Adam,I believe that Jewish mystic reasoning was used in the books of Matthew and Hebrews. This makes sense as according to some accounts I have heard Jewish mysticism was more common amoung those who called themselves Jews at that time. According to this Jewish source mysticism has been part of Jewish from the earliest days and is wide open to…[Read more]

Quote (gollamudi @ May 26 2010,11:17)Quote (kerwin @ May 26 2010,16:08)Adam,According to what God has brought me to understand when you live by the spirit of righteousness you totally love your neighbor and yourself as God intends.  Since you love as God intends you keep the important aspects of the Ten Commandments.  All 10 have aspects that a…[Read more]

Adam,Accusing God of being non-rational because he often shifts from one subject to another in prophecy is foolish at best.   In some cases he does not even transition very well.   He expects his people to catch on anyways.You have failed to make the case that the Anointed One of the Christian and Jewish religions are not the same individual.  …[Read more]

Adam,According to what God has brought me to understand when you live by the spirit of righteousness you totally love your neighbor and yourself as God intends.  Since you love as God intends you keep the important aspects of the Ten Commandments.  All 10 have aspects that are covered by the command to love but the Command to keep the Sabbath w…[Read more]

Adam,Please check your heart and make sure you are not searching for faults in the New Testament but are instead testing to see what it states is true. Peter’s education level is not relevant to such a test since what matters is the doctrine taught and the accounts of whether or not those who taught that doctrine lived according to it.I will a…[Read more]

Adam,That question is covered on other threads and there are different tenets that are referred to as Christian. What do you believe the answer is?I hold the view that the sum of the Law is love your neighbor and yourself as God intends.

Quote (gollamudi @ May 25 2010,15:09)Quote (kerwin @ May 25 2010,19:19)Quote (gollamudi @ May 25 2010,13:25)Please read the whole article which you quoted from Wikipedea you will realise that there is nothing so special about human Messiah and about the title it is even given to any human who is faithful to God.This Rabbi disagrees with you.It's…[Read more]

Adam,Peter used logical reasoning in the straightforward Greek style to show that David was not speaking of himself.  I merely pointed out that Peter's claim that King David is a prophet is a Jewish idea and so claiming that David was prophesizing in Psalms 16 is consistent with Jewish thought.  As far as I know neither his argument or scripture h…[Read more]

Quote (gollamudi @ May 25 2010,13:25)Please read the whole article which you quoted from Wikipedea you will realise that there is nothing so special about human Messiah and about the title it is even given to any human who is faithful to God.This Rabbi disagrees with you.

Adam,Why don't you ask questions of what these so called Jews teach?  These so called Jews do not believe Jesus is the Messiah because they adhere to a false doctrine.Rabbi Shraga Simmons writes:Quote Christians counter that Jesus will fulfill these in the Second Coming, but Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies…[Read more]

Adam,We are taught in the New Testiment that the people will become all together wicked before the day of the Lord.  There will be a remnant or perhaps a remnant of a remnant that will not follow the path of evil.  Jesus referred to them as the Elect and I believe they will live by the spirit and so overcome the ways of the world.It is still c…[Read more]

Adam,I call that limited choice free will because we are free to choose when given the choice. I do not claim that we will have unlimited choices because that claim would be absurd. If you are in a desert without water you cannot choose to drink water as there is not to drink.Who makes the claim that you can?

Pierre,I assume it is because it is over for either good or bad. Still there is somethings I enjoy the process like playing a game of baseball but I still like to win.The secound half of that scripture is more understandable.

terraricca,In logic a lie is an unsound premise. In other words it is bad logic or otherwise called illogic or a lack of logic.

Adam,Jews teach that the Anointed One will be a Tzaddik, i.e. righteous one, and his title will be the Lord our righteousness because he clings to righteousness.

Adam,Perhaps you should ask the Jews why they believe the Messiah is their savior.  They believe he ushers in the Messianic Age and that the Messianic Age is an age when none sin.The Talmun uses II Samual 22:28 to support the idea of the Messiah being a Savior according to the Entry on the Jewish Messianism at Wikipedia.com.

SimplyForgiven,Your explanation did help me to understand you more. I hope mine helped you undestand me as well.

SimplyForgiven,I am not on this board every day and even on those days I am on I sometimes have to consider a post before answering.  I do not answer every post as sometimes I do not see the good of doing so and am averse to getting into vain discussions when God warns me to avoid them.  In addition sometimes a response does not come to me for o…[Read more]

Georg,I do see where you are coming from but I do not like to jump to conclusions based on a few scriptures that may or may not be open to interpretation. First mind is the word the translators chose to mean the same thing as the original writer meant but that does not mean they were correct.Second I am not sure the people that time period mean…[Read more]

SimplyForgiven,You ask a difficult question.  I am not sure exactly how I came to believe what I do.   I will tell you that one thing I discoved a number of years of go is that the tenet that Jesus is God has many internal contradictions.  One of these contradictions is that I was taught that God knows all things and yet scripture instructs me th…[Read more]