Posted on 01/16/2010 8:23:23 AM PST by Colofornian
Yes, God is limited by His Word.
When He makes a Covenant by His Word, He is bound to keep it.
Everlasting condemnation in the Lake of Fire.
There are plenty of Hebrews who were not saved. There were even priests who were not believers. There will remain, though, a remnant of Jews who are believers through faith in Christ, even after the Holy Spirit is removed from the Church Age.
A place of everlasting torment that makes this place look like heaven: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24441270/The-Darvaza-Well
None; this is from the Shem Tov Matthew:
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Our father in heaven
may your name be sanctified
may your kingdom be blessed
your will shall be done in heaven and on earth
give us our bread continually
forgive us the debt of our sins
as we forgive the debt of those who sin against us
do not bring us into the hands of a test
and protect us from all evil
amen
Good Q: From sin; From a second death; From the fear of death; From bondage to Satan.
We can teach what we believe but I believe in a Merciful God. The premise is that if you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior that you will not be saved. Does that mean that all the people prior to Jesus will not be saved by God? Does that mean people in remote tribes that have never heard of Jesus will not be saved? I don’t know but that isn’t my decision... That is God’s decision.
You've got a sharp eye.
It's because of what the author says earlier in the article: Since Elohim said that His people are to keep His commandments forever (Exodus 31:16, Leviticus 16:31, 23:21), to say that Jesus did away with the Torah—and the commandments in it—places Him in the category that Moshe taught in Deuteronomy 13:1,2: “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them.’” Moshe cautioned not to believe that prophet: “You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for YHVH your Elohim is testing you to know whether you love YHVH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after YHVH your Elohim and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.”(Deuteronomy 13:3,4)
You see to the Jew who has heard Christians as saying the Law has been annulled, and that this "Christianized" version of this Jesus is responsible for this, well then they immediately apply that to mean that Jesus could only be a false prophet -- for a true signs and wonder-worker would advise people to also "keep His commandments and obey His voice" as it says in Deut. 13.
Therefore, some Messianic Jews think that these Law-annulling Christians believe in a cultural Christ -- thus the author says: the modern church refers to their “Jesus” as a Prophet who annulled the Torah and taught their people not to follow the commandments in the Torah—thus this would make the “Jesus” that is usually taught by many Christian missionaries and teachers a false prophet according to the teachings of Moshe. The Torah explicitly warns the followers of YHVH not to listen to this kind of false prophet.
Thus, that is NOT a characteristic of the Jewish Messiah. Bottom line is, they are wanting to remain true to the word of God (Deut. 13).
And we all know that cultures throughout time and throughout the world have tended to redefine aspects of Jesus -- some so much so that He's no longer recognizable (even the Corinthian church did this to such a radical extent that the apostle Paul referenced how they had departed from their devotion to the true Jesus to another Jesus -- see 2 Cor. 11:3-4).
Messianic Jews are simply attempting to retain defining Him through the filter of the Old Testament expectation of the Messiah.
Why should the name Yeshua be preferred over Jesus since a contrast was drawn between the the two as though two different individual are being spoken of?
If you feel Yeshua is a more correct form for person name of the Messiah, it's up to you to explain why. Clearly the exact pronunciation of names from the Scriptures is not known.
Romans2:12-17 pretty much covers it!
This merciful God you believe in has promised to throw Satan into a lake of fire for all eternity. Do you think he will not do this because he is benevolent? I don’t believe God will break his words to his creation nor to himself.
I'd rather hang out with Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Hendrix than losers like Martin Luther and John Calvin.
I'd imagine that if the Christian vision of heaven is true, everyone in heaven probably has an excrement-eating Joel Osteen type grin on their face, where you praise the dear Leader 24-7. It would be like going to a really lame party.
Well, I said Jewish, not messianic...unless of course you mean moshiach, as annointed in the sense of David, Solomon et al, past and to come, though with no sense of divinity.
There is nothing to joke about. It is forever.
How do you know? Have you been there?
Having said that, you assert that "Yeshua" is not correct. You did not offer the "correct" name. So, what is it, do you think?
"Ιησους"
It's what we have in the source documents.
And what does your pastor preach to you from the Bible (the first 3/4 of which, of course, is the sacred book of the Jews and existed for hundreds of years before Jesus was born)?
Or is your pastor silent on this topic?
Just curious.
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