Sunday, June 11, 2023

Religious Indifferentism and Noahide Laws

COVENANT, BIBLICAL

In the Old Testament an agreement between God and Israel in which God promised protection to the Chosen People in return for exclusive loyalty. "If you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all nations will be my very own" (Exodus 19:5). Moses presented Yahweh's offer to his people, who promptly "answered as one, 'All that Yahweh has said we will do.'" The compact was sealed (Exodus 19:8). Many years later Jeremiah prophesied that a new covenant would be offered. "Deep within them," Yahweh promised, "I will plant my law, writing it on their hearts" (Jeremiah 31:31-34). Ezekiel foresaw that God would "make a covenant of peace with the, an eternal covenant" (Ezekiel 37:26). Its universal character was foreshadowed by Isaiah, to whom it was revealed by Yahweh, "so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 49:6). In the New Testament, when Paul was explaining to the Corinthians the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he repeated Christ's words: "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me" (I Corinthians 11:25). This master idea of the New Testament is reinforced in the Letter to the Hebrews: "It follows that it is a greater covenant for which Jesus has become our guarantee" (Hebrews 7:22). Christ himself is the new covenant between God and his people. (Etym. Latin convenire, to agree, to come together.) 


After leaving the ark Noah built an altar, and taking of all clean animals and birds, offered holocausts upon it. God accepted the sacrifice, and made a covenant with Noah, and through him with all mankind, that He would not waste the earth or destroy man by another deluge. The rainbow would for all times be a sign and a reminder of this covenant. He further renewed the blessing which He had pronounced on Adam (Genesis 1:28), and confirmed the dominion over animals which He had granted to man. In virtue of this dominion man may use animals for food, but the flesh may not be eaten with the blood (8:20-9:17).


Where in the Bible are the Noahide Laws listed?

They don't exist, saving the one where he is commanded not to eat the blood of meat or shed the blood of man but they are part of The Covenant with Noe, not Noahide Laws.

Genesis 8: And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. 

Genesis 9:

God blesseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy the world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.

Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him, Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:   And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.

  I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.  And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.  I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth.   And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:   And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.  And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth


 1 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.  And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.  And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:  Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.   For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.


https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/s?q=noe&x=11&y=18&b=drb&t=0


"Noahide Laws" 

 https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/can-salvation-come-through-the-seven-noahide-laws/

Rabbi Schneerson is mentioned at that link. Who was he and what did he think of Catholics?

https://nesceinet.blogspot.com/2022/12/america-honors-jew-who-hates-christians.html

The modern authorities in the Catholic Church may no longer believe that The Catholic Church is the one true church that has authority and must strive to convert non-catholics but that does not mean the Jews are Indifferent to what they believe is their authority and their duty to convert Catholics and others to their faith.

https://stopnoahidelaw.blogspot.com/2017/04/us-jewish-law-groups-push-noahide-law.html

http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2003Jul/pent5qui.htm


Readers might be interested in some background info on recent Popes and The so-called Noahide Laws


http://callmejorgebergoglio.blogspot.com/search/label/noahide


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