Posted on 02/14/2023 10:08:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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The basic Christian value is that Jesus is Lord.
“No. 10: Human beings have free will.”
I see Prager isn’t a Calvinist.
Prager ignores the Talmud which defines Judaism today much more than does the Old Testament.
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Yep, I also think he misplaces the source of some of our truths:
“The Hebrew Bible introduced the most revolutionary moral idea in history: that there are objective moral truths just as there are mathematical and scientific truths.”
The reality is this idea is from Plato, and Greek thought is another core pillar of Western Civilization that can’t be ignored.
The Hebrew Bible is almost the opposite: making clear there is one set of rules for Jews and another for everyone else.
Praeger is always so readable. Thanks for posting.
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The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you. Exodus 12:49
You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 24:22
The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you. Numbers 15:16
Every society other the the post-modern western world believed in objective moral truths. They may have disagreed on what those truth are (although they were actually fairly similar) and where the objective truths came from.
Amen and amen
“Every society other the the post-modern western world believed in objective moral truths.”
Not true. Greco-Roman paganism, and most other early belief systems, had no concept of a central moral truth.
They were based instead on the idea that the gods were venal and capricious beings and divine judgement was avoided only by not angering them.
....oh please, Dennis Prager has written best selling books on the Torah, still in progress and is a current Rabbi and teacher. You can follow him everyday on talkstream for three hours. Call him and debate him on his ignoring any tradition.
John 5:18, “the Jews sought the more to kill him {Jesus), because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
In his response he said: “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” v. 38.
The scripture he refers to here is the Old Testament.
“I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” v. 43.
They received him not, the one who will come in his own name is the false Messiah, the antichrist, whom they will receive. As also the unbelieving world.
You aren’t making any sense. Do you know what the Talmud is?
Try taking a look at this:
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/israel-and-anti-gentile-traditions/
Even Zeus used a balance to tell him what is fair and just, which means even the Pagan Greeks believed in an objective measure of justice.
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