Why do Christians accept Jesus

[Valke2]

Wthout the Tabernacle, the can be no sacrifices. A. J. Heshscel dicusess two perspectives on why we were commanded to build the Tabernacle, represented by 1st century sages Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiva.

Rabbi Ishmael’s concern was to emphasize how sacrifice warded off idolatry. He understood the commandment to build the Tabernacle was not given until after the sin of the golden calf. This implies that the command did not enter the Divine mind until after Israel sinned.

Rabbi Akiva disagreed. He believed that all commandments were given in one fell swoop at Sinai.

Ishmael viewed the Tabernacle as serving a human need – to keep us from commiting idolatry and as a testimony to the world of God’s reconcilliation with Israel.

Akiva saw the Tabernacle as serving a Divine need. That God needs and demands sacrifices.

 

[Lion_of_Narnia]

If we’re going to compare humble beginnings…

Technicaly, the humble begining you’re refering to is our SAME ultimate humble begining–we of Gentile origins were “grafted on” as Paul stated.

Many critics of Christianity (both religious and secular) say 1st Century Judea was rife with itinerant rabbis, wonder-workers (Tzaddick I believe) and even Messiah claimants. Which only goes to underscore Jesus’s uniqueness; When His earthly life ended, and His movement smashed–it didn’t. And unlike all those would be Messiahs, no one else was proclaimed risen from the dead and ascended into Heaven

 

[crisco]

Hi JMJ.
He’ll rebuild the Temple (Jer. 33:18).

just curious regarding the qualitfications of the Messiah - why the need for a Temple if the ‘sacrificial system’ has been superceded by repentence/prayer etc.? Would there be an alter in this new Temple?

 

[Valke2]

just curious regarding the qualitfications of the Messiah - why the need for a Temple if the ‘sacrificial system’ has been superceded by repentence/prayer etc.? Would there be an alter in this new Temple?

Torah explains the sacrificial system: “This is in order that the Israelites may bring sacrifices, which they have been making in the open, before Adonai, to the priest, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting – and turn the fat into smoke as a pleasing order to the Lord; and that they may offer their sacrfifices no more to the goat demons aftger whom they stray. This shall be to them a law for all time, throughout the generations.” "Lev. 17:5-7.

The idea of sacrifices is so ingrained into Jewish thought that, despite the fact that we believe that there will be no need for sacrifices in the Messaniac Age, we pray every day for the restoration of the Temple and sacrifices.

Go figure.