(August 22, 2015 at 8:58 pm)Pizza Wrote:I'm not seeing anything about prophets here.
You do realize Jews don't believe Jesus is a prophet, right? Quote mining the Christian version-OT for vague verses and saying "that's predicting Jesus" isn't going to cut the mustard. If you're trying to convert a Jew to Christianity you're doing a poor job. Jewish theology isn't the same as Christian theology. Jews don't believe Jesus is the messiah. The Jews don't even think the messiah is god in human form. Kaninchen will hopefully correct me on this if I'm wrong.
As a Jew, one of the problems one often finds with talking to Christians is that because they see Judaism as an essential part of the Christian drama of 2000 years ago there's a tendency for them to have to invent a Judaism to make it fit into the script - what I call the "Christianity is Judaism plus Jesus/Judaism is Christianity minus Jesus" effect.
It isn't and never was and, no, Messiah isn't a God/Demigod concept.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
