[SIZE=12pt]My Brother, you are at a MainC Forum…therefore you must explain things, and yet without boring everyone to death.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]To those listening in…the Sh’ma is the prayer that goes:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Hear, Oh Israel! The Lord thy God, the Lord is ONE.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Hear, Oh Israel! YHVH thy Elohim, YHVH is one. Single 0. Echad[/SIZE].
[SIZE=12pt]Which all Christians know, because they recognize the single nature of the Godhead.[/SIZE]
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Nature eh? Are we excited yet? God told the Israelites he was ECHAD and this was his nature, not nothin' else? Wow, humbug.
Your humbug theology is quite exciting. I am getting the shivers of near battle right now.
NATURE SHMATURE as a rabbinically honest Jew must say. You got your SHMUEL mixed up with your GROTKNOT and your YARMALUKE is now over you EYEBALLS, yiddishly sprechen.
The Shema was given as PESHAT LAW which you as a Jew wannabee must know what this is. Deut 30
[SIZE=.75em]10 [/SIZE]If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
[SIZE=.75em]11 [/SIZE]For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
[SIZE=.75em]12 [/SIZE]It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
[SIZE=.75em]13 [/SIZE]Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
[SIZE=.75em]14 [/SIZE]But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Deut 31
[SIZE=.75em]10 [/SIZE]And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
[SIZE=.75em]11 [/SIZE]When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
[SIZE=.75em]12 [/SIZE]Gather the people together, men and women,
and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
[SIZE=.75em]13 [/SIZE]And that
their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear theLord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
So then do you sir think it wise to interpret the ONENESS of God as NATURE ONLY? IS this what God said or meant? WOULD a child know this thing, this OUSIA in Greek this NO SUCH THING in Hebrew? The nature of God eh? Now what would this be sir? Tell me the elements, the molecules the atoms and the electrons of essence regarding God.
The DNA or the genetics or the combination thereof. So that a CHILD would understand and fear his Lord and God sir.
Yeah I thought so. You yarmaluke is still over you eyes isn't it?
Hint: No Jew dead or alive ever thought to portray the NATURE of God. In ANY way shape or form. So saying it is shared with Holy Spirit and Son is quite a small bit of conjecture now wouldn't this be?
How many ways that Abba chooses to disport Himself is as shows in the Scriptures…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Modalism. A Messianic Modalist is a rare animal. Art thee? No? Then this is moot and false from YOUR end. Your thinking end that is.
[SIZE=12pt]Arguing over the wording is pointless. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]No one can describe in full how Abba takes form except that the word Elohim is a plural unity, and YHVH works in all the Scriptures, Tanakh and Brit Chadashah (Old and New Covenants) in one of three ways…Creator/Father, Savior/Son, and the Breath/Holy Spirit. [/SIZE]
Oh? Arguing over wording is pointless? So what are ya doing here, dear? Arguing with your HANDS? Got a knife somewhere? What?
As for Law versus Grace...Everybody needs both!
Those with grace will love Shema and engage in loving God.
Jews need Yehoshua, and to keep obeying Torah. Whether they want to follow the Mishna and the Talmud is a cultural matter...not a salvation matter.
How do you know what Jews need to do? You rabbi tell you this?
[SIZE=12pt]Christians Need Yehoshua, and to learn obedience. That means learning Basic Torah! Yep, all of Genesis through Deuteronomy, minus the Levitical laws that pertain to the temple.[/SIZE]
You mean the Ten and Shema, basis of the Mosaic Law. Correction but good try.
Grace is needed by all, because we can never do it all...but we should try...every day.
Grace without works is given for trust...not just assent. You do have to do something!
Really? How about I go and muck about, shmooze with everyone and generally make all around me irritated? That's SOMETHING. Good enough for you, rabbi?
Loving G-d and Loving Others is the proof of your trust in Yehoshua, and is the only evidence of it
Why do you need evidence? Why does anyone else? I don't see yours. You don't see mine. So where are we, in La La Land?
Matthew 7:21-27 (KJV)
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
What is the Will of God for you sir? Do you know what it is for me? Rabbi?
Sorry to yell, but this has to be realized by everyone without arguing about it. Sha'ul said it one way...James another, but they both said the same thing. Grace without Works is salvation. This is our hope. Works alone get you nothing, because you cannot do it perfectly. Yehoshua does the Grace...it cannot be earned. But we do the works, to show our love for Yehoshua.
What about faith-works? Those works that the Holy Spirit directs us to? See your theology is still pretty elementary, dear.
Yeah you a baby rabbi. Rabbi in training so to speak.
Working Iniquity shows you have no salvation. Doing nothing shows you are not filled by the Holy Spirit, and that you are not changed, or that you have walked off the path, and walked in dis-obedience long enough to Blaspheme the Holy Spirit...and that is the only sin that Grace does not cover.
Gentiles do not become Jews...but we obey G-d anyway, just as Yehoshua did, picking up our cross, and following in His footsteps!
A Jew is a heart condition in God's eyes I suspect. I don't know any yiddish but I can fake it. But thinking God is three-in-one abrogates the first of the Ten and the Shema both.
Not kosher, and not Jewish. Jews for Jesus stand aside, bow down grovel and place ashes on your head. I'll take on Dr. Anyone there.