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18.7.20

Christians have an understanding of Jesus that suffers from two weak points. One is that Paul had what looks like a very different understanding of the commandments of Moses than did Jesus.

On one hand the audience of Paul was gentile and the audience of Jesus was Jewish, so by that in itself there is bound to be a discrepancy.

But even allowing for that does not really get to the degree of Paul's being downright against keeping the Law of Moses.
I am sure that reasonable answers have been proposed for this. However I want to point out now that regardless of how you evaluate Paul, the approach of Jesus himself could not have been more clear One must keep all the commandments including those from the words of the scribes. ["The scribes sit in Moses's seat, therefore all that they teach and command that you must listen and obey."]

All the controversies that are in the Christian world could be easily answered by this one simple observation.

[In Bava Batra: "Three are called by the name of G-d, tzadikim, Jerusalem,.." But no one prays to Jerusalem. It is more or less a Plotinus approach that they emanate from God.]