HOLINNESS?!

 Q - Dapat po bang as a discipler ay

i-require ko ang disciples ko to be

holy? To be morally clean and

upright?

1 Peter 1:15-16

16 Be holy in everything you do, just as God is holy. He is the one who chose you.

16 In the Scriptures God says, “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a]

Quote from Leviticus 11:44, 45; 19:2;

20:7.

A - Ang ibig sabihin ng “holiness” noon, especially sa Leviticus, ay hindi the same

sa ibig sabihin in later times and today.

Ang ibig sabihin ng HOLINESS noon sa Leviticus, na syang quoted by

1 Peter.15-16, ay separation from things that the ancient Hebrews (Israelites) considered ceremonially unclean.

Ang holiness noon almost meant CLINICAL cleanliness and purity from anything or person or animal or act or deed considered UNCLEAN in their Ceremonial/Ritual Law and could make them unclean = unHOLY.

PAG SINABI NOON NA “BE HOLY”,

ANG IBIG SABIHIN LANG AY,

“DO NOT BE DEFILED/MADE UNCLEAN by touching or by associating with unclean people, animals, things or rituals, etc.

AND JESUS ALREADY VOIDED ALL THOSE CEREMONIAL/RITUAL LAWS.

IN FACT JESUS DEMONSTRATED THE VOIDING OF THOSE LAWS when he touched "unclean" things and even associated with "unclean" people.

Of course turo pa rin ni Jesus ang lahat ng kabutihan, kabaitan sa kapwa at kalinisan ng puso at isip. At yun ang dapat ituro ng discipler.

Remember, sabi ni Jesus sa

Matthew 28.19-20 ERV

19... So go and make followers of all people in the world... 20 Teach them to obey everything that I have told you to do/ everything I have commanded you.

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EH ANO BA ANG "EVERYTHING" na itinuro at example ni Jesus:

LAW ba?

Ceremonial Law /"Holiness" ba?

Hindi ba't "JESUS CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OF MOSES, WITH ALL ITS RULES AND COMMANDS"?

Hindi ba't essentially, ang kaisa-isang turo, example and command of Jesus

--- THEREFORE ang TRUE COMMISSION ni Jesus ---ay "LOVE"!