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Originally Posted by Csihar
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Remember that the OT is only the OT for Christians. Your interpretation would not be agreed with by any Jewish person. Considering the Old Testament/Tanakh and even the New Testament are very much Jewish books I tend to side with the Jewish interpretation.
The Christian version (and I think 'version' is the right word here) is marred by its translation, politics and non-Jewish interpretation.
To be a bit less general, I'm not seeing why 'the law' is being interpreted as the messianic prophecy? Why does 'the Law' not refer to the Torah? The numerous laws have been summarized into 1 or 2 sentences (can't remember which) even before Christ.
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So to expound on this a little more clearly (was in a rush to go somewhere), this isn't true of all jews. Like I said some do become Christians even today, as has happened the past couple thousand years and even started as such.
Interpretation is not withstanding here, as I pointed out from saying a generally 'what it says is what it means' prospective. I'm just not defining the nuances here for great wall of text sake. And really, much of today's Judaism is not so much based on the
original Abrahamic religion as given to the 12 tribes, but engrossed with it's own commentaries which propel themselves over the actual text of the scriptures. Which was true to even 2k years ago, and part of the message given within the NT and the many commentaries delivered by the first century church about the issue.
I mean after all, even as you said "jewish interpretation", but you do realize there were another 11 tribes those scriptures were delivered to, right? These tribes were dispersed, but very likely still exist today by blood line anyway, possibly regionally at that. And 2k years ago this issue with the jews were in question, even to rebuke, to just how they interpreted what they did believe, because they really didn't believe, not all of them anyway. And note the correction was made, and the scriptures as well dispersed and back into the hands of those lost tribes and the rest of the world as well. It wasn't exclusively a jewish religion to start with, and still isn't today due to what transpired 2k years ago.