One of the major obstacles to Jews believing in Yeshua is their belief that the religion of Judaism is incompatible with the Messianic faith. And, in fact, it is… just not for the reasons they think. Among religious Jews, some have asserted that the incompatibility lies partly in believers’ rejection of the Oral Law—that this rejection is evidence of Yeshua-followers’ misunderstanding of the Scriptures, and that if not for such misunderstanding, they would reject Yeshua instead. The truth of this allegation therefore hinges upon one simple question: does the Oral Law carry the authority that Judaism asserts it has? Put another way, in order to determine whether or not the Oral Law should be accepted and adhered to, we first need to determine if it actually comes from God—if the Oral Law is actually biblical.
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