in fact who is righteous observed any of these rights at
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all which we are talking, or received one commandment to observed, except that
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of circumcision, which began with Abraham. And he replied, we know it
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and admit it that they are saved. So he just admitted that especially all
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these women, all these upstand saintly women could not observe circumcision and were saved
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through their faith and not through the law. Big point. Big point.
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You know how I've mentioned before that whether feminists want to admit it or not,
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Christianity elevated the woman. Christianity gave the woman's role dignity in a world
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where women had no rights or dignity. And then I returned in answer,
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you perceived that by God, Moses laid all such ordinances upon you on account
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of the hardness of your people's hearts, in order that by the large number
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of them, you might keep God continually and in every action before your eyes,
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and never begin to act unjustly or impiously. In other words, he
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had to give them so many laws and regulations they couldn't forget God in any
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moment of the day. Very important. But for he enjoined you to place
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around you a fringe of purple dye in order that you might not forget God.
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He have a commandity to wear a philactery certain characters. This a little
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box essentially is one with all the prayers in it, which indeed we consider
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holy being graved on very thin parchment. If you ever meet a Hasidic Jew,
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ask them about the philactery. I love Hasidic Jews. I got along
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great with them, and they're glad to tell you about the tradition. And
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they, you know, they follow the letter of the law to the letter.
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I mean they are in this true tradition of Moses. And I have
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a world of respect for Hasidic Jews. They're fantastic people. They have a
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great sense of humor, they have a great wisdom and tradition and great food.
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By the way, if you ever want to really eat good, go
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to where the Hasidic Jews are. And if some don't like to associate with
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gent titles, okay, most do. They have. Most are like really
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talkative and just really like to tell you a lot of interesting things. And
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I mean some of my favorite people on earth actually, And you respect their
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tradition, they will respect your tradition. It's really great. You know what.
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They don't respect Messianic Jews and Torah observed Christians, those who try to
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combine the true religions into one. They will say, wait a minute,
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we do not believe in Jesus. They won't even say the name of Jesus.
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Okay. They do not respect Jews who try to share about traditions,
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and they really don't respect well, they probably respect Christians who try to combine
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the true traditions more than Jews. They absolutely reject Jews as being you know,
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blasphemous, as being just totally horrible. If they accept Jesus a messiah,
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it's very interesting. There is no compromise with a Hasidic Jew, and
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I respect them for that, and they respect you for your faith. Even
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though we can disagree, but we agree on social issues and we agree usually
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on politics. And let me tell you, these people have some fantastic food.
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I'm just telling you. And the music, oh my gosh, I
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love that. Was it klezmer music or something? I really do? You
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know? Well? I grew up with David Grisman as a hero, excuse
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me, as a hero, great mandolin player, played with Jerry Garcia,
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a lot of the grateful dead. I fell in love with the Jewish music.
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Good stuff, good stuff. As I said, I've had many friends,
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dated some Jewish girls. I like Jews yea. Even my old friend
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Kinky Friedman as non religious a Jew as he is. He's a proud,
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hereditary, proud genetic Jew, and I dated his girlfriends. She was his
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girlfriend, was the mentor to the girl I dated who was from TELEVI eve
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remarkable story there. Maybe we'll get into that another day. A blue eyed,
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blonde haired Jewish girl from Tel Aviv. You know, it's like unheard
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of. Right, she was maybe four feet eleven, weighed about seventy pounds.
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Here I am, you know, six four, two hundred and ten
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pound two twenty hillbilly from North Carolina. And we got along so well.
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And it was based on mutual respect. We start out, we respect each
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other. Now, let's have a good time, let's eat, let's go
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to a concert. You know, everybody could get along. You know,
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love God is your your whole heart, and live, love your neighbors,
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yourself, love your neighbor. It's simple. It's not that hard anyway,
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all right, So where was I said that I returned the answer. You
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perceive that God, by Moses laid all such ordinances upon you, that on
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the account of the hardness of your people's hearts, in order that by the
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large number of them, you might keep God constantly in every action. We
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talked with the friend, We talked about the philactory at the same time,
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however, convincing you that in your hearts you have not even a faint remembrance
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of God's worship. Yet even so you were dissawayed from idolatry. For in
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the times of Elijah and God, recount of the number of those who had
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not bowed the need tobey all. He said, the number was seven thousand.
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And Isaiah rebukes you for having sacrifice your children to idols. But because
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we refuse to sacrifice to those whom were of old accustomed to the sacrifice,
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undergo extreme penalties and rejoice in death. Christians were being crucified even and fed
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the lions and bears, and just blatantly killed and tortured to death because they
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would not sacrifice to the pagan idols of the Romans and Greeks, believing that
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God will raise us up by His Christ and will make us in incorruptible and
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undisturbed and immortal. And we know that the ordinance is imposed by reason of
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the hardness of your people's hearts. Contribute nothing to the performance of righteousness and
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piety in order. Well, he just said, these ordinances were imposed on
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your people because of the hardness of their hearts, of your hearts, of
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your people's hearts, they contribute nothing to the performance of righteousness and piety for
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the Christian. So Saint Justin Martyr he summed it all up. I think
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we got done in one And if you have any question about whether or not
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Christians followed tore a law, observed the Jewish Sabbath, circumcision of sort of
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dietary commands, of what did the handwashing and limited the number of steps they
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took on Sunday and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. You need go no further.
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Did Saint Justin Martyr, who was writing when at least one of the
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Apostles were still alive, who is literally of the first generation, who wrote
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after the Bible was compiled and formalized. If you want to know what the
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first Christians did, those who know best because they learned directly from Jesus and
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his disciples, read Saint Justin Martyr, and you will know that. No,
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my friends to are observant Christians, Messianic Jews seven day Adventists. You
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are completely wrong. There is no compromise, there is no mixing together of
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the two traditions. The Law of the Jews is entirely different than the New
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Law and the New Covenant of Christians, and it's explained in great detail by
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the writings of the early Christian fathers. Just look it up, just read
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it. All you have to do is accept that there is knowledge to be
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had outside of the pages of the Bible. The writings are the same apostles
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who wrote the Bible. The New Testament in the DC will tell you that
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you are wrong. And those writings are just as authoritative authoritative as those they
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put in the Bible. They just didn't include them in the Bible, the
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exact same writers. They're still guaranteed by the Holy Spirit against error. Were
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they not, they couldn't have said, these books belonging in the Bible,
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you can't believe the Bible and disbelieve the other writings of the apostles. So
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y'all, Yeah, we've covered a lot of ground. We wrapped this one
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up, and I'm glad tomorrow we'll get into another aspect of something different.
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I don't know even yet what this subject is going to be. I think
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we probably ought to just kind of wrap it up and talk about the name
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of Jesus, because people get a little confused about how Jesus ought to be
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spelled or pronounced, as if that actually means anything. It doesn't. My
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name, my first name is William. You can call me William. If
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you're French, you can call me Guillaum, you can call me Bill.
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And I don't even go by the name William, I go by Judson,
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and I'm still the same guy no matter what you call me. Maybe we'll
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get into that or if something comes up. I mean, heck, there's
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a lot going on, this whole thing with the Dodgers. Maybe we'll talk
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about that tomorrow. I don't know, that's great. I mean, the
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Dodgers made a huge mistake. They forgot team loyalty. The fans are loyal
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to the team, but the team also has to be loyal to the fans.
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They offended Christians, Catholics, especially Jews. They offended everyone who Muslims,
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I mean, everyone who does not believe in vulgar transsexual blasphemy. You
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know, I'm not gonna I'm sorry, y'all. I mean, if if
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you think that it's okay for people to do things like make a cartoon portraying
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Muhammad as being, you know, homosexual, doing nasty things to purposely offend
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Muslims, I don't agree with you. No, I don't. I don't
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agree with you. I respecting Muslims religion, well, there are a lot
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of Muslims who respect the Christian religion and were equally outraged by this abomination that
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the Dodgers put on. There were a lot of non religious people who just
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thought, you know, I don't want to go see this nasty hate group.
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And no one showed up for the game. No one showed up for
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the game. Basically, no one showed up for the last three games.
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And it looks like the players for the Dodgers are either purposefully losing or they've
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just been totally demoralized. I mean, I love Freddie Freeman. He was
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with the for years. He's now with the Dodgers. Freddy Freeman's not swaying
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a very good bat right now. I don't know if he had just been
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completely demoralized or because he has a heart and a conscience and he's actually a
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really soft hearted guy. By the way, Freddie and I would get along
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really well, even though you know, I've never met him and I never
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will. I just you know, he's a baseball player I really like,
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even though I think he should have stayed with the Braves. He kind of
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stabbed us in the back when he walked away. But that's not the hearer
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there. The Dodgers are losing millions of dollars a day, just like Bud
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Light did and Target and that's important. This is actually a cultural revolution that's
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happening quietly, very quietly, and very under the radar, that could save
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this nation. And I hope and pray it does. I don't want to
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see a Jew denigrated for their faith. I don't want to see a Muslim
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denigrated for their faith. I don't want to see a Buddhists. I mean,
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come on, some of my best friends have in Buddhist I don't want
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to see a secular, non religious person forced to do something they don't want
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to do. You're humish, or you go down the list. I mean,
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people who really hate Catholics, I will still stand up for their rights.
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You know, that's enshrined in our constitution. That's our right to conscience
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and free speech and free association that seemed to be flushed on the toilet during
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COVID, And people are starting to come back and make a stand for what's
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right. And I mean, love your neighbors, yourself, love God with
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all your heart, and identify and reject evil. And people are actually doing
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it in California, of all places, the Land of Fruits and Nuts,
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as Robert Reagan used to call it. And I think it's fantastic. I
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am actually really excited about this. So anyway, and the words of Saint
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Padre Pio, pray open, don't worry, and y'all I will talk to
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you tomorrow. Okay,