willie wonka said:
Call out to the one true God and humbly ask him to reveal who Jesus Christ is. I think you'll reach a similar conclusion to Paul's on the Damascus road, "Who are you, Lord?" "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting."
Adam and Eve were created in the image of God, the purpose for their creation was to glorify God and show creation what God was like, the law was not needed. Sin came into the world through them. The law was given to restrain sin.
The Holy Spirit was promised as a new creation to make us new, to restore us even to a greater place than Adam, to give us hearts to desire good things; a desire to fulfill the chief end of man: to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
That is not support.
God's Torah existed before creation (Proverbs 8) so how can you say that it was given to restrain sin? Yeshua, the Messiah, is the word or Torah made flesh. So He only came to restrain sin?
So the Torah which defines sin, only came to restrain sin?
The Torah teaches something different. Deuteronomy 30:11-21:
"For this mitzvah that I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in the heavens, that you should say, 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us, and have us hear it so we may do it?' 13 Nor is it across the sea, that you should say, 'Who will cross over for us to the other side of the sea and get it for us, and have us hear it so we may do it?' 14 No, the word is very near to youin your mouth and in your heart, to do it.
15 "See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil. 16 What I am commanding you today is to love Adonai your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His mitzvot, statutes and ordinances. Then you will live and multiply, and Adonai your God will bless you in the land you are going in to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away and bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I tell you today that you will certainly perish! You will not prolong your days on the land, where you are about to cross over the Jordan to go in to possess.
19 "I call the heavens and the earth to witness about you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live, 20 by loving Adonai your God, listening to His voice, and clinging to Him.
David, a man after God's own hearts says the same thing:
Psalm 119:50 - My comfort in my affliction is this: Your word has kept me alive.
Psalm 119:77 - Let Your tender mercies reach me, Let me live, for Your
Torah is my delight.
Psalm 119:116 - Sustain me according to Your word, so I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psalm 119:144 - Your testimonies are righteous forevermake me understand, so I may live.
Psalm 119:154 - Defend my cause and redeem me. Restore my life through Your word.
Psalm 119:159 - See how I loved Your precepts. Restore my life,
Adonai, with Your lovingkindness.
Torah is life. Paul is misunderstood as he was back in the day.
Romans 8:6-8 - For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Ruach is life and shalom. 7 For the mindset of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not submit itself to the law of Godfor it cannot. 8 So those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Torah says the Torah is life. The mindset of the Ruach is life. Those in the flesh do not submit to the Torah of God, so they cannot please God. This goes back to Ezekiel 36:26-27 and 11:19-20. The Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, will is life...it is Torah, which is placed in you and written on your heart in the New Covenant.
Romans 2:13 - For it is not the hearers of Torah who are righteous before God; rather, it is the doers of Torah who will be justified.
How did Yeshua respond? What does the Torah say? the answer- follow the commandments. Yeshua then responded, do them and you will have life!