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Romans proves Paul lied

Introduction

 

Personal background;  I’m third generation of Church of Christ preachers, my father and grandfather were both ministers.  Born in a little burg in Ohio (Fresno), when I was four my dad decided to go from being a butcher to a preacher and moved our family of seven to Utah to convert the Mormons.  (“Work not for the meat which perisheth”)

Thereafter, for as long as I can remember, living at home centered on quoting the Bible as often as possible and attending every service and Bible class.  I considered preaching and did a bit over a year at David Lipscomb as a Bible major, but it just didn’t feel right for me, as I felt no draw to be preaching anything to those who were much older and wiser than I was – all I knew about was Church, and they all had to live in the regular world, of which I was supremely ignorant – what should I presume to tell them?! 

I was perhaps the most faithful student of Paul for most of my life.  I’d read the gospels, wondered at the differences, and drew a veil over my mind to think Paul was making sense of the gospel for “us” gentiles, who knew little of the Jewish religion – Judaism. 

It was decades later in life, when realizing Paul could not have been teaching the same as Jesus, that I read the most difficult book of my entire life:  “Jesus Words Only”, by Douglas DelTondo, upon recommendation from an LDS/Evangelical debate site.  My two brothers who were preachers, nor my dad, didn’t offer any answers to the points made in the book.  I wrestled with the book almost a full year, as I had to find a flaw with the evidence that we’ve all been trusting in what appeared to be a provable liar who claimed to be speaking on behalf of God and Jesus, and every Bible I’d ever seen has Paul’s writings making up about half of the New Testament.  I even bought a copy of the book for one of my brothers, but he didn’t read it and the next thing he did was to cease communications with me and call me a heretic for not believing Paul.  My oldest brother kept some correspondence over time, but never answered any of the points of question – finally ending with his telling me all my mail was going to be placed in his “Spam” folder. 

When I wrote “One Disciple to Another, the Original Jesus,” written about 2015, largely centering on the teachings of Jesus in Matthew and John, the elders at my church said they would read it and we could discuss any issue they might have before I thought to share the book with the members.  Much to my surprise, they stopped me at the door of the church on the next Sunday to tell me they were doing a special Elders presentation to tell everyone not to read the book – breaking their agreement that we would get together and discuss anything they wished to.  I could have revised anything in the book for the cause of truth and goodness.  I had a neighbor who was a retired minister with Doctorate Degrees read the book and let me know if he saw anything in it that was objectionable or untrue, and all he would say is that I knew a lot more about it than he did.  One of the ministers in the Church of Christ said he was very impressed by what I’d written, and the unspoken matter was since it had been the judgment of the Eldership, that he was not going to publicly support it.  I have to conclude people vote for Elders to keep status-quo and then pretend their leadership is being directly led by the Holy Spirit to guard them? This seems little different than self-imposed imprisonment to the lies they have been told in the NAME of God – while ignoring the gospel taught by Jesus himself!  His few choice words of support were enough for me, and having just retired from a 40 year career myself, there would have been no benefit for his public support but to cause major problems for him.  Sometimes that’s just the way it is, but he was impressed with what I’d written by that time, which centered on the Hebrew and Aramaic Matthew, but was not exposing Paul as will be done herein.

To date, more than seven years later, I’ve had like experience with every other Church – people were interested, but their leadership squashed the book.  I find this extremely odd because the book is mainly about the gospel taught by Jesus in Matthew, and that we do as Jesus commissioned – that we learn from his disciples about what Jesus first taught them – to be like disciples of Jesus as they were.  Therefore, I have no doubt if Jesus were to show up in any Church today and preach what he did in Matthew – he would quickly be given the “left foot of fellowship” (shunned, booted out, or asked to leave) by all the Church leadership.

Background on the book of Romans:

Romans was not considered New Testament Scripture for the first three centuries by the original disciples of Jesus (Joshua).  The Protestant Reformation was started by Martin Luther and John Calvin – both of which relied heavily on the writings of Paul, especially Romans. Romans is the best book from Paul to grasp understanding of his gospel, just as Matthew is the best book to understand the gospel taught by Jesus.

The New Testament Canon Chart shows all the early church was composed of the disciples of Jesus, three sects, and all were unanimous to reject every writing of Paul.  The first three centuries of their history included battling what they considered to be lies against the gospel of Jesus, that Paul taught to negate the Law (Covenant), which Jesus taught was necessary.  Practically all early evidence was destroyed by Rome because they promoted the writings of Paul, as without his words most of what we consider “Christianity” would not have survived beyond his lifetime.  Much of the ancient view of Paul was gleaned from writings found with the Dead Sea Scrolls and was documented by Robert Eisenman.  Jesuswordsonly.org contains many references to his work.

Paul’s usefulness to Rome was his gospel being morphed to be more like beliefs in Mithraism – the god of the Roman soldiers.  Books have been written about the similarities, so if you want to read up on that – this is not going to be a source for that.  What will be exposed herein is comparing Paul’s writings to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew and the records of the Hebrew Scriptures – the most ancient accounts.  I say the most ancient accounts because we all have records that have been altered by Judaism and by Rome.  Judaism largely began about 444 – 260 BC, with the pact signed in Nehemiah 10; and thereafter the Persian commission to translate the writings of Moses, the Law, into Greek.  Modern scholarship gives good reason to think this is when Judaism began, by the Persians paying to have their “Law” in Greek – and many evidences show in all the history of Israel it was not as told in current translations of the Hebrew or Greek.  See “The Origin of Judaism”, by Jonatan Adler, and the chapter titled “Conclusions.” Evidences prove what we see now is absolutely not what came before – modern Judaism is apostate from the God they pretend to serve.  Also see “The Strange Gods of Judaism” and “The Talmud Tested.”  Revisionisthistory.org

Roman Church authority dates at least as early as the Council of Nicaea 325 AD.  “Catholic” means “universal” church – one roof to cover over many of the divisions that were taking place by then – largely due to invented gospels and people like Paul who never met Jesus but told their own stories or secondhand testimony about Jesus.  This was not an effort to restore the faith taught by Jesus, this was a political effort to place Roman authority over the “Church Universal” and thereafter to persecute or kill those who did not submit to the Roman Church rule – which went on for over 1000 years.  Had I been alive back then, there is no doubt I would have been killed by Rome for writing about these things, or providing evidences they have been rejecting the true accounts of Jesus and God from their inception.

I make these bold claims upon these primary evidences:

1. The gospel of Matthew, especially the unromanized Hebrew Matthew of Shem-Tob, as likely copied from a Jewish record for a debate, and was re discovered and translated by George Howard. Evidence shows it is altered, but not Romanized as much as our Greek based Matthew.  This is the closest I’ve found available today for the teachings of Jesus (Joshua) that was the sole record of authority for over 200 years after Jesus.  The next best account is the Matthew in the “Aramaic English New Testament” by Andrew Roth.  The worst account was based on early church fathers quotes of what they said the original Matthew said – and since it was based on their fallible memories, the end result was almost unreadable – absolutely inferior to the account from Shem Tob or the Aramaic reported to have originated about 160 CE.  Way back, Paul was of little concern since everyone abandoned following him in his own lifetime – see 2 Timothy 4:19 – no one continued to believe or follow Paul thereafter? Those were his words – not mine!  Rome is responsible to have resurrected or persevered the lies of Paul. Records have been found that he was noted as a liar.  That is a different study that others have well documented, such as Douglas DelTondo, in “Jesus Words’ Only.”  (Jesuswordsonly.org)  My focus is in Matthew’s account because that is the one book of authority for the first three centuries per the followers of Jesus in the first centuries.  It was also written like a textbook to know what Jesus had taught his disciples, which was to inform all future disciples by their first hand testimony of him.
2. The records of the Covenant match the teachings of Jesus. This was noted before translations of the Shapira scrolls came out in 2021, mainly in “The Valediction of Moses” (V) by Idan Dershowitz.  You can also read The Moses Scroll, but be advised that Ross Nichols, as of the date I’m writing this – he has not rejected Paul for the causes I’m documenting herein that I’ve heard of.  I’ve been digesting my observations in “V” and the gospel of Matthew for a few years now, and to sum it up: Jesus was teaching the Standards given by God in the original Sinai Covenant as no other prophet in the history of Israel!  Jesus was “putting legs” to the words of God.  I firmly believe this is why the teachings of Jesus have drawn so much admiration for thousands of years – and the teachings of Jesus reflect the Covenant Standards of God so closely that we would have to be blinded to not see their alignments.  From my perspective, this is modern proof that what Jesus taught was directly inspired by Elohim!  Jesus taught the truth – and it was Judaism who had altered the Covenant Words of God!
3. Those of Elohim – the Father in heaven – must use His Instructions to determine who He said we must hear, and who He said we must ignore. Isaiah summed it up as “If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them.”  God summed it up in our records of Deuteronomy 4, 12, 13 and 18. 
4. If someone works miracles, and/or gives true prophecy – if they teach a different god, or if they teach against His Sabbath, or they teach against any of the Decrees, Blessings, or Curses – Elohim said we must ignore them. Most everyone is deceived by altered scriptures, most everyone of strong belief or faith has relied heavily upon false testimony, to the point of rejecting the spoken and written words of Elohim, the prophets, and That Prophet – Jesus.  This is written with the intent to free all mankind from lies taught in the name of God – be they from Paul or Jewish Rabbinical lore.  Don’t be ashamed for not having realized we’ve been lied to – God forgives when we repent to do His will indeed.  The curse is to falsely testify in His name – and He desires no one perish. (Ezekiel 18)
5. Jesus taught to dig down to the bedrock to build your house upon it, so the storms would not cause it to fall. The storms are here.  Anchor yourself to the Rock!  When you understand Jesus, you will also know God as never before, and you will gain an entirely new appreciation and understanding from the Psalms.  There is complete harmony between the words of God, the teachings of Jesus, the Psalms and the Prophets.  This is primary proof Rome and Judaism gave us bad records.

Questioning Paul was a hot topic in the first centuries of the Church, before Rome hijacked the Christian faith.  Our current scriptures provided adequate evidence that Paul was nothing but a liar, or a severely delusional man – take your pick.  The words of Paul’s own mouth condemn him!  Most Christian scholars have not tried to be reasonable to explain Paul’s contradictions of doctrine or facts of his conversion, or that his teachings also defied the everlasting Covenant and the teachings of Jesus. 

We need to open our ears and stop putting blinders over our eyes – LOOK at Paul by his own testimony!

Who was the real Paul?  For starters, he claimed to be a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin – Jew of Jews, a pinnacle of virtue of the Law, understanding the depths of many things.  Well, that my dear friends is a lie, as all his writings are filled with lies.  Robert Eisnman, one of the best scholars of record regarding ancient Christian and DSS writings did an article identifying Paul was a Herodian.  In case you didn’t recall off-hand, this is the family of the man who ordered killing the infants in Bethlehem near the time of Jesus’ birth.

Robert Eisenman: “Paul as Herodian” (drew.edu)

(544) #1 “Paul Mystery Period” for 14-17 Years,” in “Paul or James’ Church – Which Was More Successful?” – YouTube 

The King James Version of the Bible is much revised over 400 years, so the NIV will be sited, as it has some of the latest scholarship in translation and has corrected some of the pre-existing errors and archaic language of the KJV.  The source for Romans is from a link in the NIV.  The text will be noted for review and comments throughout.  I don’t want to burst the bubbles of the KJV only crowd, but he was a very wicked man.  Read the book he wrote just before commissioning his authorized Bible version:  “Demonology.”  You should read up on who you’ve trusted your soul to – and I cannot imagine no Bible publisher has ever been aware of his previous book…

Comments will be inserted below the text throughout Romans, but in a bold font, so as to avoid confusion and enable comment throughout the book of Romans.  To my knowledge no one has taken this on before, but I’ll be doing my best to pass on what I’ve been able to understand at this point of my life (71).

If you have comments or questions, please contact through one of these emails:  richard@onediscipletoanother.org   or  barnsweb@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Text of Romans with study notes are from this web site:

https://www.biblica.com/bible/niv/romans/1/

 

Romans 1

¹Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 

 [ Paul first claims to be a “servant” of Jesus.  Was Paul a faithful servant, or a wicked servant?  Recall Jesus’ parables about servants.  Judge righteously, was Paul faithful, or not?  How could he have been faithful if he taught against doing what his “Lord” said  his disciples will do?  Jesus is recorded to have said; “Why do you call me “lord” and not do as I say?”  The only record Paul was “called to be an apostle” is from his own writings.  Where does Acts claim Paul was an apostle?  His first account doesn’t make this claim at all.  It isn’t until Acts 22:21 that we hear Paul’s claim that Jesus said “Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.”  This latter claim, given under oath, totally defies what was recorded earlier in Acts – to go to a specific disciple and he would be told what he must do.  There is no witness testimony to this “apostle” claim  but Paul’s words to Luke. (Luke and Acts were written by the same person, and are secondhand testimony until later in Acts.)  The most important evidence about Paul will stem from the Instructions of God and Jesus to see if Paul remains faithful to the Teachings of God in the Covenant Standards and the teachings of Jesus.  As Isaiah said, “If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them.”]

^{Romans 1: 2} the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures ³ regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life^[a] was a descendant of David, ⁴ and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 

[Note that the internet source provides no footnotes scriptural support for the claims of Paul in verses 3 and 4 prophecy for “his earthly life” or that Jesus claimed to be “the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead”  In fact, the claim of Jesus in Matthew is to be a mortal man – not a pre-existent “Son of God” – which In other writings Paul also claims to be “co-Creator of the heavens and earth.”  In Matthew, Jesus was “begotten” by God at his baptism, not his birth in Bethlehem.  Israel was declared by God to be His son, and Jesus was the unique one, the one anointed by God to speak on His behalf in calling all men to repent and turn from iniquity (lawlessness – because they had altered His Covenant 1000 years before, and Israel was following their Rabbi instead of the Teachings of Elohim). See Jesus’ claim during his trial near the end of Matthew to be the one who would ascend to the throne on the right hand of God – as foretold in Daniel.  The false charge was Jesus claimed to be “the Son of God” to be blasphemy because there is only One God – see the Covenant and Isaiah 43-45.]

^{Romans 1: 5} Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from^[c] faith for his name’s sake. ⁶ And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.  

[God said everything – all – including mankind – belong to Him, not Jesus.  God is our creator and source of being and mankind was created in His image with specific purpose in His creation of the heavens and earth.  Jesus called all men to repent and obey God.  Proof texts given in the Sermon on the mount and the rest of his teachings prove they are founded upon, and in total accord with, the words of God in the Covenant.  In Matthew the charge of Jesus was to make disciples of him from all nations – not just Jews.  The twelve apostles were already making disciples – so Jesus had no need to send Paul to do what they were already doing.  None of the chosen apostles of Jesus ever said Paul was an apostle – only Paul’s personal biographer Luke ever implied such (by writing Acts of the Apostles and making Paul the main character) – and he never directly said Paul was one of the apostles of Jesus.  The main point is Jesus taught according to the Covenant – that God has grace towards those who abandon evil and learn to improve themselves by observing and doing the Standards given by Elohim, and finds total alignment to both Isaiah 1 calling us “Come, let us reason together” so that we would understand and turn to Him to do what He said is good – to live uprightly before Him and our fellow mankind, and this is when, even though our sins be as crimson, they will become white as snow.  The Standard is to do no evil and to grow in doing what is blessed.  Those are about observing and doing the stated will of God – not about “obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake”.  Pretending it is about “faith” and “for his name’s sake” are just muddying the mind of the hearer so they will start thinking like Paul, rather than Jesus and his apostles.  With God there is no mystery, because it is about knowing and observing what we do, not what we “believe” or “faith” to be true. ]

^{Romans 1: 7} To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

[It was Rome who gave authority to the Catholic Church, who put Paul into our New Testament records – and persecuted everyone who would not believe the lies of Paul and the Pope.  The murders and persecutions from Rome find no accord with anything Jesus taught or exampled.  If Paul found favor with Rome, it is because he was related to the Roman Herodian family (recall the king who had all the children at Bethlehem killed?   – which is documented at: Jesuswordsonly.com and by Robert Eisenman).  One only needs to read the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew translation to know those God has grace and peace towards are those who love Him and observe His Commandments to be their manner of life. (See the consolidated Decrees, Blessings, and Curses starting on page 13, concluding comments on chapter 1, this is from the Curses, as well as dialogue in the Shapira scrolls proto-Deuteronomy) God also said those who have His Commandments and reject His Covenant Standards are His enemies – said to unfaithful Israel – not those they lied to.  [Deuteronomy 28:63, Curses of the Covenant; Isaiah 1; and later prophets to Israel];  Did Paul teach upholding the least of the Commandments of God as Jesus did?  In some places Paul seems to, but then in other places he defies the good he did say.  If you believe Paul – you only show you have not judged Paul by God given Standards.  No wonder Paul said he caught some by his guile, and in another place that he strove to be all things to all men – to the Jews as a Jew, to the Gentiles, as a Gentile.  The Standards of Elohim Almighty defy this and condemn all forms of deceit and false testimony.]

Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome

^{Romans 1: 8} First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. ⁹ God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you ¹⁰ in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. 

[Paul, or any other imaginator, can say they are following “my spirit”, but we also test “spirits” and “minds” by the same Instructions from God to know if someone is to be believed or not!  Surely, we can judge all by the word of God – that is what He told us to do!   We cannot know the “spirit” or “mind” of Paul aside from evidence of what he left us all in his writings.  Paul could not have been serving as a messenger of God unless he was upholding every Standard given by God – never defying His instructions, Covenants, Commandments or standards of justice and judging righteously.  Is the message from Paul’s preaching and writing the same as what Elohim gave, as the record of Jesus’ disciples in Matthew?  Paul says that his spirit is known by his preaching – “whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel”.  Since he said he was preaching “the gospel of his Son – how can we know if Paul did except we first compare the teachings of Paul to the teachings of Jesus, after all, Jesus was preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and we have a good record of that in Matthew.  Do Paul’s teachings find accord to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew?  If Paul taught the gospel of Jesus – “his Son” – there would be as much accord in Paul’s letters to Matthew as Matthew has to the 3000-year-old Law/Covenant and the Prophets.  It should be extremely easy to observe if he did or not.  I’ve checked it out, and invite every living person on the planet earth to do what I did to see for themselves that Paul absolutely lied when he made this vital statement of fact.  Don’t just imagine or pretend or believe Paul without having ensured the matter is so, or not – check the facts so YOU WILL KNOW!  As for Paul coming to Rome – he came in chains and reportedly died there due to his incident at the Temple vows in Acts, and I no longer believe the claims of Paul, Peter, or Steven in Acts either – because Acts was evidently written to cause us to think Paul was a true apostle of Jesus – when he provably was not.  In his letters, Paul certainly taught the middle wall of separation in the Temple was done away with (demarcation between area for Gentile prayers from the Jewish section) – Paul’s disciples defiled the Temple because they believed Paul and disbelieved the word of God?  Do your own evaluation of Paul – don’t trust those ‘faithful Bereans’ who didn’t have any of his writings. Open your eyes wide for this one.  Paul reveals his “spirit” in Romans 7:24-25, King James Version

^24 [“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  ²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”]  According to Paul, our flesh is where sin proceeds from.  Even though we sin, in our spirit we serve God, even though we are sinning! Try to find anywhere Elohim or Jesus said this!!  If we believe Paul,  our understanding and conscience must be placed above what God decreed from the beginning.  Paul taught that whatsoever we think is a sin is then a sin to us – even when Elohim said no such thing.  Paul said lowly angels gave the Law as a curse to Israel, but God declared it was to bless everyone who will live by His Instructions and help us live life as He said it should be.  Elohim told Cain, “Surely if you improve yourself, you will be forgiven”, and therefore all of us should have had that record, if our Bible publishers had interest to help us understand His will and ways and know that Elohim is our Redeemer and Savior. (Isaiah 43 – 47) Perhaps the greatest evil Paul taught was to say we are not responsible for our sins because we are made of flesh – we can’t help it – which is absolutely against everything God, the Prophets and Jesus taught about sin. 

 

^{Romans 1:11} I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— ¹² that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. ¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,^[d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. 

[What “spiritual gift” is Paul known for imparting to anyone?  What “gift” does anyone receive from Paul today, except to disbelieve the Teachings and Standards given by Elohim Almighty and “that prophet” that God caused to speak whatever He said to him?  If Jesus is ‘That prophet’ of Elohim, to not hear him would result in being “cut-off” from the brethren. If Paul taught a different message than Jesus or God – we should be running away from him – not founding thousands of competing churches upon his false testimony!]

 

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^{Romans 1:14} I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. ¹⁵ That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. ¹⁷ For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,^[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”^[f] 

This is the general theme in Pauline theology, and I use the term “theology” because that is what he taught, his theory of the economy between salvation and damnation being about our “faith”, as opposed to whether we are observing the will of God to do it – or not.  If you read the words of God Himself, no where can we take the whole of His message and arrive at any such conclusion that “faith”, as imagined and taught by Paul, is in any way equal to belonging to those Elohim said He will consider to be “My people.”  God revealed Himself and His will at Mount Sinai, everyone present agreed to His Standards – not from being compelled to by force, but by their desire to live their lives by the completely reasonable and upright standards He gave. Nothing complicated, nothing unreasonable, nothing undoable – and it included provision for forgiveness because God knows life is a growing process.  We don’t beat children learning to walk when they stumble, we help them up and encourage them to learn to do better.  God is no different, excepting there are some things that are so evil as to be impossible to equate to just tripping or stumbling – true evil needs to be justly delt with, but generally, forgiveness is based upon just restitution, not punishment or imprisonment.  What “power” does God use to bring us to upright living but goodness, justice, reason, and true love that does no evil?  That is no mystery – it’s perfectly reasonable, and is based on observation – not “faith” or “belief.”  The quote Paul uses here is generally agreed upon to be from Habacuc 2:4.   The early church fathers writings discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls included this verse specifically because of Paul’s claims – telling that the verse addresses “faithfulness”, not “faith” alone as a separate entity.  Another passage misused by Paul is that Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness – apart from the Law.  Who accounted who to be righteous in the passage?  If we read a bit further in Genesis 23 we can see that God was more specific to tell Abraham’s heir that it was because of Abraham’s obedience, his faithfulness, not his “belief” ,or “faith.”  Recall, the first principles Jesus taught were about uprightly handling the words of God – to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, to not tempt God to keep His word, and not pit one word of God against another – which means to understand His words are in harmony when properly understood and applied (observed).  Paul’s assumptions herein prove he had no understanding of the first lessons of Jesus in the Temptation account.

What is your “faith”, but what you believe?  That there are thousands of churches proves they don’t have the same “faith” or “belief”, even though all claim to believe in Jesus.  If Jesus is true, it is about being faithful disciples who learn from him and abide in his words and the words of the Father and that we serve the Father, not Jesus – we rather are yoked with Jesus to serve God when we are his disciples indeed.

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

^{Romans 1:18} The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

We must recall that in the days of Paul there was no “Bible” in the home of every believer, let alone mankind throughout the ancient world.  Scriptures were rare and only available to a select few.  There are still many on earth today who have no access to a Bible, or the education to read it.  Public education since the 1800’s has blessed most of the earth to now be able to read, and the printing press and the internet have opened up more avenues of knowledge and education than have ever existed in the known history of mankind.  What Paul is doing here is building his straw-man.  “Godless”?  Having worked with thousands of people of every sort of belief and non-belief in California – I can attest that those from my own Church were often the ones who were the greatest problems, and their “belief” or “faith” in the gospel of Paul had much less influence on their morality than those without belief in God.  One friend had a mother than instilled in him one simple rule to live by, she always asked him:  “Are you sure you are doing the right thing?”  They had a sense that it’s wrong to lie, cheat, steal, defame, injure, or mess with the wife of another man – they had a God-given conscience that was not seered by the lies of Christianity – as many Christians use the cop-out from Paul that Jesus paid for their sins, and they therefore have been freed from the Law of God.  So how did the untaught person know to live more uprightly than the religious persons?  I submit it is because God was right when telling the Law/Covenant was no mystery, that it is indeed close to our hearts and our mouths – perhaps a direct proof that we were created in the image of God – as no other animal on the planet developed much of a conscience by nature.  That the earth shows the handiwork of God is true, but human nature also shows the handiwork of God.  The justice and mercy of God are also perfectly reasonable – so the truth is Paul invented a theology about God that does not reflect the truth of God that can be known by nature or Scripture.  We need to be paying attention to observable qualities of God and our fellow – not what is “invisible.”  Observe this: has evil ceased because Jesus died on the cross and resurrected – defeating Satan and sin?  It is Paul who is without excuse, not mankind in general.  As you read this next verse, recall the conversation God was having through Isaiah 1 of ‘Come, let us reason together.’  Some of the greatest evils ever done to mankind were done in the name of God by those who claimed the name, but failed to know Him or live as He had told them to.

^{Romans 1:21} For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

The evils done by Rome and Judaism are as bad as any on earth – pretending to serve the God of Abraham and Moses, or to believe in Jesus – all the while growing in their evil influence throughout mankind over their history.  Mere belief or faith in God means nothing, shows nothing, is nothing – unless you make His Standards for life to be yours.  I hope you are starting to realize Paul was inventing myth and lore – not “God breathed Scripture” that was inspired or given via the Holy Spirit – is saying Paul taught the truth of God blasphemy against God?  You’d better think carefully about who you believe.  Also notice some who believe in Paul’s teachings have statues (idols?) that people often pray to – perhaps not believing Elohim capable to know their needs before they pray, or that He is so busy and limited that He requires dead saints to make petitions for the living?  That is not the God that Jesus taught about.  Isn’t the truth that Elohim forbid communications with the dead?  Jesus taught us how to pray.

^{Romans 1:24} Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

^{Romans 1:26} Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

If Paul is true, doesn’t that mean everyone who does not believe in his God is a homosexual and/or given over to unnatural depravity?  If you believe Paul, you have to of necessity put blinders on your eyes so as to not see reality.  It’s crazy beliefs like this that cause many to look at Christians as deluded fanatics they want nothing to do with.  Evangelical Christianity is one of the greatest lies ever told mankind in the name of God.  Sin has consequences – good and evil have observable cause and effect.  It also appears that the consequences extend beyond this life, as in the Covenant we find: “Blessed and you in your coming, and blessed are you in your going”, and “Cursed are you in your coming, and cursed are you in your going.”  From where, and to where?  The Psalms have some beautiful passages regarding this, and Psalm 1 introduces the entire book.  “Praiseworthy is the man who walked not in the counsel of the wicked, and stood not in the path of the sinful, and sat not in the session of scorners.  But his desire is in the Teachings of Elohim, and in His Law he meditates day and night.  He shall be like a tree deeply rooted alongside brooks of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf never withers; and everything that he does will succeed.  Not so the wicked; rather they are like the chaff that the wind drives away.  Therefore the wicked shall not be vindicated in judgment, nor the sinful in the assembly of the righteous – for Elohim att4ends the way of the righteous, while the way of the wicked will perish.”  Evangelicals who judge others as evil because they don’t believe the gospel of cheap grace will be in for a huge surprise when they hear:  “Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness, I never knew you.”

^{Romans 1:28} Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Jesus taught to repent to do the will of God.  A very clear message, a message for those who need it – not assigning condemnation like a cement blanket.  Paul was an idiot.  As I’ve said before:  God has spoken, and we need to hear Him.  Jesus taught likewise.  No one who works evil – the curses – knows or serves Elohim, or knows the son.  The evils of some religions, as Rome, and Judaism, show thousands of years of defying His Eternal Law.  The focus of which is how we live towards our fellow shows our true relationship with Elohim.

Footnotes of references from Romans webpage

1. Romans 1:3 Or who according to the flesh
2. Romans 1:4 Or was declared with power to be the Son of God
3. Romans 1:5 Or that is
4. Romans 1:13 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 7:1, 4; 8:12, 29; 10:1; 11:25; 12:1; 15:14, 30; 16:14, 17.
5. Romans 1:17 Or is from faith to faith
6. Romans 1:17 Hab. 2:4

 

One Disciple to Another review comments:

1:1-7.  Note that no supporting passages are cited to support the gospel as taught by Paul. Romans subtext comments to support it in any of the gospel accounts in the New Testament – let alone the need to find alignment to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew – both are nonexistent.  The supporting passages are to writings attributed to Paul, and per the Instruction of Jesus and God, the teachings would have to find accord with theirs.  Since no verifying witness is provided, the Standard God gave is violated, as even Jesus said if he testified to himself, without supporting testimony – his testimony would not be true.  So how can we accept the testimony of Paul without like supporting witness as is found in Jesus’ teachings?  It is needful to keep the gospel of Matthew in mind, as the Hebrew gospel of Matthew was accepted by the Jerusalem Church before 40 CE while the apostles were still around.  Since the HGOM predates Paul’s letters, it could have provided needful information to Paul of what Yeshua (Jesus) taught his disciples.  If Paul was teaching as Jesus taught when he claims the gospel of salvation by grace through faith.  We must  note who Paul claimed to teach obedience to, and then double check what God and Yeshua had to say to us and see if Paul remained true to the “tests” God commanded we use. This is vital to keep in mind as we review Romans.  Jesus taught that faith results in obedience and is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and obedience is to be doing the will of God, as stated in the Everlasting Covenant, and supporting Scripture in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms.  Jesus taught nothing new, and his teachings can be found in accord with the instructions of God and the rest of the Holy Scripture of his day (Dead Sea Scrolls, proto-Deuteronomy,  and Hebrew Scripture).  Can the teachings of Paul also be shown to be true to God as the Teachings of Jesus in Matthew? 

 

A side thought is what Paul claims of the Spirit.  Was Jesus’ birth said to have been accomplished by the Spirit, as Mary had known no man? (HGOM and GGOM).  Which gospel claims Yeshua was resurrected by the Holy Spirit?  “through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[b] by his resurrection from the dead.”  God showed Jesus as approved and to be representing Him by the miracles he performed and in His statements at his baptism and the transfiguration – they are witness that God gave to him – as God also did to Moses and other prophets.

What did God say at Sinai about those who love Him and keep His commandments?  His words from Sinai are very clear to define who He says who is blessed, as well as who He said are cursed.  This is my accunting of the consolidated Covenant Standards of the Ten Decrees, Blessed, and Cursed, reportedly 3000 years old and published in 2021.  Let’s keep the words of God in mind as we review the claims of Saul/Paul, and also for the teachings of Jesus.

“I am Elohim, your god, who freed you from the land of Egypt, from the slave-house.  You shall not have any other gods.  You shall not make a carving or any image that is in the heavens above or the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth.  You shall not prostrate yourselves before them, and you shall not serve them.  Blessed is the man who has Elohim as his god, and who prostrates himself only to him, and who serves him alone.  Cursed is the man who does a carving or a casting, the handiwork of a craftsman.  I am Elohim, your god. “

“Sanctify the seventh day and rest on it.  For in six days I made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, and I rested on the seventh day.  Therefore you too shall rest, along with your livestock and all that you have.  Blessed is the man wo sanctifies the seventh day and rests on it.  Cursed is the man who does work on the seventh day   I am Elohim, your god.”

“Honor your father and your mother.   Blessed is he who honors his father and his mother.  Cursed is he who disgraces his father and mother.  I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not slay the soul of your brother.  Blessed is the man who does not avenge or exact retribution for the soul of his brother. Cursed is he who strikes down his fellow in secret.  I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not commit adultery with the wife of your fellow.  Blessed is the man who does not defile the wife of his fellow. Cursed is the man who approaches any of his kin, or who commits adultery with the wife (woman) of his fellow, or who copulates with any animal.   I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not steal the property of your brother.  Blessed is the man who does not cheat his fellow.  Cursed is he who moves the boundary marker of his fellow.   I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not swear in my name falsely, for I shall avenge the transgression of the fathers against the sons, grandsons, and great grandsons for those who bear my name falsely.  Blessed is the man who does not swear in my name falsely.  Cursed is the man who swears falsely in my name.  I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not submit against your fellow a false judgment. Blessed is the man who does not deceive or lie to his fellow.  Cursed is he who takes a bribe to give false judgment against his comrade.   I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not desire the woman of your fellow, his male servant, his female servant, or anything that is his.  Blessed is he who does not lust after anyone belonging to his fellow.  Cursed is the man who desires and lusts after the woman of his fellow, his daughter, his female servant, or anything that is his. I am Elohim, your god.”

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart. Blessed is the man who loves his fellow.  Cursed is the man who hates his brother in his heart.   I am Elohim, your god.”

“It is these ten pronouncements that Elohim uttered to you upon the mountain from amid the fire.  Blessed is the man who upholds all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them. Cursed is the man who does not uphold all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them.”

Had Israel been infused with the knowledge of the Covenant, there is no way that the Ten Decrees could have been altered by the corrupted priesthood and scribes near the time of Ezekiel, and the obvious fact “V” tells is that they did, and all should repent to believe the unaltered words given by Elohim, which are now restored after almost 3000 years!!!!  Jesus did teach according to the Original Decrees – as we can note his sayings about what one calls another – such as “you fool!” to be a dangerous thing to do – which is in total accord with “You shalt not hate your brother in your heart.  I am Elohim, your god.” (the deleted commandment)

We must also note who God declared “Blessed” or “Cursed”, as we consider these things every day, in what we say and do.  As for me, I choose to believe God is true to His word – but not the alterations of the Pharisees or Rome.  Our hope should be that, as God told Cain, he was responsible and capable to repent and do rightly to be in proper relationship with both God and his brother.  May Elohim be merciful toards those who did the best they could with what they were able to know, but surely, since we can now know – we must surely repent to believe His words as given, not as altered by those of the evil one – who was cursed for doing so!  As Isaiah 42 foretells: Restore!

“Blessed in the field, blessed are you in the city, blessed are you in the field, blessed are your firstling and your remnant.  Blessed are the fruit of your loins and the fruit of your land, the wombs of your cattle and the bellies of your sheep.  Blessed are you in your coming, and blessed are you in your going.  Elohim will set your enemies – defeated – before you.  Elohim will order blessing upon all your handiwork.  Elohim will establish you as a holy people, all the peoples of the land will behold and fear you.  Elohim will open the heaves for you, to give rain for your land in its season.  You will lend to many nations: you will not borrow.  You will be only on top: you will not be on the bottom.  Elohim will make you abound only in goodness upon the good land that Elohim, god of your fathers, is giving you.”

“The Levites shall continue calling out in a loud voice and say, If you do not heed the voice of Elohim, taking care to do all his commandments and decrees, then all of these curses will befall you:

Cursed are you in the city, cursed are you in the field, cursed are your firstling and your remnant.  Cursed are the fruit of your loins and the fruit of your land, the wombs of your cattle and the bellies of your sheep.  Cursed are you in your coming, and cursed are you in your going.  Elohim will set you – defeated – before your enemies.  Elohim will cast the execration upon all your handiwork.  Elohim will make you an epitaph, a proverb, and a saying among all the nations of the land.  Elohim will stop up the heavens.

The stranger settled in your midst will rise higher and higher; your will descend lower and lower.  He will lend to you; you will not lend to him.  Elohim will demolish and eradicate you from the land that you are going into to possess.

…… Be strong and resolute; do not fear and do not panic.  For Elohim, your god – he is the one who walks alongside you.  He will not let go of you; he will not abandon you.  Now write down this teaching, so that this teaching may be a witness before you, since it will not be forgotten from the mouths of your descendants, for I know the schemes that you devise.

These are the words that Moses instructed all the children of Israel according to the order of YHWH on the plains of Moab before his death..

 

Romans 2

God’s Righteous Judgment

^{Romans 2: 1}You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 

[The Law is the set Standard for living justly.  It’s a common ploy of a guilty person to accuse another of what they do – as we’ve all seen in the Democratic Party and Deep State accusing Trump of collusion with the Russians, when in fact, they are the ones who were colluding against Trump and the people of the United States of America.  Another great example is Judaism’s bigoted history that resulted in formation of the ADL, told in 3 volumes of “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.”  Read your Bible.  Revisit the words of God in Isaiah 1 and Ezekiel 18.  Note that many have never testified falsely, stolen from another, committed adultery, or been idol worshippers.  Records in our scriptures indicate God viewed idol worship to be worship of demons – not mere pieces of wood, stone, clay, or metal.  Few are likely to have gone around coveting the property of others – why covet when you can earn your own money and buy what you want?  Paul is making blanket false accusations – which is what Satan does – as “satan” means accuser – and from what I’ve observed so far – a false accuser.  Paul gave no proof to show his charges against everyone were true.  Even if one were to violate a commandment of God, God commanded forgiveness when the conditions for forgiveness were fulfilled!  Repeatedly He said: “And so he shall be forgiven.”  It was those who refused to forgive when God said to forgive that were “cut off”, not the penitent sinner.  Paul is exhibiting total disregard for the Law, not knowing the first principles of distinguishing between good and evil.  For the Law to be just, it must be about judgment – discernment of good and evil, saying everyone is guilty and therefore cannot judge others without condemning ourselves.  We all do not do the same things – those of Elohim choose what He said is good and blessed – and Jesus taught the same thing.  Paul’s viewpoint here is against the Law – “Lawlessness”.] 

^{Romans 2: 2} Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. ³ So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? ⁴ Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

[God does not forgive without repentance – read the Torah – see what God said!  Forgiveness follows repentance – not the other way around!!!  Paul has reversed the ways of God!!  It is true that His kindness, or graciousness, should lead us to repentance, but denial of His Instruction regarding the Covenant Standards will have no good end, and it is wrong to judge short of, or beyond, what He decreed.  It’s a no brainer to say God is just, but what is the intent Paul is posing here?]

[At this point I think it necessary to interject comments into the text because Paul is making so many false presumptions against the words of God and the teachings of Yeshua.  To understand the gospel message of Yeshua it is necessary to first read and comprehend the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew to know what he taught.  This is the link to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and supporting texts from the pre-existing Hebrew Scripture of his day – which WAS NOT the Greek Old Testament. http://www.onediscipletoanother.org/id6.html

The core Teachings of Yeshua are in the Sermon on the Mount, so at least review chapters 5-7 to know them, as Paul is defying them already.  Yeshua’s teaching was in accord with the words of God.  We are to judge according to the judgment God gave us from Sinai and through Moses – and accept that Yeshua was restoring them and giving their proper interpretation and application for the lives of his disciples.  If we judge in accord to the words of God – it is doing the will of God – it is accepting His judgments, as we also accept what He declared just restitution to be performed by those who “keep His word”, and as He decreed: “And so he shall be forgiven” – repeatedly commanded by God in Leviticus.  If we do not judge according to His decree and justice, we are spurning or ignoring His justice and mode of maintaining an orderly, just and merciful society among those who claim His NAME – those He said are “My people.”  Judgment is part of the commandments of God so we can be found by Him to have been living justly, to have loved mercy, and to have been walking humbly with our God through the obvious TRUTH that He decreed we use for our manner of life to possess His kindness and to also reside in His love and care.  All the ways of God are pure, just and true – He gave us wonderful standards to live by.  Read Psalm 119 and see what David had to say about the Law of God.  No wonder God said David was a man who was approved by Him, and man after His own heart – showing God does weigh the hearts of men, that He desires all to repent of evil, and that His graciousness is shown in His Instructions to help us be better people – indeed, that we become all He intended for us from the beginning!!!

Psalm 1, Hebrew to English, Stone Edition:

“Praiseworthy is the man who walked not in the counsel of the wicked, and stood not in the path of the sinful, and sat not in the session of scorners.  But his desire is in the Torah (Teachings) of Elohim, and in His Torah (Teachings) he meditates day and night.  He shall be like a tree deeply rooted alongside brooks of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf never withers; and everything that he does will succeed.  Not so the wicked, rather they are like the chalf that the wind drives away.  Therefore the wicked shall not be vindicated in judgment, nor the sinful in the assembly of the righteous – for Elohim attends the way of the righteous, while the way of the wicked will perish.”]

 

^{Romans 2: 5} But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 

[God revealed Himself and His Instruction in Righteousness at Sinai and supporting Scripture!  There is no waiting to know what God has already revealed!  It appears to be Paul and his disciples who will be in for a stark awakening to the Truth of God and His faithfulness to His word and covenant.  If the Bereans had Romans and Galatians in their hands, they should have been able to see that what Paul said is NOT according to the word of God or Jesus’ teachings from God.  Dare we judge Paul according to the word of God – and according to the teachings of Jesus in Matthew?] 

^{Romans 2: 6} God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”^[a] 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. ⁸ But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. ⁹ There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ¹¹ For God does not show favoritism.

 

[God deserves all the glory and honor – according to God and the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus).  Those who place their judgments above what God decreed – by either ignoring, adding to, or subtracting from His stated standards given to live by are those who are not being faithful to God, or proper consideration of their fellow mankind.  This is why Yeshua’s first Teaching is that “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  As for “First to the Jew, then to the Gentile”, both were present at Sinai, both ratified the Everlasting Covenant at the same time, and the same Law was for all men and includes distinction for some things between the offspring of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but in matters of living justly and loving mercy – the Covenant has certain conditions and was never unconditional.  It is because God does not show favoritism that both were present at Sinai.  It is because of the promise of God to Abraham’s descendants that possession of the land was for the faithful children of Israel.  As for the instruction of God, He said, regarding keeping the Law: “Choose life, that ye might live!”  When God gave the Covenant at Sinai, it was to bless men of all nations!!!]

^{Romans 2: 12} All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. ¹⁴ (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) ¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

In these verses Paul brushes up against a truth that is universal and then takes his train off the tracks – very odd indeed.  Regarding the Law, God declared it very near to us, in our hearts and mouths.  The most obvious thing would be to consider the last eight of the Ten Declarations being in our nature to keep, as we know when we have been wronged, and should therefore not do to others what we would consider to have been a wrong against us: false testimony against us, murder of a loved one, stealing that which belongs to us, defiling the marriage bed, or others being jealous of our possessions and looking for ways to take them from us or to treat us badly because they don’t have what we have – which could well lead to a number of wrongs.  In this limited sense the Law God declared is very near us if we have not been so abused as to deny what is built into our basic nature by our Maker.  One Law is for all, and most people will have heard the shortened version of the Ten Commandments and never pondered the full account as given by God that included the Blessings and the Curses.  In a normal state of humanity people can live upright lives and not commit evil, but do they realize that God, who created man, is the one that they can thank for creating us in His image – above all the other creations of the earth to possess an innate sense of right and wrong and morality and capable to define some system of justice? 

These matters are unique to humans of all the creatures on earth, and man is at his lowest when he denies his higher self to then behave as a mere animal, and sometimes worse!  These things are to take place during our lives if we open our eyes to observe reality.  If these things take place in our lives – and the lives of others for thousands of years – how is it that Paul says: “¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.”?  The Torah is no “secret”.  Matthew is no “secret.”  God was open and transparent to give us just and reasonable standards to live and judge by – that we do the truth by relying on His revealed Standards/Law for our manner of life and justice.

The Jews and the Law

^{Romans 2: 17} Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; ¹⁸ if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; ¹⁹ if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— ²¹ you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? ²² You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ²⁴ As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”^[b]

I’m continually surprised of the respect for Paul that was drilled and beaten into me as a child – perhaps this is why I have so little regard towards his writings and write these reviews today – to free others of trusting in his nonsense and lies against God and those that God says  should be  considered to be “My people.”  I don’t think Paul/Saul capable to handle any God given principle uprightly in any of his writings, but perhaps one will be found.  Do all teachers of the Law commit such sins?!  Evil characters exist in Christianity, Judaism and Islam – if evil is what God declared to be evil – if the word of God is true – no one should brand all as evil because all are not evil and all do not reject His word.  As Ezekiel 18 clearly says, each person is responsible for their own sins.  If God declared this through Ezekiel, who is accepted to have been a true prophet, we should exercise judgment to not condemn those that God said are “My people” – whether Jew or non-Jew.  Israel is a nation before God.  Other nations come and go – and God has no regard for nations – but does regard what each man does – whether he will obey God – or not.  The references to this section include Isaiah and Ezekiel.  Paul would have done well to support that thousands of people have lived just and righteous lives in the eyes of God and encourage all to repent to do the will of God with all their heart, mind, body, soul and strength.  As for Jews – they don’t believe Christians account of Jesus because Christians deny the Laws of God and have altered the Hebrew Scripture.  If you don’t believe the book of Mormon because it doesn’t keep to the Christian Bible – you should easily see why Jews don’t believe Christians when they have altered the words of God and pretend their account is true because the Pope declared it so and publishers published it as a “Bible”.  Both Isaiah and Ezekiel wrote their message to a fallen and corrupted Israel.  To judge all Jews today for the sins of their “fathers” is to violate Ezekiel 18 and the Law.  Also, God has not been without grace towards man since the “fall”, as told to Cain, Noah, giving His Covenant through Moses, and through Ezekiel, the evil man who turns to do righteousness will be forgiven as though the sins were not committed, just as the righteous man who turns from his righteousness to then do evil – his righteousness will not be remembered.  In the Hebrew gospel of Matthew, Yeshua taught the same principles about forgiveness as had been revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures.  The idea some Christains have of “eternal security” or “once saved, always saved” is in direct opposition to the decree and word of God.   To the unsuspecting Paul seems to be someone to believe, but after a life of trying to live by his standards – I can certainly testify against every one of his writings to have twisted the word of God and to be nothing but the imaginations of a deluded man.  As for the NAME of God being blasphemed by others because of Judaism’s evils and bigotry, the matter initiates from the “Law.”  Elohim said it is about the conditions of the Sinai Covenant.  Judaism says it is about the 1200 CE invented “613 Laws”, instead of the 10.  Judaism also says for non-Jews, they are to keep the “7 Noahide Laws” invented by the same Rabbi.  Both of these accounts deny that it is about the 10 given in the Sinai Covenant and also told in Isaiah 56 to be the same Standards for those of any nationality – this defies Rabbinic Judaism, and shows it to have absolutely corrupted their minds from the simplicity and beauty of the Everlasting Covenant.  I’ve looked up each of the 613 and found them to be supremely absent of the sense of goodness, common sense, and humanity in the words of God.  The list with references is in the study helps of the Aramaic English New Testament, by Andrew Roth.  Check them out for yourself – it was patently obvious to me, but you are certainly entitled and encouraged to see if what I say here is true – or not.

^{Romans 2: 25} Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. ²⁶ So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? ²⁷ The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the^[c] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

As God declared when giving the Law, there is one Law for both the circumcised and the uncircumcised.  The Law is the conditions for the Everlasting Covenant made and ratified at Sinai by the Children of Israel and the “multitude of nations” preserved by God from Egypt to Sinai.  Yes, if we observe the Law – whether Jewish, or not – we reside in the kindness and blessings of God.  If we break the Law – whether Jewish,  or not – we bring judgment upon ourselves as noted in the Law.  God made distinctions in the Law that show breaking particular matters have different consequences, depending on the severity of the matter broken – the penalties were not universal condemnation and eternal damnation for minor issues.  The matter is that all who call upon His NAME as their God are to make the Law the universal manner of life Guide for us as He gave it – not altering it to either diminish or add to it.  In fact, circumcision was no aid to a Jew who broke the Law, but to be a Jew and not be circumcised was to break the Abrahamic Covenant – in fact circumcision is a pre-Law condition as it was given to Abraham.  To be a Lawkeeper requires the system of justice as commanded by God, including the provisions for mercy – as given by God – such as Joseph not desiring to put away Mary.  Note that God is specific to say what sin is, and in Paul we have nothing but imaginations such as what is “expedient” or that whatever one believes to be a sin is a sin – regardless of what God declared!!  Although God never commanded perfection to attain to His glory to any man, this is what we hear from Paul in “for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”.  Paul was truly a very tricky character and the likely source of most all divisions in Christianly have some root in a doctrine from Paul.  Just look at the Doctrinal Statements for each Church or Sect of Christianity and how many supporting passages are from Paul – rather than the words of God and the Anointed One – “Son of man”.

^{Romans 2: 28} A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. ²⁹ No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

Keeping the Law was universal to all God said are “My people” – whether Jewish, or not – this is clearly the only conclusion that agrees with the words of God.  If you don’t believe it – prove it by the words of God in the Hebrew Scripture and the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  The Christian published Bible is not reliable enough to trust in many passages.  See “Let’s Get Biblical” volumes 1 and 2.  Watch some of Rabbi Tovia Singer’s videos on Youtube.  Singer makes many good points to prove the matter, but do keep the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew front and center as you consider what Singer says.  Recall the words of God in the Ten Decrees – Paul is testifying against God.  God wrote the Ten Decrees on stone – not a material that decomposes and passes away with time.  The Law is the standard those of God will observe to do.  Being a Jew is about the bloodline descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  God preserved the “multitude of nations” from Egypt with Israel, and both were given and ratified the same Covenant at Sinai with Elohim.  Those who serve God alone, keep His sabbath and who grasp His covenant tightly (Isaiah 56) are those He said will be blessed.  His favor is not based on whether you are Jewish or not.  Where did Jesus or God talk about “circumcision of the heart”?  If they did – see what they had to say about it, then you will have no need to be misled by Paul.

 

^{Romans 2: “29} No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.”  

In this verse Paul says it is the “Spirit” who circumcises the heart.  Ezekiel 37 says God gave His Spirit to write the Law upon the heart as an aid to keep it.  Didn’t God not say He gives His Spirit to those who obey Him?  Obey what?  Obey the manner of life that God says His people will live – the Law/Covenant Standards.  Obedience is to grow in our knowledge of the will of God and to continue in our faithfulness to make His will to be our will.  This is our work: to believe God and repent to live just and reasonable lives that are in accord with His Everlasting Covenant – and as Yeshua taught – to “live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God; and in his prayer that “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”  To be a “Jew” is to be of the seed of the flesh of Abraham.  Get a genetic test kit to see if you are a Jew or not – it’s that simple for us today.  [There are reports this may not be true, but if it is true, why is it now reported that in Israel it is illegal to do DNA tests to determine your nationality? Except it were for the cause that it was proving 90 percent of the “Israelite Jews” didn’t have any Jewish DNA?, but are European?]  Then do as God taught and commanded.  A note regarding the footnotes – see the DSSB and Hebrew Scriptures.  The Septuagint (LXX) was not accepted by Jews because they say it was poorly done – reality is not what we have been taught.  Our scholars have failed us.  The Jewish translation to Greek of the Hebrew Scripture was supposedly only the Torah and did not include Isaiah or Ezekiel, and it was burned in a fire long ago.  This is still in question, as “The Origins of Judaism” gives compelling reason to disbelieve this Rabbinical supported view, as the source of much of the “Old Testament” is largely from inventions likely given during the period they were “translating” for the library, and there is ample evidence that many of the stories were borrowed or lifted from the texts of accounts of others history – to aggrandize an invented history for Israel because of their true failures.  The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, which preceded the Greek translation and alteration, used the Hebrew Scriptures, not the LXX.  Due to the texts that are mistranslated in the LXX (Greek), there is no doubt in my mind that the LXX is a work of disciples of Paul – not Jews who knew the Hebrew language.  Life is a process, and as Elohim told Cain:  “Surely, if you improve yourself, you will be forgiven.”  He said we are capable to overcome our faults if sin has not overtaken us – that we are both capable and responsible to “improve ourselves.”  Rather than figuring all you had to do was “Claim the Name of Jesus” – you need to awaken from Pauline slumber/stupification to realize you need to look at your own life honestly and determine where you need to abandon evil and learn to do good, then abide in doing good and observing if there are any improvements you can grow in.

Footnotes from Romans website:

1. Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
2. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22
3. Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a

 

 

 

Romans 3

God’s Faithfulness

^{Romans 3: 1}What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? ² Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.

³ What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? ⁴ Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be approved right when you speak
and prevail when you judge.”^[a] 

We need to stop and do some historical observations in light of the teachings of Jesus and the words of Elohim.  First, Paul was not a “Jew” as he said he was, he was related to the Herodian family.  Paul was abjectly ignorant of the Law and Prophets, or he was deliberately twisting them – both are something we need to grasp so we are not led to believe what he says, just because Rome or the Protestants put his writings in the New Testament.  Judge rightly by the words of God, the Prophets and Jesus.  What advantage did the Jews have, according to them?  They were unfaithful and not doing the will of God for at least 1000 years – that is the story line from the Prophets.  The only advantage to an unfaithful Jew is what?  Nothing at all – no advantage – if anything, unfaithfulness to the Covenant Standards placed them in the telling of the “Cursed”, not the “Blessed” because of their genetics – the Blessings and Curses are the natural result of keeping the Covenant as Elohim gave it.  Those who repented and sought to follow Jesus were blessed in their coming and going, but not those who rebelled against Elohim, as the unfaithful leaders of Israel – the proto-Orthodox Pharisees were in effect as bad as false prophets, as they continue to this day to prove true for those willing to observe the words of God.  There was no advantage to the Jews of Jesus days, and in fact, God had the Temple destroyed, and Israel scattered to the nations thereafter – for just cause, as warned by Jesus.  They had and have no advantage.  Originally their only advantage was in doing the will of God, to be blessed and to have possessed the Land forever – which did not happen due to their unfaithfulness.  They altered the Covenant Standards about the time of Ezekiel – and we all – Jew and non-Jew, need to repent to the true Teachings given by Elohim Almighty.  They were entrusted with His words, and were found guilty of unfaithfulness – that is a curse, not a blessing.  Most telling on Paul is his twisting the words of God and given history of the forefathers, such as what DelTondo calls “The Great Inversion”, when Paul reverses the roles of Sarah and Hagar – to teach utter nonsense.

 

 

 

^{Romans 3: 5} But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) ⁶ Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? ⁷ Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” ⁸ Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

Here we have Paul setting up another pretended Straw-Man.  What he says is very poorly worded – largely setting up his spin for circular reasoning to confuse his readers.  The words of God are very clear; He wants us to be able to recognize who speaks on His behalf from those who say they do – but are proven liars by what they say/teach.  The simple fact is observed in this:  Is Paul teaching to obey God – or not.

No One Is Righteous

^{Romans 3: 9} What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. ¹⁰ As it is written:

The first recorded words of God to Cain defy this statement from Paul.  Shouldn’t we consider the words of God if we are disciples of Jesus?!  Therein God said we are capable to overcome our own sin, or else it lies at the door and desires to possess us.  Since God said we are responsible and capable to overcome our sin by “improving yourself” – whose is the power regarding sin – ours, or sin?  Evil grows if not put in check.  The same words of God imply that if we do not overcome our own sin by improving ourselves, that there comes a time when sin will overtake us.  If Paul was incapable to overcome his sin, then he had reached that juncture – but given my life experience with people – there are many good people out there, and many of them are not Pauline Christians, Protestants, or Catholics.  What did God say?  Is Paul defying the first words of God regarding sin and forgiveness?  Yes.  Is believing Paul to be equated to be a disciple of Jesus, or one who believes God is faithful to His word?  Hardly.  As human beings, created in the image of God, we are not powerless, but we can certainly be made as fools if we believe and trust Paul for the truth of God or the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.  We have been lied to – it’s time to awaken from the spell Paul has put over Christianity – Rome bewitched “Christianity” with Paul.

 

^{Romans 3:} There is no one righteous, not even one;
¹¹     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”^[b]
13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”^[c]
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”^[d]
14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”^[e]
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     ruin and misery mark their ways,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they do not know.”^[f]
18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”^[g]

Paul’s use of this passage(s) violates the parameters Jesus put to understanding the scriptures – Paul is pitting one statement against others – thereby resulting in twisting the word of God against itself to cause confusion.  Where is this passage from? It’s a conglomeration of texts as found below in the footnotes.  It is vital to understand the context of each one, and especially note that the Psalms are not considered Law or Prophets in the Jewish mindset – they are songs, and found in the “Writings” section of their accounts.  In all the Pslams, there is only one Oracle of God.  They are not considered the same as “Scripture” as Paul is using here, running several negative things together, failing to give the balance gleaned from the Prophets of the warnings, as they also were holding out hope for those who will repent and abandon evil and return to do the will of God as given to start with.  One part is from Isaiah, and it must be taken in context to the whole of Isaiah, not pulling out one statement to certain people and then trying to blanket that judgment to all mankind!  No, as Isaiah begins with the plea of God:  “Come, let us reason together!  Though your sins be as scarlet they can become white as snow” (paraphrased).   No where in Paul’s writings does he remain truthful or faithful to the words of God in the Prophets or Law. Why have we believed Paul????

^{Romans 3: 19} Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. ²⁰ Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Well, I’ve never been able to note anywhere God said any such thing.  The Teachings of Jesus were noted in “One Disciple to Another” to have many references to the Hebrew Scripture that says the opposite, that keeping the conditions to the Everlasting Covenant is our righteousness – whether Jew or Gentile.  We need to observe what God said sin is if we desire to honor and serve God as true.  We also need to note what God declared holy, and also what God declared to be evil, as He said to “do no evil.”  One should easily see that the words of God are His “gracious instruction in righteousness.”  Ignorance is no excuse from the Law.  Jesus said his disciples are to keep the Law, and that unless our righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees of his day that we cannot enter the kingdom of God by ANY means!  Is Paul teaching something different?  Has no one else read the Torah?!  Paul’s accounting of his gospel seems to be “fake News”, not true religion that lives by the word of God.  How is one to reconcile this passage of Paul to Ezekiel 18, or other places where Paul is defying the words of God  in the Covenant and about the Covenant?  I doubt one can find a Jewish Rabbi that would consider Paul anything but a biblical ignoramus or a bold two-faced liar.  Should you find one who doesn’t, you should greatly question his being honest with you.

Righteousness Through Faith

^{Romans 3: 21} But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in^[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,^[i] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Note and observe there is no footnotes supplied reference for Paul’s claim in verse 21, that “apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known.”  Then Paul says “This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” Again, no supporting scripture is supplied – because there is no supporting passage of Scripture from the days of Paul that said any such thing – and Jesus never made any like claim in all the records of Matthew, or perhaps any of our gospels – even John teaches abiding in the teachings of Jesus is necessary, not that mere belief or faith alone meet the Standards told by Jesus.  Then we find in this that it is not just about faith alone – but that it is also a “gift”, a present, if we might use another word.  This defies every word of God and Jesus in the Hebrew Scripture, Covenant, and the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.  Once again, recall the servant parables – in one they were entrusted with gold, but they were expected to use it – not consider it was a gift to them, as when the master returned, he expected results from those he had entrusted with his gold.  Paul is doing no more than selling fake get out of hell tickets – there is no reality of his words herein being true or based on the Teachings of God or Jesus.  How much will people pay for a fake million-dollar lottery ticket?  They sell their very souls for lies, so long as it makes them feel good.

 

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. ²⁸ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, ³⁰ since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. ³¹ Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

 

Yeshua scolded the religious leaders of his day for majoring in minors (tithing) and neglecting weightier matters of the Law – which absolutely included faith.  Faith is of the Law.  Jesus said when we do the will of God that our good deeds are to be observed by others so that they will glorify God – not for our boasting!  God, Yeshua and all the Law, Prophets and Psalms affirm that if one loves God, one must observe His instruction in righteousness to do them.  The enemies of God are those who reject His law; this is what He said to Israel who repeatedly spurned the Covenant Standards and said they would not walk therein.  Paul is lying here – if God is true.  Paul is doing nothing but the work of Satan – trying to cause you to think God said other than what He clearly said, as well as testifying against the Gospel as taught by Jesus!  You are not an illiterate soul if you are reading this.  Don’t take my word for it – read your Bible – do some study – as we’ve been lied to by “Christian” scholars and publishers.  If you want to pay to hear the message to hell – by all means – ignore the words of God!  However – ignorance is no excuse, as the time for ignorance has long passed.  Looks like the time of the Gentiles is up, as they reject the instruction of God and that Prophet – to believe the nonsense of Paul and Rome.  Am I to be considered a liar because I’m telling the truth on God and Jesus?  Will you also hate the truth taught by Jesus?  Do you want to remain in the dark prison houses manufactured to keep you deluded from the Truth?

 

In which Gospel did Jesus declare himself to be the blood sacrifice for the sins of mankind?  In which prophecy did God declare He would make His only Son to be a sacrifice for the sins of mankind?  How can this be true if God said those of Israel who offered the fruit of their body for the sins of their souls to have been evil – and done that which had never entered the mind of God?  God said so – so if it had NEVER entered His mind – then how is Jesus “the lamb slain from the foundation of the world”?  In which prophecy does God declare “that prophet” or “the son of man” or “the son of David” to be a sin offering for the world to excuse all who believe such nonsense?!  Do tell – and search it out to the Hebrew Scripture, Dead Sea Scrolls and the original Zodiac, Enoch, Job and Jubilees!  Paul is a liar, and if he knew Hebrew, he lied about it – as “seed” is always plural – not singular as taught in his nonsense gospel of pretended grace.  No wonder Yeshua declared he will tell many “depart from me, ye who reject the Torah”, as “anomia” *iniquity is to be against or without the Torah (Law).

 

^{Romans 3: 28} For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.”  

This is certainly not the word of God or Jesus, or any Prophet approved by God.  God said it is by works – living as He said to – that we are justified in His sight.  As James said: “faith without works is dead.”  Elohim said keeping the Covenant is our righteousness!

• The most explicit example can be found in Deuteronomy 6:25 where Moses says, “It shall be our righteousness,if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.” That’s about as clear as it gets… but there’s more.
• In Ezekiel 18:24, God makes clear that righteousness is something you DO, and turning away from righteousness is synonymous with committing iniquity. “But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity… all his righteousness that he hath doneshall not be mentioned.”
• Again in Ezekiel 16:52, God declares Samaria “more righteous” than Jerusalem because the people of Jerusalem had committed sins “more abominable” than Samaria. If righteousness comes by faith alone, why is one people declared “more righteous” based on their deeds?

Footnotes from Romans publisher website

1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4
2. Romans 3:12 Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20
3. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
4. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3
5. Romans 3:14 Psalm 10:7 (see Septuagint)
6. Romans 3:17 Isaiah 59:7,8
7. Romans 3:18 Psalm 36:1
8. Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of
9. Romans 3:25 The Greek for sacrifice of atonement refers to the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant (see Lev. 16:15,16).

By all means – read all these support passages – in their entirety – and stop “cut and paste” religion that pits one verse against what God declared.  Read Psalm 1, 2 and 119.  Read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel – read them all and see if you can find any support for what Paul taught!  As Yeshua taught: blind leaders and blind followers will both fall into the ditch.

 

 

 

 

Romans 4

Abraham Justified by Faith

 

^{Romans 4: 1}What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? ² If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. ³ What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

 

Once more, Paul is taking what is attributed to God in one place to then exclude what He clearly said in another – if only we keep those teachings of Jesus in mind while we investigate Paul.  What does Scripture say is the reason God found Abraham faithful to Him, that the promise continue through his son Isaac?  Genesis 26: 2-5 defies this claim of Paul.  Read your Bible – in fact, get the Hebrew Scriptures that you rid yourself of Christian perversions of the Holy Scripture that altered any word of God.  Genesis 15 is about Abraham having an heir.  Genesis 17 is about the promise to bless all the nations through his seed – which was initially fulfilled at Sinai.  Once again, Paul is totally misrepresenting core scriptural evidence that was written for our benefit, if we use it.

 

“Jehovah appeared to him and said, “Do not descend to Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall indicate to you.  Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you; for to  you and your offspring will I give all these lands, and establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father: ‘I will increase your offspring like the stars of the heavens; and will give to your offspring all these lands’; and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring.  Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Teachings.”

 

^{Romans 4: 4} Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. ⁵ However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. ⁶ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

 

⁷ “Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
⁸ Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”^[b]

 

Hebrew to English, Stone Edition, Psalm 32: 1,2; “Praiseworthy is one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered over.  Praiseworthy is the man to whom Elohim does not ascribe iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” [note that Paul misquoted the Psalm.] 

David tried to hide his sin with Bathsheba and against his friend, but was found out and confronted by the prophet – after which there was what can only be called severe repentance and the death of the resulting child of the adultery.  At first when the prophet posed a story about a lamb, David was willing to judge rightly against a person who would do such a thing, then the prophet said that person is you, David, and the message hit home that God knew – he was not hiding anything from God, as God just sent His prophet to tell him so.  It was not until David admitted to his greavious sin and totally repented that he was forgiven.  This is why the Psalm ends with the comment “and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”  So long as there was deceit or denial of fact involved, there is no repentance.  Paul conveniently altered that part in his quote in his use of the Psalm.

Did Elohim ever call for slaves for Him (are we to be servants or slaves – getting back to the opening statement above), or does the evidence show He despises slavery, since He heard the pleas of the children of Abraham and freed all who desired to leave their lives of slavery in Egypt to be free to love and serve the true and living God – God of gods.  Elohim freed all who desired to serve Him, and He preserved them through the Desert, to Sinai, where everyone ratified the Covenant, and again when Joshua renewed the Covenant upon entry into the Land of promise.  God never desired slaves, but He does desire that we love and serve Him alone, and how do we do this but to keep the Covenant, which is practically all about living just lives before God and our fellow man. 

Paul claims to be a servant of God and Jesus.  We have a number of parables from Jesus about servants: faithful servants, unfaithful servants, good servants, wicked servants, wise servants, foolish servants, and we do well to pay attention to them.  In which of them is their “faith” separated from their “faithfulness”?  In each, whether of reward or condemnation, what they received was justly due them because of their works that showed their faithfulness or unfaithfulness – each and every one.  We can also look at Israel historically and see the same principle playing out – what happened to them was based on their works – whether they were faithful to hold fast to the Covenant Standards – or not.  God never justified the ungodly – not even Israel.  `We see from the Abraham example that it was not by faith that Abraham was found just, nor David for that matter.  David did a great evil to one of his most faithful men when he committed adultery with Bathsheba – the mother of Solomon.  David thought to hide his sin, but the Prophet called him out.  It was only after his severe repentance that God forgave him – not by a multitude of blood sacrifices at the Temple – it was his repentance and abandoning evil and thereafter learning to do better – he improved himself.  Well, guess what?  That is the same thing God long before is reported to have said to Cain.  God has been consistent to His words of life – but Paul interjects lie after lie in an attempt to derail us from the observable simplicity of the Teachings of Elohim.  Very telling on Paul is that this particular Psalm quote if from one that David is directly speaking of the lesson learned from his sin with Bathsheba.  If God is just, right, and pure in all His ways, who would say He was unjust, paid no attention to those who are wicked, and was constantly changing His Standards for how He says we should live our lives – that would not be the God of the Everlasting Covenant.  Just look at the fruits of Zionist Orthodox Judaism in Israel towards her fellow countrymen and adjoining neighbors – she sinks lower and lower and is despised as evil around the entire earth – just as Elohim said would happen in the proto-Deuteronomy Curses.  God has not changed – and it is with great peril to anyone’s soul and life to defy Him.  It’s like the tables have turned and now God is hardening the heart of Bibi – like He caused with the Pharoah of Egypt.  Her life has come full circle.

 

^{Romans 4: 9} Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. ¹⁰ Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! ¹¹ And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. ¹² And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

 

“Jehovah appeared to him and said, “Do not descend to Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall indicate to you.  Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you; for to  you and your offspring will I give all these lands, and establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father: ‘I will increase your offspring like the stars of the heavens; and will give to your offspring all these lands’; and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring.  Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Teachings.”  Circumcision was about the Land Covenant, not the Sinai Covenant.  The Sinai Covenant is the will of Elohim for all mankind – Jew and non-Jew alike, proven by who He gave it to, as well as who ratified it – all who were present that day at Sinai, and for their children for a thousand generations – which is to say as long as there is mankind inhabiting the earth – it is considered an everlasting Decree, as we can also discern most everyone and every state of antiquity or modern developments equally benefit when people live uprightly towards each other – fairly and justly – with just weights, measures, and who uphold equality in justice and care for those in need.

 

 

^{Romans 4:13} It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. ¹⁴ For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, ¹⁵ because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

The recorded word of God to Abraham said it regarded the land with boarders, not the “world.”  Abraham depended on doing as Elohim told him, as we’ve covered the account where God clearly told his son about why Abraham was found faithful – not mere faith or mere belief without doing as He had told him.  There was not telling Abraham’s offspring that the world was to be their possession.  Paul is taking biblical figures and inventing his own mythology – rather than proving he understood anything.

The Law is the means by which we choose life or death.  The law was given for blessing, not for cursing and condemnation.  God desiring no one perish is why He gave the Covenant in such easily observable parameters to show us the difference between good and evil.  Had Paul known the “Law”, he would have known it says if you are ignorant – that is no excuse for having crossed the line – that when the matter was known – it required both repentance and restitution.  I’m amazed at the lies Paul is telling people – and it has been because of learned ignorance from those who believed him that the world is in such a state as we see today – lying scribes, lying prophets, lying preachers, teachers, and publishers of our faked “Bibles”.  Had people simply done as God said, to teach the Covenant to all generations, starting in their childhood and in their homes – as the song of Louis Armstrong says: “What a Wonderful World It Would Be.”

 

^{Romans 4:16} Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. ¹⁷ As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[c] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

Given most objections have already been shown, I’ll simply add this thought:  didn’t Jesus teach that God is our Father if we are his disciples?  Saying Abraham is your forefather is based on genetics, and no amount of “faithing” is going to change your DNA.  Example: 90 % of the people in Israel have not a drop of the blood of Abraham in their veins – and their faith is to kill their neighbors and innocent children – because they believe that – does that make it right in the eyes of God?  Or will God judge all by the same Standards?  Don’t be a fool for Paul.

^{Romans 4:18} Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”^[d] 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. ²⁰ Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of ^{Romans 4: 20b} God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, ²¹ being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. ²² This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” ²³ The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, ²⁴ but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. ²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 4:3 Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22
   2. Romans 4:8 Psalm 32:1,2
   3. Romans 4:17 Gen. 17:5
   4. Romans 4:18 Gen. 15:5

Abraham believed and obeyed God; Abraham was not justified before God by belief alone, faith alone, or grace alone – but by faithfully doing as God instructed him.  David never said God justifies His enemies – in fact, no where did God say such a thing.  Prove this wrong if you can – but do so by uprightly handling every word of God as given in the Hebrew Scriptures.  If Jesus taught salvation by mere belief and trust in his death on the cross, or mere belief in his name – why did he teach the need to repent and do as God instructed – to keep His commandments faithfully?  Paul did nothing but twist the word of God and Jesus to make up his lies.  Carefully note how absent the words of Jesus are in the writings of Paul.  Most important to remember is this – no where in the Holy Scripture does God justify the ungodly.  Ezekiel 18 may be the best passage to prove this is so.  Pay attention to what is accounted as righteousness, as you carefully note what is said to be evil:

 

 

 

 

Ezekiel 18, JPS:  “And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2‘What mean ye, that ye use this proverb in the land of Israel, saying:

The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

And the children’s teeth are set on edge?

3As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. 4Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

5But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 6and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity; 7and hath not wronged any, but hath restored his pledge for a debt, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 8he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true justice between man and man, 9hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept Mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

10If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth to a brother any of these things, 11whereas he himself had not done any of these things, for he hath even eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife, 12hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 13hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live—he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely be put to death, his blood shall be upon him.

14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins, which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, 15that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife, 16neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, 17that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed Mine ordinances, hath walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, committed robbery on his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he dieth for his iniquity. 19Yet say ye: Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father with him? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all My statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. 20The soul that sinneth, it shall die; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father with him, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son with him; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

21But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; for his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD; and not rather that he should return from his ways, and live?

24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered; for his trespass that he trespassed, and for his sin that he hath sinned, for them shall he die. 25Yet ye say: The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? 26When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therefor; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29Yet saith the house of Israel: The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? 30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so shall they not be a stumblingblock of iniquity unto you. 31Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD; wherefore turn yourselves, and live. (we have to make our new heart alive to God)

Jeremiah 6:6 – 39; Thus says Elohim:  Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls.  But they said, “We will not walk in it.”  Also I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!”  But they said, “We will not listen.”  Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.  Hear; O earth!  Behold, I will certainly bring clamity on this people – the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not heeded My words nor My law, but rejected it.  For what purpose to Me comes frankincense from Sheba, and sweet cane from a far country?  Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”

Therefore thus says Jehovah:  Behold, a people comes from the north country, a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.  They will lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, as men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion.

We have heard the report of it; our hands grow feeble.  Anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.  Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way, because of the sword of the enemy, fear is on every side.  O daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth and roll about in ashes!  Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.  (they rejected Jesus/Joshua 2 and were destroyed and scattered to the nations)

I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, that you may know and test their way.  They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers.  They are bronze and iron, they are all corrupters; the bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the smelter refines in vain, for the wicked are not drawn off.  People will call them rejected silver; because Elohim has rejected them.  (following chapters deal with trusting in lying words – which THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES proves they even altered the spoken words of Elohim at Sinai!!! 

 

While Judaism was first to be charged with having lying scribes, the early church centered from Rome was and has been guilty of the same evils as unfaithful Israel.  We inherited their lies, and it’s time to expose them for what they are.

 

 

Romans 5

Peace and Hope

^{Romans 5:1}Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we^[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we^[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

 

God gives His Spirit to those who do His will – to those who obey Him.  Ezekiel 37 is clear to say God gave the Spirit to write His words on our hearts to help us do them – not to excuse us from His instruction. We can hope in lies, or we can hope in the goodness of God towards those who observe His word that they might do it and make His instruction to be their manner and guide in life – to trust in His kindness towards those who love Him and keep His commandments.  See Exodus 20.  God defined love in each of the Decrees, Blessings and Curses – love has God-given definition!  What Paul says above defies His definitions.  Paul is selling nothing but what the old time false prophets taught: Peace! Peace!, when God said there is no peace for the lawless wicked.  The peace of God resides in being faithful to the Everlasting Covenant and the Doctrine of God as taught by Jesus.  Believe Jesus, or believe Saul/Paul – no one can serve two masters.  I’ll choose to believe those who testify according to the words of God.  Note the words of God in Ezekiel 34 about the shepherds that foul the waters of His sheep.  Surely this is exactly what Paul has done to all who trust in his nonsense instead of the just, pure, and reliable words of God.  Know it is NOT as taught by Paul – believe the word of God in Ezekiel 18! And the Everlasting Covenant, and the teachings of Jesus certainly brighten that pathway when we comprehend the Covenant is the focus of his teachings.

 

^{Romans 5:6} You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

Who said we are powerless – aside from Paul?  Did God say we are powerless?  Did any true prophet say those who seek God in spirit and truth are powerless?  For that matter – man was not powerless after the “fall” in Eden.  Rather than being powerless, God clearly told Cain that he was capable and responsible to rule over sin that it not rule over him!  God clearly told Cain that by improving himself that he would be forgiven – elevated.  Read the account in the Hebrew Scripture and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  God made provision to forgive without blood sacrifice.  Read Ezekiel 18 and Isaiah 1 – it’s indisputable.

 

^{Romans 5:9} Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! ¹⁰ For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! ¹¹ Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

 

Balderdash – this is nonsense.  If Jesus (Yeshua) is our “Lord”, we do as he commanded and instructed – which is to keep the Law and Covenant of God faithfully till death – to grow in producing the fruit that God created us to give to Him! Although everything belongs to Him already, living as He instructed is certainly a blessing to ourselves and to all those we live with, but first that therein we receive of the kindness and blessing of Elohim Almighty.  The primary issues exposed in the Teachings of Jesus are these major alterations foisted upon us all for almost 2000 years:

 

1. There is no vicarious or substitutionary atonement – the righteousness of the righteous cannot be imputed to the ungodly, wicked and sinners who rebel against the Ten Decrees of God.  Neither will God hold the righteous accountable for the sins of the wicked or those who spurn His instruction. [Ezekiel 18, Isaiah 1]

 

2. Yeshua made no claim to be Divine, but clearly spoke of himself as mortal – which is what “son of man” means. 

 

3. The godly life is a process of growing – not something attained by a mere prayer, or any more than eating a magic cracker, or sipping grape juice from a magic cup. Human prayers don’t work magic to turn grape juice into the blood of Jesus.  Jesus didn’t teach cannibalism.

 

4. God never declared man totally depraved because of the “fall” of Adam and Eve – this is a total invention.  Shouldn’t we instead believe the words God spoke to Cain also apply to us?  This seems most reasonable to me.

 

 

 

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

 

^{Romans 5:12} Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

 

God doesn’t apply the sins of one person to another (vicarious atonement) – see Ezekiel 18.

 

^{Romans 5:13} To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

 

If there were no Law – how did God judge the world before Noah?  Also, God declares in the Torah that sin in ignorance is still sin and accountable to the person, and that when they discover their sin – then just measures He prescribed are to be followed.  Death was caused by separation from the Tree of Life – not something as Paul describes herein.  Search the Hebrew Holy Scripture and Torah and see if you can find an account that says Adam and Eve “sinned” and doomed all their offspring to depravity.  Such a thought doesn’t exist until Paul perverted the truth and introduced his imaginations and paganization of Christianity and birthed the Roman Catholic Church.  Live by the words of God – search His words out to the DSS and know His truth has no part in Paul.  Stay tuned for what Paul is selling about “Adam being a pattern of the one to come.”

 

^{Romans 5:15} But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! ¹⁶ Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. ¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

 

“If” is a huge word, considering one cannot find such a teaching from God or Jesus in Matthew.  Study out the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew at onediscipletoanother.org and see that what Paul taught here is non-existent in the account of the apostles of Jesus – who gave us Matthew in the Hebrew – and which was thereafter altered in the Greek texts.  God has always had grace towards men – but He has never offered anyone vicarious atonement due to the righteousness of one being imputed to another (Ezekiel 18).  See what Yeshua taught – pay close attention.  See what God commanded – pay close attention.  See what the prophecies foretell of “that prophet” and the “one to whom rule is due” and teaching so that the Gentiles would also consider keeping the Torah or God to be honorable (Isaiah 42, 56).  Paul makes Jesus to say the words of God are a curse – which is a lie.  Righteousness is something each person must do – it is not a “gift.”  The real gift is the words of God that teach us about living uprightly with Him and our fellow humanity.

 

^{Romans 5:18} Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

 

Neither of these premises from Paul are true – in fact, scripture defies them both, as noted previously!

 

^{Romans 5:20} The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹ so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

God said He gave the Law to bless us and elevate us – to all who would make His Instruction and Decree to be their manner of life, faith, hope and trust.  One Law is for all, so that all might be blessed and abide in His everlasting kindness and that He might be gracious unto all who love Him as shown through their faithfulness to the Everlasting Covenant and the Teachings from Jesus of the Doctrine of God – as given in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  The Law is inseparable from the Teachings of God and Jesus.  As God said: “Choose life, that ye may live!”  As Jesus taught – repent and be a citizen of the Kingdom of God by doing His will on earth as it is done in heaven.

 

Footnotes references given at Romans website:

1. 1. Romans 5:1 Many manuscripts let us
   2. Romans 5:2 Or let us
   3. Romans 5:3 Or let us

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

Romans 6

^{Romans 6: 1}What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

 

^{Romans 6: 5} For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

 

^{Romans 6: 8} Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

 

^{Romans 6: 11} In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

 

This chapter presents a number of false reasonings regarding sin and the role Jesus has to his disciples.  In the Matthew account the call is to first repent and turn to do righteousness as defined by the word of God.  Recall that God has always accepted those who repent and turn to do what He declared just and right – to live reasonable lives before God and mankind.  If this is the case – according to God and Jesus – what is this that Paul is teaching that we die when we are baptized?  

Jesus was baptized, and per the gospel baptism was first practiced by John as the baptism of repentance to then be forgiven as we then do the will of God that we neglected to do beforehand, and continue on with our lives – to improve ourselves.  John’s teachings were very simple – nothing hard to do or understand.  Baptism was first given in the Law for priests to wash themselves ritually before donning their priestly garments to serve God and the people in the Temple.  Some have called baptism an “outward sign of an inward grace,” and this might be a way to look at it.  It could also be looked upon as the time we determine to do as God said, that we create a new heart within to do His will.   It would also be valid to view it as the time we make public profession of our faith and intent of faithfulness towards God in following in the footsteps and teachings of Jesus, as he was also baptized to “fulfill all righteousness.”  

No where did John, or Jesus, or any of the Torah, indicate baptism had anything to do with death or resurrection.  Millions have been baptized that it clearly had no impact on their life to then do righteousness because they had died and thereafter “Christ lived within them.”  Merely being dipped in the water is not some magical rite that transforms anyone of itself.  If we repent, we turn from doing wrong to then do what is right – and it’s a growing process – not an instant remedy that imparts the righteousness of Jesus upon us because he is now in us through the rite – as though it was some kind of magical rite or incantation.  There is the matter of the “gift of the Holy Spirit”, that I cannot deny as real, because that was my experience when baptized as a child, and I have viewed that as an inner testimony for my good from God – not that somehow it magically transformed me as Paul is teaching herein.

The heart that turns to live uprightly before God has always been precious in His sight – and doing the will of God brings His blessings, promises and kindness towards us – repentance restores our relationship to God as we then turn to follow in the footsteps of Jesus through being his disciples, just as did the twelve disciples.  As Jesus said: it is enough to be like him, but how can we be like him and pay no heed to what he said his disciples will do?  Paul never teaches anything practical like explaining how his teachings find harmony with those of Jesus.  Recall Paul said he was unable to keep the Law, and if this is true, according to God, such a person refuses His instruction; according to Jesus, such a person is not his disciple, as he taught his disciples to consider it honorable to keep the word and instruction of God.  God and Jesus, and every true prophet for that matter, affirmed the need to observe and do what the Law – the Ten Teachings of Elohim – said is to be our manner of life and judgment.  Our problem has been we have not been taught the fullness of the Law because it was altered by Judaism 3000 years ago – BUT the teachings of Jesus in Matthew were restoring what Judaism had taken away from us – IF we had only paid attention!

We are still under the “Law” because that is how we know we are covered by the grace of God!  Recall the Ark of the Covenant: it contained the Ten Decrees in stone, and the lid that covered it, the “Mercy Seat”, symbolized the mercy – ergo the ‘grace’ – of God covers those who are faithful to keep the Covenant Standards to be their guide and stay for living their lives uprightly before Elohim, their fellow mankind, and to also ensure they judge themselves righteously!

 

Slaves to Righteousness

 

^{Romans 6: 15} What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

 

Jesus never taught slavery.  God has freed us to live life the way He intended for us to live it!  We who are disciples of Jesus need to free ourselves from the slavery of belief in direct lies against him and Elohim Almighy!  Those who follow the doctrine of the Pharisees or the Doctrines of Paul and his disciples.  Such men are the ones who are in prison houses – in which there is no freedom of life.   See Isaiah 42 where it speaks about those trapped in prison houses – Jesus, through his teachings from Elohim, was freeing us to serve Elohim in the full light of His words of life!  As DSSB Isaiah 53 says, we are redeemed by the knowledge and wisdom Jesus gave us in his teachings – which can be proven to be from Elohim.

 

^{Romans 6: 19} I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in^[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus would agree with God, that He gave His instructions to elevate us – that we know His will, learn to do good,  and do no evil.  The Law is still in effect – regardless of what Paul said.  The matter we’ve been told from Judaism, that it must be perfectly keeping 613 commandments has no proof in the word of God or Yeshua.  Neither are there Seven Laws of Noah. Both of these sets come from a Jewish Rabbi about 1100 AD.  God gave One Law is for all – one Everlasting Covenant is for all who turn to the pathways of life God desires we walk within.  God expects all His people to honor the Covenant Conditions given and ratified at Sinai.  God has not set His word aside as unable to accomplish that for which it was given; to bless us, and – to see if we will do as He commanded – or not.  Judgment has been decreed – Paul cannot annul a single word of God – neither can the Pope, Luther, Westly, Campbell, Joseph Smith, or Ellen White – no one can annul the word and Covenant of God, not even Paul or Billy Graham. Read Psalm 119 and see if you think the Law is God is useful as the Psalm says it is – or not.  Where in Psalm 119 do we find any accord to the teachings of Paul?  Is our soul restored by knowing we are doing the will of God, and thereby remaining in His sure mercies?

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless
   2. Romans 6:23 Or through

 

 

 

 

Romans 7

 

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

 

^{Romans 7: 1}Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

 

^{Romans 7: 4} So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh,^[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

 

Do you want to trust in dreams? Or reality?  One is an imagination; the other is born out by reality and observable and measurable facts.  One is seen, the other unseen.  God revealed Himself at Sinai.  God showed Jesus approved by his Teachings, works, death and resurrection – all in accord to His word – if we but correct the false accounts and perversion of His word that were foisted upon mankind by Rome and their followers.  God is not mocked, and certain judgment is decreed towards those who do the works of Satan to falsely accuse others, and who falsely accuse His good word and will towards mankind.  

From the first of the Ten Decrees we know that the definition of love for God has observable actions – there is no mystery of who really loves God, and anyone can easily determine who loves God by what they say about His Instructions in Righteousness and warnings to do no evil.  Nothing He asks “My people” to do is too hard to hear, understand, or do.  So why is Paul so averse or against the Law as to say that in Christ we are freed from the Law? – when Jesus said his disciples will not even think that he came to loosen or do away with it.  This is but one proof that Matthew is the only valid gospel account: the Sermon on the Mount and its obvious ties to teach the Law, Prophets, and Psalms in almost every verse.  

Search the teachings of Jesus out and you should easily see that Paul is not telling us any upright truth of God.  In Paul the Law is a curse and impossible to keep.  As disciples of Jesus, we are empowered to know the Law is good and recognize those who have altered it, or who speak against it, are those who have made themselves enemies of God by rejecting His word and declaring what God said is good to be evil and a curse.  

Paul taught a gospel of nonsense that has no part in doing the will of God or abiding in His kindness and blessing.  Divisions between Churches all center from false doctrines of Paul – look at each churches Doctrinal Statements and note how many passages of support are from books in the NT written by Paul.  Stop being deluded by lies against God.  God has said we all belong to Him.  Our eyes should be on Him first.  We don’t belong to each other.  We should respect each other and live in equality because He alone is God and the right to “rule” belongs to him to whom it is due (Gen. 49:10).  If Jesus set the rules – it is easily observed Paul is teaching AGAINST Jesus’ right to rule and inserting lies, and then declaring them true because he said so.  Determine if you believe God – or not.  Stop the pretending and imaginations of “Spiritual mysteries” and observe the plain truth of God.  No one needs to be “Spiritual” to judge Paul a liar.

 

The Law and Sin

 

^{Romans 7: 7} What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”^[b] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. ⁹ Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. ¹⁰ I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. ¹¹ For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. ¹² So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

 

This is the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever read.  Where has God said anything like this?  Where has any true prophet spoken these things?  No where, that’s where.  Think back to what God told Cain.  God declared Cain responsible for his own actions and that if he didn’t take control of his own actions that sin would rule over him.  All this passage does is let us know the true relationship Paul has with God – that sin was ruling over Paul – and this was due to his own lack of self-control – and rather than blaming himself for his own actions, Paul blames the Law of God!!!  Paul  interjects his nonsense of “sin deceived me” – when he is self-delusional.  Do you think yourself incapable to do good because God said it was good?  Do you think yourself incapable to not do an evil thing?  Do you believe because the Law says to “do no evil” that all you are capable of from that moment is doing evil because God said to do no evil?  Church is not a hospital for sinners – it is the assembly of called out believers to worship God in spirit and truth.

 

^{Romans 7: 13} Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

 

Paul was not dead to anyone but God and speaking the truth of God.  Are the people of God to consider themselves living zombies?!?  God gave the Law – His gracious instructions in righteousness – that we should become wise to reality and living a life that God can bless.  As God said: “Choose life, that ye may live!”  God nor Yeshua ever called anyone to be “Zombies for Jesus.”

 

^{Romans 7: 14} We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

 

Where did God, any prophet, or Jesus say the Law was “spiritual”?  All the Decrees, Blessings, and Curses given therein are each observable.  Observable things are not ‘spiritual’ or ‘invisible’ – observable things are seen!  Did God sell Cain, or any man, to sin or the Serpent or Satan (accuser)?  No, God said otherwise in warning Cain to not let sin become his ruler!  Paul is providing us all direct evidence from his words to let us know who he belonged to.  Think about it very carefully.  Also, God declared His word is very near to us – within our nature since we were created in His image – to become wise and like Him as humanly possible – by being taught His pathways of justice and righteousness and mercy – that we observe these things to do them!  

God and Jesus have instructed just the opposite of what Paul says here – that we are sold out to sin and incapable to do good from our nature.  Did God create Adam in His image – or the image of the fallen angels? (I Enoch and Genesis)  In fact, Jesus taught what comes out of the man defiles the man, not what goes into him (speaking of food).  Is our heart our nature – the essence of who we are?  What we do proceeds from within our nature – and we have to deny the reality being created in the image of God to pretend this nonsense of Paul.  

I can’t speak for anyone but myself – but it isn’t against me to do good to others as it is within my ability and resources to do.  No – it’s quite easy to do what is good.  No one is perfect, but God has long ago decreed justice in the Torah whenever He decreed: “And so he shall be forgiven.”  It was whoever did not accept the justice of God that was to be “cut off from amongst the brethren.” (Leviticus)  We cannot blame our sin on sin or sinful nature – sin – defying what God said is just and good – comes from within us if we reject the gracious instruction in righteousness – and we have no one to blame but ourselves.  God declared Cain responsible – and thereby gave this knowledge after the supposed “Fall”, and before the flood.  Once again, as God said: “Choose life that ye may live!”

 

^{Romans 7: 21} So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ²³ but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

 

^{Romans 7:} So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature^[d] a slave to the law of sin.

 

Yes, Paul was a wretched man.  Don’t judge me for saying this, as I’m just agreeing with his own assessment of himself.   He spoke honestly when giving us that information!  We all make decisions in life.  We’ve all been lied to when the writings of Paul were put into the Bible and New Testament.  As one passage in Jeremiah 16 tells of the Gentiles – we have inherited lies.  Rather than believe the apostle who lies against God – we should choose to abide in the words of Almighty God and the prophet who taught that it is honorable to keep the Instructions of God in the Torah (Isaiah 42).  God did not create Adam to be a slave, but a free man – to rule over and subdue the earth.  As Yeshua said, he is the Christ – and all of us – including the Apostles, are brethren – not rulers or slaves.  Study the Ten Decrees – they are also based on equality.

 

Jeremiah 16:19

 

“O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and wherein is no profit.”

 

Surely this is because none of the Roman or Protestant reformers bothered to follow the words of God to make sure writings they put in the New Testament were in accord with the words of God, as were the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus). (Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18)

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
   2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
   3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
   4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

 

Life Through the Spirit – Romans 8

 

^{Romans 8: 1}Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you^[a] free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.^[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

To be a faithful disciple of Jesus (Yeshua/Yehoshua/Joshua) requires making the Torah and the Teachings (Doctrine of God) as taught by Yeshua to be our guide and manner of life.  If we are faithful to the words of God – doing His will is our righteousness – and it is of Him, as they are His instructions, not of ourselves.  What we do is agree with God’s standards as we do them.  We reform our conscience to be in alignment to His instruction.  It is His word that sanctifies us – that sets us apart to Him.  It is His word that is truth.  It is His will that we seek to do and grow in producing the fruit He desires in our lives as we mature.  When we do good – what is found wanting when we trust in His provisions and opportunities in life?  We look to do good, we spurn evil and association with those who are evil.  There is no evil in the Instructions of God as given at Sinai – only hope, trust and knowing good from evil, or secular from holy.  As we do His good will, we allow His Spirit to write His instruction on our hearts that we do them from our heart.  Nothing required of the “Spirit” to understand any “mysteries”, as God has fully revealed both Himself and His will and His plans towards those who do His will to be very different from those who refuse or reject His instruction.  All the Instructions of God can be observed – we can also observe those who make the claim to be a Christian and who don’t have the proof James spoke of, that he can show his faith by his works.

 

Carefully read Matthew, especially the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  Where in all his teachings or the prophesies noted did Yeshua or the Prophets foretell Yeshua was to be a blood sacrifice for the sins of the world as Paul said?  I have yet to find it.  The passages from Isaiah 53 don’t make this claim.  Go back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Holy Scripture – read their study editions, such as the 14-volume set from Soncino – many are the claims Christians make for passages that are taken out of context or are absolutely mistranslated or altered in the Greek.  In the sermon of Peter on Pentecost in Acts the point is made that Jesus came to turn us from our iniquities – NOT to excuse our iniquity and promote Torahless living as taught by Paul.  We may pretend all our lives – but one day each of us will give account to God.  Will we be able to do so by the words of a false apostle?  I’d rather do my best to honor the word of God.

 

^{Romans 8: 5} Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

 

These words from Paul prove he was incorporating pagan ideas into Christianity.  Man is a living soul, and our flesh is not the cause of sin.  The “Spirit” doesn’t magically impart the words of God apart from His word.  The Spirit works with the word, just as told in the Creation account of Genesis.  Paul is great evidence to prove the point!  Paul consulted no man to know his gospel – he received it by “revelation” and not man.  There is no accord with the “gospel” of “revelation of Jesus Christ” received by Paul to the Teachings of Jesus.  There is no accord in the accounts from Paul of the Law or Jewish history that find accord to any sound principle or any True Instruction of God or knowledge of His will or Torah – abject ignorance is all Paul was capable of by his “Spirit” and “revelation”.  God is not the author of confusion.  The truth is simple – as with Cain, so with us: If we repent to do rightly (live according to the instructions of God – every word of God – no “cut and paste” options) God will forgive us and elevate us and we can abide in His presence, promises and kindness.  Life brings many tests of our faith – each of us are on an individual journey – but we must agree that we will do our best and get up when we trip or fall and continue on in His pathways.  As told in Exodus, God allows trials to come our way to see if we will obey Him – or not.  Trust in God.  God is good.  His words of life are everlasting and true.  “Thy word is truth”  Even the gospel of John claims “Sanctify them by Thy truth; Thy word is truth.”

 

^{Romans 8: 9} You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[d] because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of^[e] his Spirit who lives in you.

 

If God gives of His Spirit to write His Teachings on the heart to help us keep His pathways in life (Ezekiel 37), this is not the same as rejecting the Law as unable to do that for which God gave it – in fact – it is declaring God unfaithful and ignorant!  So long as our neighbors can see us, we are not “in the realm of the Spirit.”  Paul sounds more like a deluded mad man than someone who knows enough that we should listen to him.  Who put Paul into our Bibles?  Not God.  God gives life.  There is not a “Trinity” – there is One God – God said so, the Prophets and Psalms say so; and Jesus definitely said so.  Trinity doctrine was developed hundreds of years after Jesus and the Apostles.  Trinity is a pagan belief system – and is found nowhere in the Holy Scripture.  All will be resurrected – some to receive their rewards from God as due – some to everlasting condemnation.  Since all are to be resurrected to face God and give account for themselves – does the Spirit also dwell in the enemies of God as in the faithful?  Hardly.  Paul was a poor religion inventor – he makes no sense at all and consistently twists or denies the words of God. It’s no wonder Paul is at the center of all Church divisions.

 

^{Romans 8: 12} Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

 

Are we incapable to resist sin or evil?  Must we do evil the more we know the manner of life that God desires we live if we call upon His NAME?  Hardly so. I know many people who will have nothing to do with institutional religion that are among the most moral and just I’ve ever met – and they don’t pretend to live by “the Spirit”, but according to their conscience – and they don’t want to treat others unfairly.  Fact is that much evil is done by those who claim to be “Christians” and “Jews”.  In fact, child predators are adept to search out Churches to accept them as they groom their victims.  Words are cheap.  There is no accord in the Pauline gospel of cheap grace to the Grace God has declared towards those who honor and keep His word faithfully.  If God is the Creator who created Adam in His image, if God created the heavens and the earth – our obligation is to Him by learning the pathway of life He said to live in: “The Holy Way of Isaiah 35 – the Teachings of Jesus from the Father.”

 

^{Romans 8: 14} For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[g] Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

 

Rather we share in the work of Jesus – that we take his yoke upon us and learn from him.  Being yoked to Yeshua is to work along-side of him – not to ride on his back as a freeloader.  Through discipleship to Yeshua we are freed to obey God, rather than man or man-made imaginations that defy the Instructions of God.

 

Present Suffering and Future Glory

 

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

 

God’s children can be observed by their living as He instructed all men to live.  This is why Jesus said that men should see our works as good, that God be praised.  Jesus also said one doesn’t light a candle and put it under a bushel, but it is lit and set in place that it provides light to all in the house – so it is with being able to observe who the children of God are – and who is not, but say they are.  God called Israel His son.  The unique prophet to come, Jesus/Yeshua, was known as the “son of God” in the same sense, but in a unique and provable role.  No other Jew in all human history has been praised and honored above other men for their teachings as is Jesus – even though the accounts have been altered, millions point to the Sermon on the Mount as perhaps the best teaching given in all human history.  Also, the angels were called “the sons of God.”  Yet both are spoken of in Scripture to have been created by God – not birthed by God as a physical descendant.  Perhaps the Psalms of David give the best evidence of the hope of those whose trust is in God for all things.

How big is the creation of God?  If there are other worlds and peoples across the Universe – God would not subject their worlds to corruption because of the “sin” of Adam and Eve.  If God is true, if Ezekiel is true, if Jesus is true – it is impossible that God would hold the entire Universe responsible for the sins of all the people on earth – let alone of just one – Adam. (Ezekiel 18 – each responsible for their own deeds – whether good or evil.)

^{Romans 8: 22} We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

 

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time”?  Where do we learn this?  I can find no other witness to this being fact in the Holy Scripture or the Teachings of Yeshua.  How can we know what Paul said we all know, when we don’t know and we can’t prove it either?  No, I don’t know – and given the limited view of the “whole creation” in Paul’s day, let alone in our day with the aid of the Hubble Telescope – it is quite unknowable – common sense should cause us to pause and evaluate the claims Paul made – who are the witnesses that prove him true?  I have yet to fine just one – let alone two or more, as God commanded.  Recall Isaiah’s words: “If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them.”

Also, our hope remains for what God has in store in the restoration, when all things are made new.  What we do on earth – does it bind all creation to our fate from disbelief of the words of God?  There is no need to think God not capable to have populated unknown number of planets, and it is likely that not all refused to believe what He said is true.  Say a race in a universe beyond our sight were to sin and then God bound upon us their due penalty – would God be true to His word to hold the one who sins accountable, and that the righteous will not be held accountable for the sins of the wicked?  I can’t think of a reason in the world why I need to believe anything Paul wrote – let alone the forgeries that pretend his authorship.

 

^{Romans 8: 26} In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

 

^{Romans 8: 28} And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

 

Matthew 20:14 and 22:16 both have Jesus teaching that “many are called, but few are chosen.”  Romans 8:30 is one of the divisive verses in the NT, as it testifies against these passages from Jesus in Matthew – formally known as the doctrine of predestination – the passages in Matthew prove Paul to have provided testimony against the Teachings of Jesus.  Study Bible editions quite often support the teachings of Paul via other places where Paul wrote similar teachings of his gospel.  Is it curious that the on-line edition for the NIV made no mention of this teaching of Jesus that relates directly to verse 30.  This proves what I’m bringing up herein about Paul is a huge problem.  God gave standards of testimony or witness.  We need to evaluate the writings of Paul by the words of God – not the rantings and imaginations of a man who defied the Doctrine and Law of God.

 

More Than Conquerors

 

^{Romans 8: 31} What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

 

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

 

^{Romans 8: 37} No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Recall Jesus taught that he would tell some who thought they were his disciples, but who were without the Law or against the Law, that they would be told:  “Depart from me – I never knew you!”  Better to believe God than any man.  What brings us closer to God – elevates us?  Keeping His commandments as our manner and rule of life and conduct.

 

What separates us from God?  Go back and read the Ten Decrees Covenant given by God at Sinai – those who reject His word are His enemies.  If you think God promised what Paul said in Romans 8 – you’d better go back and see what God said. 

 

All things do work for the good of those that love God.  The stories of faithful saints in the Bible repeatedly tell us this – such as Joseph saying to his brothers: “You meant it for evil, but God used it for good.”  God defined love in the First decree to be those who love Him AND keep His commandments.  If you believe otherwise – talk to God about it – read the now restored Covenant Standards and see what God had to say – with the focus to do as Yeshua instructed: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  According to God, love is known by what it does.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me
   2. Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.
   3. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin
   4. Romans 8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive
   5. Romans 8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through
   6. Romans 8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.
   7. Romans 8:15 Aramaic for father
   8. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. ²¹ For
   9. Romans 8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who
   10. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
   11. Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers

 

 

Romans 9

 

Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

 

^{Romans 9: 1}I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— ² I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, ⁴ the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. ⁵ Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised!^[a] Amen.

 

According to early Christian history, Paul was completing a vow at the Temple to prove repentance or absolution of the charges against him of teaching against the Law.  Read Acts 20 – 23, as it is a book written to foster belief in Paul.  Were the charges against him to have been teaching Jews (Jewish disciples of Yeshua) that they no longer needed to keep the Law and Covenant as given by God?  Paul voluntarily submitted to the vow and paid for the witnesses to be present in the Temple with him as he made the weeklong vow.  The charges against Paul in the documents of antiquity found in the Damascus Documents are of one who was charged to be a liar, and the connection is too obvious to pretend to ignore or not directly suspect Paul – especially given the anti-Law teachings of Paul we have in the records of his writings in the New Testament.  To this point it has been shown what Paul was writing was not in accord to the Teachings of God up through Yeshua’s teaching ministry.  Because Paul says: “¹I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit,” the problem is his conscience is not a valid witness to truth.  The word of God is a valid witness to truth.  The “multitude of believers” who complained to the apostles of Paul teaching contrary doctrines might be considered a valid witness, as they all testified to what Paul was teaching – and we can review the writings of Paul and observe the charges made were true – Paul was teaching against the Law – and the Teachings of Yeshua in the account written by his chosen disciples, the twelve apostles – given in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew. (This dates near 55 AD, and the Greek Matthew dates to about 85 AD – thirty years later.)

 

God gave standards of witness for trials in the Torah.  Nowhere in all the Holy Scripture is one person claiming he hasn’t violated his conscience a valid standard of testimony of fact.  We can all have our own opinions and do things that don’t matter much, but to testify against God and call His Everlasting Covenant to have been done away with on the cross, or to be a curse, or to be the cause of sin  – at variance with the word of God and the Teachings of “that prophet”, Jesus/Yeshua – these are VERY serious charges indeed.  Yet we have Paul call to witness his conscience and then claim the Spirit of God testifies against the Word of God? (“my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit”) Such a matter should be obvious that such a person is not to be trusted. No wonder Paul’s exclamation that “I am not lying.”  As the old television show, Dragnet, said: “Just the facts mam – just give me the facts.”  The fact is that Paul in every way lied about God, the Covenant, the Doctrine of God and the Teachings of Jesus.  No where in Matthew can a hint of the doctrines of Paul be found – yet he claims he is testifying that “his gospel” is true – and God and Jesus gave it to him by revelation?  Funny that God proved to me that Paul is nothing but a rank liar – even though I used to believe him faithfully as I was taught to do – until I discovered the Teachings of Jesus and their harmony to the entire Holy Scripture and Dead Sea Scrolls – and the evidence that our Bibles were altered by Rome and Orthodox Judaism – who provably  have all but  nothing to do with God or those who are faithful to His instructions. (Rome Bible alterations/Jewish Scripture alterations and added books from their Pharisee Rabbi and Kaballism.)

 

Where in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew does Yeshua say he is God?  Where in the Holy Scripture is there a prophecy that God will manifest Himself in human flesh and sacrifice Himself for the sins of the world?  Nowhere.  So why does Paul end this paragraph saying Jesus is God?  This is a violation of the first commandment as well, as the literal translation is “thou shalt not put another god on My face.”  God is God.  Jesus prayed to God when giving the “Lord’s Prayer.”  Was he praying to Himself?!  No, he wasn’t, and he never claimed to be God, but a man, a man who was to ascend to the throne on the right hand of the Power on High – the Ancient of Days in Daniel.

 

God’s Sovereign Choice

 

^{Romans 9: 6} It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. ⁷ Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^[b] 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. ⁹ For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”^[c] 

 

Who is a descendant but one who begotten through direct lineage – bloodline?  The matter of Abraham having a descendant was the issue in Genesis 15 – that he have an heir to inherit his property, rather than his employee inheriting it?  God promised Abraham that he would have a descendant – even though Sarah was barren – that she would have a child – not that Abraham and Sarah having a child through the handmaid of Sarah to be the descendant of the promise.  Genesis 16 proves the point that the heir would be from Sarah, not the handmade – it would be proven that God would be true to His word, and although both Abraham and Sarah were beyond normal childbearing age – God would be true and do that which seemed humanly impossible.  The conflict between the offspring – Isaac and Ishmael – because of the dishonor of Ishmael, he and Hagar were not to dwell with the child of the promise – and although given a promise from the angel of God – the two descendants of Abraham – physical descendants – not imagined descendants – are at odds with each other to this day.  The children of the Promise are the children of the promise, but both were of the offspring of Abraham – but both were not offspring through Abraham and Sarah.  How is it as Paul says: “In other words it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring?”  Abrahams wife was Sarah – and the promises were made to Abraham and his descendants while he was married only to Sarah – and a different promise was made to the offspring of Abraham and Hagar – and both promises are of God, but only through Sarah and Abraham would come the fulfillment of the descendants who would inherit Canaan and receive the Ten Decrees at Sinai – the Everlasting Covenant which would be a blessing to all nations – whoever would honor the Decree and Covenant given by God Himself – not though and angel or elemental, or as a curse – as taught by Paul.

 

^{Romans 9: 10} Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. ¹¹ Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: ¹² not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”^[d] 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”^[e]

 

^{Romans 9: 14} What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses,

 

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
    and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”^[f]

 

^{Romans 9: 16} It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. ¹⁷ For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”^[g] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

 

Where in the words of God in the Torah does He give us information about “election”?  God obviously foreknew Jacob and Esau – He is the one who forms the soul within each of us before we are born – it is the soul that either accepts or rejects God – it is the soul of a man that decides to honor God – or not.  God was proving Himself to Isaac and Rebecah – that He knows who we are before we are born.  Our actions and decisions prove who we are – He foreknows – but we don’t – that’s because He is God and we are not.  Where did God ever say it was about “election”???  God has decreed who He will have mercy on, and who He will not – and His words about this are as true today as any of His word to Adam, Cain, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses or Jesus.  This is why we need to go back and rid the Bible of false apostles writings and alterations and mistranslations to the pre-existing word given in the Hebrew Holy Scripture and the ancient records of the Dead Sea Scrolls – the Scripture of Yeshua’s days on earth.  God declared who He will have mercy on, and who are His enemies.  To deny this is to deny the most important commandment/decree God gave – believe God, choose life, and live it according to His gracious instructions in righteousness!!

 

^{Romans 9: 19} One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” ²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^[h] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

 

Is it the will of God that anyone perish?  He said His will is that all would come to the knowledge of Him and repent, that He might save them.  He will be true to His word, and His word is just and righteous.  Do we have the ability to reject the word of God? Do we have the ability to observe the words of God?  Are we inclined to seek out His will that we might do it?  Are we inclined to double check what someone claims God said, so we can know if they speak according to His word – or not?  This is a time of great deception on earth – particularly in Western society.  Look at how the MSM has been foisting false charges to blind men from observing fact – to then rule by false accusation – certainly a work of those who rebel against God and seek to destroy what good remains!  God hates those who sow discord among brethren, but He doesn’t hate those who dare declare His word eternally true.  Isaiah 30:18; “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.  For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.”

 

^{Romans 9: 22} What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? ²³ What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As he says in Hosea:

 

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”^[i]

 

²⁶ and,

 

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”^[j]

 

²⁷ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

 

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
    only the remnant will be saved.
²⁸ For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[k]

 

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah said previously:

 

“Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”^[l]

 

Israel’s Unbelief

 

³⁰ What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; ³¹ but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. ³² Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. ³³ As it is written:

 

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

 

Read the passages in Isaiah as noted, but this is the Hebrew Scripture for 28:16,

 

“Therefore, hear the word of HASHEM, O scoffing men, O rulers of this people who are in Jerusalem.  For you say, “We has sealed a covenant with Death and made a compact with the Grave; when the surging staff of punishment passers through it will not come to us, for we have made Deceit our shelter and taken refuge in Falsehood.”  Therefore, thus said my Oord HASHEM/ELOHIM: Behold, I am laying a stone for a foundation in Zion; a sturdy stone, a precious cornerstone, as secure foundation.  Let the believer not expect it soon.  I shall use judgment as a measuring line, and righteousness as a plumb bob.  Hail will sweep away the shelter of Deceit, and water will wash away the refuge of Falsehood.  And your covenant with Death will be annulled, and your compact with the Grave will not be binding; when the surging staff passes through, it will pass through every morning, by day and by night; understanding of this report will being them horror.”  Where is: “and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame?”  Yeshua’s teachings certainly include the judgment and righteousness God commanded of “My people.”  Where is judgment in the writings of Paul if he said the love of God is unconditional, yet from the first of the Ten Decrees, to the Blessings, as opposed to the Curses – love, according to God IS CONDITIONAL – the condition being the Ten Decrees – just as said in Deuteronomy and especially in the proto-Deuteronomy that is 3000 years old – by Elohim Himself!  All through the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew the references kept going to those who honor the Covenant by their faithfulness to it.  It is God given standards for justice and righteousness.  Would it be deceitful to say God will not use them to judge those who speak falsely against the Decrees of God?  Rather, are not each of us capable and responsible to repent – that we do them and do no evil?  Does Paul uphold the Law as everlastingly true standards of God that each of us is capable to hear, observe, and do them?

 

Anyone who has read Matthew has to admit Yeshua taught doing the works of God.  He was careful to say his disciples are to live by every word of God.  The Ten Decrees are amongst the words of God, and in fact the words that God said will be used as His rule in judgment of Jew and Gentile.  God also spoke through Moses to say He would raise up a prophet from amongst Israel that whoever would not hear whatever he said to do would be “cut-off.”  If Yeshua (Jesus) is that prophet – and there exists very good evidence that he is in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew – then since Yeshua said we are not to even think he came to loosen or set the Law aside – if we believe Yeshua – we cannot believe the claims of Paul, because Paul defies doing the Torah and also teaches it was not given by God – in Galatians 3 and 4.  See the review of Galatians.  Be it known that the Sermon on the Mount – and other passages – are altered in the Greek version.  See the link to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew:

 

^{http://onediscipletoanother.org/id6.html}

 

^{Deuteronomy 18: 17-22;} The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

 

You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

 

 

 

^{Deuteronomy 41}Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. ² Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

 

³ You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, ⁴ but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

 

⁵ See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” ⁷ What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

 

⁹ Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” ¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. ¹³ He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. ¹⁴ And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

 

Deuteronomy 12

 

²⁹ The Lord your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, ³⁰ and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.” ³¹ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

 

³² See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

Deuteronomy 13

Worshiping Other Gods

^1[a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, ² and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” ³ you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. (Yeshua never claimed to be God or co-Creator) The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. (Yeshua taught his disciples to keep the commandments of God). ⁵ That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. (This is likely why they wanted to kill Paul when he failed to fulfill his seven day vow at the Temple.) That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

 

⁶ If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, ⁷ gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), ⁸ do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. ⁹ You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. ¹¹ Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

 

¹² If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in ¹³ that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), ¹⁴ then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, ¹⁵ you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,^[b] both its people and its livestock. ¹⁶ You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, ¹⁷ and none of the condemned things^[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors— ¹⁸ because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

 

  Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
   2. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12
   3. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14
   4. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
   5. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
   6. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
   7. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
   8. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
   9. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
   10. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
   11. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
   12. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
   13. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16

None of these passages support what Paul was teaching.  Interjecting some passages to support basic facts doesn’t make what Paul was teaching true.  Beware any references for the Septuagint, as the Greek is altered text – check the Hebrew Scriptures and the record from the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.

            Romans 10

 

^{Romans 10: 1}Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. ² For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. ³ Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. ⁴ Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

 

^{Romans 10: 5} Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[a] 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. ¹¹ As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^[e] 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, ¹³ for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

 

“5.  Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”  Verse 5 is an example of alteration of the Greek from what the correct Hebrew translation is.  From the Stone Edition, 4-5; “Carry out My laws and safeguard My decrees to follow them; I am Elohim, your God.  You shall observe My decrees, and My laws, which man shall carry out and by which he shall live – I AM Elohim.”  In Paul’s “quote”, the words of Elohim are altered to say it is not by doing the will of God as given, but by merely calling upon the name of Jesus:  “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”  Study of Matthew shows Jesus was teaching doing the will of God in reality – both towards God, as well as our fellow mankind, and that we judge ourselves first, so others won’t have the need to judge us – and all the Judgments are to be based on how Elohim said we are to live.  Jesus did not teach himself as “the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.”  As Jesus taught at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, it is those who hear and do what he taught in this sermon, as those who only hear, but do not do – will not be blessed, instead theirs will be a great fall.

 

As for verse 11 to account “belief” to save – note the end of John 3 for some clarity that is in accord to the OT examples: belief saves, but those who don’t obey are condemned.  This shows that disobedience is equated to disbelief, as the principle taught in “Why do you call me “Lord”, and not do as I say?”  Go back to the Sermon on the Mount – those who do what he taught are wise – those who don’t will come to sudden destruction.  Also note to not keep the Law (10 Decrees Covenant Standards) (Greek “anomia”) are those he will say – in spite of what they wholeheartedly believed – “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity – I never knew you.”  The important thing to recognize in the Romans passage above is that Paul is directly defying the explicit words of God by completely altering the conclusion of what God had to say.  Elohim declared that by observing and doing His word there is life, we choose to live, that we live through doing them.  Paul cuts the verse short in his quote and then inserts his own imagination as the conclusion: “^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:” and defying what God said about living uprightly by His Standards in the Decree/Covenant.  Paul negates everything God said to do, Paul negates everything Jesus said to do, and you have to believe Paul is greater than God, the Prophets and Jesus if you are going to ignore everyone else in the entire Bible to think Paul told the truth.   By putting Paul’s lies as “Scripture” – all the Bible Publishers and “Theologians” have given false testimony in the name of Elohim Almighty – just because some Council of men said to.   

 

Did God make distinction between Jew and Gentile in the Ten Decrees, Blessings, and Curses? – as the One Law was given for all – by Elohim.   There is no need to pretend or imagine – go with knowable fact and stop pretending..

 

^{Romans 10: 14} How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

 

How can anyone know if they should be rejecting the teachings of Paul, unless they are taught the Torah of God that they know His commandments and know who He commanded that we reject?!  Paul is not jumping off the page to tell you he is a liar – you have to observe the Truth to know a lie.  It’s no wonder God also declared from of old: “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”

 

^{Romans 10: 16} But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”^[h] 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

 

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.”^[i]

 

^{Romans 10: 19} Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,

 

“I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
    I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”^[j]

 

^{Romans 10: 20} And Isaiah boldly says,

 

“I was found by those who did not seek me;
    I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”^[k]

 

^{Romans 10: 21} But concerning Israel he says,

 

“All day long I have held out my hands
    to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

 

Go to the passages referenced and see the message they should have believed.  Isaiah begins with the plea of God:  “Come! Let us reason together!” Jesus taught the proper interpretation and application of the Law, Prophets and Psalms – he taught nothing new.  Recall Ezekiel 18 and consider if it is hard to do what is just and right before God and honest men.  Which of the Ten Decrees – or any commandment of God – is too hard to understand or do?  Which of them causes us to sin?  Are you inflamed to dishonor your parents because God said to honor them?  Are you inflamed to commit murder, adultery or theft because God said not to?  Are you inflamed to covet everything you see that you don’t have – because God said not to covet what others have?  Such thoughts are total nonsense.  There is no Decree of Elohim that is the cause of sin or evil.  PAUL LIED.  There is no commandment of God or Teaching of Yeshua that is too hard to do or understand – and we not only receive the promised kindness of God for living by them, we should also be a blessing to our family, community, and show how wonderful and simple the Pathway to Life Everlasting is to all who desire to live a just and reasonable life as God wills for all men.  We should treat each other with respect and kindness – because we are created in the image of God.  We should seek to live in peace with all men – as much as within our ability – but we also see from Abraham that it is just and righteous to rescue the righteous from the wicked.  I can think of no other descendant of Abraham to have captured the interest of all the nations as did Yeshua (Jesus).  I can think of no other prophet in all Jewish history that should be credited to have done as foretold in Isaiah 42, that he would make keeping the Torah honorable for the Gentiles.  I think it’s about time we say “Restore!” and “Give it back!”, as told in Isaiah 42.  Let’s get real with God and the Desired One of the ages – “that prophet” Moses foretold of.

 

 

 

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 10:5 Lev. 18:5
   2. Romans 10:6 Deut. 30:12
   3. Romans 10:7 Deut. 30:13
   4. Romans 10:8 Deut. 30:14
   5. Romans 10:11 Isaiah 28:16 (see Septuagint)
   6. Romans 10:13 Joel 2:32
   7. Romans 10:15 Isaiah 52:7
   8. Romans 10:16 Isaiah 53:1
   9. Romans 10:18 Psalm 19:4
   10. Romans 10:19 Deut. 32:21
   11. Romans 10:20 Isaiah 65:1
   12. Romans 10:21 Isaiah 65:2

 

 

Romans 11

 

The Remnant of Israel

 

^{Romans 11: 1}I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: ³ “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”^[a]? ⁴ And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”^[b] 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. ⁶ And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

 

First, recall I already wrote about Paul being a Herodian, not a Jew of the tribe of Benjamine.  Where in Ezekiel did God say the 7000 others had not bowed the knee to Baal because of the grace of God towards the 7000?  God was letting Ezekiel know he was not alone – even though he felt at that time he alone stood up for God to the false prophets of Baal and the corrupted king and queen of Israel.  Read Ezekiel sometime so you know what went on and that you observe if the grace of God caused the 7000 to remain true to Him – or if the 7000 being true to Him is the reason He will be gracious unto them.  Did not God say He had kept them BECAUSE they had not bowed their knee to Baal, nor kissed him (Baal) I Kings 19:18?  God doesn’t go by grace alone – God said to base our decisions on living by His word and dong no evil.  Honoring another as God that is not God, but falsehood – that is the source of evil.  God warned of the “alien gods” and “gods come lately who are no gods. (Baal and the like)  The principle is not hard to grasp – as it was in perfect alignment with Ezekiel 18, wherein God is clear to say the soul that sins will be solely responsible for their sins – but the soul who repents to do justice and righteousness in His eyes (by keeping His Decreed Covenant Conditions) will live.  The one thing God said He will not absolve anyone of is what?  If God is true, this also is important foundational TRUTH – In the Ten Decrees – does God say He will not absolve anyone who takes His NAME in vain?  God is just – and it would not be just to punish those who do the will of the Father, and then reward the disobedient with good for being evil or unjust.  Paul is artful in his twisting of Scripture and historical fact – but early evidence from the Ebionites says Paul was not a Jew by birth – which would explain his ignorance of the Hebrew Scripture and history – but not his artful twisting of fact to defy the Instruction and goodness of the Everlasting Covenant and how it relates to the Teachings of Yeshua and the judgment of God to be completely just.  Did the 7000 not bow their knee to Baal because God did it for them, yet didn’t for others?  God is not unjust,  but rewards each according to their works – not faith alone or grace alone – but by their works.  Even Revelation ends on this same note.  Paul was not speaking of behalf of God when saying He preserved the 7000 by grace – not that God defies being gracious – but His grace or kindness has purpose.  So will we stand with God and believe He is just – or will we stand behind Paul and pretend the Torah is unjust and a weapon formed against us – to lead us to know we cannot do His will and therefore God sacrificed His only Son to serve as a sin sacrifice that He might gain the ungodly by grace alone or faith without works?  Was Israel pardoned of their evil by their blood sacrifices?  No, as they did not seek to follow the conditions of the Everlasting Covenant ratified at Sinai. 

 

^{Romans 11: 7} What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, ⁸ as it is written:

 

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”^[c]

 

⁹ And David says:

 

“May their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
¹⁰ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
    and their backs be bent forever.

 

Elect?  Where in the Hebrew Scripture or the Teachings of Yeshua do we find that God “elects” one person above another? In the First of the Ten Decrees of God, nothing is said of any “election” of God, but that God is giving instruction via Teachings/Decrees that we prove to God and ourselves and all other men – if we are being faithful and true to God by observing and doing His just standards of righteousness – or not.  Nothing about any election of God – just clear – plain – easily observable – perfectly reasonable – perfectly true principles of how God says we are to live, what we are to do to be blessed, and that we do nothing He said is cursed.  We choose to do what we do – which is why God will hold us accountable for whether we choose life as He gives it – or not.  Those who have a spirit of stupor are so because they have not paid attention to believe and observe the true words of God and Yeshua.  God makes men wise via His word.  Those not of God are the fault of stupors – those who reject His instruction are those who are not wise – BECAUSE THEY REJECT HIS INSTRUCTION AND BELIEVE LIES SPOKEN IN HIS NAME.  

Again – where has God said who He will be gracious to is based upon His election?  God declared the difference between Jacob and Esau before they did good or evil – but this was His foreknowledge of what they would choose regarding the promises He had made to Abraham.  One would desire His blessing, the other counted it as worth no more than a bowl of food.  Why did God say Noah found grace in His eyes?  Because of his living justly in the face of injustice, violence and wickedness that prevailed among the evil souls upon the earth?  God is not unjust or unreasonable or unfaithful to His word or in giving mankind His word via the descendants of Abraham.  Our greatest challenge is to stand up for the unaltered words of God and to reject the altered word and those who  altered it or continue to alter it. (Jeremiah 29:23; “Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.” And “we have inherited lies and vanity.”  Romans shows this is very true.

 

Ingrafted Branches

 

^{Romans 11: 11} Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. ¹² But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

 

God gave instruction before there were  Jew and Gentile.  In the creation of man, a God given sense of discernment was built into Adam.  This is why man is not like any of the other animals of creation, who are indiscriminate about things men are discriminate about by nature.  God declared Noah just before the Law was given at Sinai.  In fact, God declared Cain was capable to do good and improve himself – after the “Fall”.  Abraham was declared righteous before the Law at Sinai.  In fact, Abraham was not found faithful to God based on his genetics – but by his faithfulness to God’s leading and instructing him.  Those of a multitude of nations left Egypt before the giving of the Law – they also ratified the Law at Sinai to be the Covenant – to both Jew and Gentile!  Yeshua was doing nothing new to renew the Covenant to Jew AND Gentile!  The first renewing of the Covenant was done as they entered Canaan.  The 160 CE Aramaic English New Testament has Yeshua saying he came to renew the Covenant – not give a New Covenant – our records are evidently altered – but God is true, and by going back to see what He declared – we can still know the truth He gave.  God did not alter it.  Most recently, in the book “The Origins of Judaism”, Jonatan Alder gives many proofs that the Hebrew Scriptures are greatly alted from what came before, and that “Judaism” of Jesus’ day did not begin until 444 BC.  Jesus role was to Restore! What was originally the will of Elohim for mankind – as seen in “the great commission” that the same message be given to the entire earth… to be taught what he had first taught them – and which we should now see that Paul is totally defying via his teachings in Romans.  It’s so sad that Martin Luther and John Calvin did not seek to return to the Teachings of God and Jesus.

 

^{Romans 11: 13} I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry ¹⁴ in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

 

“In as much as I am the apostle to the Gentiles?”  In Acts, it is Peter who brought in the first Gentile, but since Acts is suspect at best, we should look to Matthew – wherein Yeshua clearly said to make disciples of all nations – not Jews first, and then Gentiles.  The role of Yeshua – the proofs – were not known fully until his death, burial, resurrection and ascension to the “right hand of the Power on High.”  There is no mystery regarding Gentiles in Matthew, and it was written before Paul appears on the scene – had Paul bothered to check with the Apostles when he was baptized – if he was baptized.  Had he been told to go to someone, that he might know what he must do – I find no reason to think someone as near as Damascus who was a disciple of Yeshua would have not told him of the account of Yeshua by his chosen disciples – how else did Paul come up with pretending to be an “apostle” to the gentiles?  How come Paul goes where he can find gentiles who are ignorant of the Torah to foist his “gospel” upon them – pretending to be someone who knew the Torah – when he obviously was a biblical ignoramus and not even knowing “seed” and “seeds” to be nothing but an invention – as in Hebrew – the language of the Torah – “seed” was always plural – not singular. (so claims Jewish rabbi Tovia Singer)  This premise is further known by his alterations of historical fact and citing a Greek translation?!, when someone he claimed to be his teacher would never have supported or used such a faulty “translation”.  All Paul is doing is inventing his “lore” to make biblical ignoramuses of those who would know better if they consulted the Teachings of Yeshua in Matthew and the Hebrew Scripture that the gospel is based upon.  Again – Ezekiel 18 would have been sufficient.  Let’s see where Paul goes with his invention.  In the Torah and Prophets, God spoke of Israel not keeping to His Torah, and as a result they would be cast out of the land of promise and remain few in number – but that a remnant would return to Him in the latter, or end, of days.  As God said would happen did happen, and Jews remain few in number to this day – many seek to establish their right to the Land by evil means – and those will end as God declared – as those He will show kindness towards are those who are faithful to do His Covenant conditions faithfully because of His love for them and the faithfulness and reliability of His word and promises.

 

^{Romans 11: 17} If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, ¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

 

What nation since unfaithful Judah of Yeshua’s days has kept the Torah of God to be their manner of life and faith?  Yeshua said God was tearing the Kingdom from them and would give it to another who WOULD produce the fruits of the Kingdom of God.  Has Rome been faithful to the Everlasting Covenant?  Too much evidence of evil exists to pretend this so.  They were the ones who killed thousands, forbid the reading of the Holy Scripture by their membership, and foisted the false apostle to be true and put his nonsense into Christian Bibles.  God will be true, and we are called to “wait upon the LORD” and trust in His faithfulness to His word.  If one trusts in God, one has to take His word as a guide and stay in life – not alter it.  However – all the alterations foisted upon us only prove it is time that we non-Jew believers in God acknowledge the passage has now come true that “we have inherited lies and vanity” from those who killed the first generations of faithful believers in Yeshua – both Jew and Gentile.  As Yeshua said; all things spoken in the Law and Prophets will be fulfilled – which brings us to Jeremiah 16:19 in the Christian Bible and Jewish Bible (JPS).

 

King James Version: O Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”

 

New King James: “O Lord, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”

 

NIV: “Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.”

 

JPS: “HASHEM, my Strength, my Stgronghold and my Refuge on the day of distress!  To You nations will come from the ends of the earth and say: “It was all falsehood that our ancestors inherited, futility that has no purpose.  Can a man make gods for himself? – they are not gods!” (This passage appears to be missing in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.) 

 

Yeshua never claimed to be God – he prayed to God – he said to keep His commandments faithfully – to the least of the commandments! – so long as the heavens and earth shall last – not until he was killed on the cross!  The Everlasting Covenant was given to Jew and Gentile at the same time – the gospel message taught by Yeshua was also given to Jew and Gentile – because Yeshua was renewing the Everlasting Covenant – not doing away with it!  It’s time to repent of Paul!!!!!!!

 

^{Romans 11: 22} Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. ²³ And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!  

 

God does not desire than anyone perish – which is why His Teachings are so easy to observe – even children can grasp them.  The idea that there is a tree that branches are replaced – grafted in – does not fit well with reality, as told by Elohim.  This is another “straw-man” invention of Paul, as are Pauls teachings about our being different body parts, but the same body – utter nonsense when we first and foremost see what God and Jesus had to say about things.  For starters, God has a specific eye on Israel due to the role He assigned to them, and the direct words of Blessing and/or Cursed depending on their choices in relationship to His Teachings/Covenant in how they live towards themselves and others.  It is much like Israel is the canary the rest of us can observe to see if God is faithful to His words – or not.  An example is in the quotes from Jeremiah given – where God tells the nations to observe – to see what Israel is up to.  What did God say would happen to Israel if they did this or that – two examples being what we have in our Bibles currently, but since they altered some of those things so badly, we should be looking directly to THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES account, and the best accounts of the Prophets – realizing they are also somewhat altered to pretend a good end – when Elohim Almighty offered them no good end when they reached certain levels of evil and unfaithfulness.  God was true to His word when the Temple was destroyed and Israel was scattered to the nations near 100 CE.  What is about to happen has also been told from the beginning, as well as what Jesus said in Matthew 24, and what the angel was telling Daniel of the end times.

Gentiles being included with Israel in the kindness of God is based on the Torah – the very words already spoken by God at Sinai – in fulfillment to His promise to bless all nations through the seed of Abraham.  Read your Bible and see this is so.  Lies against the Everlasting Covenant are a great evil – whether foisted by fake Christians or fake Jews.  The One Law of Elohim is the Decrees/Blessings and the Curses – given for all mankind – not just the Jews.

 

All Israel Will Be Saved

 

^{Romans 11: 25} I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶ and in this way^[e] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

 

“The deliverer will come from Zion;
    he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
²⁷ And this is^[f] my covenant with them
    when I take away their sins.”^[g]

 

^{Romans 11: 28} As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, ²⁹ for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. ³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, ³¹ so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^[h] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. ³² For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

 

God has bound no one to disobedience – rather God has said that He desires all to repent that He might save/redeem them!  Go to the Holy Scripture and pay attention to the words of God – very close attention – stop trusting in those who testify against the Law and the Testimony!  God gave His Instructions in righteousness to elevate and bless all of us – if we will observe His Instruction to do them!  The main passage sited in the footnotes is from Isaiah 59: 20-21.   God did not “harden” Israel in Isaiah 59.  In fact, God was pleading for them to return to Him by doing as He instructed – they had no fear of God and were bent on following their own ways – not the God given pathway to life!  Read all of Isaiah 59 and see it was not God who hardened Israel’s heart – so Paul once again testifies against the Law and the Prophets.  Why have we and our “fathers”  been so blinded all these years? It’s time to return to God and believe His word, Covenant and will for men of all nations.  Awaken and understand – all of Isaiah should be understood with the context God gave in the beginning – “Come, let us reason together!  Though you sins are red as crimson, they can become white as snow.”  How did God say this is done?  Read Isaiah 1.  Jesus taught likewise!

 

^{Romans 11: 7}“But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Paul is twisting the words of God when He was giving the Covenant.  Look back at the dialogue of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 4.  Paul is substituting “Christ” and “Jesus Christ our Lord” for what Elohim said about the covenant being very near to our hearts and minds so that there is no need to send off to somewhere else that we might know and understand it.  Elohim said the Standards of the Covenant are near to us, in our hearts and mouth – they are perfectly reasonable – they are universal standards – anyone should realize each of them is based on the differences between what is good and what is evil to any reasonable and normal human being.  He also said we are capable and responsible to both Him and our fellow.  No where is it possible or implied that anything was a mystery that one might ask who will ascend to the heavens to get it to tell us, or who will cross the seas to find it for us?  No, God said it is near to us and in our hearts and mouths, not some “Mystery” of any kind.  Think this over.   Look at the Covenant Standards from the days of Ezekiel; look over the current account in all our “Bibles” – the fact is that Paul was retelling his delusions – Paul was not faithful to tell us what God or Jesus taught!!!!  In fact – Paul was defying God, Moses, every person present at Sinai, all the Prophets, as well as the very one he claimed to have appointed him to tell his lies to the non-Jew Gentiles!!!!  If you cannot see that flagrant lie – you’d just as well stop reading the Bible and join Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, or the Church of Satan – because you do not believe God or His holy prophets!!!.

 

Jesus never taught that his keeping the Law of Elohim would be substituted for our not keeping it.  No, instead he taught repenting and going back and keeping the Covenant as God gave it – not as the unfaithful of his days commanded keeping the rules of the Pharisee Rabbi that were not in accord to the Covenant decrees God.  According to Jesus, faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and per the example of Abraham and all those counted as faithful to God – their faithfulness was accounted to them.  As Yeshua taught about the resurrection – we trust not only in the blessing and kindness in our current life – but also in the rewards to come when God judges the just and the unjust – the righteous and the wicked.  Reward is based on our works – to have done the works of God, as instructed by God – or to have refused to walk in the pathways of life as He instructed.

If our love for Elohim or Jesus (Joshua) is true – we need to absolutely reject Paul’s lies and stand up for the real truth of God.  Use the Teachings of God to know who is true to God, from who is not.  Then you will be able to distinguish between truth verus lies, or good versus evil, or who actually serves Elohim from him who does not.  This is exactly what Elohim declared as neccessary for today, as we are in an age of great deceit.

 

 

 

 

Doxology

 

^{Romans 11: 33} Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and^[i] knowledge of God!
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!

 

The footnotes below offer no quote of Scripture to the above, and many say it is Paul’s impassioned statement alone, not a quote.  The only way to understand the Covenant account is to read it, hear it, chew on it and digest it a while.  The truth and wisdom contained therein is remarkably deep, but also plainly observable.  Therefore – to say His judgments are unsearchable is to say we cannot know the will of God, when God plainly and clearly gave His will and Teachings that must be used to trace out judgments and base this on the understanding He gave to start with!!!  What is nonsense is the gospel of cheap grace and cheap faith that was taught by this apostle of Satan, who was first to twist and defy the words of God to confuse and tempt Adam and Eve.  If Paul walks, talks, and looks like a duck – he’s a duck!  Stop eating his duck-food!!!

God gave Instruction via Moses and at Sinai directly – His word is not hard to understand or to keep and He invites us to know and do His will that He might bless us.  Read Psalm 119 if one seeks to regard His good will.  The Law is wisdom and knowledge given by God Himself and are not beyond discovery or understanding!  God said so.  Do you disbelieve God because Paul said His word is too hard to understand or do?  What seems “impossible” in the Sermon on the Mount is viewed “impossible” because the words of Yeshua were altered.  See the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and carefully note the alteration and the impart it has towards understanding the truth Yeshua spoke.  Yeshua didn’t alter the words of God – the words of Yeshua were altered.  This alone proves John questionable as it testifies that “my words shall by no means pass away”, as they were altered.  What it means is God will be true to His word, even though corrupt men have altered them significantly.

^{Romans 11: 34} “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”

How can we know the mind of God if we don’t first hear what He had to say, and then judge if Paul spoke on His behalf or not?  How can we “know” the gospel of God taught by Jesus unless we first grasp his teachings in Matthew as they also find accord to the words of God in the Torah and prophets?  How can we judge justly unless we see if Jesus spoke the truth in Matthew?  Matthew is the best record of his teachings and is reported to have been written by his apostles in Hebrew very early in Church history.  What God has given us to know is what we need – but we cannot say Elohim is our God and then spurn and reject His instruction and commandment (Torah) – as those who reject doing His will are His enemies – not those He will bless. (so says the first of the Ten Decrees currently, also see when God said through the prophets to Israel, that due to their rebellion against Him, they had become His enemy.)

 
^{Romans 11: 35} “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”^[k]
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.

If God says He will bless and show His kindness towards those whose love for Him is true to His Covenant – it is His goodness and blessing to give those who “earn” it by love and faithfulness and trust in Him and His instructions.  His instruction was given that we not be foolish – but become wise through knowing His instruction and the pathway for which mankind, according to our God given nature,  was created to live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with Him.  His blessing and kindness are His just reward!  Where does God ever say He will reward the wicked the same as He will those who are righteous in His sight?  In one hand is the discovery of the God given pathway to life and freedom to live life at its fullest – on the other is a life than leads to death and multitudes of problems – which God was true to tell: “Choose life, that ye may live!”  The letters of the Law no more bring death and a curse, than the flesh of a person cause sin – the soul chooses life or death by whether it chooses to trust in God and His faithfulness to His word – or if the soul does not trust the pathway of justice, fairness, mercy and truth given by God.  God is being true to His word to give just recompense to what a person chooses to do.  Paul is creating a “straw-man” argument and evidently has no knowledge of the Torah or God or His word or promises and Covenants.  Being faithful to God and the Covenant are what we give God as His due.  This is exactly why Israel failed – they did not give God His due – and we can see from history that the same condition exists today – and worse – just as He said would happen – they sink lower and lower.

 

By all means – check out the passages in the footnotes – but do so with eyes open to seek to understand the will of God – especially in context to claims from Paul – see if Paul is taking the Hebrew scripture in proper context – or if the passage is not being taken in context.  Sometimes study Bibles and Paul use scripture in  a “cute and paste” manner that shows lack of understanding context, such as replacing what God said about the Law/Covenant with Jesus Christ.  Most are hit and miss.  Sometimes they prove mistranslations exist in Christian Bibles.  These kind of things are what made discovery of the truth difficult – not God.  Those of Elohim will find encouragement and harmony with Psalm 1:

“Praiseworthy is the man who walked not in the counsel of the wicked, and stood not in the path of the sinful, and sat not in the session of scorners.  But his desire is in the Teachings of Elohim, and in His Law (Torah) he meditates day and night.  He shall be like a tree deeply rooted alongside brooks of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf never withers; and everything that he does will succeed.   Not so the wicked; rather they are like chaff that the wind drives away.  Therefore, the wicked shall not be vindicated in judgment, nor the sinful in the assembly of the righteous – for Elohim attends the way of the righteous, while the way of the wicked will perish.” 

Don’t forget who Jesus claimed to be in Matthew.  The proof between a true prophet and a false prophet is what they tell you to believe or do – is it in accord with the words of God, or not?   Come to know the truth, as it will set you free indeed if you are a disciple indeed – observe to do the will of God.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14
   2. Romans 11:4 1 Kings 19:18
   3. Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10
   4. Romans 11:10 Psalm 69:22,23
   5. Romans 11:26 Or and so
   6. Romans 11:27 Or will be
   7. Romans 11:27 Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34
   8. Romans 11:31 Some manuscripts do not have now.
   9. Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the
   10. Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13
   11. Romans 11:35 Job 41:11

 

Romans 12

A Living Sacrifice

^{Romans 12: 1}Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

Where in the Everlasting Covenant did God say He demands man to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice?  No where that I’ve found.  Is this what God meant when saying: “What does God require of thee, O man, but to live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God”?  Is this what the wise man who said: “Fear God and keep His commandments – this is the duty of man.”?  God declared “My Covenant” to be the Ten Decrees – not “613 Laws” that are impossible for any man to keep.  God did warn not to be conformed to the world of those who serve other gods – gods of their own creation, or the “alien gods” who “are no gods” and “gods come lately.”  God revealed Himself to Jew and Gentile at Sinai – and we would do well and review His words that we might be amongst those who are blessed by knowing His revealing of Himself at the same time that He gave just and righteous commandments that are completely true and that were given to elevate all who would repent and turn to observe and do His will and Covenant.

 

If God gave His word to bless and elevate us – to cause us to grow in doing what is just and right in His sight – then we absolutely must align our conscience to the words of God – that we might be walking humbly with our God in accepting His pathways and walking within His stated pathway of life.  If we cast aside His pathway to then walk on a pathway that He warned against – we have not trusted God, just as Adam and Eve didn’t trust God in the Garden by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but chose to believe a lie of the Serpent.  Trials are given along our lives so that both God and ourselves can know whether we will obey Him – or not.  I’ll choose this day to follow God – even though and old song says: “It was good for Paul and Silus, it’s good enough for me.”  No, rather: It was good for Moses and Jesus – that’s good enough for me!  I’ll choose to live life that is true to God and that gives me full freedom to do justly and rightly – to live life in equality with other men, and a life that gives God given rights – not slavery, servitude, or communism.  See the Ten Decrees: they don’t support servitude, Communism, or Socialism – the words of God tell us what the best pathway to  live within!  It’s a mystery to me how both Communism and Psychology were both birthed by Jews…. God gave no such instruction to them.  And what was the message of Jesus to the Jews, since he knew the kingdom was being torn from them and the Temple would be destroyed, and the remnant scattered throughout the world?

Humble Service in the Body of Christ

 

^{Romans 12: 3} For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. ⁴ For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. ⁶ We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your^[a] faith; ⁷ if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; ⁸ if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,^[b] do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

 

Where is Paul’s telling of the God given pathways established throughout the Hebrew Scripture?  Judgment should be based on judging as God decreed – not according to some imaginary “faith” that God distributed among the disciples of Paul – those who put the words of Paul above the words of God and Jesus.  I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me – each of us belong to God – but who choses His pathways to live by?  Where did Jesus teach God would give us differing “gifts”?  Where did God say he would give us each different “gifts”?  I’ve heard many who claim the gift of prophecy that made no sense at all.  I’ve seen many who pretend the “gift” of speaking in tongues – but no such thing is found in the mouth of Jesus in Matthew – only in Mark – a reported disciple of Paul.  I’ve seen many who claim the “gift” of miraculous healing – but have also seen corruption and guile amongst them enough to know that what they did was not of God – because God let us know how to tell who speaks on His behalf, just as we were also informed how to tell those who DO NOT – miracles alone were not proof, nor is giving prophecy that comes to pass – His test is that they teach according to His Teachings given at Sinai.  God does not want His people to be ignorant of His will, as He said “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”  Surely lacking the knowing of His will.  Paul claimed to have great knowledge – but in reality was an abject ignoramus of God’s will.  Did he teach others to value him more than he deserved?  It sure appears so to me. 

Look for the opportunities to do good, as God blesses you with the resources to share with others in need.  As John the Baptist taught – share our abundance, if we have two shirts, give one to someone who has none.  Plead the case of the widows, orphans, oppressed, as you also look for those in need of food or clothes, or who are imprisoned falsely – or minister to those who are justly there -redemption is for each and every soul who will abandon evil and allow the Teachings of God to restore them to the pathway of life given by Elohim Almighty.  Learn from Elohim – line upon line, precept upon precept – observe to do – renew the heart to seek His way indeed!  “The Holy Way” of Isaiah 35.  “Surely, if you improve yourself, you will be forgiven.  But if you do not improve yourself, sin rests at the door.  Its desire is towards you, yet you can conquer it.”

 

 

 

Love in Action

The following is perhaps the closest Paul gets to the truth of God.  Much of this can be referred to from the teachings of Jesus/Yeshua/Joshua in Matthew – although the footnotes give no credit to showing principles from the Law being in the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.  Where Paul goes off track is that God created men to live in equality – not that men were told to put everyone else above themselves – God and Yeshua taught equality among men, as men are created in the image of God – and that Elohim alone is the God we serve – and we are all brethren who abide in His will and care.  The Ten Decrees are based on this principle – not the principle of servitude to anyone but God and “him to which it is due.” In the Torah, the unity between men of all nations (Jew and Gentile) was found in all having the same law to live by – the gracious instructions in righteousness – as given by God.  (Not as Judaism uses “Torah” – their man-made writings in the Mishna, Talmud, Zohar, etc.)

 

^{Romans 12: 9} Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. ¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. ¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. ¹² Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. ¹³ Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

 

^{Romans 12: 14} Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.^[c] Do not be conceited.

 

^{Romans 12: 17} Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. ¹⁸ If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. ¹⁹ Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”^[d] says the Lord. ²⁰ On the contrary:

 

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
    if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”^[e]

 

²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 12:6 Or the
   2. Romans 12:8 Or to provide for others
   3. Romans 12:16 Or willing to do menial work
   4. Romans 12:19 Deut. 32:35
   5. Romans 12:20 Prov. 25:21,22

I find it odd that the publisher goes to Proverbs instead of the teachings of Jesus and John the Baptist in the gospel accounts for this last reference.  Proverbs ends the sentence that in doing so we will be rewarded by God.  Why not also bring that up?  So far I don’t see any “overcoming evil with good” – didn’t God say: “And so you shall put evil away from you.”?

Submission to Governing Authorities

Romans 13

^{Romans 13: 1}Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. ² Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. ³ For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. ⁴ For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. ⁵ Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

 

^{Romans 13: 6} This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. ⁷ Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

 

Where did God say this about Roman rulers – as these are who ruled over the land in Paul’s days – and God allows trials to see if we will obey Him – or not.  What was the instruction of God to Israel after the remnant returned from Babylon?  What was Yeshua’s instruction to Israel when he arrived on the scene?  Were they being faithful to God as He had instructed them?  No.  A group of the faithful had long since separated themselves from Jerusalem with cause and gone to Quamran, and evidently John the Baptist was from this group.  Jews have long held the view that Rome is their perpetual enemy – and Roman influence continues to this day – in government and in Scripture for Christians – books the Roman Church decreed to be in the Christian Bible, and Rome also went along with alterations to the Hebrew Scripture in the Christian Scripture – for the benefit of our belief in Paul – particularly as found here in Romans 13.  In Matthew we see Jesus showing that it is possible to be a Christian in a Roman ruled world.  The Roman rulers sought to free him – it was the Jewish leadership that desired his death.  Jesus taught paying taxes and living justly – and no government that rules justly would demand otherwise.  What we should all see is that by our time many governments have been corrupted to do evil and lie to their people directly and via control of the propaganda spewed by the licensed News Media – lies prevail – not truth.  Accusations are pretended to sway public “opinion polls” to lull our minds from obvious facts – if they were ever reported on.  God is who we owe allegiance to – not government.  Did Danial obey God when he prayed towards Jerusalem?  Did Peter obey God when saying he must obey God, rather than man?  God gave instruction to know who He said to obey.  As Jesus pointed out about taxes: “Whose image is on the coin?” and that we are to give to God what is rightfully His, and to man, that which is of man and due a man.  No man is God – in spite of what Roman rulers or the Pope call themselves.  If you think the USA is of God to be obeyed without question – read “Apollyon Rising – 2012”, or watch “Brotherhood of Darkness” on Youtube by Stanley Montif.  Rome put Paul in our Bibles to get us to obey them – not to cause us to serve God according to His word.  Have not governments sought to stamp out belief in God and His pathway to live life?  If you don’t see this – you’ve blinded yourself by believing Paul or disbelieving God.  Update 2024  – the evils and lies of the Governments and Zionist Israel are bringing the world to the brink of disaster; Israel continues to sink lower and lower, and the head of Israel has hardened his heart far worse than the Pharoah of Egypt was reported to have exhibited.  The end of Zionism is at the door, and as they first accused of Jesus saying –  when it was really exposing their evil hearts – if they cannot win and take over the earth for their lying scribe Rabbi’s, they want to have a conflict wherein everyone is destroyed.  Those are their words.  See the site link for “The Trial of the Ages” at http://www.onediscipletoanother.org

Love Fulfills the Law

 

^{Romans 13: 8} Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”^[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^[b] 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

 

Here is another bait and switch job by Paul.  Go back to Matthew and focus on what Jesus taught.  Jesus taught that love is a principle that proper understanding of the Law requires – love – the Law hangs on the peg of love as a secure foundation.  First that love for God observes His word to do it – second – that doing the Law is to be done with love towards God – to then be reflected in our love towards others in keeping the more obvious commandments of how we live towards each other.  The love of God has observable definition – identifiable by what it does – observable things – not some imagined standard that flows outside the boundaries given by God.  Is love a debt?  Or is it the response of what should come naturally to someone who lives by the word of God?  Does love excuse us from the Law – or is love in full accord with the Law and Covenant ratified at Sinai?  The complete picture is that Elohim gave the Decrees, and He also gave “Blessings” and “Curses” that provide additional clarity.  If we do not know what Elohim said is “Cursed” – how can we ensure that we “do no evil”?  The problem with “Christian love” taught by Paul is that it lacks the definitions given by Elohim and has resulted in many evils because so many have been deluded.  The principle of grace, as taught by Paul has even led to child molesters evils upon church goers children – and worse.  Stop being a fool for Paul – learn the whole truth – the real truth – from Elohim Himself.  Stop believing lies in the name of God!  Pretty much every division between Christian faith fellowships are based on the writings of Paul – not God, or the testimony of Jesus in Matthew!  Revisit the consolidated Law account – observe it is the true and complete definition of love, not I Corinthians 13.

 

The Day Is Near

 

^{Romans 13: 11} And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹² The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. ¹⁴ Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

 

Once again, Paul pits flesh against the soul, as though the flesh is the cause of sin, not the heart that is outside the pathway of life given by God.  Paul is presenting extremes, so there isn’t objection to say those extreme behaviors are some kind of enlightenment that can only be discerned by the “spirit” or spiritual armor.  However – since we should all be able to see the lies Paul foisted in the NAME of God and Yeshua – the time has come to awaken from our spiritual slumber to have not noticed following Paul requires disrespect and disregard for the words of God in the Torah.  True life is known when one is walking in the God given pathways of life – not the imaginations of Paul – who didn’t tell the truth on the words of God – but sowed discord instead.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
   2. Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18
   3. Romans 13:14 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

 

Romans 14

 

The Weak and the Strong

 

^{Romans 14: 1}Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. ² One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. ³ The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

 

On the surface this seems reasonable – not to quarrel over disputable matters.  However, are the matters Paul defines disputable matters of “faith”?  “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  What did Elohim say about being vegetarian in the Covenant Standards?  Absolutely nothing.  Read both the current account and the 3000 year old account – there is nothing about food in either of  them.  Our current Deuteronomy has many things about food, rituals, and additional Judaic Law Codes, but is our account greatly altered today?  “The Valediction of Moses” shows proto-Deuteronomy from 3000 years ago was very limited and contained none of those things.  In fact, it proves Deuteronomy went from about 5 pages to 34 chapters of unsupported materials that many now believe were made up in the Persian period of the history of ancient Hebraism – the historians term – I much prefer ancient Israel.

The science of Archeology and study of the textual history shows significant evidence of being developed by multiple authors, and that what has been found in the ground proves the beliefs and the history as told in our current Hebrew and Christian Scripture to be a massive work of fiction and borrowed mythology that was reworked to make it appear genuine – but was borrowed from others accounts of history that came before their account.  I know, it’s a great disappointment to swallow, that Judaism has been so dishonest for so long – but we need to realize they absolutely cannot be trusted to tell the truth, and have been deceiving others for at least 3000 years about the Conditions Elohim gave in the Covenant, as well as what He declared to them from the beginning.  Good books have been mentioned – these are the main ones I’ve read so far:

THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES, and THE DISMEMBERED BIBLE, by Idan Dershowitz.

THE ORIGINS OF JUDAISM, by Jonatan Adler.

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BIBLE, by Abeg, Flint, Ulrich.

ANCIENT ISRAELITE RELIGION, by Susan Niditch.

Various books by Bart Ehrman. – spoiler alert, he offers no solutions.

Various books by Robert Eisenman.

 

If we serve and obey the one true God – it is to Him we stand or fall.  God does not make His enemies (those who reject His word) to stand.  As Yeshua taught in Matthew, there would be a day that many would call him “Lord!”, and he would tell them; “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity (Torahless), I never knew you.”

The observable facts?  If God told Noah and his family after the flood that they were permitted to eat freely of anything – and God cannot lie – why do we think He told Israel that Kosher Laws are so important that eating certain things was a great abomination – when He said no such thing in the Covenant Standards either?  We also see the food laws in the known additions to Deuteronomy from the ”V” account.  So when Jesus taught it is not that which goes into a person that defiles them – food just goes through its natural process – that what defiles a person proceeds from their heart.  I think this is the reasonable and observable truth that was there to start with and find no reason to believe otherwise – given how much Rabbi change things.  Just look at the simplicity of the Sabbath – two or three sentences to be turned into about 500 pages of Rabbinical requirements.    Another tid-bit is in the Hebrew Scripture records they acknowledge some of the prohibitions have been lost from knowledge – so they may well be in violation of their pretended Kosher Laws when eating Gefilte Fish, or other things. Carp are the pigs of fresh waters – just look around rivers where sewage plants discharge.

Since the food things are not part of the Covenant Standards – Paul’s comments about whether a person is a vegetarian, or a meat eater just looks like another straw-man invented by Paul.

Above all, just remember the Teachings of God are observable.  Can we observe from the known ancient words of Elohim that there will be a difference between vegetarians or meat eaters?  If not, it cannot be a matter of faith – or something to brand another person to be “weaker in faith.”  Again – Paul taught nonsense.

 

^{Romans 14: 5} One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. ⁶ Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷ For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. ⁸ If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

 

Did God, at Creation, distinguish and sanctify the Seventh Day?  In the Ten Decrees given by God at Sinai, did God state the importance to sanctify and keep the Seventh Day distinguished from the other six days that preceded it?  Did He say that we are to accomplish our work in six days, but the Seventh Day is Holy and a day of rest from labor/work?  If God gave this decree to all present at Sinai – Jew and Gentile – keeping the Sabbath holy is for all.  The Sabbath was given as an everlasting ordinance – not temporary until the cross.  Yeshua taught keeping the Sabbath.  The distinction given in his teachings is to know it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath – through preserving life and through healing or rescuing from danger. 

 

If God declared differently than Paul – be advised – God is allowing us to be tested – to see if we will obey Him – or not!  As for me – I’m through with Paul.  I’m putting this information out there so you don’t have to be ignorant as I used to be – this information is for those searching for and seeking TRUTH given by God and Jesus.  Also review Matthew (HGOM) and see why Jesus rose from the dead.  God is the God of the living, and Yeshua never claimed to be divine or God or a literal half-God, half man.  As “son of man” he was mortal – God raised him up and he ascended to the right hand of the Power on High as prophesied in Daniel.

 

^{Romans 14: 10} You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. ¹¹ It is written:

 

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
    every tongue will acknowledge God.’”^[b]

 

¹² So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

 

Yes we will all give an account of ourselves to God.  That is why it is important to make your primary source for life to be the words of Elohim and those who can be proven to meet the Standards He gave to verify the need to listen to them.  This is why we must reject those that testify against the Teachings of Elohim.  Paul is not our judge, and Elohim long ago gave us precious Instructions in righteousness and justice.

              

Isaiah 43: 18-25, DSSB (MT is altered); Thus says Elohim, who created the heavens – he is God and the one who fashioned the earth and made it; and he is the one who established it; not for chaos did he create it, but to be inhabited he formed it – I am Elohim and there is no other.  I have not spoken in secret, at a place in a land of darkness, I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos”; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, declaring what is right.  Assemble and enter, draw near and come, escapees from the nations.  Those who carry  their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who pray to a god that cannot save.  Explain, present a case, even let them take counsel together.  Who announced this long ago, declared it of old?  Was it not I, Elohim?  There is no other god besides me; a just God and Savior, and there is none besides me.  Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am Elohim and there is no other.  By myself I have sworn, from my mouth righteousness has gone forth, a word that will not come back: that to Me every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear.  “Only in the LORD,” one will say of me, “are victories and might; to him will come all who were incensed against him and they will be shamed.  In the LORD all the descendant’s of Israel will have victory and glory.” [Don’t forget those of Israel who refused to walk in His paths were termed as His enemies – see Jeremiah.  This is spoken to those who seek Him on the terms He gave long ago – “V”?]

 

^{Romans 14: 13} Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. ¹⁴ I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸ because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.

 

No man has the authority or right to set aside any word of God – not Moses, Jesus or Paul.  Don’t let what God said is good be called evil.  Don’t let the judgment God commanded be used to be set aside for anyone claiming to speak on behalf of God.  See if they tell the truth – See if they tell you to set aside what God said those who love Him will do – see if they speak according to the Law and the Testimony – or not.  If you choose to disbelieve God – don’t blame God for your disbelief and disobedience.  The kingdom of God is about those who believe and obey God.  Those who follow their own hearts have not humbled themselves before God.  The “Spirit” will not testify against the words of God – so beware thinking you are following God by doing as Paul says – you are likely just going to be as ignorant as he was and be following your own imaginations/interpretations of Paul, and then thinking it is God speaking to you.

 

^{Romans 14: 19} Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. ²¹ It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.

 

It’s far better to know the one true God and what His will and blessing are.  Did the true prophets cower in the face of the false prophets?  Do true prophets believe false prophets?  One does not need to be a prophet or “spiritual” to see Paul was a total ignoramus who came to lead people away from God given truth – to believe lies.  Maybe I should do a final account of how many times in Romans Paul has defied the Teachings of God? Stop paying any mind to the fake Straw-men Paul foists up – it is not about food.  It is about who is willing to walk humbly before God and observe His words to do them – not about mere foods eaten.

 

^{Romans 14 22} So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ²³ But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

 

God defined sin – not Paul.  Yeshua affirmed that his disciples will live by every word of God – and being humble before God is to accept His judgments to be completely true and reliable.  What God said is sin is sin.  What God said is just and right, is just and right.  It is not about what we believe, unless we believe what God said.  Rather than pretend it is about human individual opinions – it’s time to re-investigate what God said sin is and stop pretending what we think “expedient” is  can be more valid than the word and decree of God.  What does what we eat have to do with our “faith”, except we have some wild belief that is our personal choice that we think God should have agreed with us?  Elohim warned to be very careful to do His word as given, and never to add to or decrease from the Standard given at Sinai.   The Holy Way of Elohim is knowing the will of God, and we are at a disadvantage because we were not taught these things as children.  If we are going to be found faithful servants of God, we must know His Teachings about living life.  “Faith” is no substitute for knowing.  “Belief” is no substitute for faithfulness to Elohim Almighty.  As one passage says, “The devils believe and tremble” – mere belief won’t help them either.  Thank Elohim that the Covenant Standards are so close to honest human behavior that most will have little to repent of, but much to gain in KNOWING the Teachings of Elohim so closely match the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.

The passage from Isaiah 45:23 is true, but Paul is not using it uprightly.  Since every knee will bow – it’s better to repent and believe God now than after it is too late.  “Choose life that you may live.”

 

1. 1. Romans 14:10 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verses 13, 15 and 21.
   2. Romans 14:11 Isaiah 45:23
   3. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Romans 15

 

After many years of studying Pauline letters, particularly Romans, as understood by Protestant and Reformation viewpoints – one thing that helped me understand Paul better was to take what he said one thing at a time and see if it contains common sense advice and then to double check his material quotes to the Scripture – in particular the Teachings given by Jesus, which led me to the words of God in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms – as these were well understood by Jesus and represented very well in his teachings.  Since we are nearing the end of Romans – we will continue to examine  each statement by Paul individually so we don’t mentally draw a blanket over his claims and pretend we understand what he said –  see if he is making good clear sense – or not.  Mainly see if he was teaching according to the words of God or not.

 

^{Romans 15: 1}We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

 

Who would disagree, except for evil failings.  Generally, we should try to hold each other up = this is having fellowship with each other as disciples.

 

^{Romans 15: 2} Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.

 

Indeed, the whole of the Covenant Standards is to walk justly with our fellow mankind – especially our neighbors, but don’t forget to do good to those in need.

 

 ^{Romans 15: 3} For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”^[a] 4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

 

Now Paul flips on his head to give a truth.  If Paul only taught what we see in these opening verses of chapter 15, I would not have taken the time to point out so many errors early in the book.  The problem is easily seen that out of the pen of Paul come forth Poisoned Ink, mixed with a few good statements.  Since Paul absolutely already violated the Standards of Elohim, we must ignore Him because God said to.  Any good Paul says here and there is easily supported by the Teachings of Jesus in Matthew and the Covenant Standards of Elohim. 

You are welcome to look up each reference, but do so from the three main sources: the Hebrew to English translation, the Dead Sea Scrolls translation, and the Christian translation.  If they differ – which should be trusted most? Also, rather than cherry picking one verse – be sure to read the whole Psalm, or other reference, so you can be sure you are taking it in context – not inventing new meanings.  “Scripture” should not be considered a “living document” that is subject to alteration or inventing new meanings that are not in harmony to its use in the specific reference noted.

 

^{Romans 15: 5} May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, ⁶ so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

God spoke clearly when giving the conditions to the Everlasting Covenant. There are those He will bless, and there are those He holds in judgment – even though judgment is delayed – time and trials in life are what prove or disprove our faithfulness to Him.  This is told throughout Jewish history in the Bible.  This is also spoken of in the parables about the Kingdom of God and who were faithful and wise servants.  Both agree that God does not give endurance – that is our responsibility to develop throughout our lives.  If God is the one giving endurance – are those who accept His instruction readily, but fade out and die because they have little or no root within themselves to sustain doing rightly and justly – is God to blame for their NOT continuing on in faithfulness?  If it is a gift of God – how can He be just to judge the unenduring who turn from righteousness to do evil?  

God forbid any man judge God for what the man was responsible to do!  God can give us good instructions, but we have to participate in doing His will!  This is the main problem with the mistranslations of “seed” versus “seeds” – from the beginning God said it is our responsibility to do justly – to live according to His word.  Those who disregard His instruction as needful are in for a world of hurt when they realize Paul told a story on God that just isn’t so – and as Jesus said, those who are anti-Law of God are those he will tell: “Depart from me, I never knew you.”  Jesus said to honor God by doing His will.  One either follows the instructions of God and those found true to His instruction – or one does not.  The Law brings life and order.  Following the Teachings given by Jesus result in living life to be reasonable, just, merciful and blessed of God.  Pretending God has grace towards His enemies is denial of the Covenant and every warning or promise God gave.  There is no accord with truth and lies – and this is the source of great evils for centuries.

 

 

 

^{Romans 15: 7} Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. ⁸ For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews^[b] on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed ⁹ and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written:

 

“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles;
    I will sing the praises of your name.”^[c]

 

¹⁰ Again, it says,

 

“Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”^[d]

 

¹¹ And again,

 

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles;
    let all the peoples extol him.”^[e]

Psalm 117:1, Stone Edition; “Praise Elohim, all nations, praise Him, all the states!  For His kindness has overwhelmed us, and the truth of Elohim is eternal, Halleluyah!”  This is about the Covenant Standards and the kindness He has always had for those who repent to serve Him alone – according to His gracious Instructions in righteousness – not according to a gospel of welfare grace and free gifts instead of graciousness towards the faithful.  This verse is a good example of the grace and kindness of God being told about in the OT – it was not a new thing from Jesus.  Note the Covenant Standards, note Isaiah 56 clearly says His favor extends to all nationalities! All peoples!

¹² And again, Isaiah says,

 

“The Root of Jesse will spring up,
    one who will arise to rule over the nations;
    in him the Gentiles will hope.”^[f]

DSSB Isaiah 11:10;  “On that day, the root of Jesse, which stands as a signal for the peoples – the nations will seek him, and his dwelling will be honored.”  Friends, Isaiah has many alterations in both the Masoretic Text and the Christian Greek texts used to compile our Bibles.  Get a copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible so you will be able to double check passages to see if there is proof of alterations – specifically when they refer to Jesus, the Law, or are quoted by Paul.  Also get a copy of the Stone Edition of the Hebrew Scripture – it may be the best one for a lay person.  Also available are the Soncino 17 volume set that is loaded with powerful historical references not found in Christian editions, or the ETZ HYIM edition of the Torah for the books of Moses – but realize most of it is not as told.

^{Romans 15: 13} May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Many of you have likely seen Pentecostal services where people are worked into frenzy and think the Holy Spirit is making them hop around, or laugh uncontrollably, or speak in tongues, or run around the isles, or even take up snakes to prove their faith is really real – these are things never even spoken of in the Hebrew Scripture or the gospel of Matthew.  They are induced feelings, not from the “Holy Spirit”.  How can we know?  All of them believe Paul, Mark and John to the exclusion of Matthew.  One must minimize the teachings of Jesus in Matthew to belong to these groups, or to be an Evangelical.

God said why He would give of His Spirit.  Read what Ezekiel prophesied about it – read what Jesus said about it via the account of Matthew.

The way of excellence is to know the will of God and the teachings of Jesus are in complete harmony – and are not hard to observe or do – and when our own consciences agree with the Declarations of God – THAT is what is blessed!  There can be no more doubt that what you do is the right thing, at least as best you know at the time, and understanding that as you grow in your life with the Father by your side and taking the teachings of Jesus to heart – who can be against you if you absolutely know your relationship with the Father is faithful and true – not perfect – but improving yourself, living justly as you can – that is whey you know the joy in your heart is of God and there is no imagination required – it is real and it is true to God and Jesus and your fellow – even if your fellow does not realize it yet.  No amount of shunning by fake Christians can take away from a real and living relationship with the One True and Living God – Elohim Almighty.

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

 

^{Romans 15: 14} I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. ¹⁵ Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me ¹⁶ to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Anyone who believes the lies of Paul is not capable or competent to instruct anyone about Jesus or God.

              

 

^{Romans 15: 17} Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. ¹⁸ I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. ²⁰ It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. ²¹ Rather, as it is written:

 

“Those who were not told about him will see,
    and those who have not heard will understand.”^[g]

DSSB, Isaiah 52:15; …:so will he startle many nations.  Kings will shut their mouths at him, for what had not been told to them they will see; and what they hand not heard they will understand.”  Well, I would just say look at what I’ve written here about Paul – who has told you these things before?  You were told to believe something different.  The same can be said for the Covenant Standards, the same can be said for the Hebrew Matthew on my website:  http://www.onediscipletoanother.org

If you have read the evidences on Paul that shows he was not teaching the gospel of God, or Jesus – then you might fully see how Paul thinks so highly of himself in setting the words of God aside as a curse or to cause death – and then he claims in this to be doing service to God or Jesus so that “I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.”????  If he was being led by a spirit – it was not the spirit of God, it could not be the Spirit of God that would curse what God said is good and then deem what He said is able to make us wise, to be impotent to do what God said it would do! 

Hopefully through this exposure of Romans to the teachings of God and Jesus will help you understand what no one has told you before, but how on earth is it reasonable for Paul to have said “those who have not heard will understand”?  Maybe they just never heard it before because they had inherited lies from their fathers?  (Jeremiah 16)

 

²² This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

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Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome

 

 

 

^{Romans 15: 23} But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, ²⁴ I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. ²⁵ Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem. ²⁷ They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. ²⁸ So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way. ²⁹ I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.

In all the accounts of Paul in Acts – where is it told of his gift to the assembly of Jesus’ disciples in Jerusalem (the poor – Ebionites)?  Look all you can.  There is no record of it.  Why didn’t Luke record it for Paul, if it happened?

^{Romans 15: 30} I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. ³¹ Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord’s people there, ³² so that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed. ³³ The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

 

Go back and review comments on what Paul said previously, especially chapters 5-8.  There is no possibility that Paul handled the Holy Scripture uprightly in all his accounts.  There is ample evidence he directly misrepresented the words of God and the Teachings of Jesus.  God does not elect who is saved and who is unsaved.  Each person is responsible for themselves to Him.  This is why Yeshua warned to “be careful who you hear”, because “blind leaders of the blind will both fall into the ditch.”  It is indeed time to discover that we have “inherited falsehoods” that are useless to accomplish the fact that the Spirit works with the word of God to accomplish what God gave His instructions in righteousness to accomplish – that we are wise to the pathway of life God gave – and thereby know who speaks according to His everlasting Covenant – and who does not.  Yeshua came to renew the Everlasting Covenant and to show the Gentiles it is HONORABLE to keep the Decrees of God!  Yeshua came to call us from iniquity to then do what God decreed just and right, and to know what  sin, evil and abominations are, that we “do no evil”.   All things are not lawful – God said so; Jesus said so, and so did all the true prophets of God.  Believers in Judea, who had the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, were those who knew the Torah and the Teachings of Yeshua.  Those who didn’t believe Paul were called “unbelievers” by Paul – even though they did believe Jesus.  Note in his writings that anyone who taught a gospel different than he did are cursed.  It appears more than evident that Paul absolutely misjudge that one, as Paul did not teach what Jesus taught.  The problems in Christian divisions all trace to Paul.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 15:3 Psalm 69:9
   2. Romans 15:8 Greek circumcision
   3. Romans 15:9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49
   4. Romans 15:10 Deut. 32:43
   5. Romans 15:11 Psalm 117:1
   6. Romans 15:12 Isaiah 11:10 (see Septuagint)
   7. Romans 15:21 Isaiah 52:15 (see Septuagint)

 

Romans 16

 

Personal Greetings

 

¹I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon^[a][b] of the church in Cenchreae. ² I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.

 

³ Greet Priscilla^[c] and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. ⁴ They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

 

⁵ Greet also the church that meets at their house.

 

Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

 

⁶ Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.

 

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among^[d] the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

 

The twelve apostles are named in Matthew, and there is no record of Andronicus or Junia – let alone Paul or Saul or Saulus.

 

⁸ Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

 

⁹ Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.

 

¹⁰ Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test.

 

Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

 

¹¹ Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew.

 

Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

 

See the link on Paul being related to the Herodians, which can be found in topical articles at:  http:// jesuswordsonly.com/

 

The Herodions were not considered Jews.

¹² Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.

 

Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.

 

¹³ Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

 

¹⁴ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them.

 

¹⁵ Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord’s people who are with them.

 

¹⁶ Greet one another with a holy kiss.

 

All the churches of Christ send greetings.

 

¹⁷ I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. ¹⁸ For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. ¹⁹ Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

I’m not trying to flatter anyone here and I have to call these things out as Balderdash.  It is shown it was Paul who taught a gospel NOT in accord with the records given by the disciples of Jesus in Matthew.  In fact, the “gospel” of Paul is not in accord with the Torah, Psalms or Prophets either.  This is written that all seekers of truth will be enabled to see through the lies of Paul and be able to see the truth that God has grace towards those who repent and turn to Him wholeheartedly and faithfully abide in His word and the Teachings of Master Jesus – the one prophesied of in Genesis 49:10 to be the one to whom the “rule” belongs – attested to by God through his teachings, miracles, fulfillment of prophecy, giving true prophecy, and ascension to the throne on the right hand of God.  Jesus taught freedom to love and obey God and live a just and righteous life that will bring God the glory – Paul taught freedom from the Law and that the Law was a curse, the letter of the Law kills, and that God will hold the righteous accountable to pay the debt of sinners who will not live by the Instruction of God – but by imagined “spirit” without the clear, reliable, everlasting  and true words of God Almighty.

 

²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

 

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

 

²¹ Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.

 

²² I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.

 

²³ Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings.

 

Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings. ^[24] [e]

 

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, ²⁶ but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from^[f] faith— ²⁷ to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

 

God gave the Torah to Jew and Gentile at the same time.  Jesus commanded the same teachings given in Matthew to be given to men of all nations.  Jesus said all things had to be fulfilled in the Law and Prophets.  We can now know we have inherited lies in the “Christian Bible”, and it is time to repent and return to the pathway God gave for those who claim Him as their God – those who call upon His NAME.

 

Footnotes

 

1. 1. Romans 16:1 Or servant
   2. Romans 16:1 The word deacon refers here to a Christian designated to serve with the overseers/elders of the church in a variety of ways; similarly in Phil. 1:1 and 1 Tim. 3:8,12.
   3. Romans 16:3 Greek Prisca, a variant of Priscilla
   4. Romans 16:7 Or are esteemed by
   5. Romans 16:24 Some manuscripts include here May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.
   6. Romans 16:26 Or that is

 

Jeremiah 16:19

 

“O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and wherein is no profit.”

 

Surely this is because none of the Roman or Protestant reformers bothered to follow the words of God to make sure writings they put in the New Testament were in accord with the words of God, as were the Teachings of Yeshua (Jesus). (Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18)