[Christians would call this “testimony” — we Sinaites simply explain our journey of faith that began in Catholicism to Evangelical Christianity and on to Messianic Judaism and now we have arrived at Sinai 6000. This was among the first articles posted in this website, dated April 6, 2012; contributed by SMK@S6K who resides in Texas […]
Read moreApril 1st, April fools day to the irreligious, Palm Sunday to the Christian faithful. There they were . . . vendors selling their woven designs made of slender flexible shoots cut from palm or coconut branches. It is the traditional commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem—Palm Sunday begins the week-long religious observance of Christianity’s Easter traditions. Vendors […]
Read moreQuestion: Why did G-d take an animal’s life to provide clothing of skin for Adam and Eve? What’s wrong with covering nakedness with leaves? This gives Christians/Messianics a springboard to justify blood atonement that only Jesus could fulfill, “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.” Answer: Rabbi M. Younger/Aish.com […]
Read moreQuestion: If there is no such thing as “original sin”, then please explain this verse: Psalm 51:7 “Behold in iniquity was I fashioned and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Answer: Rabbi M. Younger/Aish.com Shalom – If one uses “original sin” to mean that all individuals are decreed to damnation unless they […]
Read moreAsk the Rabbi S6K: Why is Seth the one “in the likeness of Adam” instead of Adam’s firstborn, Cain? Clarification: Rabbi Eliahu Levenson: Please give me the Verse you are looking at please. S6K: Sorry, Rabbi, for not giving the exact verse about Seth. Genesis 5 opens with the book […]
Read moreCoupled with Mark 7:19 and Matthew 15 plus sweeping declarations in the Pauline epistles that New Testament believers in Jesus are under “grace” and not the “law”, this “prooftext” supposedly beefs up the argument that the Biblical diet prescribed in Leviticus 11 was done away with. Checking the literary context of these verses, Chapter […]
Read moreWhat about Matthew 15: 1-20, does it not reinforce Jesus’ declaration in Mark 7:19? vs 1-2 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” Matthew’s account is similar to Mark’s […]
Read more[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses] Leviticus/Wayyiqrah’ 11] 1 YHVH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying to them: 2 Speak to the Children of Israel, saying to them: These are the living-creatures that you may eat, from all the domestic-animals that are upon the earth: 3 any one having a […]
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