[Continuing the ongoing discussion by email between BAN@S6K and her missionary friend . . . . here’s the response to #8.] ——————- I have a couple of clarifications to make. As a Bible believer, (1) I am a student of the Old and New Testaments. (2) I am NOT a repacement […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; we hope to pick up this series and continue it even if we have enough posts in this website that explain our position on the claims of the best and most famous apologists for the religion we once were part of, whose apologetics we never questioned before. Our DISCOURSE category is […]
Read moreDr. Bill Bright, former president and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ International wrote the FOREWORD to Josh McDowell’s Evidence for Christianity: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith. Excerpts: Is Christianity credible? Is there an intellectual basis for faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God? Scholars throughout the centuries, as […]
Read more[This continues the email exchange between BAN@S6K and her missionary friend; this time she addresses the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, as brought up by the missionary’s reference to Genesis 1:26: Let us make man in our image . . . which has been used as a one of a few prooftexts to justify the idea that […]
Read moreTo: whatjewsbelieve@hotmail.com Fr: BAN@S6K Subject: I Samuel 28::8-20 Q: SHALOM RABBI FEDEROW—– THE ACCOUNT OF SAUL ASKING THE WITCH OF ENDOR, TO CALL SAMUEL FROM THE DEAD, PUZZLES OUR SHABBAT TORAH STUDY GROUP A LOT. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE LORD GAVE THE WITCH THE POWER TO CALL SAMUEL FROM THE DEAD. WE […]
Read more1 Samuel 28:3-25 is a strange text to bring up after the series of articles on the non-existence of the devil, demonic spirits, and ghosts. This episode appears to promote the belief that the spirit of the dead can be conjured up through the agency of a medium like those simulated in seances today. This […]
Read moreSHEMOTH/Exodus 1:1-22 Translation: The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox Now these are the names of the Children of Israel coming to Egypt, with Yaakov, each-man and his household they came: 2. Re’uven, Shim’on, Levi and Yehuda, 3. Yissakhar, Zevulun and Binyamin, 4. Dan and Naftali, Gad and Asher. 5. So all the persons, those […]
Read more[This is the final article in the series A Sinaite’s Apologetics 5,6,7—this is how our messianic teacher described himself. We will discuss his carefully chosen words one by one.] ——————————————- “Your beloved ex-teacher, bond-slave of YHVH: Father, Son Yeshua, and Spirit” “Your Beloved . . .” Even if we have dropped out […]
Read moreContinuing from A Sinaite’s Apologetics – 5, our Christocentric Trinitarian Messianic Teacher wrote of us: “I actually feel great relief that I am no longer responsible for the spiritual life of any of you.” Presumptuous as that claim sounds, we do give some credit to this bible teacher from whom we learned […]
Read moreWe have heard it said of us: “Sayang!“ and that was later followed up by– “I actually feel great relief that I am no longer responsible for the spiritual life of any of you. “You have ‘made your beds,’ now enjoy sleeping in them.” “Your blood is on your own heads.” “Your beloved ex-teacher, bond-slave […]
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