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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…
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Jewish / Judaism : Biblical Messianic Symbolism, part 2 of 4
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…
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“The Lost Tomb of Jesus”, part 7 of 10
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…
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The Massimo Pigliucci vs. PZ Myers Fracas (with a little Michael De Dora thrown in), part 2
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…
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Helen Thomas, Israel and the Jews
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…
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Jewish / Judaism : Jewish and Christian? Is Messianic Judaism Possible?, part 2 of 3
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…
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“The Lost Tomb of Jesus”, part 6 of 10
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,…