G-d Never Forsakes the Torah
Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim
Christianity attempts to proliferate the lie that G-d forsook His original Torah, replacing it with a �new covenant�. They claim this covenant is �Christianity�, which now supplants Judaism as G-d�s �newly selected� religion. This claim is not supported by the text at all. However, Christianity attempts to support their claim, quoting Jeremiah 31:30. But I will quote the entire context from 31:26-35. The glaring contradiction to Christianity�s very claims makes you wonder how anyone could accept Christianity�s positions. Let us review the actual text:
�Behold the days are coming - the
word of G-d - when I shall sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, the
seed of man and the seed of animal. And it shall be that just as I was diligent
concerning them, to uproot, to smash, to destroy, to annihilate and to bring
evil, so will I be diligent to concerning them to build and to plant - the word
of G-d. In those days it will no longer be said, �The fathers ate sour grapes,
but the teeth of the sons are set on edge.� Rather, every man will die for his
own sin, and the man who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on
edge. Behold, days are coming � the word of G-d � when I will seal a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not like the
covenant that I sealed with their forefathers on the day I took hold of their
hand to take them out of the land of Egypt, for they abrogated My covenant,
although I became their Master � the word of G-d. For this is the covenant that
I shall seal with the house of Israel after those days � the word of G-d � I
will place My Torah within them and I will write it onto their heart; I will be
a G-d for them and they will be a people for Me. They will no longer teach �
each man his fellow, each man his brother � saying �Know G-d�. For all of them
will know Me, from their smallest to their greatest � the word of G-d � when I
will forgive their iniquity and will no longer recall their sin. Thus said G-d,
�Who gives the sun as light by day and the laws of the moon and the stars as a
light by night; Who agitates the sea so that its waves roar; G-d, master of
Legions is His name. If these laws could be removed from before Me, - the word
of G-d � so could the seed of Israel cease from being a people before Me
forever.�
G-d says that just as the laws governing the luminaries and the ocean will never cease, so too the people of Israel will never cease from being a people from before G-d. It could not be clearer: G-d will never abandon Israel. What is more startling is that G-d openly says, ��I will place My Torah within them and I will write it onto their heart.� The Torah is clearly never abandoned by G-d. This �new covenant� that the Christians imagine to be Christianity, is in fact the original Torah, as G-d says:
�For this is the covenant
that I shall seal with the house of Israel after those days � the word of G-d �
I will place My Torah within them and I will write it onto their heart;
I will be a G-d for them and they will be a people for Me. They will no longer
teach � each man his fellow, each man his brother � saying �Know G-d�. For all
of them will know Me, from their smallest to their greatest � the word of G-d.�
G-d said, �for they abrogated My covenant�, i.e., the Jews forsook G-d. G-d therefore promises a reestablishment of His providence over the Jews. This is the meaning of a �new covenant�. And with this new covenant, G-d will never again be removed from the thoughts of the Jews � they will never again abrogate their relationship with G-d. In the prior generation, the Jews abandoned G-d. What G-d will now do in the future is guarantee that the Torah and G-d are never lost from the Jews. This is the �new covenant�. To suggest it refers to Christianity is overtly foolish, and displays Christianity as illiterate.
Furthermore, the Torah again says as follows (Isaiah, 59:21):
�And as for Me, this is My covenant
with them, said G-d, My spirit which is upon you and My words that I have
placed in your mouth will not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth
of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring�s offspring, said G-d,
from this moment and forever.�
What is the word that was already �placed in your mouth�? Christianity suggests Isaiah prophesied for the future about Jesus. However, this cannot be, as Isaiah is clearly referring to the past. G-d clearly refers to the �word� that will never be lost forever, as that which is already �placed in your mouth�, past tense. Thus, G-d declares that the word, which He already placed in the mouth of the Jews � the Torah � will never be withdrawn. End of story. G-d will never replace the Torah. Isaiah�s �new covenant� refers to something in the past, and not in the future. G-d�s word in the past is clearly the Torah given at Mount Sinai. Review G-d�s words, �For this is the covenant that I shall seal with the house of Israel after those days � the word of G-d � I will place My Torah within them and I will write it onto their heart�.
(Parenthetically, quoting this section as their �proof� for Christianity is shooting itself in the foot, for in this very section we read, �every man will die for his own sin�. This portion denies their doctrine that Jesus can die for others, although he did not sin!)
Isaiah teaches the opposite of what Christianity claims: G-d openly attests that he will never forsake the Torah or the Jewish people.