Christianity – the off shoot from Judaism

When we are considering the Bible and its relevance to truth it is always helpful to have some insight into its originality. It is also helpful to remember that Christianity had its birth through the Jewish religion of Judaism, or so it is commonly taught. But this is not actually the entire truth.

The oldest patriarch and the father of the later kingdoms of Israel was of course Abraham whom the Jews associate as being their father. Jesus, of course, disputed their claim by accusing them to be the sons of the devil, and not Abraham. Naturally, there would have been allegory reasons behind this accusation and shouldn't be taken literally. If Old Testament law was dictated by the hand of Moses then so also would he have dictated the story of Abraham, in fact, the entire history of the Israelites? So, how accurate would this information have been?

Debating the accuracy of Moses' words would immediately be classified as void as, within the religious perspective, all information departed by Moses is considered divinely inspired, and thereby cannot be faulted, and so should be taken literally and not questioned. This one sided argument cannot, and never will be, accepted by free thinking mystics, mystics who are well aware of how Moses may have received this inspiration and the fallacies behind it.

 The term Judaism is derived from the word Judah which is the identity of the Jewish people, who, after the scattering abroad of the other tribes of Israel, had claimed the religion as solely their own. The teachings of Judaism is solely focused upon the patriarch Moses who is regarded as being the "bringer of the law." Jesus also confirmed this by saying that "it was Moses who brought you the law." The emphasis and entire law is focused around Moses and Jesus made no reference to regard that the origin of the law was of a divine source. Another example is when Jesus was being challenged on the principles of marriage by the Jews that he said, "it is because of your stubbornness that Moses gave you the law." Hence it has always been referred to as the "law of Moses." Whenever referring to "the law" or to the "Book of Moses", Jesus placed as little emphasis of divine origin upon his statements, simply because he knew the significance of the duality, which in this instance is expressed through the law of the 'spirit' and the law of 'man'. He recognized both laws and their relevant place in the scheme of things, and he confirmed this recognition by saying, "Give then unto Caesar what is Caesar's and give unto God what is God's."