What is the difference between testing teachings and finding fault?
Quick Answer
The speaker distinguishes careful biblical examination from a habitual posture of criticizing other believers over preferred interpretations.
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Detailed Biblical Study
The Teaching “Torah Is Liberty” addresses this question by explaining: The speaker distinguishes careful biblical examination from a habitual posture of criticizing other believers over preferred interpretations. Read Matthew 7:3-5; Mark 7:1-13 in its surrounding context and compare the speaker’s interpretation with the passage itself. The Teaching distinguishes Yahovah’s written commandments from human traditions and urges believers to test every claim by Scripture.
Related Teaching
TORAH IS LIBERTY
In this Teaching, “Torah Is Liberty,” the speaker explains why he understands Yahovah’s commandments as a path of freedom rather than bondage. Building on the earlier Teachings “Who Told You?” and “Babylon: Come Out of Her, My People,” he challenges inherited assumptions about Torah, examines passages in Galatians often associated with bondage, and distinguishes salvation by grace through faith from the redeemed person’s walk of obedience. He also warns Torah-observant believers against replacing church traditions with new human-made rules, criticizing others over personal interpretations, or treating added restrictions as holiness. The Teaching draws extensively from Psalm 119 and other passages describing the law as delight, wisdom, peace, and liberty, and concludes with a call to hold to what is written and extend grace in fellowship.