{"id":41526,"date":"2014-01-11T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=41526"},"modified":"2022-01-07T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:52:45","slug":"wouldnt-the-jewish-bible-the-torah-be-the-most-accurate-since-jesus-was-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wouldnt-the-jewish-bible-the-torah-be-the-most-accurate-since-jesus-was-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn&#8217;t the Jewish Bible, the Torah, be the most accurate since Jesus was Jewish?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I have a question&#8221; I googled &#8220;Which Bible is the most accurate?&#8221; and I stumbled upon your page. But my question is wouldn&#8217;t the Jewish Bible, the Torah, be the most accurate since Jesus was Jewish?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Torah&#8221; refers to the first five books of the Old Testament, which were written by Moses. Yet Jesus used the entire Old Testament: &#8220;<em>Then He said to them, &#8220;These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me&#8221; <\/em>&#8221; (Luke 24:44). So the Torah would be incomplete for what Jesus used.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament, bring it to completion, and ushered in a new set of laws.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah &#8211; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, &#8216;Know the LORD,&#8217; for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more<\/em>&#8221; (Jeremiah 31:31-34).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 5:17-18).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes<\/em>&#8221; (Romans 10:4).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity<\/em>&#8221; (Ephesians 2:14-16).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross<\/em>&#8221; (Colossians 2:14).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second<\/em>&#8221; (Hebrews 8:6-7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the Torah does not include the Law of Liberty (James 1:25), it is not a complete revelation, regardless of what language it happens to be translated into.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hi, I have a question&#8221; I googled &#8220;Which Bible is the most accurate?&#8221; and I stumbled upon your page. But my question is wouldn&#8217;t the Jewish Bible, the Torah, be the most accurate since Jesus was Jewish? Answer: &#8220;Torah&#8221; refers to the first five books of the Old Testament, which were written by Moses.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[177,115,311],"class_list":["post-41526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-law","tag-old-law","tag-translations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3337,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-talmudism-different-from-zionism\/","url_meta":{"origin":41526,"position":0},"title":"Is Talmudism different from Zionism?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is Talmudism different from Zionism? 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