What makes people believe in God? If we ask a thousand people the question, we get a thousand different answers. But when we look at the distribution of people holding various beliefs, the answer jumps out at us.Our God is the God of our parents. ...
They will conclude,“It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors…” In other words, according to NJPS it is not that the gentiles will come to the correct Jewish theological understanding independently. Someone—presumably some Jewish person or group—will...
There is absolutely no biblical foundation to the belief that God does not have the ability to destroy the soul.Or do you believe that God does have the ability to destroy the soul, but chooses not to?If this were true, then why would the specific word "destroy" even come up in the ...
On the one side are those who believe that God’s command back to the Jewish people in the Book of Leviticus no longer applies to any of us in this day and age since we are now operating under a New Covenant with Jesus and we are now no longer under the law, but under grace. On...
or God may even take your physical life prematurely.” This idea is in the book of Ezekiel quite frequently also. Ezekiel 3 talks about telling people of their sin so that we may save their life. This does not mean their eternal life, but their physical, temporal life here on this earth...
Mosaic law, also referred to as the Law of Moses, is used to describe Jewish law as set forth in the Torah. According to Jewish tradition, these laws were handwritten by the Hebrew God and given to Moses to pass on to the Israelites. A total of 613 laws are included in the Mosaic ...
But in the Jewish case, all I mean is awareness of oneself as a community possessing certain internal bonds which are neither superior nor inferior but simply different in some respects from similar bonds which unite other nations. It does not preclude holding a large area of ideals in common...
articleon the extra-biblical evidence of Jesus, notes that there was no debate about the issue in ancient times either. “Jewish rabbis who did not like Jesus or his followers accused him of being a magician and leading people astray,” he says, “but they never said he didn’t exist....
Those who are "in the dark" are those who lack knowledge. To the Jewish mind, this metaphor had particular application to the Gentile world - a world that had not received the grace of God through the revelation of the Torah, the prophets, and the written revelation of God. Even to...
I had to be faithful to the anointing of the Father. I did only what the Father wanted me to do and his voice was so clear within. “Tell the people that the kingdom of God is at hand. This is the time of fulfillment. They must repent and believe...