WAS THE LAW OF GOD ABOLISHED?
The Christians say that the Law of God
was abolished, or that some commandments of the Law of God were abolished.
However, the Ebionites say that the
Law of God (Torah) was not abolished,
and that we must obey all commandments of the Law of God, with no exception.
The informations about the Ebionites
are in the books of the Church Fathers (old Christians
writers who wrote in the first centuries of the Christian Era).
The Ebionites
said that Paul of Tarsus was an apostate
from the Law, and was not an apostle of
Jesus Christ.
The Bible of the Ebionites was composed only by the books of
the Tanach (Old Testament) and they used only one Gospel, written in Hebrew, that was considered
to be the Gospel according to Matthew,
but was smaller than the Gospel according to Matthew
in Greek which is used by the Christians.
In the Gospel according to Matthew 5:17-19 (authentic text) it is written that Jesus Christ said:
5.17 DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS: I CAME NOT
TO ABOLISH, BUT TO FULFILL.
5.18 VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU THAT
TILL HEAVEN AND
5.19 AND THE ONE WHO SHALL TRANSGRESS
ONE OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND SHALL TEACH OTHERS, SHALL BE CALLED SON OF THE
LIE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD: BUT THE ONE WHO FULFILL AND TEACH, SHALL BE CALLED
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Therefore, we see that Jesus Christ said
very clearly that he did not come to abolish the Law of God, and that the whole Law of God will continue to be in force until
the heaven and the earth pass away, and that we must fulfill all the
commandments of God, without
exception.
We see in Genesis 2:16-17 that God
commanded the man not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and
He said that if the man ate of that tree, he would die, and we see in Genesis
chapter 3 that the serpent deceived the woman, saying that she and her husband
could eat of that tree, and she ate, and she also gave to her husband, and he
also ate, and due to this sin they were expelled from the Garden of Eden, and
they lost the access to the tree of life.
Therefore, we see that the Devil tries to deceive the human beings, to
cause them to disobey God.
The Devil has been trying to induce the people to believe that the Law
of God was abolished, or that a part
of the Law of God was abolished, or
that some commandments of God were
abolished, or that some commandments of God
do not need to be obeyed anymore, in order that the people disobey the
commandments of God and be condemned
in the last judgment and be thrown in the eternal flame (gehenna).
However, Jesus Christ (Yeshua
haMashiach) said that the Law of God will never be abolished, neither in the whole nor in part,
and that none of the commandments of God
will ever be abolished.
Satan used a man called Paul of
Tarsus to deceive the people, and to induce them
to disobey the commandments of God.
For more details on this subject, see the following pages:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/was_paul_a_man_of_god.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/was_paul_apostle.htm
Yahveh bless you.
João Paulo Fernandes Pontes.
Published in February 25, 2008.
Updated in January 1, 2012.
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