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  1. John D. Brey

    He will be called "Nazarene"...

    . . . Would you be so kind as to let the historians and the printers of the New Testament know so they can rewrite history and the New Testament to better reflect your idiosyncratic understanding? :) John
  2. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    I think it's logically, philosophically, and theologically, problematic to say there's no independent source of evil. I would say the fallen flesh of sinful man is the source for his evil, while the divine spirit is the source for his good. His volition has access to the two, and decides whether...
  3. John D. Brey

    He will be called "Nazarene"...

    Hebrew Netzer One view holds that the name 'Nazareth' is derived from one of the Hebrew words for 'branch', namely ne·ṣer, ‏נֵ֫צֶר‎,[a] and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11:1: "from (Jesse's) roots a Branch [netzer] will bear fruit".[9] Wikipedia, Nazareth. John
  4. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    Despite the vertiginous effect of seeing the seemingly clear-cut parallel between the "slaughter" of the Passover lamb and Israel's redemption, and the awaiting of the final taking away of this lamb of the "celestial regions" power prior to the final redemption of Israel, no less a Jewish...
  5. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    Is "the Station of the Messenger," lingo directly associated with the revelation of Bahu'u'llah? I'm not familiar with the term. Right. This is something of a universal archetype pitting the Christ against the Antichrist, and vise versa. One is a facade or faux-god while the other is a true...
  6. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    Situated this way, biblically, and historically, it doesn't take a rocket-scientist sort of theologian to know whom Rabbi Horowitz and his students view as the adjunct deity ---worshiped by the nations --- who must be defeated (whose power must be taken away) prior to the final redemption. The...
  7. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    The words אין זולתך [there is no other than you], refer to powers, deities, already in existence to whom G'd has assigned various domains within which they appear to reign supreme . . . [but] their rule is not independent of You, i.e., אין זולתך. When it is your will, these powers exercise...
  8. John D. Brey

    Christ vs. Antichrist.

    Foremost in importance so far as a discussion of "Christ vs. Antichrist" is concerned, is the fact that the designation "Antichrist" speaks not principally of "opposition" to Christ (though that's definitely the crux of the matter), but "instead" of Christ. Semantically speaking, the prefix...
  9. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    The physical aspects of the human body, like all the rest of the physical, visible world of Creation are symbolized by the number six. The emanation of God, unseen and originating from the invisible One, is symbolized by the number seven. The vocation of Israel, rooted in the historic selection...
  10. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    The nation of Israel is without a doubt a servant of God. And as you note, the theme of Israel as the servant nation is found throughout Isaiah. Nevertheless, there might also be a singular servant, Messiah, who's the archetype of the nation, or for whom the nation is the archetype. It may or...
  11. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    It should be acknowledged that in Genesis 22:12, the angel of the Lord does in fact imply ---at least in the English translation ---that God sees, or takes not of, Abraham's willingness to place Isaac on the altar. Although this lends itself to Rabbi Hirsch's interpretation, unfortunately this...
  12. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Some of the Rabbis read circumcision as a necessary preparation for seeing God, the summum bonum of late-antique religious life (Boyarin 1990a). . . That is, circumcision here is not the sign of something happening in the spirit of the Jew, but it is the very event itself --- and it is, of...
  13. John D. Brey

    The Torah Scroll Itself as a Decree from God.

    In the higher echelons of Jewish exegesis, the decree of the parah adumah, that is the red heifer, is understood ---because the Hebrew states it this way ---not as a decree like other decrees, but as the very decree that circumscribes the entire Torah scroll itself. Assuming we don't doubt the...
  14. John D. Brey

    Debate about Christianity (Looking for someone to argue against it)

    Where's the link? John
  15. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    Bravo. That's a brilliant condensation of the gist of the Gospel message. I don't know if you were being facetious or not, but I'm not. John
  16. John D. Brey

    Debate about Christianity (Looking for someone to argue against it)

    Someone could interpret your statement as though you were giving the fundamental reasons you'd never accept the Christian Jesus, or the central claims of Christianity. In other words, someone could suspect, based on your statement, that the 5 reasons you list are the comprehensive "cause" for...
  17. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    . . . I think there's indeed a lot of confusion since there's so many religions interpreting these things in so many different ways. It's pretty taxing trying to synthesize all the truest element into a whole. As I read you, I don't necessarily disagree with the generalities of the way you're...
  18. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    . . . Exodus 6:3 seems to confirm that. John
  19. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    . . . What's particularly odd is that I didn't add the apostrophe. That's theirs. John
  20. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    Click on the blue WLC after "Sublinears," and you'll see that it says "simple transliteration, not phonetic!" John
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