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  1. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    Is the Messiah as a new Moses who leads his people out of exile into the world of redemption also perhaps the giver of a Torah for the time of the redemption? Is the Torah and its radiation outward via the tradition the final word of God to Israel or is there in the Messianic or apocalyptic view...
  2. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    The tallit represents the "garment" given to cover the nakedness of Adam's body after the sin. More particularly, the garment given to cover Adam's naked body was given to cover the part of the body from whence the sin originated. Technically speaking, when Abraham ritually removes the sinful...
  3. John D. Brey

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

    John
  4. John D. Brey

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

    HELLO! John
  5. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    I don't know how scientifically attuned you are, but the original way two organisms shared genes was cannibalism. At that time there was no programed death-gene. The latter came with phallic-sex. Since Jesus was conceived the old fashioned way, when Mary ingested the word of God (rather than...
  6. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    The purpose of the tefillin is that `the teaching of God may be in your mouth.' For that reason they must be made מן המותר בפיך, from substances `permitted to your mouth.' Rabbi Samson Hirsch, Collected Writings III, p.152. The batim of the tefillin (the box holding the scrolls) must be made...
  7. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    The original red-letter Bibles were more accurately red/purple lettered Bibles. More importantly: The inspiration for printing the words of Jesus in red comes from Luke 22:20: "This cup is the new testament in my blood, which I shed for you." Wikipedia, Red Letter Edition. In context, the...
  8. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    Ironically, the mnemonic device the scribes use to note the letters that have three tagin attached to them (with a permanent ink) is the Hebrew word "shatnez." The letters that have three tagin attached to them can spell out the Hebrew word "shatnez" (to include the letters gimmel and tsaddi)...
  9. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    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)...
  10. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    The mystics explain that for the time being, only the meaning of the actual letters and words of the Written Torah are revealed through the Oral Torah. However, the deeper meanings behind the “crowns” . . . will only become revealed with the coming of the Moshiach. Thus, every time you see a...
  11. John D. Brey

    Does the bible describe what the devil/satan looks like

    . . . I thought the comment was tastefully done and very funny and I'm an Always Trumper. John
  12. John D. Brey

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

    Survival of the fittest in a historical Petri dish. Look and learn grasshopppah. :). . . Snatch the Gideon's from my hand it it will be time for you to leave enlightened. John
  13. John D. Brey

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

    During the Exodus from Egypt, Moses slaughtered a bull (which in Egypt represented deity) and sprinkled the blood on the clothing of the Israelites as they passed by. These garments became Israel's ornaments/symbols of salvation. Later in the narrative Israel takes to worshiping the bull's...
  14. John D. Brey

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

    I'm fully aware that there's a tone of those things if we use your epistemological prejudice as the criteria for factuality. How cool it would be if we had a truly objective criteria for factuality; one that doesn't depend on either of our prejudices. John
  15. John D. Brey

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

    Right. So if I forego any argument from the supernatural, then everything is natural, such that Christianity is the fittest worldview since it's survived and thrived while others did not or are not. Who would deny that the USA is both the most Christian of nations, and has also been the...
  16. John D. Brey

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

    You say a lot of things that seem historically and logically questionable at best? In the Quran, Jesus is described as the Messiah (al-Masīḥ), miraculously born of a virgin, performing miracles, accompanied by his disciples, rejected by the Jewish religious establishment, but not as crucified...
  17. John D. Brey

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

    What's that Springsteen song say, "They're still here, he's all gone." At its zenith, the Roman Empire was much smaller than the Holy Roman Catholic Church today. The latter peoples the entire planet. It's cultural predilections have, particularly with the help of her wayward son, Martin...
  18. John D. Brey

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

    The Nazis didn't survive. So even in their own scheme they're losers. I quoted the eminent historian Will Durant earlier in the thread giving his surmisal of why Christianity survived. In another place he said: If art is the organization of materials, the Roman Catholic Church is among the most...
  19. John D. Brey

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

    Are you a Darwinist? Because what you write would simply make Christianity the fittest since they survived. Evolution isn't moral you know. So suck it up buttercup. :cool: John
  20. John D. Brey

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

    I can't speak for the religion or not of the football or the football field, goal posts, jock straps, what have you, but many or most of the players and fans are part of that thirty-one percentile you poo poo. ;) John
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