The New Testement is filled with parables, as Jesus often spoke in Parables. In my faith I believe in the subjective faith, that is, prayer and conversing with God on a personal level, to still the mind and listen to God's instructions, rather than following the theology of a specific denomination in Christendom. The Soren Kierkegaard existential truth, which advocates a life of faith in Christ, will, in whichever occupation God so choose for you engender a rightful life of works; this faith is far closer to the "Child Like" faith of "The Way." In this way, faith, following in actions that parallel Yeshua's teachings and then the word of God. Rather than its opposite, that the New and Old Testement must be followed and faith is 2nd or 3rd in command.
When we subjugate ourselves to read before faith, we can plummet into the anti-Christian theological aspects of Christendom. If one is born without ever knowing the word, but yet has faith in God and does the works of Jesus, he is with God and God will judge him as such. He may not know God, as John 14:6 points out, but he still incurs a righteous Judgement from God. And Jesus's story about the Good Samaritan who helped the fickle man on the side of the road, whilst others, priests and Jews passed by; illustrating that the Samaritan was seen as righteous in the eyes of God and would be judged as such.
Fortunately, in this globalized world most people can obtain the New Testament, which is an instruction book to follow "The Way."
Nearly all modern Jews today reject Jesus. They are a defection from God and are thusly apostates to Jesus and his teachings. And it makes sense that most Jews ---apostates to the true messiah --- rejected Jesus, whether one wants to believe in God or not; a true Jew, a Samaritan, or someone on the other side of the world, if they are followers of "The Way," then they are righteous in God's eyes. The debased teachings and oral traditions of man in the Talmud and in which the Torah is only the 1st of the covenant are obsolete. Some, messianic Jews, however, who follow many of the traditions and culture of Judaism believe Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah, these Jews, of whom are closer to the Jews who followed Jesus in his time of pilgrimage, oftentimes follow "The Way," whilst holding onto the traditions of the old covenant.
Interestingly, paralleling todays age of decadence and fall from grace, the culture of creditor jubilees and debts owed at interest; Jesus sought to find disciples that could help God's cause, he chose a money-changer, a Tax-collector, and a fervent nationalistic, radical, right-wing Jew, not unlike the Zionists we see today. These men gave up their day-to-day occupations to follow "The Way" and help the needy and to FORGIVE DEBTS, ie., debts in heart and in money and interest, for usury was considered a sin in Christian thought and "The Way," but that we must not rebel, only serve in faith and forgive all debts. Romanism changed debts to trespasses! And what do we live under now but a caricature of Roman Law, which forgives not debts but creditors.
The Old Testement is the Jewish Bible. Jesus often used parables from Psalms and was well versed in Judaism. So he understood their dualisms, qualms and hypocrisy in tradition and trivialness in oral law.
The Jews today who do not follow what Jesus preached are anti-Christ. It's that simple. Is that Anti-Judaic, no, because the Jews today are not really Jews. "The Way", is Judaism. Fortunately many Jews did follow Jesus and turned the other cheek, the pagan Romans than created an institution around Jesus to inhibit the conservative revolutionary brotherhood of "The Way", and its good works and faith in God rather than believing a fallible man, such as Caesar to be God.
Many Protestants say that the Deuterocanonical books are apocrypha; that they are not Scripture. One of the reasons given is that there were no prophets in any of these books. The church rejected the Book of Enoch as did Judaism, and yet it is considered one of the oldest books ever written, which was quoted by Jude and read widely during Jesus' time. Why reject this text when in it Enoch says it was written for a remote generation still to come!
For two thousand years this book was lost and when Israel was founded it had been discovered in a cave, now read widely today. It is canon in the Ethiopian church and Armenian church.
What do we find in it?
Considering it was written between 300 - 100 BC and considering that it was rewritten down on a scroll and is likely far older than the current copies we have noting the use of tablets, we read the EXACT prophecy to the year of when Jesus, the Son of Man will be born, 70 generations. It is uncanny, and at the thousand year close of Enoch's Weeks (which is how Enoch determined time) the chosen people would be scattered and their temple burnt with fire. Again, Enoch prophesied the 70AD event to almost the very year! The next Weeks consist of the apostate generation and the church age and finally the false Christ and return of Christ, followed by the destruction of the world.
The Roman Catholic church and Judaism banned this book, because it prophesies Jesus and historical events to the very years and two, because it talks about the Nephilim and Fallen watchers from above that beget Giants. The old testament also talks about the Nephilim in various places but never goes into further in detail. Nevertheless, like this book, other books as well predicting the coming of the Son of Man, such as: The Wisdom of Solomon! Probably written by an Alexandrian Orthodox Jew.
Nonetheless, Wisdom 2:12-20 is one of the clearest passages that point to a person who would call himself Son of God, who would be put to death by jealous people. Let us look at Wisdom 2:12-20
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"Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13: He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14: He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15: the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16: We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17: Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18: for if the righteous man is God's son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19: Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20: Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected."
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