Teachings
The New Testament from the Jewish point of view
Paulism
Yaakov, Béla Orbán
I was often forced to use this expression in my writings, because I was not able to find a more striking and specific one yet.
As a matter of fact, this is a general expression that appoints on, and which is synonymous of Pharisee-Christian.
In a word:
It is about all the educations, all the dogmas, all the laws and the other things which do not coincide and do not suit the Word of Christ and the Word of God at the same time, and which are attributed to the apostle Paul, or rather used on his behalf.
Because many people asked this term to be defined, we would like to give some examples to illustrate its meaning.
Paulism is the fact of interpreting the words of the apostle Paul so that they do not entirely coincide and are not in complete harmony with the Word of Yeshua and the Word of God AT THE SAME TIME.
How did Paul really formulate his sentences?
In two different ways:
- he transmitted the message of the Holy Spirit as a tool
- He measured, balanced and even explained things according to his own thoughts, but always under the direct control of the Holy Spirit!
In two different manners:
- For the Jews, according to the Jewish thought and mentality
- for the others, according to the thought and the Hellenic mentality in the language of the Empire, in Greek by integrating them into the way of thinking of the Greeks, so that they can also understand what he says.
Today's Christendom does only know this last version (except a few people), and it is the reason why it is essential to learn the Jewish roots of the Christian faith and to be Grafted in or Grafted back.
Anyone living in the slavery of any Christian or Jewish theology or dogmatic soaked with the Hellenic thought, is not only poor, but also often says lies and sees his/her life of believer becoming flat and wasting away sooner or later.
One of the most difficult ministries nowadays is when it is necessary to clean the path on which our Master has evolved from all the garbage, all the dirt and the Greco-roman-pagan superfluous things that are inked and that were poured on it during the last 2000 years.
Our duty:
Reveal all that is false, the Pharisee-Christian laws with which Christendom has not simply been weighed down and overloaded, but which also became the instruments for the maintaining and the reinforcing of the power of churches by falsifying or using arbitrary the Laws of God.
(One of the typical examples of this is the interdiction of the ministry of women...)
"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." (Rom.10,12)
A so famous word which is so often quoted: so many seminaries wearing the title: "we are One in the Body of Christ" whose main message is this verse of Paul. Nevertheless the Jewish people received more and something different. Thus there are differences, even in the Body of Christ. Was Paul wrong then? … Or is it us who understand him badly?…
Is there no difference?
There is a big difference!
Not long ago, I visited a Pharisee-Christian assembly (I did not stay there for a long time).
Maybe there is only one friend and brother among them, because of whom I had to go there - for the last time certainly - because he asked me to come.
Our conversation rather fast ended with the following words:
"After this, the better Christians will think………..about you."
I would not go into the details concerning which one of their Paulist law they were referring to judge me in a thing from which God had totally freed and exempted me previously. It would be useless for now to explain which Paulist law was it that came to substitute itself for God's Law.
The main thing of this story was the two words that were pronounced…
Better Christian?
This is the proof of phariseeism. The unveiling of the Christian who can’t stop redeeming and flogging himself and who often goes until wanting to buy God by his good actions so putting himself above the others.
Although Pharisees also exist among Jews, there are just very few of them who would judge, accuse or damn somebody this way.
These ones scarcely exceed the limits of the common Jewish pride and would at most judge somebody if it is question of a pagan.
The Jewish People still do know that all the members of the family are equal.
The consequences of this little story:
- False laws involve and lead to false judgments. Moreover, their judgment concerning me has been made without any divine authorization: this way, God’s Judgment is on them according to His Laws and His Truth.
- They have themselves excluded the possibility of giving them anything that I received from God as a ministry.
I also often hear the following expression: "in Christian circles/world…"
The only problem is that the expressions circle/world is the sign of a kind of segregation, of a certain exclusion of the other!
We can also understand why the Jewish People was put apart from the other nations, since it was the Will of God (according to Balaam’s prophecy).
Nevertheless, the members of the Body of Christ should not and must not exclude and close themselves from others..., but they also shouldn’t do that from the Jewish community, since it is the People of God!
Or is it rather that they even do not want to do any ministry towards the others but just attract people under their wing?
These Pharisees, these "better Christians" who are doing nothing else but building their own castsystem…
I did never want to reach such a degree of "spiritual elevation"…, on the contrary, I rather go on my path with a slight feeling of pity.
Translated from hungarian by Richard (Zeev Shlomo)
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