He tells her that her sister, who isn’t helping either, that her sister has chosen the better route. I e listening to Jesus.
But everyone can listen after the dishes are done. What can't wait? Wouldn't it be more profound if he actually got up off the couch and helped out?
John says if they wrote everything they knew or he did there would not be enough books to contain the stories.
And yet they don't really mention much in the stories they tell. Jesus is a lot like God in the bible: starts off as supposedly the Main Character but is left with just cameos by the end.
Judaism worked just fine for 2 generations. David and Solomon ruled the nation successfully, until they each sinned against God, by the Jewish faith. David by killing Uriah and Solomon with his pagan wives that led him astray. Josiah, who came latter, also ruled by the Torah.
No, they committed to political infighting while hostile forces wanted control of the land.
What does that have to do with the timeframe?
Because Judaism was Hellenizing prior to Rome and Rome made the Greeks look like amateurs and broadening one's horizons was seen as being some sort of blood traitor or something even though by that point probably no one was "purely Jewish" by then anyway. You might, if you can get past the horrible formatting and walls of text, want to read
this book. The bible simply can't be properly read without knowing the situation "on the ground" as discovered through history and archaeology.
The Jews had risen against the Romans and they would not back down so the Romans came in and totally destroyed the temple and much of Jerusalem. It might behoove you to read up on the history.
From the wiki about it:
Titus had wanted to seize it and transform it into a temple dedicated to the
Roman Emperor and the
Roman pantheon. However, the fire spread quickly and was soon out of control. The Temple was captured and destroyed on 9/10
Tisha B'Av, at the end of August, and the flames spread into the residential sections of the city.
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So, there were other motives besides Jewish protests.
Romans even before the destruction of the temple raided it for supplies and treasure, like Pompeyand such.
What do you mean by His job? God does not practice mind control. He gives us rules and expects us to obey them.
He didn't give the first person to eat the magic fruit a rule to follow. She had to learn it from Adam or something because the rule predates her creation.
He doesn't have to practice mind control, just basic parenting 101. You don't leave the kids alone with the chips and become shocked to see chip dust all over their faces.
Not to those who reject His rule.
So the people who most need His assistance are just out of luck. Maybe they reject God because He didn't help them instead of God not helping because He was rejected.
They do not steal, defraud, murder or frame for crime, they are charitable and kind for the most part.
Did Jesus own any of the livestock or trees he killed when walking around preaching?
Isn't setting yourself up as the "keeper of the keys" when Jesus himself calls you "Satan" fraud?
Weren't people murdered, I'm sorry, "victims of the Lord's wrath" *coughcough*?
Isn't Judas framed for something that had to be done in the first place and no one should've known about because the meetings were supposedly secret?
Did Christianity not go hog wild after legalization, burning books and buildings and killing people, etc?
But, because they believe in Jesus, his sacrifice and resurrection and in his Father instead of money or a pantheon of gods, they are killed.
That is what they tell themselves instead of being honest about the real reason, and politics drove most of the issue. Paul has no problem throwing his Jewishness/Christianity under the bus when he's in trouble and touts his Roman citizenship to try to get out of jail. People loyal to Yahweh wouldn't have even considered such a "blasphemous" thing as to be called Matt or John or Peter or ... wait, where was I again?
He never claimed to have fixed things and I’d like to know where you got the idea that he did.
So you don't believe he conquered death and sin the first time around?
The serpent was not honest. He told them that they would not die if they ate of the fruit.
And they lived to be nearly 1000 years old. God specifically worded it to sound like taking one bite would kill them instantly. God was the one being dishonest because He reveals mere paragraphs later the VERBATIM reason God REALLY didn't want them to eat the fruit as reported by the serpent. He didn't want us to have powers like He did. The serpent can't be lying unless you admit God is lying too when He confirms it.
Yet when they did they knew shame and death. Before they ate they knew neither.
So everything they ate survived the trip through the digestive tract? NOTHING died in front of them the whole time?
God forgave through Jesus in all instances.
So Jesus, not Jonah, saved the people of Ninevah?
It is why we witness to people who don’t believe.
Christians also witness to believers, suggesting God isn't talking to them at all or you'd expect Him to give them an accurate membership list.
It comes from the stories in the Hebrew Scriptures. Where do you get your information on this list?
Lives of the Prophets - Wikipedia
He makes bread and fish pieces to feed a hungry crowd who has chosen to stay and listen to the word of God.
Feeding them for one meeting isn't as impressive as making sure they stay fed the next day. He goes from town to town, so who feeds the hungry while he's not there?
We have no way of knowing how Pharaoh viewed Moses as he was Hebrew drawn from the Nile.
His origin was irrelevant as he was an adopted Egyptian royal. He would've known what the laws were.
Moses killed to preserve life
Following Moses through the desert got almost everyone from that generation killed. I'd have told Moses "thanks, but no thanks".
Ancient Egyptian Law
At the top of the judicial hierarchy was the king, the representative of the gods and their divine justice, and just beneath him was his vizier. The Egyptian vizier had many responsibilities and one of them was the practical administration of justice. The vizier heard court cases himself but also appointed lower magistrates and, sometimes, involved himself with local courts if circumstances required it.
In general, if the crime was serious – such as rape, murder, theft on a large scale, or tomb robbing – the penalty was death or disfigurement. Men found guilty of rape were castrated or had their penis amputated. Murderers were beaten and then fed to crocodiles, burned to death, or executed in other unpleasant ways. Thieves usually suffered amputation of the nose, hands, or feet.
No wonder Moses would've wanted to avoid a trial.
I remember only once that Jesus spoke that his followers were his mother brothers and sisters. On the cross, Jesus made sure his mother was cared for by John.
Still doesn't even call her "mom".
His family thought he was crazy.
I think they’d know if someone was breathing or not.
Not breathing doesn't necessarily equate to being dead. I'm an RN and such stories interest me highly.
Once they received the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign languages, they also became aware of everything they had learned and were empowered to teach and write to the people of their age and us.
And they were the ones who taught you that, yes? The people who couldn't be trusted said, "Ok, for real, you can trust us now." And you are good with that.
Why not have both? One staves off starvation of the body the other staves off starvation of the soul.
We are putting kids in concentration camps thanks to the "soul feeding" of the bible. Adults want to see kids bummed out about being shot at dead, which is totally legit from the "spiritual nutrition" of the bible.
Are you saying there is more than one God?
Historically there were and the bible couldn't hide all the references. El, Asherah, Baal, Yahweh, Anat, Astarte ... all have references all throughout. Monotheism was attempted in ancient Egypt prior to Judaism's crack at it and both instances are largely for the same general purpose: monopolizing political and economic power over the population. Multiple gods mean multiple temples and people not necessarily coming to visit yours. So, they had to go. It would be like Disney buying Six Flags and Universal.
