Why we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath
- By DamianWarS
- Sabbath and The Law
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I believe God did that when after He spoke the Ten Commandments He added NO MORE Deut 5:22 He wrote Ten Commandments Deut4:13 no more, its the whole law of God 2 Chro33:8 James2:10-12, God is capable of making a whole law without man having to add to it,. Just like He made heaven and earth without man Exo20:11 He clearly spoke and wrote what He meant Deut4:13 Exo 34:28
the 10 came before the tablets. Ex 20 shows them first spoken along with more laws and formed a sealed covenant before Moses climbed the mountain to get the stone tablets.
The Ten Commandments is what man will be judged by James2:11-12 why its the only Law under God's mercy seat Exo25:21 Rev 15:5 Rev 11:19 they mean much more than people realize as Jesus taught plainly from this same unit. Mat5:17-30 If everyone was keeping them the way Jesus explained there would be no more sin.
You are conflating with your references. I can do the same thing and say it points to something else. there is no link you've established that these references mean the 10 commandments. I mean we have a disagreement about how Mat 5:17-30 is used but you use this as your source for proof the 10 should be separated. This is too little for support such a wildly missing doctrine from scripture.
A jot or tittle has nothing to do with ink, He already said He wrote His Laws in stone Exo31:18 Deut9:10 not handwritten with ink on scrolls so lets not change what God said plainly. A Jot or Tittle means not something as small as a dot of an i or cross of a t can pass from His Laws, yet alone editing or removing an entire commandment or two.
jots don't, but tittles are characteristics of the pen, in greek it lit. is a stroke.
iota/jot (or yod) is of hebrew origin for the 10th letter of the alphabet. they use the iota/jot because it is the smallest character in the script but you have to use the Aramaic square script for that to be relevant. in Paleo Hebrew (what the tablets would have used) the letter is by no means the smallest. the jot/iota is a direct reference to post-adoption of Aramaic square script and would be literally what the scrolls and the torah and prophets would be written with when Jesus spoke these words as they were constantly recopied to perserve them.ἰῶτα iōta, ee-o'-tah; of Hebrew origin (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet); "iota", the name of the [ninth]1 letter of the Greek alphabet, put (figuratively) for a very small part of anything:—jot.
כ (A. V. tittle); the meaning is, 'not even the minutest part of the law shall perish.' ((Aeschylus, Thucydides, others.))
tittle/keraia (greek) is a reference to the smallest stroke of a pen. it assumes a pen/paper (papyrus) medium, not a chisel/stone feature. The reference to a jot doesn't make sense for paleo hebrew (because it wasn't a small letter) and tittles are features of pen/paper not of stone but Paleo Hebrew is very well suited for stone. Sure you could argue God used his finger so he had tittles (small strokes of his finger) but the jot is still a problem and is clearly a reference to Aramaic square script not paleo Hebrew. tiny Jots are post-Aramaic square script references and tittles are pen/paper characteristics not in stone. They simply do not make sense to highlight the tablets, I would expect stone imagery over ink imagery, and make no mistake the latter is being used.
here is the jot in paleo Hebrew (what the tablets have)
notice straight square lines, pefect for etching into stone but this is not a small letter
here is the jot is Aramaic square script (what Jesus was referencing) י
it's just a little flick of the pen and tiny, not suited for stone but suited for ink. regardless of its ink or not, it's tiny (which is the point) and the paleo hebrew is not
it speaks for itself, Jesus was not referencing paleo Hebrew as his remarks don't support paleo Hebrew, ergo he was not referencing the tablets (which are written in paleo Hebrew) but rather the written scrolls of torah which had tiny jots and tittles all throughout.
the tablets would have used paleo Hebrew, jots and tittles are not how you would express those characteristics
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