Month: July 2016
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Jewish / Judaism : The Isaiah 9 Controversy, part 2 of 4
The Targumim:Targum Jonathan, “For to us a Son is born, to us a Son is given: and He shall receive the Law upon Him to keep it; and His Name is called from of old, Wonderful, Counselor, ELOHA, The Mighty, Abiding to Eternity, The Messiah, because peace shall be multiplied on us in His days.”…
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PZ Myers Complements Christianity
FYI: This is one of the essays that I wrote before PZ Myers – The Desecration Delusion but in typical dyslexic (and procrastinative) form am posting now – after the fact, and after the act. Recently PZ Myers paid Christianity a tremendous compliment. He paid Christianity a compliment by ripping a page out of a…
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PZ Myers – The Desecration Delusion
oday, the front page of Prof. Richard Dawkins is advertising, “VOICES OF SCIENCE: PZ Myers – Buy it now on DVD.” Oh, PZ Myers is also a scientist? Who would’a’thunk’it?!?! Well, that is what I get for procrastinating. I had written up two nice little essays on PZ Myers’ shenanigans and before I got a…
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Barker's Butt
One of life’s greatest mysteries is why Dan Barker is considered an apt representative of atheism and an able debater. During his debate with Kyle Butt that was entitled “Does the God of the Bible Exist?” (hear it here) and which took place on Charles Darwin’s birthday he, yet again, premised his credentials upon being…
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Jewish / Judaism : A Jewish Book Called “The New Testament”
The New Testament? A Jewish book? Oi vey! Is not the New Testament a Gentile book written by Pagans? Let us see… Jesus was Jewish. His Jewish parents took him to the Temple to be circumcised on the eighth day. His parents took Him to the Temple feasts. He attended the synagogue and, when of…
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The Rape of Skepticism, part 2
Free Republic: As of October 9, 2009 AD, 51 comments were posted to the Free Republic mention, some pro some against and many carrying on discussions back and forth. Thus, I will focus on a few to which I personally responded. As with ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 2 one commentator did not seem to…
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Jewish / Judaism : The Messiah will be “The LORD”, part 3 of 3
We will now conclude considering that the idea that the Messiah is the LORD originates with Judaism and not with Christianity. Let us now consider the text of the Dead See Scroll known as The Coming of Melchizedek – 11Q13 – Col.2: (Ps. 82:1). Scripture also says about him; “Over it take your seat in…
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Argument for God's Existence from Jewish Folklore
The Jewish Encyclopedia retells a bit of Jewish folklore about “Abraham’s life in his Chaldean home as told by the Palestinian rabbis of the second century, and afterward further developed under the influence of Babylonian folk-lore.” Basically, after Abraham is born the “councilors and soothsayers of Nimrod” want to kill him. “Terah then went home…
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PZ Myers divorces himself from the skeptic movement
Biologists or, rather, Darwinist, PZ Myers has announced “I officially divorce myself from the skeptic movement.” Interestingly, with his divorce proceedings, as it were, he noted, “the existence of gods is not a testable claim” and one can understand why he would make the claim since PZ Myers is an adherent of the positive affirmation…
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Jewish / Judaism : Does Christianity Corrupt the Old Testament? And: On the Memra, part 2 of 5
The Targumim: Here we present samples of the Targumim (plural for Targum, which the Goyim refer to as “Targums”) which are Aramaic paraphrases of the Old Testament dating from the 1st c. BC. The Targumim take liberties in paraphrasing texts. For example, if the Targumist thought that a text spoke of the Messiah they would…