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To: editor-surveyor
ES, you're a good person, but I'm afraid that there isn't as much confluence between Judaism and Protestantism as so many seem to think. Judaism does indeed have an official, authoritative oral interpretive tradition. Since its Bible consists of only consonants, it would be impossible to read without the vowels, punctuation, and commentary provided by that Tradition. And the words in Deuteronomy don't mean quite what you seem to think. The religious authorities are authorized to make their own laws on their own authority, but it is forbidden to attribute the laws of the Sages with the laws of the Torah (which is basically what Eve did in the Garden). That's why there are so many rabbinic disputes about what is midde'Orayta' (from the Torah) and what is middeRabbanan (from the Sages). There are many such discussions and they are important.

And the big mistake all chrstians make about Judaism is that it is just pre-incarnation chrstianity, or chrstianity without J*sus. It is no such thing, which is why chrstians simply cannot seem to understand why Jews reject J*sus. The very mission, role, and even status of Mashiach are totally different in one than in the other.

Even the most pro-Jewish chrstian only knows the Hebrew Bible through a lifelong assumption of the authority of the "new testament." Without this assumption, distinctions become much more clear.

108 posted on 07/28/2013 5:56:56 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I know plenty of Karaite Jews that accept only Torah and Tanakh, and do not respect the tokanot and ma’asim of the rabbis.

The world is changing rather rapidly in this respect. Yehova is calling his remnant out of Israel.

As for the vowels, they are noted in a substantial portion of the masorite scriptures; its just certain words that have the vowel points omitted, and even those sometimes have the vowel points present.

One has to search to find them.

As for the differences in the interpretation of the role of Messiach, much of that is from a culture with a broken heart. Not that many ‘Christians’ have such a great understanding either. They want desperately for Messiach to have invented a new faith, rather than re-affirm the existing on as he did. They want victory over the Jews, rather than the grafting in that the NT really presents.

Its not our job to sort it out; Messiach will do that when he comes with his angels.


111 posted on 07/28/2013 6:13:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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