Rejection of Jesus of Nazareth as messiah.
It's so simple Yoda could parse it.
Posted on 01/11/2022 3:54:27 AM PST by Kaslin
I think people want to be good, unless you are a sociopath or psychopath. However, I think some people don’t have a clue as to how to be good.
What, again..?
No one is good but God alone.
> “Of course, he might be an outlier.”
Let’s pray it is so.
I do believe at some level, there is an inherent goodness in most people. But it’s not always easy to discern and can be risky to presume.
It’s best to be suspicious until the true character of a person emerges.
“By their fruits, you shall know them.”
“Made in the image of God”, yes. But then came sin, original sin; and the rest is history. And there is a future worth having.
I am forever grateful that God saw fit, from before the world began, to purchase us back to Himself. And, oh, the cost, the currency of redemption!
“Thanks be to God for His unspeakable Gift”!
Presumably, Prager is speaking of Pini Dunner. Beverley Hills Synagogue.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/31/being-good-is-in-our-nature/
No more 'in trouble' than Christianity is when some weirdo 'protestant' 'minister' writes that People are basically good.
I happen believe THESE words are true:
Romans 3:10-12 KJV
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
It's so simple Yoda could parse it.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
I know we constantly hear that man is made in the image of GOD, but is that STILL true? considering the above?
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~quixote/genealogy/Seth.htm
“Good” doesn’t apply to man before Gd raised him. Man was an animal - animals are neither good nor evil, but live and die according to the rules of Nature - as ordained by Gd, but that’s beyond the scope of this discussion. Once Gd got involved, Man became aware of good and evil, thereby becoming capable of both. Once that happens, there’s no putting it aside; you are “made” in the “image of Gd.”
When Man erred against Gd, he had to be put out of the Garden and the warning was “Now you’ll be an animal again, subject to the wayward whims of Nature. You’ll suffer mentally and physically. You wanted to be in charge? Now you are! Haaaaahahahaaaa!” *slams gate*
Adam: Can’t we talk about this?
Eve: I’m cold!
Adam & Eve’s kids: We’re hungry!
Whether it’s “okay” or not for the rabbi to suggest that we’re good - you never know, he might have just been messing. He’s out here with the rest of us miserable sinners, so what does that tell you?
People are basically good?
Too bad about that pesky original sin thing, thanks to Adam and Eve. People basically are sinners, and that ain’t good.
Upon what do you base your belief?
With regard to mainstream Christianity -- both Catholicism and Protestantism -- and non-Orthodox Judaism, we are indeed in trouble.
(The Egyptian deity Set / Seth)
Joe lieberman traded Judaism for a shot at the democrat vice presidency.
“People are basically good” is the auto pilot we put our culture on after the horror of wwll. We’d faced down some bad actors. Belief in themselves and their culture was a hallmark. Post war we seemed to equate having deep seated or inviolable belief with fanaticism. It became a lot easier to cast anyone who loved America as a lurking Hitler. I was born in 1958 and I well remember the constant patriot as scoundrel drumbeat as well as the squishy ‘people are basically good” attitude that always seemed to me to be demonstrably untrue. People put their heads down and made believe it was a new and improved age. It wasn’t and it isn’t as we are seeing today.
Experience.
Most people I come in contact with are polite with good manners.
For example, two weeks ago I was stuck in snow. A few people stopped and helped me out. They didn’t have to.
In Genesis 1:27, Rashi, author of the most influential Jewish Bible commentary ever written, explains "in God's image" as "the power to comprehend and to discern."
In God's image and likeness: no two alike!
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