RE: British Non-Catholic Historian on Historical Longevity of the Roman Catholic Church.
July 15, 2023 at 11:02 am
(July 15, 2023 at 12:14 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Now, back to your chosen issue, which is Messianic Prophecies: Specifically, you claim:
(1) "he [the Messiah] was not to be the son of god"; let's examine that. Ever read this in the Gospel,
Total non-sequitur. You, a pedophile enabler, failed to address the messianic prophecies that Jesus failed to fulfill.
Quote:Judaism understands the Messiah to be a human being (with no connotation of deity or divinity) who will bring about certain changes in the world and who must fulfill certain specific criteria before being acknowledged as the Messiah.
He will be a great military leader, who will win battles for Israel. He will be a great judge, who makes righteous decisions (Jeremiah 33:15).
•He must be Jewish. (Deuteronomy 17:15, Numbers 24:17)
• He must be a member of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10) and a direct male descendent of both King David (I Chronicles 17:11, Psalm 89:29–38, Jeremiah 33:17, II Samuel 7:12-16) and King Solomon. (I Chronicles 22:10, II Chronicles 7:18)
• He must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel. (Isaiah 27:12-13, Isaiah 11:12)
• He must rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (Micah 4:1)
• He must bring world peace. (Isaiah 2:4, Isaiah 11:6, Micah 4:3)
• He must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve one G-d. (Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 40:5, Zephaniah 3:9)
Specifically, the New Testament claims that Jesus did not have a physical father. The Jewish Scriptures, however, clearly states that a person’s genealogy and tribal membership is transmitted exclusively through one’s physical father (Numbers 1:18, Jeremiah 33:17). Therefore, Jesus cannot possibly be a descendant of the tribe of Judah nor of King David and King Solomon.
https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/art...he-messiah
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"