Mind of Paul
Most people get these things wrong.
The Bible is for everybody.
The Bible only pertains to people in covenant with YHWH.
Jesus came to save the whole world.
Messiah came to save only the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Jesus was crucified.
Messiah was impaled on a stake (stauros in the Greek).
The cross is the symbol of Messiah / faith in Messiah.
The cross is a symbol of sun worship Constantine introduced into his religion (modern Christianity) after claiming to have seen a vision while praying to a sun god.
The Star of David is a symbol of David / Israel.
That is the star of Remphan, and its usage is actually condemned in both the Old and New Testaments. King David had nothing to do with that symbol.
Christian holidays are Bible-based.
Most (all?) Christian holidays are repurposed, Pagan festivals whose origins are nothing Biblical.
The laws / holy days in the Bible are "Jewish."
With the exceptions of Purim and Hanukkah, there is nothing inherently Jewish about these things. Nothing found in Torah can be considered, "Jewish."
Jesus said it was a sin to think sexual thoughts.
No, Messiah reminded people who thought they were already following Torah correctly that Torah forbids us not only from committing the physical act of adultery but also from coveting anything that belongs to our neighbors.
Smoking, drinking, pornography, tattoos, ..., jazz, spicy food are sins.
What Torah forbids is sin to do. What Torah requires is sin to neglect. Where Torah is silent, we have liberty.
In the 'dispensation of grace,' we don't have to keep the commandments.
There is SO MUCH wrong with that statement that I wouldn't know where to begin setting it all straight in a short format.
We can sin all we want to and then we can always ask for forgiveness.
There is no forgiveness / sacrifice / mercy for voluntary, informed, unrepentant sinners.
There are commandments in the New Testament that we have to obey which weren't present in Torah.
False. We are expressly prohibited from adding to or taking away from Torah.
The New Covenant replaced the Law of Moses.
No, the New Covenant saw the Law transplanted from the old Temple (a building) to the current Temple (our bodies). Where the Law was first written on stone, it is now written by the holy spirit on our hearts. Same Law / different place.
Rosh Hashanna is the beginning of the year.
Rosh Hashannah is a Jewish honorific for a Biblical feast (the Feast of Trumpets) which they have declared to be the beginning of their year (even though it is actually the beginning of the seventh month AND we are commanded to recognize the month of Aviv (a completely different month) as the first of months.
Jesus invented a new ritual called "Communion."
Messiah observed the Passover with his disciples before becoming the actual Passover sacrifice for all of Israel later in the same day.
All the people we read about in the Old Testament were Jews.
Starting from Adam and Eve, then Noah, then Abraham, then Israel, then going into Egypt, coming out with Moses and settling in the Promised Land - there were no Jews. Once the people of Israel divided themselves into two (Northern and Southern) kingdoms, THAT'S when Jews came to be. That was what the Southern Kingdom called themselves. They represented only two of the 12 tribes of Israel (and still do to this day).
All the people we read about in the New Testament were Gentiles.
The very first time a Gentile became a grafted-in believer / follower of Messiah was about 15 years AFTER he was murdered. That was Cornelius. Before him, Messiah and all of his followers were Jews.
Didn't spiritual circumcision replace physical circumcision?
No. Both were required in the Old Testament and both were still required in the New Testament. Both are still required today.
When we need something from 'god,' we should fast and pray.
YHWH knows his people's needs and provides for them without needing to be asked. A prayer about something weighing heavily on you isn't a bad thing by any means, but there's nothing scriptural that suggests fasting makes YHWH respond more quickly / favorably to a petition.
We are in a state of constant, spiritual warfare.
No we aren't. Why would you think that? Nobody in the Bible was in a state of constant spiritual warfare. Sure in life there may be tests and trials and temptations, but 99% of the time - we're all just down here living life in an imperfect world.
We don't need to keep the letter of the Law, only the 'spirit of the Law' is important.
Explain to your wife how it's okay for you to cheat on her with your coworker because you're being faithful to her "in spirit." See how well that goes over! The difference being that YHWH is very jealous of His people. We are expected to LEARN the spirit of the Law BY PRACTICING the letter of the Law. And once we've learned the spirit of the Law, then we STILL keep the letter of the Law.
Sex out of wedlock / premarital sex are considered fornication and therefore sins.
"Fornication" is an umbrella term that includes adultery, prostitution, incest and homosexuality. Consensual sex out of wedlock which isn't somehow defrauding, cheating or violating somebody (who is Israel) is not a sin.
Gambling is a sin.
Truth be told, gambling is how the 13th apostle was chosen! There's nothing in Torah which prohibits gambling, investing in the stock market, dares or etc..
It is a commandment that people attend church.
No it isn't! It is a commandment that men show themselves at the Temple three times a year, but we can't for now because the Temple (in Jerusalem) doesn't exist at the moment. But there's no law in the Bible that we go to a church, much less with people who don't even serve the same god as us.
The Bible foretells one-world government, one-world currency and a charismatic leader who will rule the world.
Well, the one-world government part is true, and that's the Messianic kingdom. As for the currency bit, that's just Christian mythology. And a charismatic world leader - not a thing either.
The Bible says that no man will know the day nor the hour when Messiah is coming back.
That's wrong. The Bible says that no man knows the day nor the hour that the sky and the Earth will pass away.
Noah put two of each animal on the ark.
Wrong again! Noah put one pair of each unclean animal on the ark and SEVEN PAIRS of each clean animal.
The Bible says that in the Day of YHWH, the lion will lay down with the lamb.
The Bible actually NEVER says ANYTHING about a lion laying down with a lamb.
Jesus didn't keep the Law. He taught his followers against it.
The institutional religious leaders of his days hired FALSE witnesses to testify that Messiah taught AGAINST the Law. So thinking about this logically, if FALSE witnesses said he taught AGAINST the Law, what do you think TRUE witnesses would have said?
Paul taught his followers that the law is gone and that they shouldn't keep the commandments anymore.
Peter warned his followers that UNLEARNED people got confused by Paul's writings and fell into the ERROR of LAWLESSNESS. So if lawlessness was an ERROR 2,000 years ago, what do you think was CORRECT? Do you suppose lawlessness is any less of an error today than it was back then? And if UNLEARNED people misinterpreted Paul's writing as promoting lawlessness, what do you suppose EDUCATED people made of his letters?
Animal sacrifices ended with Messiah.
Messiah and his followers made animal sacrifices in the Temple. Messiah's followers were still making animal sacrifices in the Temple in the book of Acts. Animal sacrifices stopped when the Temple was destroyed because that's the only place where we can make them.
Paul taught believers not to let anybody condemn them for not keeping the feasts or Sabbath.
Paul taught Gentile believers not to let anybody condemn them for KEEPING the feasts and he taught against following the example of rebellion by refusing to rest on Sabbath.
The Bible says that the government is going to put microchips / barcodes / etc. in our hands and heads and this is the mark of the beast.
The mark of the beast is the trinity. We've been getting marked by that for millennia now. It's Rome's counterfeit of the 'Shema,' which declares the name and number of our god (YHWH who is ONE).