RE: Encouragement and Advice
August 9, 2013 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 11:08 pm by Minimalist.)
http://www.aish.com/sp/ph/Isaiah_53_The_...rvant.html
Like I said, the jews are full of shit, too. But it IS their book and so their shit should count for a little more than xtian stupidity.
Quote:While the original Hebrew text clearly refers to the Jewish people as the “Suffering Servant,” over the centuries Isaiah 53 has become a cornerstone of the Christian claim that Jesus is the Messiah. Unfortunately, this claim is based on widespread mistranslations and distortion of context.
Like I said, the jews are full of shit, too. But it IS their book and so their shit should count for a little more than xtian stupidity.
Quote:So how did the Suffering Servant come to be associated with Jesus? After his death, the promoters of Christianity retroactively looked into the Bible and “applied” – through mistranslation and distortion of context – these biblical verses as referring to Jesus.
Missionary apologist Walter Riggans candidly admitted:
“There is no self-evident blueprint in the Hebrew Bible which can be said to unambiguously point to Jesus. Only after one has come to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, and more specifically the kind of Messiah that he is, does it all begin to make sense...”
