Subject: List of New Testament Commandments
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 01:43:16 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

From:          Bruce Barham 
To:            "heb_roots_chr@geocities.com" <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       Questions??


Question 1.  I have read there are over 1000 commandments in the New
Testament; however, I have never come across an itemized list.  This
would be very useful to me as I attempt to enlighten some of my more
anti-Judaic Christian friends.  Can anyone point me to the 1000+ list of
New Testament commandments??  

Question 2.  I read a book entitled THE MESSIAH CONSPIRACY which
presents pretty good evidence supporting the fact the Jewish sages 
which fled to Yavneh after the Bar Kochva revolt knowingly reinterpreted
Hebrew scripture and worked on devising polemics against the
ever-growing threat of Messianism as a sect of Judaism.  Their adding 
of the one additional benediction which forced believers out of the
synagogues strongly suggest there was indeed an active conspiracy even
when the new evidence from the author of the book is not considered.  
Has anyone else read the book?  I strongly suggest you consider doing
so.  I think if the sages truly conspired to kill off Christianity it needs to 
be exposed - just as the legacy of Christian anti-Semitism needs to 
be exposed!

I fear some of us in the Hebraic roots movement often lean too far to
the other pro-Judaic extreme and consider it anathema to criticize
Judaism.  We place Judaism on a pedastal.  The religion of Judaism
becomes an idol to some.  I have seen this tendency to embrace ALL
things Jewish (and almost all Jewish liturgical tradition) without
considering its correctness or contribution to furthering Yeshua the
Messiah.

I simply feel we need to guard ourselves from over-reacting against
Christian theological error and embracing Judaic error.  I feel there is
more truth in Judaism than there is in today's Christianity; however,
they still reject Yeshua and, as the author of the book shows, it was
and is a conspiratorial attack started by many highly revered sages.

I also want to emphasize I asked for comments so I could verify the
author's claims.  He may just be a modern day Martin Luther
(antisemitus-maximus).

In Yeshua,
Bruce..

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