Date Posted:11:38:00 09/10/02 Tue Author: QUITTNER Subject: The Noahide system of law
Ray, you wrote, in part: >>> The so called Noahide system of law did not appear for several hundred years after the time of Christ in one of the volumes that comprise the Talmud. <<<
..... According to The World Christian Encyclopedia (2001) there are (were?) 33,820 distinct Christian denominations across the world, and one more or less is probably not important. What is important, however, is to what extent the members of a given denomination (version) adhere to the teachings of Jesus. Why did you single out just one of these versions to oppose, yet ignored the many others? I can understand that Paul, in his efforts to produce a "universal=catholic" religion wanted to make it much easier for non-Jews to join his new religion by discarding many of the requirements, including (some? many? all?) moral ones, of the Judaism of his days.
..... As I understand it, the Talmud is just a record of discussions and pronouncements of Jewish clergy, and includes the up to then unwritten oral law, based on the Pentateuch (the 5 books of Moses, a part of the collection of many books selected by a committee, known as the bible). It is very likely that they discussed the split between the Jewish Christians and the non-Jewish Christians, and to what extent these groups helped or oppposed the Romans; by the time the verious tractates of the Talmud were written that split had been in effect for very many years.
>>> The Noahide system is as far from Christianity as night is from day. <<<
..... But so are many (most? all?) of the many other current denominations/versions of Christianity.
