Jesus was contradicting many of the Jewish teachings and proclaiming himself to be the son of God. They wanted to stop the spread of his message and a potential uprising of the Jews. Jesus’s talents of miracles, parables, and speaking to crowds made him a powerful influence on the people...
Note: this is not to deny the special place in history that Israel and the Jewish people have. They were the recipients of the Mosaic Covenant, Jesus Christ was a Jew, and I believe God has a specific plan for the nation of Israel in the future. But this is not the same as saying...
For example “Jesus as son of man”, comes from the Palestinian community “Jesus as Messiah or Christ” Acts. 3:20; son of David (apoc.3:7; 5:5); in the Jewish-Hellenistic community which was composed of Greek speaking Jewish converts to Christianity used words likes kyrios. All ...
Jesus approaches it with the Christian version of Patrick O’Hara’s point. He’s not going to say, oh, the Who’s Its are great. But remember, Jesus is coming into a world of Jews and Gentiles, and he knows that the Jews have the revelation of God. He knows that Jewish leaders ...
to be a weird question to us as followers of Christ, but it was a hotly debated topic amongst the two main Pharisaic schools of thought in the 1st Century – The “House of Shammai” and the “House of Hillel”. The following is recorded in the Jewish Oral tradition about these views...
Key Insight:Each person is called to a unique role or mission, whether through conscience, creativity, service, or “tikkun olam” (in Jewish thought). Individual Uniqueness and Agency The Western worldview highlights personal responsibility, individual perspective...
So my dad is Christian, he's United Methodist, and my mom is Jewish and I. I've since learned that this is maybe not the most common, where they both still believe and, and go to their own spiritual practice. And so I, I kind of grew up thinking like it's natural to think ...
It is common knowledge that medieval Arab societies were far ahead of those of Europe in terms of science, philosophy, and medicine, and that Europeans derived much of their scholarship from the Arab world; yet in the early centuries, this cultural achievement was usually Christian or Jewish ...
Basically, with the coming of Jesus Christ the predictive factors in the Old Testament are fulfilled or, if not fulfilled, are largely fulfilled with others yet to come.Now what is the Jewish view of the Hebrew Bible? From the Jewish perspective, the Bible is divided into two halves. The ...
Chicago, the Court struck down the disorderly conduct conviction of an anti-Semitic priest (suspended by the church for his views), who had provoked a violent confrontation when he denounced Jewish people at a political rally. The Court's decision, written by Justice William O. Douglas, stated...