“When God is the king of one’s life, it does make sense to discuss our best understanding of God.”
Sometimes. This is a political site, but also Christian site, run by a Christian.
Posting links to theologian who (regardless if rightly or wrongly from a person’s theological perspective) denigrates Christianity is rude to the owner of this site.
I don’t go to my liberal sister’s house and call her a dumbass, for example.
Oh... I guess I get the point.
Most of us are grownups by now. I think Phinneous is more polite than many about articulating why rabbinical Judaism believes it has the correct take on God.
Quite often the two faith systems just talk past one another. The historical nexuses of both are simply glossed over like they had never happened! This is unfair to the question of what’s true and what isn’t. You don’t cast out half your experimental results arbitrarily if you want good science.
Frankly if Jim Rob is a fundie (I think he is) then he’s versed with this kind of issue.
If I had a bone to pick, it would be with folks who say that Christian society was “nothing but bad news” for the Jewish people.
I’d think to be fair we need to cast the question against the experience of Jews in other foreign societies. Not even the Inquisition, which was a distinct nadir in Christian-Jewish relationship (if you were outspokenly Jewish and wanted high office they’d give you cruel grief because you weren’t Catholic) duplicated the near disaster that Jews came to in Persia until rescued through the miracle which is commemorated by Purim. And often Jews weren’t nearly as lucky at the hands of pagans. There’s a reason that stragglers, not throngs, came back to the rebuilding of Jerusalem.