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  1. John D. Brey

    Why did christianity win out (from a secular / historical perspective)?

    Christiano Ronaldo is one of the 31% of the religious world who are Christian. Only one life, twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last. I'm sure Christiano would second that emotion. John
  2. John D. Brey

    Why did christianity win out (from a secular / historical perspective)?

    Historically speaking, there's a strange irony in the fact that in the first century of the modern era Judaism sought a messiah who would not only save them from the goyim, but who could, as unlikely as seemed possible at the time, defeat Rome at the hands of a little ole Jew. There is no...
  3. John D. Brey

    Why did christianity win out (from a secular / historical perspective)?

    If I'm not mistaken, 31% is the largest majority if no other singular religion has more than 31%. Notwithstanding the great commercials from State Farm Insurance about the assurances of "bundling," I think it's bungling logic to believe you can bundle religions together in order to claim...
  4. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    The addition of the tzitzit to the tallit, or the scroll, is decreed by God; it's what's called a "chok" (or plural "chukkim"). What's significant about this is that according to Jewish tradition, the meaning of a chok, the meaning of all the chukkim (for instance what do the tzitzit signify)...
  5. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    Tagin are God's tzitzit in that they're the "fringes" or sprouts that spring out of the Hebrew letters of the Torah-text, which, the scroll, represents God's material frame. As such, technically speaking, the tzitzit, or fringes (i.e., the tagin) should be doused in tekhelet (red-purple dye)...
  6. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    . . . The next thread was gonna be Why does God wear bell-bottom jeans. John
  7. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    Not only are there eight strings on a tzitzit (relating it directly as the target for that which "blossoms forth from the sealing of this holy covenant," i.e., that which replaces the flesh that's ritually removed), but, initially, the tzitzit was dyed in tekhelet (or one of the strings of the...
  8. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    The basic theology this thread is based on is the idea that the tallit represents the covering given to Adam after his sin; his original sin being the first case of using flesh that wasn't original to his body, i.e., the phallus (Genesis 2:21) which is grafted on with a permanent knot...
  9. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    For there to be a singular kind of subjective truth (that's absolutely true) the person receptive to that truth would need to have the ability to intuit that truth without reference to relative references or natural cognitive evaluations. In other words, I would have to know something is true...
  10. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Andrew Dice Clay spoke of a three-piece set. So why can't I have a two piece holy writ? John
  11. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Sorry. That was a typo. I meant to say my beliefs aren't related to my preferences. I get to choose my preferences. Not so much my beliefs. . . . Then again, on second thought, even my preferences are probably more ingrained than I'd like to think. John
  12. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    My beliefs aren't related to my preferences. John
  13. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    I once owned a Yugo. But it was paid for. ;) John
  14. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Because there are multiple suitors doesn't mean none of them are the genuine one. Because everyone believes they have the Truth doesn't mean no one does. John
  15. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Perhaps to juxtapose, in Buber's terminology, Two Types of Faith. One kind of faith could be said to be blind but therein inspiringly powerful. The other is based on seeing the face of God but requires picking up one's cross and being invisible to those with blind faith. John
  16. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    . . . Versus what? I like the scene in the movie, A Few Good Men, when Col. Jessup says: "Is there any other kind?" Knowing one is the possessor of a fallible human perspective could be read to mean that they shouldn't necessarily question traditions and faith-perceptions that their fathers...
  17. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    I love the scene in the movie Wanted, when Morgan Freeman says to James McAvoy, "Shoot the wings off the fly," to which McAvoy responds, "I don't even know what that means!" If what Israel is doing is causing antiSemitism all over the world, then you and I should probably realize that the...
  18. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Moses, like some of the prophets, didn't want to be chosen for a divine mission. God chose them anyhow. Do you think God does things democratically, or sovereignly? I vote the latter. John
  19. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    What's that Springsteen song say: Israel is still here, they're all gone. A lot depends on what a person thinks of the Bible? All or most of it's written by Abraham's natural-born offspring. So if a person considers it God's word, like I do, then God appears to have chosen Abraham's...
  20. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    In an unredeemed world the Torah must be interpreted in manifold ways---literal, allegorical, mystical; but in the redeemed future it will be revealed in the pure spirituality of the Tree of Life, without the "clothing" it put on after Adam sinned. It will be wholly inward, entirely holy. In...
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