Sam Shamoun Says Christians Agree with Muslims on Abrogation | Nazarene Reacts

Sam Shamoun told a Muslim that Christians and Muslims agree on abrogation — because, he claims, the New Testament abrogates the Old, and Paul taught against the Law. We reacted to the video and refuted it line by line. Here is the Nazarene Faith's answer, and it dismantles both the concession and the premise.Shamoun Conceded the Muslim's Entire Frame Watch what happened: the Muslim's whole case rests on abrogation being a legitimate divine method — YHWH gives a command, then cancels it. Instead of denying it, Shamoun agreed and pointed at his own Scriptures to prove it. He didn't refute Islam. He validated its operating assumption and then claimed the church did the same thing to the Torah. That's not a defense. That's a surrender dressed as an argument.The Written Torah Was Never Abrogated — the Sacrificial Mechanism Was Fulfilled The whole blunder collapses one distinction. The eternal Written Torah of YHWH and the Levitical-sacrificial mechanism are two different things. The sacrificial administration was added because of transgression (Galatians 3:19) — a remedial system fulfilled in the Messiah. That is what changed. The commandments of YHWH did not. Shamoun conflates the fulfilled with the eternal, calls the whole thing "abrogated," and hands the Muslim a Christianity that abandoned the Law of its own God. The Master Himself said He did not come to abolish it.Paul Did NOT Teach Against the Law — the Record Is Explicit This is the lie at the center of the video. Paul's own recorded practice destroys it. Under oath he declared he had committed no offense against the Torah (Acts 25:8). He kept the customs of the fathers (Acts 28:17). When the rumor spread that he taught against Moses, the apostles had him prove it false by paying for a Torah purification vow in the Temple (Acts 21:20–24) — the assembly at Jerusalem, thousands strong and "zealous for the Torah," treated "Paul taught against the Law" as a slander to be publicly refuted. Shamoun is repeating the exact accusation the apostolic community itself called false.What Paul Actually Opposed Paul's polemics target the Pharisaic oral law and the institutional system — the "works of the law" (erga nomou) as sectarian halakhah, and being "under the law" as the whole religio-judicial apparatus of priesthood, sacrifice, Sanhedrin, and scribal tradition together. He never once set aside a commandment of YHWH. Read the two yokes correctly and Shamoun's Paul evaporates.The Hostile Witnesses Bury the Claim Here is what makes this decisive: even the Fathers who despised the Nazarenes admit the original assembly kept the Torah and confessed Yeshua. Epiphanius, cataloguing them as a heresy, concedes the Nazoreans observed the Law in full (Panarion 29). Jerome, writing against them, still reports the same. A hostile witness has no motive to invent Torah-keeping for a group he's condemning. The abandonment of the Law was forced by later councils and emperors — Nicaea, Laodicea Canon 29, Theodosius — not handed down by the apostles. Shamoun mistakes a suppression for a doctrine.The Nazarene Verdict Christianity does not agree with Islam on abrogation — and the New Testament did not abrogate the Torah. What was added because of transgression was fulfilled; what was eternal remains. Paul kept it. The Master upheld it. The first assembly lived it. Sam Shamoun gave the Muslim a counterfeit and called it the faith.Primary Sources Cited ◆ Matthew 5:17–19 · Galatians 3:19 ◆ Acts 21:20–24 · Acts 25:8 · Acts 28:17 ◆ Epiphanius, Panarion 29 (hostile witness to Nazorean Torah-observance) ◆ Jerome, Epistle 112 to Augustine; Commentary on Isaiah (hostile/historical witness to the Nazarenes) ◆ Council of Nicaea (325); Council of Laodicea, Canon 29 (363) — imperial/conciliar suppression Here is the perseverance of the set-apart ones, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the faith of Yeshua. — Revelation 14:12HaTorah · HaNevi'im · HaMashiach🔗 nazareneremnants.org · scattereddoers.com ▶ YouTube Membership · Patreon: patreon.com/cw/NazareneRemnantswithOblias 💵 CashApp $nazareneremnants