I think my tendency is to see the Prophets as more divine than the Law, whereas your perspective is obviously the other way around.
Wow! I never thought of it that way, but now that you've said it, it does seem pretty obvious, that this is the fundamental difference between our view-points. But lets try and clarify this point a wee bit further...
How much of this "my tendency" is you, and how much is basic Christian "Dogma". Think of it this way, as we've discussed before Christianity puts considerably more emphasis on The Message and extremely less on the Law itself. It also places much more emphasis on Jesus being the Messiah, than of what he claimed to be messiah. This means that the Prophets, being fellow "Messengers", and rarely dealing with the actual nitty-gritty details of Law [1], would certainly take much greater precedence over the Torah, which would take a significantly lesser role (if any at all). The Torah also contains a plethora of details, many of which, are "inconvenient" for the Church.
There are practically NO Biblical accounts of people actually doing the Commandments. This doesn't mean that people didn't observe the Law, only that doing so, wasn't considered worthy of record, as it was "background noise" and taken for granted.
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Re: My point was
Date: 2005-06-16 10:08 pm (UTC)How much of this "my tendency" is you, and how much is basic Christian "Dogma". Think of it this way, as we've discussed before Christianity puts considerably more emphasis on The Message and extremely less on the Law itself. It also places much more emphasis on Jesus being the Messiah, than of what he claimed to be messiah. This means that the Prophets, being fellow "Messengers", and rarely dealing with the actual nitty-gritty details of Law [1], would certainly take much greater precedence over the Torah, which would take a significantly lesser role (if any at all). The Torah also contains a plethora of details, many of which, are "inconvenient" for the Church.
There are practically NO Biblical accounts of people actually doing the Commandments. This doesn't mean that people didn't observe the Law, only that doing so, wasn't considered worthy of record, as it was "background noise" and taken for granted.