Month: July 2016

All the prophets prophesied only of the days of the Messiah -Talmud-Sanhedrin 99a Isaac and the Future Sacrifice (continued): The event involving Abraham and Issac is called the aqedah. Jewish author Philip Segal writes, Two concepts of Judaic theology emerge from the story of the aqedah: vicarious atonement and the suffering of the righteous. Both…

Odd and Unfounded Assertions: When we are presented with fanciful interpretations of evidence we inevitably run across strange comments on all sorts of issues. Here are two examples: “Carney Matheson, a scientist at the Paleo-DNA Laboratory at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada_ ‘Judah,’ whom they indicate may have been their son, could have been the…

Is it really PZ Myers’ propensity towards, as Massimo Pigliucci puts it, being like “an intemperate teenager in the midst of a hormonal rage” that accounts for the “theatrics that apparently makes him so popular”? Is PZ Myers really merely a misunderstood mild mannered commentator? Is PZ Myers really fierce and malicious? Only God and…

What a sad way for Helen Thomas to end an otherwise momentous career. Yet, this sadness is utterly nothing in comparison to that which we Jews have endured through the millennia. It is also interesting how the new cycles, pop-culture and politically correct movement are so very selective. For example, Helen Thomas is rightly criticized…

The Talmud-Megillah 13a states, Whoever repudiates idolatry is accounted a Jew. The Halakah-Jewish Religious Law: Let us now consider the teaching of the law which the authors quoted in part 1 claim to uphold and live by: Encyclopedia Judaica 3:211 states: In Jewish religious law, it is technically impossible for a Jew (born to a…

Theological Considerations – The Resurrection and the Ascension: As we have seen, James Cameron stated, “I’m not a theologist [sic.],”1 and Smicha Jacobovici stated, “I am not a theologian.”2 Yet, it is easy to see how theological issues are raised by their assertions. It would also be easy to accuse them of besmirching Christianity. Certainly,…

Examples of Reinterpretations: Professor Gershom Scholem; Professor Emeritus of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem: the ‘suffering servant’ passages had occasionally been interpreted as referring to the messiah, but later Haggadists as well as the as well as the medieval commentators preferred different interpretations. In order to undermine Christian exegesis, which identified the suffering…

Krishna Consciousness / Hare Krishna: “A preacher of God consciousness is a friend to all living beings. Lord Jesus Christ exemplified this by teaching, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ But the Christians like to misinterpret this instruction. They think the animals have no soul, and therefore they think they can freely kill billions of innocent animals…

“‘Come now, and let us reason together,’Says the LORD”-Isaiah 1:18 Let us now carefully dissect the very many statements that Dan Barker packaged together in a bout of elephant hurling. It is not fair to make these kinds of statements in a debate because Dan Barker knows very well that Michael Horner will simply not…

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