The Oral Torah Part One

Introduction

Many will read this out of curiosity. Many will read this looking for an argument. My hope is that you come to value the Jewish people and their heritage as I have. Please read the following with an open mind.
(I have posted my Bible study results in the form of a Q & A discussion instead of an essay. The numbers with the "G" in front of them are numbers from the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance as found on Blue Letter Bible dot com. and represent the Greek root words used in the text. The "H" means a Hebrew word where I could make a clear association. I show the root of the root if there is one as it often sheds light on the word being studied.)

THE ORACLES OF GOD: THE ORAL TRADITION

1. Romans 3:1 "What advantage then hath the Jew? …"

“advantage”: (G4053: perissos) more eminent, more remarkable

G4053=H3499+H3148

H3499: yeter: an overhanging, an excess, superiority, remainder

Translated: the “rest of something…” or “the remainder of something”

Literally: the cords which hold the tent to the stakes; or the string of a bow; or the bridle of a horse

H3499 from H3498: to jut over, exceed; to excel, to abound, persevere

H3148: yowter: over & above

2. What are the Oracles of God?

Romans 3:2  "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."

“committed”: G4100: pisteuo: verb form of “pistis” faith: confided, given by faith

“oracles”: G3051: logion: noun form of “logios”: meaning “learned in letters”

“logios” is the adjective form of “logos”; the spoken word

G3051=H "khoshen": H2833: the breastplate of the High Priest holding the Urim & Thummim through which G-d would speak to him

3. Who did God give them to?  Acts 7:37,38

"This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:"

4. Who should teach them? 

1 Peter 4:11  "If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."

NAS “if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were, oracles of God;”

5. What is the requirement for those who teach the Torah of Yeshua?

Hebrews 5:12  "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat."

6. What was Paul’s advise to the Thessalonians?

2 Thessalonians 2:15  "Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle."

G3862: “traditions”: of the body of precepts, esp. ritual, which in the opinion of the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations, which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence

“by word": logos: spoken word; orally

“by epistle”: written

7. But isn’t “oracles” referring to what was said that was then written down? No, the term used for that is “scriptures”.

The sriptures, ie. spoken words of the prophets written down:

Matthew 26:56a  "But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled."

The words of Moses and the prophets, written down:

Luke 24:27  "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."