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  1. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    In my judgment, the kabbalists hidden behind the personae of the zoharic fraternity sought to divest Christological symbols of their Catholic garb and redress them as the mystical truths of Judaism. Professor Elliot R. Wolfson, Language, Eros, Being, p. 259. Much that is to be found in the...
  2. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Pmfji . . . but in Judaism and Christianity, what you refer to as a neutral reflex, Jews and Christians take one step further implying that even things we do to others that aren't really neutral, like say doing their wife, comes from something fallen nature burdens us with in our very flesh...
  3. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Fwiw, the findings merely authenticate what's very simple logic. The speed of light traveling from the finger to the eye, and traversing the optic nerve, is clearly not going to be identical to the rate at which the nerves from the finger transmit the sense of touch to the brain. There's no way...
  4. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    I think this is correct. As Schwartz notes, the conscious self is based on the two frontal lobes, left and right, one of which, the left, is verbal, and the other of which, the right, is mute. The worldview being argued in this thread is based on a theology and philosophy seeking to overthrow...
  5. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    There's a lot covered there. And ChatGPT's responses are pretty amazing. . . Again, I tend to agree with your argumentation for the most part. John
  6. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    . . . Just a quick note. The quotation you attributed to me was actually from Theodore Schwartz. I just edited the first post so it's not so confusing. Fwiw, I agree, for the most part, with what you said, more than with what Schwartz said. John
  7. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Believe it or not, they've done test by putting probes and stimulators into parts of the brain in order to determine such things. The neuroscientist shows, through actual experiments, what religions and philosophers have known for a long time: our body, with emphasis on our brain, is tricking us...
  8. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Delimiting these three kinds of thought, i.e., religion, philosophy, and science, as though they're not part and parcel of the same domain, is part of the problem. As the great Karl Popper showed, philosophy is a rational attempt to defend or refute mythological/religious tenets, while the...
  9. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    In Colossians, Timothy, and Philemon, Paul mentions Luke as one of the inner core of those who are part of his ministry. Luke is one of the close associates of Paul as he travels and starts his churches. Others Paul mentions are Peter, John, Mark, Barnabas, all of whom are mentioned throughout...
  10. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    The implication is that some part of your brain—a module or network if you will—determines that your finger should move before you are even aware that you have made that decision. The results of these experiments indicate that even when we think we control the choice to act—a behavior as simple...
  11. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes. He's definitely exiled from our world to some extent. But fear not. He still controls history. Things are moving, slowly (from our perspective), toward the world where his glory and grace and wisdom shines forth to everyone and where everyone will confess his name. Instead of contrasting...
  12. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect...
  13. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    . . . If I were to dip my toe into the water to test the temperature before jumping into the thread, I'd point out that there's every reason to believe that Luke is the author of Acts and Luke, since the intro to the two letters presuppose Luke as the author of them both. Paul's letters mention...
  14. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Berkeley did say, to be, is to be conceived or perceived, i.e., reality itself is a conceptual phenomenon. The physicist John Wheeler said reality is a participatory phenomenon. Nothing is, until it's perceived, conceived, conceptualized. God included. Schopenhauer said the limits our thoughts...
  15. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    There was a time when Stalin, Mao, or Hitler, could snap their fingers and end the life of anyone under their authority. We hope for something better in a God. We hope for a God whose omnipotence is guarded by grace, mercy, and respect for the freewill of the creatures he's created. We hope...
  16. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    What the speaker in the video says is completely unfounded allegation. It's so vapid I didn't even want to wade into the mire. I believe I can prove it's false. Would it make a difference if I did? Probably not. These kinds of debates are usually a beauty in the eyes of the beholder kind of...
  17. John D. Brey

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    What's said in the video is patently false. And it should be noted that the person presenting these falsehoods advertises his true love and expertise by means of the comic book covers hanging on the wall over his right shoulder as he presents his comical falsehoods. The comic books are a kind of...
  18. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord ---Addendum.

    The idea of Hashem cleansing himself prior to becoming God's salvation to the world segues into numerous avenues of theological thought. In Isaiah 52:10, we read that God's holy arm will be made bare, naked, in front of the eyes of all nations such that the very ends of the earth will see the...
  19. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord ---Addendum.

    As is often the case with verses found throughout the Apostolic Epistles, the statement from Hebrews 9:28 addresses numerous important nuances floating around in the zeitgeist at the time of writing. "I will rejoice in your salvation." Rabbi Abahu said, This is one of the five most difficult...
  20. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord ---Addendum.

    The original thread on the Shelah's teaching concerning the Paschal lamb as a demonic Lord has already been edited into an essay. So rather than continuing with these new remarks in the original thread, a new thread addendum is being started. The original thread ended with a quotation of Hebrews...
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