We are repairing the broken pieces, standing between church creeds and rabbinic discussions, and trying to make them whole.
So says this post. You might want to read the entire thing, which is an interesting take on the Nicene Creed.
Feb 10 2010
The Nicene Creed and Messianic Judaism
Feb 02 2010
2012 – Sham or bam?
There’s an avalanche of hype about 2012, but is it just another sham or the beginning of the end?
In addition to the well-publicized ‘last date’ of the Mayan calendar cycle, some claim the Jewish Kabbalah books of Zohar predict the beginning of the seven year tribulation at the same time, as well as a prophecy by the Catholic ‘Saint Malachy’ about the next Pope being the final one.
However, Christ said that before the Great Tribulation, “many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many” (Matt. 24:11).
You pick it.
More at Zohar and the Arrival of the Jewish Messiah in 2012.
Jan 29 2010
More on Seismic Shock and Police Intimidation
As a blogger, censoring generally worries me. You can read my first post here. Roger Pearse (who by the way, is the keenest blogger on Patristics) has posted a reply from one of those who is accused of using the police to intimidate a blogger. Further, Roger has a few more updates, one form Seismic Shock and a final one from Anthony McRoy. Decide for yourselves.
And you might want to check out Stuart’s blog as well and some religious notes on the matter.
Jan 25 2010
Blogger Faces Intimidation Tactics from Anglican Priest
A blogger, Seismic Shock who is trying to expose an Anglican priest and his associations to what he deems extremists is now being targeted with police complaints from said priest, Stephen Sizer.
(Context: Sizer has associated with some very nasty terrorists and Holocaust deniers; McRoy has delivered a paper at a Khomeinist theological conference in Iran comparing Hezbollah’s struggle against Israel via suicide bombing with the Christian’s struggle against sin via the atoning death of Jesus, and describes the world’s most prominent Holocaust denier as an “intelligent, humble, charismatic, and charming” man who “gives quick, extensive and intelligent answers to any question, mixed with genial humour”).
Thanks to Stuart for this info. (See here and here).
Wow.
Jan 02 2010
From Judaism to Christianity
Thanks to Stuart for this article:
For thousands of people who convert to Judaism, Christmas is a difficult day of balancing what was once intimately theirs but now represents, in some ways, the essence of what they are giving up. The holiday brings up questions that often have less to do with theology than with culture and custom. Siblings wonder: Can we still give you gifts? Parents ask: Can I still fill your stocking? If the answers are no, does that signal something akin to betrayal?
Converts to Judaism Describe Their Feelings on Christmas – NYTimes.com.
Dec 29 2009
Zionism is the problem
It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of Jewish statehood with “the concept of a racial state — the Hitlerian concept.” For most of the last century, a principled opposition to Zionism was a mainstream stance within American Judaism.
It just goes on from there.
Dec 12 2009
Will Israel Return to the Law of Moses?
Things seem to be rolling for something big, politically speaking, next year in Israel.
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman took to the Knesset podium Tuesday to try to calm the political storm he caused this week when he said that “step by step, Torah law will become the binding law in the State of Israel.” Neeman made his controversial remarks Monday evening at a convention on Jewish law in Jerusalem.
Dec 11 2009
Bare Your Arm of Salvation, A Traditional Hanukkah Song
Sundown approaches, darkness will cover the earth, and Hanukkah will being – it promises to be a bitterly cold night in some parts of the United States and moderately cool in Jerusalem. Here is song (and if you click the link at the bottom, it will take you to site to hear it sung in Hebrew) traditionally song, at least since the 13th century.
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Dec 11 2009
Hanukkah, biblically known as the Feast of Dedication
Sun down on Sunday evening begins the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, or Chanukah for the Jewish among us. It is a celebration in commemoration of the re-dedication of the Temple by the victorious armies of Judas Maccabeus, who had led the armies of Israel against the Hellenizing forces of Antiochus.
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Dec 05 2009
Book aims to end clash over Temple Mount
TRANSCENDING the bitterness of the confrontation between their nations and faiths, Israeli and Palestinian scholars have come together for an unprecedented joint history of the most contested religious site on earth.A new book, Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem’s Sacred Esplanade is an antidote to extremism about the holy city’s Temple Mount, revered by Jews as site of the biblical temples and sacred to Muslims as the site of the al-Aksa mosque.
via Book aims to end clash over Temple Mount – Scotsman.com News.
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