Jews, why do you think that the NT is more compatible in this age then your Tanakh?
The NT is easily followed in today's age, for there are no more laws of Moses that have to be observed. But your Torah is not compatible with the age of today because if you read the laws of Moses, the world does not except that thinking anymore, except the Muslims.
So why would God make a covenant that couldn't withstand the ages, unlike the Christian NT that can withstand the ages?
it's more than but, but still, it has the Laws of Moses in it. 613 of them that most of the world does not accept.
If you are orthodox, then you MUST stone the gays, fact.
But this is not acceptable in the world today. Laws like that.
The Tanakh is more than just the "laws of Moses." There would be no Jesus without Judaism, and none of the universal teachings of the New Testament without the Psalms and Prophets of the Tanakh.
"Christian" triumphalism is improper and unwarranted.
Well for a start I think your argument would make little or no sense in Palestine or Israel or anywhere in the Muslim world.
The only reason Europeans and European based culture finds the New Testament easier to understand than the Tanach is because European culture is based on Christianity which is based on the New Testament. American culture is based on European culture and through Hollywood most of the world understands American culture.
Biblical translations as most bibles are are good for bible study. They are usually translated from the original Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic. Generally they are hard to read and understand.
Then there are Bibles that are not called literal translation. They are modern day English and easy to comprehend. Why did I say this?
Because if you were to buy a Good News Bible, a modern day version, it would be easy to understand and I'm sure you'd get much from that endeavor. It contains the New Testament and Hebrew Scriptures (old testament).
If understood properly, you'd find the Torah has much value and appropriate for today, but in a different way.
We may not be under the Law anymore as a Christian or Messianic, -- that does not mean God's OT word has no great value and lessons for 2010.
It is NOT 'more compatible' When Atheists attack the Bible they usually use the NT and Jesus to attack by name.
And since when does G-d have to change his laws, based on public opinion?
If he had to do that, the Torah would not have lasted even the first year, or don't you remember the part about Korach rebelling against Moses?
As for that quote from Lamentations about women eating their babies, that was part of the curse that G-d cursed the people with for not having followed Torah (in other words, they were being punished because they had ALREADY decided to be evil and re bell against G-d) and it was done at a time when people were starving over many months a severe poverty, like no one reading this has ever experienced or heard of.
To think you have any clue as to the horrors of such excruciatingly slow starvation, where day after day, week after week each minute is agonizing, and people are so weak they cannot walk, and can only suffer and feel the pain with no distraction is nothing like anything in recent memory, perhaps some Holocaust survivors can relate to it, but no one else could.
Addition to my answer;
Nowhere does Torah say "Anytime you see a gay person he must be stoned".
The Talmud lays out the laws of when anyone gets the death penalty and the rules are so strict that hardly anyone was ever executed.
In fact it says that any Jewish court (Sanhedren, and no executions are allowed AT ALL, without the Sanhedren) that killed more then one person in 7 years was called "a bloody court".
Some said that the rule about it being a bloody court, applied if they killed more then one person, in 70 years.
If you knew what Jews were, you would *not* ask this question. EVERY SINGLE law in the Torah, is STILL applicable today.
The "NT" is just a bunch of garbage, and it's NOT from god.
The Talmud, Misnah, Shulhan Aruch,Yalkut Yosef, and other law books that still have ALL applicable today. Except for the sacrifices, that will resume by the time of Mashiah.
Jews, why do you think that the NT is more compatible in this age then your Tanakh?
