[If you haven’t done so, please read the prequels to this post: Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 1 and Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” – 2, first posted 2012 and reposted 2014, still and always will be relevant.—Admin1.] Rule of thumb for seekers of Truth: Keep an open mind […]
Read more[Please read Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 1 before reading this post for this to make sense.; first posted 2012, reposted April 2014. Always worth the revisit.—Admin1] ————————————– I don’t intend to feature the whole book here but I do want to share with our ‘FWH’ (frequent website habitues) the statements that should […]
Read more[We are into Easter, the ‘bookend’ season marked by the death and resurrection of the Christian Messiah/Savior; the beginning ‘bookend’ would of course be Christmas, the designated ‘birth’ of the same. This 3-part series about the ‘Old Testament God’ was first posted in August 2012, reposted April 2014. These posts are worth revisiting […]
Read more[This is the Sinaite’s liturgy about liberation from bondage. Bondage to what? Man-made religion and teachings that run counter to YHWH’s Sinai Revelation, the Torah. The timing of observance changes every year, intentionally coinciding with the Jewish memorial feast of the their Passover and with Christendom’s commemoration of the passion, death and resurrection of their Savior. We choose […]
Read more[Continuing the series of an ex-Christian Pastor, please refer to the prequels to this post: A Christian Pastor’s Spiritual Journey – 2 A Christian Pastor’s Spiritual Journey – 1 We presume readers are familiar with the bible translations and their acronyms; the author uses NASB [New American Study Bible]; TLB [The Living Bible]; NKJV […]
Read more[If you haven’t done so, please read A Christian Pastor’s Spiritual Journey – 1 as the prequel to this 2nd of a series. The opening paragraph here is something Sinaites can relate to; we experienced exactly the same negative reactions from our former Christian/Messianic colleagues, expected among those who swallow teachings without question, unexpected from those we know […]
Read more[We feature journeys of former colleagues who are not Sinaites such as this former Christian pastor who has contributed ‘sermons’ he has preached, please refer to SITEMAP for his other past ‘sends’. This begins a 3-part series on his ‘testimony’ as to how he too, just as Sinaites did, found his way back to the Hebrew […]
Read more[Since we have resurrected the whole series on the origins of the messiah idea, this is revived from its December 9, 2013 first posting. Finally, the pièce de résistance! The question is answered by James D. Tabor in his usual ‘it’s-not-that-simple’ way, because it has to be qualified first. This whole chapter that we […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS Blessed are You, Creator God, whose very first words were “let there be light” Whose Light shone before there ever was a sun, who designed heavenly luminaries for visual pleasure and for guidance. In Your theophanies on earth, You manifested as a burning bush, a pillar of fire, a shekinah glory cloud. […]
Read more[A ‘musical Sabbath’ — as we have often explained, our hymn background comes from our former Christian worship tradition; we have committed to memory music and lyrics. However, our beliefs are no longer in sync with the lyrics so we have taken the liberty of revising them, but still adapting their music. For those familiar with […]
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