Posted on 05/21/2013 2:36:55 PM PDT by NYer
An idiot who has committed the grave sin of idolatry.
How is it that some Jews can be completely secularized and other Jews have no problem with them calling themselves Jewish, yet when some Jews accept Christ as the Messiah their Jewishness is called into question?
Because belief in JC is totally, utterly, 100% incompatible with Jewish beliefs.
He was not rejected by all, that much is a certainty. There were more than a few "Jews" as it were (as they were?) who did accept him, even among the Sanhedrin.
Then there were the Pharisees who truly did hate him, and all his followers with the hottest of hatreds.
One of them, a young Pharisee of Pharisees named Saul, most likely would have "kept up the good work" of eradicating the followers (killing them, actually) had he not had a supernatural encounter on the road to Damascus.
What is the Torah (and here may I assume you mean Tanakh ---or do you intend books of the law only?) but record of the law which was given (along with some setting, some lead-up from Adam to Abram, and from there to the deliverance of the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt), additional accounting of these chosen one's interaction with God, with Him speaking through prophets to them, along with a few other inspired writings such as Psalms & Proverbs?
I can tell you what it isn't. It is not the additional commentaries which developed alongside Torah.
Interesting how the man that many called rabbi who often quoted the Tanuch is “100% incompatible with Jewish beliefs” yet many Jews who support sodomy don’t seem to bring down that kind of thunder.
Doesn’t matter. A non-Jew could get hold of a copy of the TANACH and read it. Still not a Jew. I could get hold of a copy of a medical book and hold forth on heart surgery. Doesn’t make me a doctor. A genuine Jew, born of a Jewish mother, who does not observe Jewish law is nevertheless regarded as fully Jewish and we pray for the day that they come to the conclusion that they SHOULD be observing the laws.
A genuine Jew, born of a Jewish mother? Why is it in the Torah that lineage is traced through the paternal side but modern Jews trace it through the maternal side?
My friend, you are sorely confused. According to Jewish law—from the get-go—the “Jewishness” of a child was determined by the mother being Jewish. There were such things as rape by non-Jews of Jewish women. The only way to be sure of the authentic Jewish lineage was to determine it through the mother.
In Genesis chapter 10 for example the lineage of Noah’s sons and their sons after them; all male.
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