Search results

“Modern view: ‘If I feel it, you must honor it.’ Biblical view: ‘No. There are “dishonorable passions” (Romans 1:26) and “deceitful desires”’ (Ephesians 4:22).” - John Piper

“Christianity began as a Jewish sect in the first third of the first century C.E. and in the course of less than a century became a distinct religion whose gentile members far outnumbered Jews.” https://brill.com/previewpdf/display/book/9789004242982/B9789004242982_034.xml

* I did, but I had a couple of close calls. *

* The what? Oh. … That’s a good question. *

I should have gone to the restroom before the show started. Didn’t need to before I started watching. Following a brief intermission, I don’t have to now. Good show.

“You don’t know what you’re worshipping. We Jews know what we’re worshipping, because salvation comes from the Jews.” (John 4:22) A Jewish monotheist (the Messiah) speaking to non-Jews.

A small portion of today’s reading in my daily reading plan. Interesting timing. ”If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not...

* After 10 years I didn’t even take the time to read them. I just signed them and got on with it. They were always “meets or exceeds expectations” any way. I probably still had this look on my face though. *

“Jesus was a Jew, and so were his first disciples. In fact, the earliest Christians did not think of themselves as members of a new religion separate from Judaism.” (R.A. Spivey and D.M. Smith, Anatomy of the New Testament, 3rd ed., p. 13)...

“Christianity began as a Jewish sect.” (Stephen Bedard, Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism) https://historyofchristianitypodcast.com/2020/06/10/early-jewish-and-christian-monotheism/ I’m a 21st century member of that 1st century Jewish sect.

I don’t assume anything about you. All I know about you comes from what you’ve told me here and on other forums we’ve been on together.

No. It doesn’t bother me enough. You made your bed. Now it’s between you and the man whom God appointed to judge you.

* Shemp! My favorite Stooge. *

I’m just feeding you basic church history. There was nothing more to say about our personal histories.

That’s right.

You aren’t a Jew and you left the Judaism you were raised in - the Judaism which rejects the sect of the Nazarene, primitive Christianity. I accepted the same when I was a Southern Baptist. I still accept it as a Jewish monotheist. You were deceiving yourself.

That’s a historical fact. That too is a historical fact. That’s false. The Jewish sect founded by Jesus (primitive Christianity - called “the Nazarene sect” in Acts 24:5) is small but not frozen. It’s hammered by Christianity (which went beyond Judaism) and by the other sects of Judaism...