- Do you keep hearing that the Torah is for Jewish people and not for Gentiles?
- What about the teaching that the Moral laws of the Torah remain, but the Ceremonial and Civil parts have been abolished?
- Are some of God's family required to obey more of the Torah than others?
- If you're curious about these questions and more, read on …
There continues to be controversy within the Torah movement regarding the role of the non-Jewish believer within the Torah community. The same controversies and issues that plagued the early congregations of The Way are still with us!
A significant issue in these controversies is whether the non-Jewish believer in Yeshua has the same obligations to the Torah as the Jewish believer. Or to ask the question another way: does the non-Jewish believer have the same covenant obligations and privileges as does the Jewish believer?
In this short essay, I have looked at the various terms used to designate the Torah, and noted that in many cases, the singular form of these terms (e.g., commandment, word, etc.) is used to denote the whole. This emphasizes the unity of the Torah. The argument that some of the laws are given to specific groups (e.g., to women, men, kings, priests) does not logically prove that some laws were given only the Jewish people and not to the non-Jew.
Read this short essay
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