Yes, G-d forms and creates man. He causes the seed to impregnate the egg and causes the man to be formed. Which is what's being discussed there. He Himself doesn't impregnate. And that concept is baseless.
You're very keen to impress your interpretation upon this passage of scripture. Where does it talk about a man's seed being involved? It says, 'You fashioned me in my mother's womb'.
Yes. A futile attempt to pass the Davidic line through a foster-father. Another baseless claim.
This is an interesting issue, and one that requires some discussion. I believe that Matthew's gospel gives us Jesus' genealogy from Abraham through to Mary (not Joseph).
That's probably because like everything else you receive, your translation comes through a Christian.
What it actually says is:
It was taught in the house of Elijah: The world exists for 6,000 years. 2,000 years of desolation, 2,000 years of Torah and 2,000 years of the Days of the Messiah. And in our sins that have multiplies, it was taken out from that, what was taken out."
Meaning the last 2,000 years was meant to be the Messianic Age. But our sins have caused the total number of actual years to diminish.
The English translation of the Talmud that I have is edited by Rabbi Dr.Isidore Epstein, printed by the Soncino Press in London, published 1935.
The point being made, which you seem to be overlooking, is that, aside from any sin committed by Israel, the days of creation foreshadow distinct periods in the revelation of God's will and purpose.
Three distinct dispensations (each of about two thousand years), followed by a Sabbath or millenium reign on earth. The messianic era has failed to materialise over the last two thousand years because Israel has rejected the Messiah. That's why this present age has had to be designated 'the times of the Gentiles'.
Now that the time has come for us to expect the return of the Messiah to judge the world, we seem find ourselves looking for different Messiahs. Jesus Christ is said to return in the same way that he left. Acts 1:11, 'this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.'
Says a book written long after the supposed event, trying to convince other that the event happened...
These are careless words, Tumah. The documentary evidence for the New Testament is strong. Eye-witnesses to the events would have read the gospels and been able to substantiate their veracity.
Elisha ben Abuya was also a learned Jew. It means nothing.
Saul of Tarsus was a devout Jew. What's remarkable is that someone who was wholly committed to following the law, and denying Jesus as the Messiah, should have had such a sudden and profound conversion. And this conversion did not make life easy for him.
The wider context is what you've imposed on it. It doesn't get wider than the Torah itself. G-d's Word doesn't need to be revealed, it was already revealed. That's what the book is. Stop making up your own theology to support your claims and just read what it says.
I agree that within the Torah are all the seeds of truth. That's because the Torah contains everything revealed by God to Moses. But Moses could not have known all that is written in the Torah through his own reason. Likewise you cannot know all that God has to reveal about the Messiah unless the spirit of God itself reveal these truths to you.
John 16:13,' Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.'
If you were really trying to uncover the truth, you'd read the book on its own terms and not the terms that men put on it.
I'm reading it in the light of Jesus Christ. I believe I'm reading the whole prophecy and not just a portion.
Genesis 1:1,'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'
Revelation 21:1.'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.'
The Tanach does not give this completeness of revelation. This completeness is only to be found in the person of Jesus Christ, who is also the Word of God. To find Christ you need the New Testament.
What is to happen to you if Paul's writings turn out to be false?
1 Corinthians 15:17,18. 'And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.'
