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  1. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    God selected one planet for humans over other planets. He selected a general body type for humans and another one for other animals. He made me and thee humans rather than grasshoppers. He selects lots of things that don't always appear to equate to universal equality. He seems quite capable of...
  2. John D. Brey

    Isaiah says God will kill Jesus?

    The word for "new thing" in Isaiah 43:19 is "הדש." A parallel passage using the same Hebrew word (הדש) describes God doing something utterly new: How long will thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the Lord hath created a new thing [הדש] in the earth: a woman will clone a man...
  3. John D. Brey

    Isaiah says God will kill Jesus?

    11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest...
  4. John D. Brey

    Isaiah says God will kill Jesus?

    Paul claims to know a mystery hidden since the katabole (Greek for the "falling-down") of the world (i.e., the world after Adam's sin). But whether he does know this mystery or not is subject to various evaluations related to what you've noted above such that I don't expect a practicing Jew to...
  5. John D. Brey

    Isaiah says God will kill Jesus?

    This is a fair and important statement so far as it relies on a natural, asymmetrical progression of time, reality, and prophesy. In this most general of contexts, which is generally held by the majority of human beings (theistic or atheistic), argumentation against the Jewish interpretation of...
  6. John D. Brey

    Judaism

    Cash. Cold. Hard. Cash. John
  7. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    Touche. You show how message #9 is pretty cool since I implied that the eagle/vulture נשר is related to the righteous Branch of the Lord נצר, as the burning-bush is related to him. Which is to say Nehushtan (Moses' rod, embellished with a bronze eagle/vulture, in the guise of a flying-serpent)...
  8. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    There's a couple interesting things related to the word for "eagle" (נשר) and the word for "branch" (נצר). The letters on either side of the letter in the middle, i.e., nun-reish (נר) spell "lamp." The shin ש is both a pictogram of a "bush" as well as representing both "fire" and in some cases...
  9. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    The discomfort Exodus 34:6-7 creates for Jewish exegetes can be measured by the fact that there are at least two separate interpretive hapaxes in one verse: verse 7 of Exodus 34. And the nature of the two hapaxes are extremely telling since the words "branch" נצר, and "lifted up" נשא must be...
  10. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    ᴵᴵ נצר to convert to Christianity. — Pi. - נִצֵּר he converted to Christianity. — Hith. - הִתְנַצֵּר was converted to Christianity. [Denominated from נָצְרִי.] Derivatives: נִצּוּר, הִתְנַצְּרוּת. נֵֽצֶר m.n. sprout, shoot. [Related to Aram. נִצְרָא (= sprout, shoot), Arab. naḍura...
  11. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    . . . If that's true, this will be the shortest thread I've ever started. What'd Col. Jessup say in, A Few Good Men: "Don't I look like the arse"? John
  12. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    One of the great breakthroughs in modern Christian theology is the concept of "dispensationalism." Dispensationalilsm delineates and separates the nation of Israel (as a unique entity in the Tanakh), from the so-called "Church" that develops post-first century CE. In dispensational theology...
  13. John D. Brey

    Why is pleasure bad according to any religion you belong to?

    Numerous philosophers of science have tried to explain why the scientific-revolution occurred during a Christian milieu rather than a Chinese or some other environment? They came to numerous conclusions to include the idea that Christians put God outside of the world such that the world is more...
  14. John D. Brey

    Why is pleasure bad according to any religion you belong to?

    In my evaluation this current world is hell. And the cheap pleasures, sex and such, are the jail-keepers way of establishing a healthy Stockholm Syndrome in all those who can be so easily convinced that this prison-cell is all they'll ever have so that they might as well get used to their...
  15. John D. Brey

    Why is pleasure bad according to any religion you belong to?

    John
  16. John D. Brey

    Why is pleasure bad according to any religion you belong to?

    . . . Consider me a submissive student. John
  17. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 53: The Arm of the Lord.

    What's the foundation of your theological worldview? Do you come from a Christian, Jewish, or atheists/agnostic background? Or some other background? John
  18. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 53: The Arm of the Lord.

    There's little doubt that when most people read our posts they see clear examples of parallelomania. And we might see in our interlocutors parallelophobia. Both are real phenomena that must be guarded against. John
  19. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 53: The Arm of the Lord.

    Typologically, logically, and scripturally, it conceives Iaac as a ritual emblem of virgin birth (since sacrificial blood always, every single time, throughout the Tanakh, implies the utter cessation of the flesh where the blood is drawn; the sacrificial flesh never survives to live another day...
  20. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 53: The Arm of the Lord.

    The parallel between these two verses lends itself to the spirit of this thread ---the arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 ----since we see that Zion and the strong arm of the Lord are not only the same entity, but that they're represented by a specific Branch which, this particular Branch, is...
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