[First posted 2012. —Admin1.] ———————— Perhaps the title should be the other way around: Christianity’s “Good News” is “Bad News” to Sinaites. Either way, it applies, here’s why. When we were Catholics, some of us were good Catholics, others so-so. I belonged to the so-so: Sunday church was an obligation; sometimes communion […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; a MUST READ if you have missed reading the reposts, dear web visitor! This is one of the essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel in the collection Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, edited by his daughter Susannah Heschel. We have featured excerpts from this book; it is one of our treasured book-finds listed under the category MUST READ/MUST […]
Read more[First posted in 2015, Here’s the original introduction: This has been in the back burner for over a month now; Sinaite VAN read it in aish.com and suggested posting it. We asked for permission but have not received from aish. com as well as the original source (National Conference of Synagogue Youth). Since we […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is a MUST READ for those wondering what Judaism is about. Its author Abba Hillel Silver, is considered as one of the great religious scholars of our time and in this book, he gives Jew and Gentile “the best introduction to Judaism” according to the Central Conference of American Rabbis […]
Read more[First posted in 2012 in answer to Christian colleagues; not a surprise, we’re still explaining ourselves in exactly the same way today in year 2017. Unfortunately, religionists just don’t get it!—Admin1] ———————————– We have heard it said: “What do these Sinaites think? That God did not add any more revelation after Sinai?” “Is […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012; reposted September every year in the season of Sinai 6000’s emergence as a break-away movement from its religious roots—Christianity. We are reposting to signal the need to review one’s life which includes one’s belief system, if one had been on the right path all along and if not, if one needs […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. Sinaites do not consider the whole of the “Bible” as the “very words of God” like we did when we were Christians. We have come to believe that the Torah or first five books of Moses contain “the very words of God” as well as instructions given to Israel’s Prophets […]
Read more[How to navigate through this website? Go to Site Map, upper right box above scroll.] 08/31/17 “photo table de shabbat” – One of our Shabbat dinners at the home of BAN&VAN features this photo of our dinner fare: shabbat-table 08/25/17 “does hashem answer the prayers of gentiles” –Revisit: Q&A: “How does a gentile pray to […]
Read more[Our ‘musical’ liturgy borrows from Christian hymn composers though we take the liberty of revising the lyrics when the words do not reflect the Sinaite’s belief system. To those familiar with the original words, the revisions might sound strange, even awkward, but to those who can’t remember the original lyrics, the rewritten text not […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. This speech was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Mario Victor “Marvic” F. Leonen, on the occasion of the 67th Commencement Exercises of the University of the Cordilleras, Baguio City, May 9, 2013. After the preliminary ‘warm-up’ paragraphs expected of every graduation message, the better and the best part is definitely thought-provoking […]
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