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The non-Jewish people of the world have a religious duty, an obligation which, if fulfilled, will bring peace and harmony to the world, and will give the righteous Gentile a share in the Olam HaBa- the blessed World to Come. God gave Mankind two paths by which the unity of man can be realized. Judaism is one path, and Noahism is the other path. This we know, and this we are aware of, because Judaism has preserved the knowledge and instruction of the path of the righteous Gentile - the Seven Laws of the children of Noah (also known as the Seven Laws of Noah, or the Seven Noahide Commandments). Therefore, it is incumbent upon the non-Jew to become aware of what his religious duty is and how to fulfill it.
The non-Jew has a specific spiritual role and purpose in this world, and a specific purpose for his very creation and existence. Through the faithful observance of the Seven Noahide Commandments one can fulfill that purpose - striving with the Children of Israel (the Jews) to perfect this world; the essence of our existence as co-religionists and the fulfillment of our created purpose will bring increasingly revealed Godliness into this world, the World of Action. Fulfilling the Seven Laws of Noah requires a fundamental knowledge and understanding of certain precepts and principles, i.e., the non-Jew must have the realization of the One True God; that God's holy Torah (the Pentateuch) was given to all mankind; that ethics and morals must become part of life; and lastly, humanity must bind together in unity - belief in the Unity of God and in the unity of mankind.
Once the non-Jew recognizes the unity of God, and recognizes that the observance of the mitzvot (Commandments) is what unites mankind, he will then understand how he can cleave to God and have a share in the Olam HaBa (Heaven). When a person becomes separate from sin and takes up the yoke of Heaven, then that person becomes "Kiddushin." What does this mean? It means that one has to bend his will to God's will, and to be concerned with the needs of his fellow man. We have to use our inner power to turn our specific action into a mitzvah (commandment) - we have to freely choose to do God's will. We have the power to turn what is ordinary and mundane into something extraordinary and holy. Man is ultimately responsible for observing God's commandments - the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach - and will receive merit for observing them, or will receive punishment for failing to keep his duty. The key is to keep the commandments because God has commanded them; therein lies our reward.
What is of paramount importance for the Gentile Christian is that fact that these Laws and Commandments in the Covenant of Noah are reiterated by James (Jesus' pastor of his church) and called "necessary" and are described as "seeming good to the Holy Spirit."
Acts 15:28-29 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (KJV) Acts 15:28-29 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (KJV) Acts 15:28-29 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (KJV)
The above verses is a paraphrase and restatement in summary form of the Covenant and Laws of Noah!
This was the statement of the Messianic Church over 30 years after Jesus' death. The teaching of the Covenant of Noah and the Laws of Noah as required of the non-Jew is how the Messianic Church reached out to the non-Jew and brought them to God. Within all of this was not the idea that adherence and observance of such "Laws" and "Commandments" was a curse as the New Testament would teach much later but was understood by James and the other followers and apostles of Christ as the very path to righteousness for the non-Jewish believer in God. What was the very way of salvation for the non-Jew according to James and Jesus' church would later be altered by anti-semitic Gentiles who hated Jews and the Law and such hatred would lead to the clever crafting of religious documents in "apostle's names" that would literally change the salvation message of God and the Jerusalem church for the non-Jew. Such love for the Law (both Noahic and Mosaic as an expression of love toward God) would later become a "curse" under the Pauline influence.
This is what you have not been told because our Christian documents were forged over 1800 years ago when compared to the original Jewish Scriptures let alone extra-Biblical writings and history itself. You may wonder why others don't see such apostasy and the reason is simple. It all depends where you want to start your study. If you like so many begin not with the Jewish church but with the Greek Fathers of the church which already had anti-semitic leanings then your blinded from the start. It would be these Gentile church leaders who were filled with hatred for the Jews and their legacy which are responsible for the corruption of the faith once given to the saints in the first place. To think that they did not write or alter existing documents to slant in favor of their anti-Law biases is naive. Study will show otherwise along with their quotes of doing so where they make fun of the ignorant masses who let them get away with it. You need to read them. What we as followers of Jesus and Christians end up with is a false faith based not upon APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE at all but Gentile desires to not be encumbered by laws of God which dictated acceptable and non-acceptable conducts and behaviors by Him.
Thus the path of the righteous Gentile takes a tragic turn and we end up with falsified religious documents containing perversions of the Word of God as known by the Apostolic Church in the days of Jesus. Our inherited religious beliefs systems in Christianity are flawed in that our Covenant with God and our responsibilities within it are little known and few Christians have ever heard of the Covenant of Noah let alone discern it when reading Acts 15. The wool has effectively been pulled over our eyes by such men who took upon themselves to change the faith of Jesus and how it related to the non-Jewish world.
But you dear one if you are reading this are blessed in that God has allowed you to see for yourself such events and the documentation that proves such deception on this and other websites of Bet Emet Ministries.
It is my prayer and hope for you that you take the opportunity presented you to return to the real faith of Jesus and the faith once given the saints and return to the Path of the Righteous Gentile as given by God. Shalom.