[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

But that is what people believe.

They see Jesus and Paul as flagrant law breakers. Remember they made false accusations against Paul and Christ. Again, if Jesus and Paul came up with a new religion they would of been placed on the pay no mind list. The Essenes, the Zadokites (Sadducees) and the MANY schools of Phariseeism didn't agree.

Were they arresting each other? Were they killing each other? Turning each other over to the Roman officials? No, because it is part and parcel of Judaism that they NEVER AGREE. Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, and the apostles just didn't teach something foreign. Romans didn't think the early Christain Apostolic sect was just another form of Judaism because they were ignorant. No, they saw early Christianity as just another form of Judaism, because they had a common religious day, religious piety, moral laws, food observances, and used the same exact religious writings in the first century A.D.. They even met in the same buildings called synagogues.

EB, can you think of ANY differences in the new covenant and the old? Because it is beginning to sound like you believe they are the same!