First thing you do is equate the word of Jesus with the word of the God of the Torah. This alone renders you incapable of understanding what's being said. Firstly, none of the gods in the Torah is the Father revealed in Christ for no one had seen the Father in Heaven but the Son who was sent by Him. The Word of the Father in Heaven is thus revealed in the Gospel.
It was The Son (Archangel Michael) Who was also sent previously, by the Father, and Who delivered the Torah (The Law) unto Moses.
Exodus
3:2 And the
angel of the "I AM" appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
3:4 And when the "I AM" saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
3:5 And He said, Draw not near here: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
John
1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only incarnated Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [Him].
5:37 And the Father Himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape.
5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me:
for he wrote of me.
5:47 But if ye believe
not his writings,
how shall ye believe
my words?
Acts
7:53 Who have received The Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
1 Corinthians
10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the "Cloud", and all passed through the sea;
10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the "Cloud" and in the sea;
10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that went with them: and that Rock was
Christ.
10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Secondly, to insinuate the Torah's reference in that logion is proof of a predisposition towards that which you've been made to believe, not a sign of intellectual independence.
As above. Christ is The Lawgiver.
"The stones that will serve you" refer to the words of Christ or the Logos. The Logos is that which orders the universe and the universe is ordered through God's mind. We also have to order our minds, "align or sync it with God's" and the Word taken flesh has come to show us. These words will serve us in bringing order to ourselves (the stones will serve to build our inner temple).
Matthew
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from The Law, till all be fulfilled.
5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least COMMANDments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.
24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Further evidence that we're talking about the Mind is in the Five Trees mentioned. They are Thought, Sentiment, Reflection, Intellect and Reason (see Pistis Sophia), incorruptible and imperishable in Summer and Winter (Heaven and Earth) described in the metaphore of the leaves that won't fall.
It is The Law (and spiritual understanding of it - with your spiritual mind/being) that renews your mind, bringing you back to the Beginning (and the Truth) again.
Thomas
3:4 The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be.
3:5 Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning so that you inquire about the end? For where the beginning is, there shall be the end (Alpha & Omega). Blessed is he who shall stand at the beginning, and he shall know the end and he shall not taste death.
Nothing here has a smidge to do with the Torah.
I disagree. It has everything to do with it and with going back to it and the true meaning of it (going back to Eden - back to "the Beginning" again.. through following Christ).
Leviticus 19:18 "...
thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself..."
1 John 1:1 That which was
from the Beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life;
2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old Commandment which ye had
from the Beginning. The old Commandment is the Word which ye have heard from the Beginning.
All Scripture quoted from the King of kings' bible.