Posted on 12/10/2019 3:00:50 AM PST by Kaslin
One additional tacit belief that Dennis failed to mention:
We believe that Jesus Christ was either a liar or a lunatic.
Zero criticisms. Those are Jews in name only, literally. They don’t follow the commandments, are mostly atheists and their one true religion is Marxism.
For Christians it is the Resurrection.
I used to believe (that word again!) that the unifying belief between Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism is: "This is the Torah (teaching) which Moses received from the mouth of G-d and transmitted to the people of Israel." I thought it was said in every congregation after a reading from the Torah was completed. But then I attended a synagogue in Jerusalem where this verse was intentionally omitted.
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Considering the vast majority vote Democrat, this is correct.
But I mean this even of the hardcore orthodox believers. The Talmud is their emphasis. Torah is a distant second.
Why would he say that?
Jesus said he was God. I believe him. Jews do not.
If you encountered someone on the street and they sincerely told you they were god, would you not conclude they were either a liar or a lunatic? So how could a Jew think otherwise?
And this is why they fail in God's eyes.
I think neither. I think he was someone deeply committed to Judaism, whose sayings were converted into a new religion that had little resemblance to what he was preaching or what he intended.
But at least the Western world ended up with one of the best parts of the Jewish faith, and that is, its moral code.
Interesting conclusion - when there is not one drop of evidence to support that conclusion.
And all the evidence proves that neither conclusion is possible to a rational and intelligent person.
Read Ben Israel by my deceased friend and great Jewish intellectual, Art Katz.
What conclusion is not possible?
Why don’t you just tell me what you think and defend it rather than insulting me and telling me to read something by your friend?
I think neither. I think he was someone deeply committed to Judaism, whose sayings were converted into a new religion that had little resemblance to what he was preaching or what he intended.
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So the Old Testament was properly converted but somehow the New Testament was not? And your rationale for this is what?
I am NOT saying *I* see it that way. I'm saying C.S. Lewis' catchy triad of "Liar, Lunatic or Lord" ignores another possibility: that the NT is not a totally legit account.
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Sorry, I'm not a dogmatist. Your questions mean nothing to me. My tagline is my creed.
Biblical Judaism is the Judaism of the Old and New Testament.
Rabbinical Judaism is the Judaism of man.
Thank you for defending the truth.
According to the Bible Christians are True Jews:
Romans 2:28-29 (KJV) [28] For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Revelation 2:9 (KJV) [9] I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
See also Revelation 3:9.
A great deception has been going on for centuries. Biblical ignorance sustains it. Of course all of this will be dismissed as anti-semitism or revisionism. But the Bible has captured this truth for 2 millennia — the old custodians have been dismissed and the kingdom of God is under new management. See Matthew 21.
Matthew 21:42-43 (KJV) [42] Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? [43] Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Jesus fulfilled this prophecy at his resurrection.
No, Christians are grafted into the jewish olive tree. Romans 9-11.
No. Jesus is the true vine.
John 15:1 (KJV) [1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
The “Jewish” olive branches have been cut off. The fig tree is the symbol of the Jews. But look what Jesus has to say about it.
Matthew 21:19 (KJV) [19] And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
What was known as Israel is rejected — forever. True Israel, all who are rooted in Jesus Christ, are the Israel of God. And Ephesians 2 describes what God intended Israel to be.
Ephesians 2:11ff (KJV) [11] Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; [12] That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: [13] But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. [14] For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; [15] Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; [16] And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Amen. Only those who are of faith are citizens of the commonwealth of Israel.
The olive tree is jewish, the root is also Jewish.
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