What Are the Seven Noahide Laws?
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If indeed, the 7 Laws Of Noah are the "true" faith that Hashem intended for the Gentile, then why did he not allow this faith to prosper and spread? To be sure, there aren't any Noahide Temples, Noahide Holy Books, and no community from which to take a bride. Instead, Hashem granted prosperity to two separate paths both of which have a lengthy History of Committing horrific acts of Evil upon Jews/Israel. One, born of rebellion against the Torah, seems to embraces the Jewish principles of Chesed & Shalom, yet promotes Idolatry (Ref: 1) Incarnation, 2) Division 3) Deification) while the other --born from conversion by the sword, vigorously embraces Monotheism yet promotes Violence and the vigorous denial of the Abraham Covenant / Zionism. In summary, the idea that Hashem intends for Gentiles to choose from these THREE choices-- clearly in modern times this could only be described as Disappointingly Lonely, Frustratingly Confusing, and Terroribly Horrifying. PLEASE VALIDATE THE 7 LAWS.
HaShem offered Himself through acceptance of his Torah to many nation before Israel. All others would not accept, for one reason or another. Israel Hebrews accepted HaShem at the time before even reading the "contract". All that HaShem asked of the "other" nations was basically to rise even a small amount above the animal kingdom. Basically the "bare-bones" minimum.Those other two religions that you seem to be alluding to (what of the many many, many others ??) chose what they wanted, not from HaShem, but from His Torah of the Jewish nation. You can learn, on your own, how to fix a broken finger, but you ain't no surgeon !! Think of the Torah as the "certificate of authenticity" !
Frankly Colin,
I have no idea what you are trying to say. I am Christian, "gentile"... The term "Noahide Law" does not exist in the Scriptures. However, there are some general rules of life, how to live in a society and respect God, which some people labelled "Noahide Laws". Which is fine.
The "Plan of Salvation" for human race (Jews and gentiles) comes through Jews, where Messiah is the key point.
Historically speaking in both camps you can find people who pleased God and people who displeased God:
a. People who displeased Almighty God brought death and destruction on both groups of people. God will deal them.
b. People who pleased God were blessing for both groups of people.
In addition to my previous comment.
To put it in a current political terminology, stop thinking "left vs. right" (symbolically speaking Jews vs. gentiles). It is more like "above vs. below".
In both camps "left vs. right" you can find people with whom you share the same values in life. Some people, deep down in their hearts, are in the "above" group and some people are in the "below" group. Their group membership "left vs. right" is not an indicator if they belong to "above vs. below" group.
With all due respect, the statement about salvation and Messiah is false. First, Jews and Gentiles obtain salvation via obedience to HaShem. Because of Torah, we can regularly obey the will of HaShem; however, the precepts of Torah are valid only because of the Author of Torah. For example, murder is a capital sin in Torah, yet Prophet Abraham “willingly and joyfully” led Isaac to the altar because Prophet Abraham understood that the supreme command and therefore the supreme route to salvation is obedience to HaShem. Second, the first mention of Messiah is Genesis 49:8-12 when Jacob blesses Judah (see Rashi). However, Prophet Shem administered Torah to the nations before the birth of Jacob; therefore, the idea of salvation via Messiah would likely be alien to Prophet Shem since there is no textual evidence that he had a concept of Messiah. Rather, Prophet Shem would have likely informed Gentiles that salvation is achieved through obedience to HaShem: the Noahide Code.