Occasionally, I get amusing comments to really old posts. I think I have a new name for them: trolling necromancers.
Trolling, because they’re outrageous statements designed to provoke. Internet trolls.
Necromancers, because they’re resurrecting old, dead comment threads.
Here’s one such comment I received the other day, Easter Sunday, from a Christian man named Jeremiah:
What part of the Torah do you follow? You want some scripture read Galatians.
You can't follow 90% of the Torah because it was for Israel during a specific time.
Is all of the Torah from God? Jesus didn't follow the Torah.
The Messianic Movement is of Satan period.
You are under bondage and blind.The Torah and the OT are not the foundation of the new covenant they were only a shadow of Christ. Christ is the foundation. Take off you blinders and read our Bible. There is more to the Torah than Observing the Sabbath, eating kosher, wearing tzitits, and celebrating festivals but this is all that is emphasized.
Is the torah above man's laws? If so why don't you stone your children for being disobedient.
I challenge you to a public debate as Paul debated those who were lost on Mars Hill. Are you up for it?
Ah, Galatians this, and Paul that. You’d think he’s a member of some Paul-based religion! Certainly falls into the Meta-Disciple category of the 10 Religious Types To Watch Out For.
Most of the time, these trolling necromancers deserve no reply: after dropping a stink bomb in your virtual mail box, they promptly leave town, never to be seen again. I suspect Jeremiah won’t be seen around these here parts any time soon.
One thing I like about the Greatest Commandments Project is that it gets pasts all this rhetoric and dogma. Gets past all the talk. Goes straight to the text: is Jeremiah right, is it true we can’t follow 90% of the Torah?
No, that is a false statement: while we’re only 11% finished with the commandment mapping, so far 97% of all commandments can be carried out today.
That isn’t perception or conjured up doctrine; it’s not cheap talk – that’s reality based in months of researching the text, each commandment documented on this very blog.
Likewise, Jeremiah’s implication that not all the Torah is from God, and that Messiah didn’t follow the Torah, and that keeping God’s commandments is bondage, and that the Torah was only for a specific time are also false statements.
The Greatest Commandments project sheds light on this matter, cutting through the darkness of Jeremiah’s Christian theology.
Thankfully, not all Christian theology is so ugly. And many Messianics sympathize with Christianity now, for better or worse. But it’s times like these that I think the Church needs a reformation more than ever.
What do you think of Jeremiah’s statements?