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Continue reading →: Answering questions about G-d, Eternal Life and Messiah emailed in by a Christian
Question 1: “Without Jesus, how do Jews become right with G-d and obtain eternal life with G-d?” A clue that will help us answer this question is how did Jews become right with G-d and obtain eternal life before Jesus?
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Continue reading →: Fact or fiction: Pontius Pilate as Jesus’ defense attorney
The New Testament presents the Jewish leaders and the Jewish people as a bloodthirsty mob out to get Jesus, mercilessly calling for his blood, without any regard for justice. This is the lens through which Christendom would come to view the whole of Jewish people for the next two thousand…
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Continue reading →: The Disputation between Rabbi Nachmanides and Jewish Christian Pablo Christiani
Over 750 years ago, a Jewish convert to Christianity Pablo Christiani (this is his adopted Christian name), wanted his fellow Jews to see the same “light” that he once did. Prior to his conversion, Pablo has studied under Rabbi Eliezer of Tarascon and was well versed in Talmud and rabbinic literature. Once…
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Continue reading →: Disciple of Apostle John on Jesus followers practicing Judaism and observing Torah
Ignatius of Antioch, who lived between 35 CE and 107 CE, is a famous Apostolic Church father. What makes him so special for followers of Jesus today is that he was one of the five earliest church fathers. However, what makes Ignatius even more special than just being a mere…
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Continue reading →: Is G-d “just a slob like one of us”?
Some years ago, whenever I would hear a hit One of Us sung by Joan Osborne, a song with catchy lyrics “What if G-d was one of us?”, I would think to myself – “Hello! What if? He did become one of us two thousand years ago and He still…
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Continue reading →: Christian commentary: G-d free to misquote Old Testament in the New because He owns the copyright!
Today, I was perusing through my copy of an NIV version of The Scofield Study Bible (once given to me as a gift), one of the most popular Bible commentaries in the English-speaking world. There I happened upon one of the well-known misquotations of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament
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Continue reading →: Coming soon to the Daily Minyan
Some of the topics I am currently working on: What the Mormon faith can teach out about the birth of Christianity and the role of Apostle Paul Detailed review of failed prophecies made by Jesus Practical advice for Jews and Gentiles who are looking to exit Christianity If there’s a…
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Continue reading →: A heart lured away: failing G-d’s test of love
The L-rd G-d of Israel, the Eternal whom devout Jews worshiped and served for thousands of years, warned the whole Jewish nation in His Torah to watch out for and purge from its midst any false prophet who would lead people to worship gods they have not known. Israel was…
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Continue reading →: What is the true legacy and greatness of Moses?
Walter Kaufmann, a Jewish philosopher, summarized what makes Moses so different from exalted figures of other religions: [Moses] went away to die alone, lest any man should know his grave to worship him there or attach any value to his mortal soul. Having seen Egypt, he knew…how prone men are…
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Continue reading →: Apostle Paul and his scripture twisting for Jesus
One of the many things which helped me come to repentance from idolatry, to leave Christianity and return to the faith of my fathers was my realization that the reason Christianity has been so anti-Torah and anti-Judaism for just about all of its history is not only because of some…