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No one made that claim. The claim was that Jesus was the Israelite messiah, and I made the counter claim that he was not. Thus my response directly replied to the previous post. Your remark, however, is completely unrelated to what was being discussed, so I have to wonder, what was going on in your head to lead you to make your remark.Well, it turns out that G-d doesn't just love the Israelites.
It's not really unrelated..
How is any of this related to your comment that God doesn't love just the Israelites? You have yet to make a connection.It's not really unrelated..
You say that "Jesus is not the promised Messiah", so you don't accept him.
However many people HAVE accepted Him as Messiah.
Christians and Muslims do.
..so God guides whomsoever He wills .. He knows what is in our hearts.
I am aware of why Orthodox Jews don't accept Jesus .. they are still waiting for a Messiah of their own..
..but what if God decides to send Jesus back again to earth?
..it would be interesting to see who accepts him, and who does not.
..don't you think?
Well, it seems to me, that many Orthodox Jews did not accept Jesus as the Messiah. The Ones that did, would no longer be seen as Orthodox Jews.
Yes, you're right, the Torah established obligatory holidays that the Israelites were to observe fastidiously. Three out of six required pilgrimages (I don't include Purim or Hannukah as Levitical mandates), the holiest day was Yom Kippur. And, it is stated, that it was for this reason that Judah was taken into captivity for seventy years - for not observing the Sabbath years - allowing the land to lay uncultivated every 7 years.
Again, I don't know where you get that from. Certainly not from your bible. Are you perhaps just the sort of person that doens't like seeing people having a good time? Perhaps you don't like celebrating holidays, so you think you have to ruin it for everyone else? I don't know you. I don't know that that's the case. But I'm running out of ideas for your motivation.
Why is God such a cry baby and a bigot that he decides people need to suffer and die for celebrating Christmas, even if it is Pagan.
Is there a need of being frustrated and angry, please?
Actually it's not. Bomb cyclones are most likely to occur in mid to late December since, due to winter solstice in 22nd of December, the solar insolation gradient reaches a maxima at that time in the Northern Hemisphere. This increase the energy transport flux velocities in the seas and the atmosphere and increases the probability of large scale and intense instabilities to form in the midlatitudes. The figure below shows how the solar insolation varies with latitude. Note how steep the gradient is in the winter hemisphere during the solstice day. This is the ultimate cause of these bomb cyclones that carry heat from the midlatitudes up into the Arctic. So while the Arctic warms a bit, the midlatitudes experience extreme cold and snow.
The celebration of a holiday itself still had nothing to do with it.
Obviously. I just thought it might be an interesting factoid to know why such cyclones happen around Christmas time in general.
It was.
...sorry, I assumed that you may have been familiar with the New Testament - it seems many non-Christians on this site are (probably mostly former Christians?)
I've actually studied your New Testament and I know that on many issues, such as this one, you have contradictory statements. So your opinion reflects which verses you choose to emphasize and which you ignore. It is very clear from Acts 15 that the Jews in Jerusalem, being "Zealous for Torah" would have kept all the Jewish holy days, including th Sabbath. But Paul and James were at odds over this.
Yes .. Paul had to appease the Gentile communities that had sprung up due to his preaching, and the political situation was often tense.
For God to say something like this knowing how hateful men are towards Him shows He is perfectly good. Anyone rejecting perfect goodness deserves evil, its that simple. In terms of how Gods justice is displayed and intervened and the rule by the standards of His laws.
So, sorry, you just underscored my point - the Jews were zealous for the Law, whereas the Christians did not want to put a yoke upon the Gentile converts that the Jewish converts father's could not bear. The Jerusalem council concluded that the Gentile are not obligated to observe the Jewish Laws except for: no sexual immorality, no idiolatry, don't eat meat with blood/strangled. That was it - no Sukkoth, Feast of unleavened bread, pesach, sabbath, Yom Kippur, rosh hashanah, etc...