Joel Osteen on respecting God in our diets

[valleybldr]

Except the passage says that God didn't give them over to laws, but rather that he gave them laws. They weren't man made laws, they were laws he gave them, right?

The laws (in Eze. 20) dealing with promoting idolatry were man-made. todd

[jffl25]

Perhaps the issue being discussed here is much more fundamental than it seems.

We must understand something about the law. To a Jew, the Law is a gift from God. It is their identity. It is not a burden to them. The 'yoke' that Jesus spoke of was the impossible system of extra-biblical commands that Pharisaic Judaism added to the Law.

Please read Psalm 119 again. Certainly the Psalmist did not regard the law as a burden.

[valleybldr]

Please read Psalm 119 again. Certainly the Psalmist did not regard the law as a burden.

and neither did the Lord who authored it, kept it, and warned against those who taught against it. todd

[Brother Mark]

Perhaps the issue being discussed here is much more fundamental than it seems.

We must understand something about the law. To a Jew, the Law is a gift from God. It is their identity. It is not a burden to them. The 'yoke' that Jesus spoke of was the impossible system of extra-biblical commands that Pharisaic Judaism added to the Law.

Please read Psalm 119 again. Certainly the Psalmist did not regard the law as a burden.

And yet, those Jews missed God. They didn't see him when he came. Why? David saw him. What part of the Law did he keep in Psalms 51? Or what Law did he break when he ate the show bread?