(June 23, 2024 at 12:44 pm)Questor Wrote: Taking the verbiage of what is a Judaic belief system back into the occasional Hebrew or Aramaic word is a signal to those reading or hearing it that I am not a follower of Christian ideation of the Jewish Messiah. I understand what Christians believe about Yeshua, and find it to be often at odds with the Judaism that engendered it.
Christianity is not disgusting to me, any more than atheism is. Christianity is a valiant attempt to translate Jewish thought into a non-Jewish culture and force it onto western based ideas that were derived from Greco-Roman concepts.
It leaves much to be desired from the Jewish point of view, being somewhat similar to having less than half the pieces of a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle where the players are earnestly trying to see the original picture, and having to fill in what is missing from what their non-Jewish scholars say fits.
Still, each Christian is far different from the next, and the longer any believer in Yeshua delves into the Jewish concepts as delineated in what is termed the Old Testament, the more they find that what they were taught was not quite accurate; locate more of the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle; and become more and more a proselyte to Nazarene Judaism.
The most simple example of the differences between a Jew that follows Yeshua, and a Gentile who does so begins at how the two sections of what is called the Bible are termed, and what they mean in the underlying languages. Christians call the Covenants in the books that make up the original Scriptures of the Jews, the Old Testament, and the Brit Chadashah or Renewed Covenant, the New Testament.
Yet a testament is but a will, presumed to instruct the heirs involved on how to distribute property, not a series of ongoing, binding Covenants, which is what the entire collection of books in the Scriptures are a history of.
Jews are born into the Covenants, which are agreements between YHWH and the Israelites, and inherited through the bloodline we descend from, and are binding on us without our consent. Gentiles have no part in the Covenants until they begin to follow them, and thus are accepted among the greater family that descends from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, becoming what is termed Ger Toshav (resident strangers, and thus god fearers)
But most Christians have no idea of this simple, but crucial difference. They claim the Sinai Covenant, commonly called the Torah, was nailed to the stake along with Yeshua, and is no longer binding, and are unaware that the Renewed Covenant that they call the New Testament, and desire to be a part of, is the existing Sinai Covenant being placed into their being, and written into their hearts and minds. For without that Sinai Covenant, there can be no Renewed one.
Jews that believe that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel know that Yeshua declared that nothing of the Torah would cease to be binding until the world was no more, and indeed welcome that fact.
Torah is not dead, and the law that Christians despise for the most part are the heart of any form of Judaism, Nazarene Judaism included.
Faith = belief without evidence, which you're more than welcome to, I'm not anti-theist until a theist pokes. I think you've made some non-believer pokes.
Seeing that you're somewhat unique in your beliefs (at least to me) I'm going to ask. What evidence can you provide that you think would convince me that your particular god exists?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
