james 1:27 pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO5dYuhFLrE

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hebrew_Roots/Holy_Days/Tabernacles/Tabernacles/History_of_the_Feast

John 4:22 Salvation is of the transmission of the Jewish nation teachings (Not Grecian per se) who had the scrolls and teachings (Some rabbinic teachings though were false).

Romans 3:
1 What then is the advantage of the Yahuḏite, or what is the value of the circumcision?

2 Much in every way! Because firstly indeed, that they were entrusted with the Words of Elohim.

Hebrews 1: 1 Elohim, having of old spoken in many portions and many ways to the fathers by the [HEBREW, NOT OTHERWISE] prophets,

2 has in these last days spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages,

Roman Catholicism was the Christology that was in control for some 1500 yrs before the Reformation; give or take a century or so.

The remnant of Israel was in continuance by a family here or there or a string of them throughout history:

Matthew 16:
15 He said to them, “And you, who do you say I am?”

16 And Shim‛on Kĕpha answering, said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim.”

17 And יהושע answering, said to him, “Blessed are you, Shim‛on Bar-Yonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father in the heavens.

18 “And I also say to you that you are Kĕpha, and on this rock { Kepha's confession of verse 16, that Yahshua is Messiah. No "J" in the Hebrew LANGUAGE!!!) I shall build My assembly, and the gates of the grave shall not overcome it. (There would always be a witness of Yahshua as Messiah, regardless, as the beast government of Rome and her papal system's countless slaughterings of his people, Israel took place and subsequently the Protestants also through Lutheranisms and the like. For they HATE THE THOUGHTS OF A Jewish Messiah! Hebrew 7:14 BECAUSE AS FRANK DOES AND OTHERS, THEY HATE THE BIBLICAL LAW. For people that hyper focus on the Psalm of Solomon spiritually and the relationship between the Messiah and His bride-Israel. THEY FAIL TO SEE AND EVEN DETEST THE BLATANT FACT THAT THE TORAH STATES THE HIGH PRIEST MUST MARRY AN ISRAELITE AND FURTHER THE KETUBAH (MARITAL CONTRACT, THE COVENANT, IS THE BIBLICAL LAW!)
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- Love of Yahweh (8/18/2019 5:42:55 AM)

Familiar with group from link you posted. They know they know the Talmud some, they keep feast days, but blow off the Torah other wise. Nothing but Christologists. BTW, NO SKULL CAPS or other apparel here! Where did you get that from?

Part 2- Next you have a link that says to love the Almighty.
What Scripture states is most important:
Even if you are a 7th day Adventist or C of G, you should be aware that the love of Yahweh is to obey His commands. Disobeying Him is not loving Him. Once we have come in to a knowledge of the truth to this HIGH CALLING we are obliged NOT TO SIN INTENTIONALLY!

1 Everyone who believes/trusts that (Yahshua) יהושע is the Messiah has been born (from above) of (Yahweh) Elohim, and everyone who loves the One bringing forth (Messiah) also loves the one having been born of Him (Children of spiritual Israel).

2 By this we know that we love the children of (Yahweh) Elohim, when we love (Yahweh) Elohim and guard/keep (Shomer in Hebrew means both) His commands.

3 For this is the love for (Yahweh) Elohim, that we guard/keep His commands, and His commands are not heavy/burdensome,....

For It Is Written:
Exodus 20:
3“You have no other mighty ones against My face.

4“You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,

5 you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה your Elohim am a jealous/zealous Ěl, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who HATE Me (Those making or worshipping Yahweh by 2-3 dimensional imagery are practicing idolatry, regardless of what the individual thinks or loves. It is what Yahweh commands and thinks is what counts. There is spiritual idolatry as well.)

6 but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands [Notice to LOVE Yahweh is to keep and guard His commands. Regardless what ministers weak sister teach because they have not the mind of Messiah, nor the correct understanding of the love of Yahweh. Christology is a disobedient religion and does not properly love Yahweh, much like the ancient 10 tribes of Israel who were engrossed in idolatry. Do not commingle two issues: Taking care of the defenseless and those without a provider and the commandments themselves. For as I stated there are commands dealing with that. Idolatry is one of the mentions of the apostles to the gentile believers in Acts 15 as a prerequisite to abandon physical idolatry! So why does Christology have steeples??? And statues??? etc....]

These things I say out of loving-kindness. If you study the Torah you can see there is not one command Yahweh does not state that is not out of love for His creation.

- Love of Yahweh (8/17/2019 6:04:46 AM)

Part 1
James (Jacob)1:27 Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Yes!!! But, there are commands in Scripture as such!
First, Stay out of the world as John pointed out.
1 John 2:
15 Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.

Where does this come from?

Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 1:15-16 based on the Torah Lev. 19:2 and 11:44 as James tells you in the very same chapter you quoted from. However you had neglected to go back to get context and gave just a single verse as a snippet:
James 1:
21 Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your lives.

22 And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror,

24 for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like.

25 But he that looked into the perfect TORAH-BIBLICAL LAW-COVENANT =MARITAL CONTRACT WITH YAHWEH AND YAHSHUA, that of freedom (FREEDOM FROM SIN AND JUDGMENT!) and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the TORAH.

26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle/control his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless.

27 Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Deuteronomy 24:19; ibid 26:12 and ibid 27:19 Commands to show love to the orphans and widows.

Are you insinuating Torah does not teach to show love to those who have no provider nor protector?

You have no place to evaluate me personally in these matters. You know nothing of my works!

Next you state love Elohim (G-d is what the world calls their Almighty. A term that the Father never refers to himself, although in most bibles because translators were Christologists. Also the etymology is from a molten image and idol. Yahweh never refers to Himself as Gimel-Dalet. Search in the book of Joshua and in Isaiah and see that that term as well as the Israelite tribe's name derives from an idol)

- Love of Yahweh (8/17/2019 2:42:44 AM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBgYeH52U18
- Love God (8/17/2019 1:13:04 AM)

I choose Jesus' method of theorizing...brief, simple, relational to the era and society of the day. When being pressed by the political and religious intelligentia of that time, he responded in parables or with scripture that they were familiar. Theorizing James 1:27 to the inth degree still says no more than the first and second commandment, which if we could all fulfill those, without the aid of God's spirit within us, then Jesus would not have had to come and pay the price of sin that he didn't owe for our debt that we couldn't pay. Reference Matthew 22:36-40. He profoundly stated, "On these two commandments hang ALL the law and the prophets." (Love God ... Love Neighbor.....) If we loved God as much as we should and the way we should, then we would love our Neighbor as much as we should and the way we should.....but history has shown that we can't do this by ourselves...so Jesus came to show the way, by teaching, example, and sacrifice. This James 1:27 verse is, as often we see in scripture, a synopsis of the instructions already given in the verses preceding as well as the following verses, and of course includes the great commission. Did we forget that Jesus ministered to physical, spiritual, and material? He fed the multitudes, healed the sick, brought salvation to the oppressed, made good wine at a wedding (which could have been fresh grape juice) and paid taxes. By specifically naming the fatherless and widows, James was referring to the most needy and oppressed of that time, because without family and its inheritances, the fatherless and widows were at the mercy of the world. James defines throughout the book HOW to keep oneself unspotted from the world, as well as, HOW to treat the poor and needy respectfully. He tells us in 2:17 that faith and works (physical as well as spiritual) coincide, and in 4:7 that we can keep ourselves unspotted and cause the devil to flee from us by "submitting ourselves to God". Remember that a thought or subject rarely begins or ends with one verse nor the beginning or ending of a chapter. Much bad theology has been birthed from isolating scripture from scripture. Never forget to consider the whole.
love, prayers, blessings.

- Blanch (4/23/2014 5:41:26 AM)

One day I chanced to reread this verse and realized something (or more like I was allowed to realize that something). Pure religion certainly cannot be about visiting the physically fatherless or physically widowed in their affliction, without distinction as to whether such are Christian or not. Neither can keeping oneself unspotted from the world have anything to do with taking oneself out of the world and living as a monk in a monastery. Compare Matthew 5:15-16; John 17:15. Speaking of monks in monasteries, this does seem to be the natural man's reading of this passage and the Catholic reading as well. Helping (with one's flesh those who are in the flesh) orphans and widows, and keeping oneself unspotted from the world (in a monastery) does seem to be their application of this verse. Nevertheless, I believe Scripture makes clear that the verse speaks of the great commission. For what else could be considered pure and undefiled religion if not to preach the gospel to those who, whether orphaned or widowed and comfortless in this present age, will perish forever if a preacher is not sent unto them to preach the gospel? See Romans 10:14-17. To my mind, the fatherless are those who had no father and that to me would be the gentile sheep that will wander lost until the shepherd finds them. For such were never God's children, and neither could they be the Devil's, (for these resist the Spirit), but were rather fatherless and afflicted as any lost sheep would be. Second, "the widows" clearly allude to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, the jews, who are similarly afflcited without a shepherd. In Romans 7:1-4, (and elsewhere), we are told that the chosen people's husband perished on that cross and are now free from the law and able to be married to another, the one who rose from the dead, i.e. Jesus Christ. They too are lost sheep, afflicted and waiting to hear the gospel. Finally, to keep oneself unspotted from the world is simply an exhortation not to become a friend of the world, (James 4:4), or a partner in its works, (Ephesians 5:11), for the whole world lieth in wickedness (1 John 5:19), and whosoever should be a friend of such a world, would be an adulter or an adultress who left his first love: her husband: Jesus Christ. See James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-16. Some have told me that the verse is both spiritual and physical, but I beg to differ. If we look at the Sheep and the Goats parable in Matthew 25, we see that those whom Christ considers goats pride themselves on having, in fact, clothed, fed, and visited Christians in the flesh, see Matthew 25:44, whereas the sheep claim not have known the good they have done. See Matthew 25:37-39. Clearly, in those verses therefore, Christ is speaking of Christians who have satiated the souls of the hungry, of the thirsty, of the captives, and of the naked, by the preaching of his words, and not alleviated temporal suffering by ministering to the physically hungry, thirsty, captive, and naked, in a visible way, which, of course, the whole world highly esteems. For we must remember brethren, that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination to God. Luke 16:15. Well, this is my comment. May the grace and peace of our Lord be with all who call on the name of the Lord in spirit and in truth. Pray for and preach to the lost dear brethren for there is no greater expression of love.

- Daniel (3/29/2014 3:32:08 PM) [qBible.com]

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