Quest for truth

Introduction There is a claim that runs through the entire Torah like a golden thread, repeated with such frequency and clarity that it cannot be dismissed as incidental: the covenant God made with Israel at Mount Sinai is everlasting . The Hebrew phrase berit olam — "everlasting covenant" — appears no fewer than nineteen times in reference to the Sinai covenant, its laws, its festivals, and its priesthood. This is not poetic hyperbole. This is not ancient Near Eastern convention. This is the explicit, repeated, unambiguous declaration of the God of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses — a God who, by His own testimony, does not lie and does not change His mind. When this reality dawns on someone — when the weight of those nineteen declarations settles into the soul — there is only one logical conclusion: many of the New Testament's central claims simply cannot be true . This article explores that conclusion using a Torah-only approach, quoting the Torah and respected ...