Contemplation involves two distinctly different aspects; 1. The data and 2. The theology. The data is what, for example, a religious text actually says and the theology is speculation regarding what it might mean.
1. Equal means the same.
Equality is counterproductive, especially in...
I get that a lot. If I use the Watchtower as a source, because they've removed the pagan influence, I sound like them. If I use Vine's or Strongs no one notices. Nothing I say and little the Watchtower says is original. It all comes from somewhere else.
Israel is a word that means to contend, wrestle, grapple with God and so be preserved. It's sort of what we all do. Thus, Jacob and the nation were called Israel.
I've already addressed this. If my answer wasn't acceptable you will have to be more specific. Who didn't include exactly what and how did they not match. I'll need scriptural references. Exact references where they allegedly don't match. Given that I've already answered they don't have to...
There it is. The no defense defense. Took you long enough to get to the real issue. I have some respect, though little interest in religious tradition, but if your tradition doesn't match the data or you can't support it, don't use lame excuses. They don't mean anything to me.
That is irrelevant.
I'm reading the imperfect fallible translation of the perfect infallible. As are you. Anyone can look it (Hebrew) up. I see the superstitious adherence to certain Hebrew words in discussions like this as a sort of pedantic superstition masking as, even worse, quasi...
Oh, I'm sure it has. That's the nature of syncretistic religious tradition. I was talking about the root. In Judaism Moses becomes Rabbi. Alexander's influence beginning in 332 BCE was hardly the beginning of apostacy. The Bible makes that astoundingly clear. But what became the traditions of...
In English it's Israel. And Jesus instead of Iēsous or Aramaic Yeshua or Hebrew Yehoshua. I speak English so Yahweh is Jehovah. If I spoke Irish it would be Iehova, in Indonesian it would be Yehuwa, in Italian it would be Geova, Polish Jehowa, Russian Иегова et cetera.
Was Adam Jewish? Job...
Already had them. Genealogies don't have to match. They link names. There are lots of names. Ezra, for example, in proving his priestly lineage, at Ezra 7:1-5, left out several names that were listed at 1 Chronicles 6:1-15.
Matthew was the first. I know most scholars don't think so, but it...
Correct. And Ambrose, Augustine, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement, Martyr, etc. From a scriptural perspective they are irrelevant. From a theological perspective they aren't.
The simple answer to this question is that Jesus was actually the Son of God and the natural heir to the Kingdom by miraculous birth through the virgin girl Mary, of David's line, and Jesus was also the legal heir in the male line of descent from David and Solomon through his adoptive father...
I'm the guy who saying that your rejection of Jesus is based upon post Biblical Jewish tradition rather that scripture. In that I'm not responding to your personal opinion, vaguely given in the OP, I'm providing scriptural support without the influence of tradition. Generally speaking, a...