Rose---Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
"Would you mind explaining in a little depth just what is meant by Talmudic Judaism?"
Talmudic Judaism is the term that accurately defines modern Judaism--the new religion that emerged after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.
To fully understand the orgin Talmudic Judaism, it is helpful to take a brief trip back to the historical era and the place where it was forged--the first century in ancient Jerusalem.
Assuming that you have read the OT and the NT, I will begin with the Crucifixion and Ascension of Christ.
We know, as Christians, that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Messianic Hebraic prophecies and is the Saviour that God had promised the ancient Jews and the rest of manking. Jesus was accepted as the Messiah by the Jewish Apostles and multitudes of other Jews during the 1st. century. Most of the Jewish leadership, however, rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Many Jewish leaders bribed, deceived, intimadated and even murdered to prevent the masses of the Jewish people from accepting JEsus as the Messiah.
The Jewish people became painfully divided between Christ-believing Jews and anti-Christ Jews. For almost forty years, from the resurrection of Jesus to the destruction of the Temple, the Jewish people struggled with this most important decision.
During this same period, the Christian Jews were also stuggling to understand the new relationship between the Christian revelation--the New Covenant in Jesus's blood--and the Temple religion that had also been ordained by God.
God was separating the tares from the wheat. The Jews that truly believed in the OT Scriptures and had the love of God in their hearts accepted Jesus and those that had the form of religion ,without the Spirit, rejected Jesus. Jesus plainly said my sheep hear my voice.
When the Lord destroyed the Temple in 70 AD, he also destroyed the genealogy, the Levitical Priesthood and the Ark of the Covenant. The old Covenant had now passed away and the new the New Covenant in Jesus's blood had been established.
The Apostles were no longer confused about how to join the new Covenant with the Old. Their was simply no more Old Covenant. In Hebrews Paul talks aabout what waxes old passes away.
The Christian Jews now went about establishing the New Covenant Church. They borrowed the structure and the model from the old Jewish Synagogues and Temple but the center of the worship and praise was athe Lamb of God crucified for the sins of mankind. God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit became the center of worship in the Churches. Many of the more ancient Orthodox Chruch building in the Middle East still have elements of the transition between the Synagogue and the Chruch.
cont'd in the next post--The founding of Talmudic Judaism.
Jesus Christ forever--Zionism never. |
