We saw how the Catholic Church stated that the Noahide Laws are found in the Bible books of Genesis (9:9-12) and Acts (15:28-29) (see here). Others say the Noahide Laws can be found in the Book of Galatians and even the noncanonical book of Jubilees. Yet when we look up these scriptures we find that none of them contain all of the Noahide Laws (the Book of Jubilees' list of Noahide Laws differs from the Talmud's version and only lists six). Further, the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia states the Noahide Laws are not found in the Bible, Professor of Religion John W. Martens says the Noahide Laws are not in Galatians, and Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn says Noahide Laws do not come from the Bible but Jewish tradition. The Noahide Laws do not come from the Bible but come from the Talmud.
The Noahide Laws are not found in the Bible but come from the Talmud - 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
Although only those laws which are found in the earlier chapters of the Pentateuch, before the record of the revelation at Sinai, should, it would seem, be binding upon all mankind, yet the Rabbis discarded some and, by hermeneutic rules or in accordance with some tradition (see Judah ha-Levi, “Cuzari,” iii. 73), introduced others which are not found there... Thus,the Talmud frequently speaks of “the seven laws of the sons of Noah,” which were regarded as obligatory upon all mankind, in contradistinction to those that were binding upon Israelites only (Tosef., ‘Ab. Zarah, ix. 4; Sanh. 56a et seq.).
SOURCE: Isidore Singer, Julius H. Greenstone. "LAWS, NOACHIAN". 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10/08/2020 from: http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9679-laws-noachian
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Noahide Law not found in the Book of Galatians - Professor of Religion John W. Martens
"James finally speaks on behalf of the “whole assembly” (Acts 15:12) and relates the mission to the Gentiles to a number of prophetic passages from scripture in which God calls the Gentiles to Himself (Acts 15: 16-18). James then states that Gentiles should be welcomed in if they maintain select dictates, which are similar to the Noachide laws (which Paul does not mention in Galatians 1-2) (Acts 15: 19-21) and, after “the apostles and the elders with the consent of the whole church” choose men to accompany Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:22), James sends a letter to this effect to the church in Antioch (Acts 15: 22-29)."
SOURCE: John W. Martens (2015). "A Scriptural look at Jesus' teachings on marriage and divorce". America: The Jesuit Review. 6 November 2016. Retrieved 10/08/2020 From: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2015/11/06/scriptural-look-jesus-teachings-marriage-and-divorce
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Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn says Noahide Laws do not come from the Bible but Jewish tradition
In 1773, Moses Mendelssohn, a Jewish philosopher and major figure in the Jewish enlightenment, corresponded with Rabbi Yaakov Emden, a respected rabbi and traditionalist based in Altona, Germany. At issue were the implications of a section in Maimonides’ Laws of Kings which states that non-Jews who observe the Noahide laws, which include prohibitions such as murder, incest and theft, only attain a share in the world to come if they do so because God has given those commandments through Moses. This ruling was approved by the noted halachist Joseph Karo (d. 1575).
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Mendelssohn added that the Noahide laws are seemingly not learned by exegesis – there is no clear-cut Biblical reference to them – but only through the Jewish tradition.
SOURCE: Jonathan L. Milevsky (2015). "CAN NON-JEWS ACHIEVE ETERNAL BLISS?". The Canadian Jewish News. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 10/08/2020 from: https://www.cjnews.com/featured/jewish-learning/can-non-jews-achieve-eternal-bliss
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Genesis does not delineate the whole ff Noahide Law
12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:9-12
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Acts does not enumerate all the Noahide Laws
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- Acts 15:28-29
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The Book of Jubilees contains a different set of Noahide Laws and there are only 6
"And in the twenty-eighth jubilee [1324-1372 A.M.] Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth ... For whoso sheddeth man's blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth."
SOURCE: The Book of Jubilees. Chapter 7, verses 20-33. Wesley Center for Applied Theology. Northern Nazarene University. Retrieved May 25, 2007.
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