Monday, July 4, 2011

Christianity is an oral tradition.

      Most scholars agree that the oldest manuscript of any of the gospels is Mark.  Mark is believed to have been written around 90 A.D.  That is approximately 60 years after the death of Jesus.  So that would mean that for 60 years Mark's gospel was transmitted orally if at all. Also Mark was not even one of Jesus' twelve disciples. There is another oral tradition that Mark was the rich young ruler that came to ask Jesus how to inherit eternal life, then later shows up in the garden of Gesmity.  Mark is said to be a disciple of Peter but everything that I have just mentioned is oral tradition.  As a matter of fact the gospel it self does not name it's author.  It is even oral tradition that Mark wrote it.
       Why are the oral traditions of the church divinely inspired and 100% true and accurate?  Yet the Jewish sages who spent there entire life studying night and day, with holding from them selves sleep and many pleasures of this world completely made up lies.  The twelve disciples were unlearned men, this we know from the gospel accounts.  They were what Jews call an "am ha aretz" literally a man of the land, a simple person.  Fisherman, they most likely did not know how to read and write Hebrew.  Obviously, all the gospels were written in Greek.  When every holy book up to this time was written in Hebrew, the holy tongue.  Further proof of this is that Mark quoted all of his Torah from the septuagent.  A purposefully mis-translated translation of the Hebrew Tanak into Greek.
        In Judaism we have a clear path laid out for us of the channels of wisdom that was passed down from teacher to student who became a teacher to another student of the explanations of the Torah.  This chain has never been broken.  This chain does not contain any chritsian. So where did they learn their explanation from?  Their answer is Jesus.  Since in their view he is God in flesh in the person of Jesus he therefore know what the Torah means and is able to teach it.  Unfortunately, their antinomian view of the Torah, Prophets, and writings creates a god that is untrustworthy, and changes his mind.
         If a person will just read the entire Tanak they will be struck be how much the Torah itself is talked about.  In every book it is mentioned.  All the prophets begged the Jews to keep the Torah.  Encouraged them through example and modeling correct behavior that would merit HaShems blessings.  The writings, David the King, sweet Psalmist of Israel 119 is devoted through the form of an acrostic to his love of the Torah and study of it.  Malichi believed to be the last book written by the prophets in the last chapter two verses from the end says remember the Torah of my servant Moshe.  
          Suddenly  God's plan for man kind is revealed after so many years of concealment.  Hidden in the Hebrew text were illusions to the idea that God would incarnate himself into a man.  Ha Ha Ha jokes on you Jew.  God hid his plan from you so you could beat your head against the wall trying to keep this Torah which was never meant for you to follow in the first place.  God gave you something you couldn't keep and then he punished you severely when you don't.  What kind of just, fair, gracious God is that?

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