Hi @Rival
1) Unfamiliarity of non-historians with early Judeo-Christian texts and terms.
I think that the Judeo-Christian Didache is a good example of early literature that is much like the vast genre of early Jewish Epigraphs.
For example, the almost 2000 pages of Jewish pseudoepigraphs...
Hi @paarsurrey
1) The term "Israelite Messiah"
While IndigoChild5559 is "offput" by your use of the term "Israelite Messiah", I am perfectly fine with the term since the Messiah is not merely the Messiah of the "Jews" (i.e. Judah), but instead, he is the Messiah of all Israelites (and all other...
Hi @InvestigateTruth :
Can you elucidate as to which and What part of "the story of Adam and Eve" are you referring to and which and what part of science are you referring to?
Clear
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Hi @David Davidovich and @Hockeycowboy
While I don't want to interrupt your discussion, I just wanted to make a historical point.
@David Davidovich seems to be speaking of modern rabbinic (rabbanate) Judaism as though it was the same religion as the ancient Israelite religion (the two...
Hi @Frank Goad
If early Judeo-Christian textual descriptions regarding spirits before this life are correct then at some point we DID know there was a God before being born into mortality and that knowledge is left behind by entering mortality.
I believe that mortality is purposefully designed...
Hi @Sargonski and @101G
I don't really want to enter into your debate other than to make a specific and single point regarding "the Sons of God" in psalms 82 that you two are discussing.
You seem to be talking apples and oranges.
For example, Sargonski seems to be referring to a historical...
Clear asked @Soapy in post #87 :
REGARDING SOAPYS CLAIM THAT GOD WAS TALKING TO SATAN IN CREATING MAN IN "THEIR" LIKENESS.
You claimed that Jehovah was talking to Satan when he said "Let us create man in our image, in our likeness’. You did not answer this question in your reply in the above...
Clear said in post #87 :
REGARDING SOAPYS CLAIM THAT GOD WAS TALKING TO SATAN IN CREATING MAN IN "THEIR" LIKENESS.
You claimed that Jehovah was talking to Satan when he said "Let us create man in our image, in our likeness’.
Can you refer to the scriptures you are using to develop this doctrine...
Hi @Soapy
REGARDING SOAPYS CLAIM THAT GOD WAS TALKING TO SATAN IN CREATING MAN IN "THEIR" LIKENESS.
You claimed that Jehovah was talking to Satan when he said "Let us create man in our image, in our likeness’.
Can you refer to the scriptures you are using to develop this doctrine and explain...
REGARDING SOAPY'S CLAIM THAT IT WAS SATAN THAT WAS WITH GOD AND THAT IT WAS SATAN WHO CREATED THE BODY OF ADAM
Hi @Soapy
You claimed that Jehovah was talking to Satan when he said "Let us create man in our image, in our likeness’.
Can you refer to the scriptures you are using to develop this...
Hi @Frank Goad
1) Regarding trusting wannabe religious historians who do not know the difference between pseudoepigraphs and apocrypha
I would also warn you against placing much trust in non historians who speak about early Judeo-Christian texts or history but do not know the difference...
Hi @Frank Goad
@Frank Goad asked : "Do you agree that the bible mentions two different parts to a literal hell?Yes or no?And why?" (Opening Post)
This question you bring up is insightful and interesting. The answer may depend upon who is interpreting the biblical text and what time period we...
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The multiple versions of oral laws with multiple variations contradict each other in various ways.
The fact that such variations existed, motivated the rabbanist denomination (Rabbinic Judaism) to come up with explanations why a “divine” document has multiple conflicting...
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REGARDING THE MANY, MANY, RABBINIC INNOVATIONS OF RULES AND LAWS AND DOCTRINES
In fact, Rabbi Gruber indicates that there were sufficient acts of legislation by the Jewish leaders that they created expressions to describe the different types of man-made laws the Jewish leaders...
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1) REGARDING ADAM HAVING BOTH MALE AND FEMALE SEX ORGAN AS A JEWISH DOCTRINE JEWS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BELIEVE IN
Clear said : “While you admitted “that is not doctrine that we are required to believe in, (rosends post #67) the simple denial that the doctrine is a doctrine will...
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2) REGARDING ROSENDS FALSE CLAIM THAT I AM CLEARLY "ANTI-JEWISH" BECAUSE I QUESTION THE BELIEF THAT MOSES TRANSMITTED VAST AMOUNTS OF LAWS BY ORAL MEMORIZATION OVER EONS OF TIME.
Rosends claimed : "Ah, again you are now generalizing as a way to delegitimize all of Judaism. You...
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1) REGARDING THE RABBANITE (RABBINIC JEWISH) DOCTRINE THAT ADAM WAS CREATED WITH MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS (divine religion versus man-made religion)
Rosends clarifies : “While there is a rabbinic interpretation and there are midrashic stories about the physical...
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3) ISRAEL HAS A HISTORY OF BEING CHASTIZED AND PUNISHED FOR HAVING IDOLATROUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
Clear pointed out : “This was one of the repeated complaints of the Prophets against Israel anciently. The pattern in the Old Testament was that Israel so often would adopt...
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1) REGARDING THE RABBANITE (RABBINIC JEWISH) DOCTRINE THAT ADAM WAS CREATED WITH MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS (divine religion versus man-made religion)
Rosends clarifies : “While there is a rabbinic interpretation and there are midrashic stories about the physical...
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6) REGARDING HOW ROSENDS KNOWS IDEAS IN JEWISH DOCUMENTS “DOESN’T SIT WELL” WITH THE RABBINIC SCHOLARS I’VE QUOTED
Clear said : “I've read the article you referred to and it is part of what piqued my interest in this specific history. Halivni, like, ito, Elman, glasner...