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I will have to check it out.

 

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(1 Cor 7:12-15)  Thanks for sharing it here.  Yes I recall it from time to time and it is a great help to me.  My wife and I share the same fundamentalist background and even she from time to time reminds me of certain verses. We do get along so well and care for each other and our children. I pray for my entire family that they would come to a knowledge of Messiah.

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Yes Ed J she is.  Its a long story 🙂 We both converted from Christianity some time ago..since then about 20 years i have came back to believe in Jesus as Messiah.

 

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I think the problem is.. we think..too much. We try to capture to understand God and Jesus.  It does bother me trying to figure out the relationship between Jesus and God .. Son and Father.  I pray each day that God help my unbelief my inability to understand or comprehend.

We believe God existed before creation..however that is accomplished.  The Word of God also existed..as your words exist..before they are spoken. Are they separate beings? No.  Are they not a part of your essence, somehow, are they not spoken with your breath?  Your words do they not carry your intent? Your will? Express your innermost thought.. are they not more of you then even a piece of pottery or other created thing.. This IMHO is Jesus relation to the father..yes he existed before all..yes its by Him all things are created for he is the Word the essence the will of God..Yes by the will (effort in some way) Jesus was born of a virgin lived and died..and was risen.. and now in his glorified body sets at the right hand of the Father.. whatever that means in the heavenly realm.

We do our best here..what we cant forget is the day we encountered Christ.  The Trinity was not even part of our discussion.. we were beggars, sick, cast aside, addicted, lost — Sinful and we encountered Christ. We know what a transforming thing this has been in all our lives.. we can all attest to a personal encounter with Christ..lets not strangle it with trying to define what Jesus said with our understanding.. but all cry out.. Help My Unbelief. Help me in those things I cant understand or for whatever reason struggle to believe..keep me close to Your side oh God..

 

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Water Baptism is the Immersion in the Mikveh in Judaism.  Just some thoughts..

Interesting to note that immersion in the mikveh is ( just observations I am not dictating what has to be..)

1. not performed by anyone..but by the one needing cleansing.  It is witnessed by at least one person, as they have to attest to the top of the head going completely under..for ritual cleansing and three witnesses for conversion.
2. in Judaism mikveh for conversion is preceded by a blessing thanking G-d for the commandment of ritual dipping; a conversion to Judaism is only considered valid for men if after circumcision  weeks prior,  the candidate follows through with Ritual immersion.  So in short a convert is not considered Jewish until after the immersion.  Hence Acts 2:38
3. For Jewish person who have become impure or a woman after her cycle receives purification by immersion.  Among many groups men mikveh once a day, some only once a week, before Shabbat and all before the Day of Atonement.

I think more than likely “Johns Baptism” was performed following his preaching and encouragement to repent.. he more than likely did not perform the immersion physically but he or his disciples witnessed the total immersion of those coming forward.

 

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There is no forbidden chapter of the Tanakh.  Traditionally the Torah is studied more thoroughly then the Tanakh as a whole. I can say my 20 years as an Orthodox Jew I never met a Rabbi who ever forbade the study of any text. Now Isaiah 53 was not discussed alot..for sure but it was dealt with.

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