I have done so more than several times, but you get back over and over again on the same questions. I am going to repeat just one of many. If you prove me wrong, I will show you another. There is no such a thing in Judaism as a man being conceived by a woman without a human father. Only in Greek Mythology. Where did they get the idea that Jesus was born without a human father, if not in Greek Mythology? Now, I am all years.
I do not codemn anyone or anything. I just defend Judaism.
Ben, although generally true, this statement is not necessarily a universal truth. Consider Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote possibly the most penetrating analysis of the American character, despite his being a visiting Frenchman. Also, consider that the early church was Jewish. In other words, a large part of the Church’s understanding of the Jewish nature of the New Testament is informed by the Church’s early history as a group of Jewish believers.
It depends, even when you are a Jew. Aren’t there many kind of behaviour even from one Jew to another? Hillel, for instance, would kindly answer even to smart alecks, while Shammai would rudely dismiss the smart alecks because he couldn"t suffer the fools. Both were Jews. And they were both Jewish rabbis…
And what is so “typical” of a Greek Gentile in their depiction of Jesus? The Greek people don’t perform miracles, from what I know of them…
HI Ben! that was a good one and so biblical, you are right.**That’s all Jews need now, is for Gentiles to tell them about Jewish behaviour, laws and customs. The Essenes were even more strict than regular Jews. Nice try though. It means you are trying to defend your church.
Ben:**
Yes, I uderstand what you mean, but the early followers of Jesus did not congregate in churches but in synagogues. I mean to imply that the use of churches started with Paul, who was a Hellenistic former Jew.
**Everything is possible in parables, as it is in visions and dreams. Parables give the teller all freedom. But, let me tell you that the aim of Jesus in that parable was not to teach anything about heaven or hell, but about the permanence of the Law. He presented Moses as the only escape out of Hell. That parable is almost a continuation of Matthew 5:17-19. **
Great Lapell! But remember, it fell as usual on the 14th of Nisan. Only that at this time it was not a Shabbaton, because the day was not a Sabbath.
Yes, apart from the visible appearance, it would be kind of hard for you to tell the difference. I can tell the difference even between two Jews within the Hassidic Movement.
How do you know that the Greek people don’t perform miracles? What’s the big deal about making miracles? So, you believe in miracles, don’t you? Do you know why? Because you have never witnessed one. That’s what miracles are: The stuff faith is made of. The real miracle is just another name for the breathing of Nature.
What’s so Biblical about what I said? You must be teasing me. Okay, you got your laugh.
HI Ben! that was a good one and so biblical, you are right.
And why should one escape Hell if life ends with death here on earth? Unless you mean to say that Hell is on earth? Then what about the questions raised by Job about the injustices, iniquities and inequalities on earth, where some bad people die happily and some good people die miserably? Did you read Rabbi Harold Kushner’s book Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? One example close to us: "Why did the 6 millions Jews, including women and children, perish at the hands of the Nazis? Many were gased, many were murdered after hjaving been forced to dig their own mass-graves? What great individual sins did each of them commit, tell me? Many were faithful to God’s Torah, I am convinced. This example in itself is enough to raise the inevitable question about God’ retribution here on earth? Even in Jeremiah’s time at the time of the exile to Babylon, a Biblical text says: “Even the priest, even the prophet doesn’t understand”.
That is because you know the things that each actually teaches, don’t you? Ah, but with Christianity, how quick you are at saying that in those days they just turned to "Greek mythology, even though oddly enough the Holy Trinity lacks all the glorified defects of the gods of the Greeks: lust, cheating, etc.!!!