Especially when you have 3x pages of posts dedicated to me, if you ever think you have what it takes to you know, defend your position in a debate rather then hiding in this forum, then you're more then welcome to post it in the thread.
It takes a very pathetic person from my perspective to post responses to a debate, in a place that is banned from debate. Again, my opinion.
Edit: I wanted to bold and underline a couple words for you to think about.
Didn't mean it as an insult, I just don't understand how someone like you, who has such an indepth knowledge of Torah can say such about Torah.
Okay, so I know what you believe about Torah, what about the kings? saul david solomon. What do you think of that?
Four things to quickly note:
1) I have never seen someone here read so much trash into so few verses in the TNK. You get a 11 on a scale of 10 for having a wild imagination.
2) The word to love, ahava, has pretty much the same meaning as in English and in no way is exclusively used for sex...
Also, it was not written in English, so if you choose to "render it" as it's written, you're agreeing with me that the Hebrew can be translated two different ways.
Leviticus 19:18 can also be rendered differently as Jayhwaker has pointed out in dozens of threads here: Love thy neighbor because...
One reason they are more cautious w/ food is that it stays with you forever. If you eat pork, that will always be there, while if you steal, you can do teshuva (repentence). It's why, Jewscout stated, "better safe than sorry". Although some things can't be helped, I have been tricked by people...
Just to answer the first question you will have if you stay in their house, "can I flush the toilet"
The answer is, "Yes". I remember when my parents would have people over who were returnees or interested in conversion, that was always the #1 question.
Avi, I'm proud of you. :hug:
Actually, there is no contradiction. The verse in Kings was Ahaziah's age when he became king. The verse in Chronicles could actually be rendered differently: "Achaziah was forty-two years into his reign..." i.e., 42 years into the reign of the final years of the Davidic dynasty that was decreed...