[First posted December 9, 2014. We are in the 6th millennium in the biblical/Jewish calendar as year 5777. The Roman/Gregorian calendar which superseded the Julian calendar places us in year 2016, since that calendar was reconfigured by the Roman religious-political power under Pope Gregory. That calendar did a countdown to year ‘0’ (a non-existent year), […]
[First posted December 9, 2014. We are in the 6th millennium in the biblical/Jewish calendar as year 5777. The Roman/Gregorian calendar which superseded the Julian calendar places us in year 2016, since that calendar was reconfigured by the Roman religious-political power under Pope Gregory. That calendar did a countdown to year ‘0’ (a non-existent year), […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. We know from reading the “Old Testament” of the Christian Bible, that Israel was clearly the chosen people/nation of the “OT God”. Christian teaching claims that not only did the ‘new’ supersede the ‘old’ but believers in Jesus Christ have collectively taken the place of Israel, hence, the virtual Church is the […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. Non-Jews . . . Gentiles like ourselves, Sinaites, who have discovered the TRUTH that there is only ONE GOD whose Name is YHVH, Creator, Revelator on Sinai, the God who chose the nation of Israel to be His light to the gentiles—what are we now to do about this discovery? […]
Read more[This is from MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag. Related posts: MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag – Prologue & Epilogue MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag: “Are Jews Smarter Than Other People?” […]
Read more[First posted 2015. The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext. When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]
Read more[This is a revisit; first posted 2012; part of a series from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH). Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, this article is the most frequently clicked of our over 1000+ reading list. It is the last in the series from the book authored by Robert Schoen. Earlier posts include: Must Read: Robert Schoen – 5 – Jews, Jesus, and Christianity/Judaism Must Read: Robert Schoen – 4 – Going to Church: […]
Read more[This is a revisit; first posted 2012; part of a series from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH). Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. This is from: The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Reformatting and highlights added.–Admin1.] —————— The Canon Frank Kermode This chapter offers some explanation of the processes by which the Bible came to include the books it does—insofar as that can be done […]
Read more[First posted 2015. The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext. When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]
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