Posted on 08/15/2016 6:46:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
Kook. He should join the Evangelical Lutheran Church. They probably have a lot in common with him.
While non-Orthodox Jews may be Halakhically Jewish, their "branches of Judaism" are not. Only Orthodox Judaism is Judaism. The "rabbinic ordinations" of the non-Orthodox "branches" is invalid, and consequently their clergy are not rabbis at all.
Now . . . if the rabbi quoted is Orthodox, then that is something to worry about.
That’s because they couldn’t read! Nevertheless, like it or not, within the confines of their abilities, gifts and talents, they still obey the whims and will of their creator
And, linguistically and culturally, what else could He have referred to Himself as?
He have to use the terms His audience’s language would allow.
He had to use the terms his audience could accept as an Über-alpha male.
Imagine the cognitive dissonance another Semitic people would have if allah declared she was a woman. Women are property! (Not even valuable property!)
“Mr. Sameth is a Reform rabbi. That is all one needs to know.”
This guy does NOT speak for me, or for any Orthodox Jew that I have ever known.
No goose could. It did not have vision or wisdom of that scope.
We could imagine what some goose-philosophers might come up with to explain the man, or even try to help the man. They might end up trying to put grains of corn in his tobacco pipe thinking it to be a beak.
The story of human religion so often turns out to be like that. We think we have to prove to God that we’re wise and good, rather than needing to take our folly and evil before the Lord to be cleansed away and us to be transformed in His mercy.
And mercy scares us, because we know of not a single way we can obligate God to it. But we would not need to obligate God to it. This would be like needing to obligate a river to being wet. If we’re dry, it’s because we refuse to drink. Not because the river did not keep on being wet.
There is such a range of philosophy that is seen in the group going under that worldly name.
Their “fault” is not in denying the Sinai encounter, but to contextualize it in a way that Orthodox deny.
The real question is: who gets what the Lord intended here? Moses warned those people that they could not keep the Law. They claimed they could. The playing out of history has shown who was right. “Reform” somehow senses there has to be a remedy for this, but does not quite grasp what the remedy is. But neither do “Orthodox.”
Still, the geese were saved...
BTTT
“We have to get into questions about what “looked” means in the context.”
I figured you would say that. Whatever is counter to your set of beliefs, spiritualize it into oblivion.
Moses said “Let me see your glory”. He did not have spiritual looking in mind, the Bible never mentions spiritual looking in that manner.
God let him see Him from the rear. In another case, they saw God’s feet. Moses talked with God face to face, although God was surrounded by a fog so Moses could not see him.
God visited Abraham and had a meal with him, just before he took a look around Sodom.
That says it all.
It’s easy for you to scoff at what you have never encountered.
Why do you assume that the capacities of God or man are limited to what “is falsely called knowledge [Greek: skientia, from which we get the word ‘science’]” ?
And indeed though you use a word with a pejorative connotation in English, “oblivion” — we should indeed forget what is false, in favor of what is true.
I didn’t read the entire article, but I would be more apt to believe that God is “ungendered.” God is unique and I don’t think the human is capable of fully understanding God as any kind of being. We may learn someday...
A complete and absolute sickening disgrace reminiscent of the worst of Sodom and Gomorrah. I say this as someone with actual rabbinic ordination, unlike this disgrace to any religion. If he thinks that G-D Almighty’s Torah can be used by his sick mind to play with and distort, then he’d have made himself a complete enemy of the Jewish people, if he wasn’t too sick to be held responsible.
Disgusting beyond words.
Now, I hope a lot of “real” rabbis then walk up to mirrors.
You said it.
“He has to use the terms His audience would allow...”
Sounds like it is the audience that has all the authority in that scenario.
Yes, to exactly the same degree that a child has all the authority when an adult explains something to them in terms the child can understand.
Please tell me you don’t have children...
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