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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: EbnZhr Ordered by Date |
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1 | was wine fermented | Bible general Archive 1 | EbnZhr | 15717 | ||
Was He a Jew or a gentile? Certainly if he were a member of some American Christian tradition the question asked might be valid but He was a Jew born in a specific culture and not given to the dilution of that life he lived and concecrated under the constraints Torah.... Elyah bnZoher |
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2 | Who created god? | Bible general Archive 1 | EbnZhr | 15715 | ||
Good questions, And so you touched indirectly on one of His attributes. In fact you should have Just asked for His name.... for it is: "I am" What's interesting is that you do not question the validity of your being, since you too are... but of course for a lesser duration. Elyah bnZohar |
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3 | Hide righteousness or let it shine? | Matt 6:1 | EbnZhr | 15426 | ||
A city set on a hill... a nation set on a hill... alas, scattered to the four winds .. why? Because the light of the Torah given by Hashem was not deseminated according to the Will of Hashem. Instead it was hidden and obscured and made to serve the interest of some over the welfare of the many. And this continued to the point where some of the rabbis would say to other rabbis, to other fellows in blood and faith, "stay off by yourself... for I am holier than you, come not near.." And in this malase of ill directed jurisprudence a hedge grew around the Torah. A planting not set forth by Hashem. The Mashiach could only exclaim... "And here is how they will know you, if you have love for one another." Yes Mashiach berated them, those leaders who said one unto another "Raca." Yet still they and there peers continued on their merry way... Some teaching and developing a body of traditions designed to force compliance , designed to storm heaven and to take it by forth.... if at all possible... saying to one another " build a wall, a hedge around the Torah and gather to yourselves many disciples... disciple who could ensure continuance of their practice." And so even as our own Rabbis have told us our people were scattered because of the sin of loshon Hora... (evil speaking). Evil speaking against each other, and against Mashiach? Lo, the Stone rejected by our Rabbis... even as Yakob (James ) did say in recogniztion of this evil... and the plight which awaited us.. "The Tongue is a world of Evil." E bnZhr lefayt |
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4 | holding the light with dirty hands? | Matt 5:20 | EbnZhr | 15366 | ||
well let's see.... Since the bais haMikdosh held the market on sacrife animals and sacrifices were offer daily that would require a hefty number per day and at different times per day. Sounds like a very big flock to me. Additionally the priesthood decided which were clean or not so clean and suitable. And when we ..I consider who could maintain a flock large enough the picture get clearer.... Not a busness for the small time entrepenur and a high demand commodity. What is the virtue of being unlearned or why would Mashiach have a preference for them? Do we not say that it is the sin and not the sinner which repels G d and was it not for the ill that he came? Does he distinguish between one and another like men or are the sins performed by some more deserving of His concideration and salvation than the sins performed by others? But who would have the most need, the self sufficent in his her walk through this world or the one humbled by circumstances? One accepts the remedy and his her fate is secured but the other's condition remains constant, blind, ill, and without hope... so to speak.. which is then has the most need? So the issue is not the need as we are all needy. What if we applied this need factor to discriminate between the US and some other third world people, who would be more needy and inusing this criteria... who would be more preferred then? The issue is receptivity... and this is by G d's doing alone.... that all may be found to be lacking and in need of His provision. He has mercy on whom He will.. according to His schedule. There is no virtue in being ignorant, as the people of the Land were... for this reason there were and are teachers... first Moshe then others even to this day. Natan under his fig tree studied, contemplated and the Mashiach spotted Him early in the day... he took note of him and later praised him. Since guile was the issue in question some surmise that Natan was reading about Yaakob.. Jacob whose many antics were guile full. So even there G d showed no preference in the expected manner... because Yaakob He love but Edom..Esau He did not. What criteria did G d use to distinguish the two? E bnZhr |
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5 | holding the light with dirty hands? | Matt 5:20 | EbnZhr | 15350 | ||
Steve, haMashiach said to his students.. the sopherim and the p rashim are sitting in Moshe seat... scribe and pharisees and the Rabbis their direct decendent today.. Therefore all they tell you to do, that do but do not do as they do. This is the rule they exercise even over the contempory community of Israal. But the usurpation began with the priesthood decendents of Zadok Sadduce during the time of Hasmonean rule. This was and remains the beginning of the spiritual and theological problem and illegitimacy of the religious rule. As a surrogate High Priest was imposed contrary to Torah's dictions. The intent was for good but the result not so good. And yet haMashiach gives legitimacy to their usurpation of Moshe's seat ... The seat of rule over the people Israal . Why? Was it because it would spare his students from the official scorn and a premature retribution by those in power, or maybe because He reasoned that it might erode some of the disciples credibility in the eyes of the general population. An official all out effort mobilized by the rabbis might have hindered the desemination of Mashiach's teaching? Or perhaps it is becaause the matter is still under discussion between G d and the Rabbis and leaders or the Jew. How can we suppose such a thing? Well we read that in a day to come, none in Israal will say to his fellow Jew come, lets go and learn of Hashem... for each and every Jew will be filled with the knowledge of his G d and haMashiach. furthermore we are told that if one such fellow should arrise in the community and say to his peer the above afore mentioned ... even his very parents will slay such a one.. Every Jew will know G d, the least and the greatest. So, if this is the case, then the problem is one between G d and the usurpers of Moshes seat. It is a problem which will be resolved in ONE day, at the arrival of Mashiach. the illegitimate will then be displace by the legitimate... talk about legalism! But if the concern were one of compounding commentary and lessons, then as one has already posted and said... "the church has done its own variation of legalism" .. though maybe not so illigitamately in some cases. So in a day coming the usurpers of Moshe's seat will be judged, found in error by a body of their peers, selected Jews instructed personally by Mashiach .. so we are told. Even so, I agree with you. EbnZhr |
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6 | holding the light with dirty hands? | Matt 5:20 | EbnZhr | 15345 | ||
What were they watching for, those shepherds? Sheep! Did their occupation give them more legitimacy than the Rabbis in their homes or maybe the guileless Natanyahu whom Mashiach commended as a true Israali? Was the right place for this encounter in the fields or in the Bais haMikdosh Temple concider the healing which took place in the pool vis a vis the Temple. But if proper place was not in the Bais haMikdosh, then why? Maybe if I saw a brightlight in the field overhead or in the Bais haMikdosh our even in my own home I would be alert too... maybe. but I guess you are right that if a group of Angels began singing in the dark around me, I too would be awe struck aand inclined to see a greater significance even if I was not so righteous, No? Yet many of the shepherds kept the sheep flocks for the Temple officials.. these were those sheep used for sacrifices, sold within the proximity of the bais haMikdosh... sold at a profit. haMashiach was very irrate with these marketeers and actually scattered the vendors, shepherds and sheep. Thats all, but I like your post EbnZhr |
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7 | legal and illegal legalism | Matt 5:20 | EbnZhr | 15344 | ||
Well after reading through the varied replys both pre and post my two bit comment. I thought the best place to launch my further comments would be from this post on semantics. If it is true to say that the whole bible is about semantics and we are talking about special inspired revelation, then what can we say about the whole of Creation? For preceeding Creation was the Word and the Word was with G d and G d was the very selfsame Word. We are told that no thing has come into being which is in being except by or through or by the express agency of the self same Word. Can we then conclude that the notion of Semantics is even broader a concept than its common usage? For if the Bible is the study of meanings then how much more so the entirety of Creation? We could even conclude that the various philosophic expressions found amongst men even their laws and governance have been one exercise not in futility but in contrast to the superiority of G d's Law? However, could we rightly access the integrity and authority of the Word of G d without compliance to its precepts? Can we so quickly brand and dismiss what was and continues to be at issue in the formation of the Creation and in the redemptive plan employed by G d? For it has always been the Word of G d which was and is challenged and usurped by the agents of the Satan. And it has always been the integrity and aauthority of that Word which has been contradicted by those which resent its authority. The Word does not exist in a legal less vacuum. Compliance with it is a must, even as it must it be respected, and practiced, in order to do justice to it and give homage to Him who is the author of that Word. So if Creation was formed by the express will of Hashem, who calling things into being which are not, maintains all including the Satan, by the incontestable authority of His Word, how much legalism is there in that process? Is G d legalistic? Yeap! Does He tell you the way tthat you should walk? Lets consider that the every yodh iota and pintele dot of the Law is sacred and so much so that we are told that the infraction of the least of the Commandments is tantemount to the infraction of the whole of the Commaandments How legalistic is that in terms of righteousness? So if our Mashiach had in the most miniscular point of the Torah LAW, been found in violation to the laws binding on a Jew of his station and lifestyle situations, he would have been no better off than the first Adom who sinned... and we would have no sanctioned atonement to satisfy G d's righteousness ands no second Adom progenitor of the redeemed in his name. The Mashiach's Torah defined righteousness, sealed by his death, permitted us to appropriate that sinless death or better said Torah righteousness, unto ourselves. This is pure legalism of the theocratic kind! In other words no one gets in or is righteous enough,.. who does not comply with the program! Well you might say we are now under a different standard and we've gained a new mobility and freedom from the Law of sin and death. What does that mean? Compliance or comformity to the Spirit of G d remains the bottom line... For we are told that He will write the Law on the hearts of the community of Israel in that day to come... The same righteousness of the Torah which was upheld and satisfied by the Mashiach continues to remain the means by which THE MASHIACH satisfied G d righteousness and our need for righteousness. This is the legality of the legalism woven by Hashem into the Creation before the formation I come to do thy Will. It was and remains the contention between Mashiach and the builder of Rabbinic tradition, It is the essence of what shall be made manifested as the illegality of the Rabbinic legalism and the illegality of all gentile systems which have stood counterpoint to and have usurped the ancient Authority of the Word, of G d, His Torah and our Mashiach. Final point... What was accomplishe on the tree..cross? The Vindication of the Word the rightful authority of G d, and the legality of His rule. This is what was challenged in ancient times by the Satan, and this is what has been usurped and then opposed by him and his agents till that time to come. brchk Hshm! bshm Hshm, EbnZhr lefayt |
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8 | holding the light with dirty hands? | Matt 5:20 | EbnZhr | 15019 | ||
What was the qualifying element distinguishing the righteousness of the shepherds of Israel from that of the unlearn and less observant population of the avarage Jew? Did their carelessness at the precepts of the Torah make them more worthy of Olam Haba (world to come) or more sincere in the eyes of Mashiach (messiah)? For he (Mashiach) says this to them while they are yet under the constraints of the Torah (Law). Finally, was haMashiach (the Messiah) a minimalist, reducing the Word of G-d as expressed by HaShem through Moses in the five books or as express by the prophets in their writings to mere efforts of good intent through faith without knowledge of His (G-d's) Word and Will? For their righteousness had to exceed that of the scribes and pharisees, yet in the status of the pre crucifixtion era. Perhaps some other charecteristics were demonstrated by the scribes and pharisees |
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