Paul tells us of the Spiritual in 1 Corinthians, the word ‘gifts’ is added by the translator attempting to put the idea into the ‘christian’ context but missing the deeper truth.
Torah is written upon our hearts Jeramiah tells us, but he also tells us that the heart is wicked beyond belief.
We have to be humble before Yah, and let Him write upon our hearts, if we do not then Adam’s knowledge and godship prevails and we will have a form of religion but deny the power thereof.
The Torah that is written in the five books of Mosaic law is the ‘physical’ Torah, but the Torah which Yah writes upon our hearts is a spiritual Torah which is what Paul is writing about. It is the very ‘force’ behind Creation itself and is the basis of our own inage and likeness to Yah!
On the whole, Christianity tends to “nail Torah to the cross” and Judaism is more interested in rabbinical tradition and rabbinical interpretation(s) of Mosaic physical Torah.
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and so it is with most of us, we regard our intellect, our innate ability to exercise Adamic ‘godship’ (knowledge of good and bad) as what is really ‘good’ in our religious life, but Yah wants us to be humble and accept His Knowledge of Good and Evil before He can start writing Spiritual Torah on our hearts.
We start by keeping the physical Torah, keeping seventh day shabbat (Saturday) frees us from Adamic slavery, stopping throwing our own godship in Yah’s face cleanses us, throwing away the pictures of famous rabbis removes the mechanical religion of the automation.
We have a consciousness which, if we are humble and allow it, connects direct to Yah, we don’t need vicars, priests and rabbis to intercede, we can have a direct relationship with our Creator, but only if we purge the other ‘gods’ from our lives. The ‘pastor’ was one of 5 ministries given to the congregation, where are the others? Usually their role is eclipsed by the traditional elevated status of the pastor as god’s nominated representative, this is evil! Paul tells us it is prophesy that is important, not the ‘telling the future’ type prophesy but the discerning the will of Yah type prophesy. The real prophet has Yah’s spiritual Torah written upon his heart, and thus in his consciousness, and through that spiritual Torah, the prophet can ‘see’ Yah – “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see Yah” and in seeing Him they will understand Him and be able to spread the ‘Gospel’ of Him – the good news that the healing and beneficial message of Torah, both physical and spiritual, is available to ALL.