Aren't they some kind of fish?
Posted on 02/17/2005 2:25:35 PM PST by missyme
It's been gone over about 1000 times, but, hey, why not 30 more? Jews get to define who and what a Jew is. And that is this: someone born to a Jewish woman or someone who has undergone a conversion according to halachah. Let me point out that going to a seder does not make you Jewish.
I think we already know the answer to that.
LOL
Well, there's always the Holee Spook, which tells 'em which exact words to capitalize and which to mistranslate even if the're translated correctly elsewhere. What can a hundred generations of learning compare to THAT!?
"It's been gone over about 1000 times, but, hey, why not 30 more? Jews get to define who and what a Jew is. And that is this: someone born to a Jewish woman or someone who has undergone a conversion according to halachah. Let me point out that going to a seder does not make you Jewish."
Hey no big deal man has set their traditions since the beginning, even before the Garden Party, and there is nothing new under the sun.
I do not follow man's traditions.
Aren't they some kind of fish?
Translation: Someone didn't like the meaning and/or the meaning didn't fit their agenda, so we tweaked it til it did, and have passed it off to millions as the real translation.
Oh, please. Contrary to "What Your Religion Teaches You About How To Interpret What Is Written", perhaps.
Sure you do. You just think you don't.
Wow many posts to read!
I like to post threads that make freepers put there thinking caps on especially mine.....
I think you have probably misread Ezra chap. 8 because there is nothing in that chapter that would indicate that people not of the Kohanic or Levitical families performed priestly duties. The chapter is very meticulous about listing the genealogies of the priestly and levitical families, and chap. 10 also lists the names of all the priestly families who intermarried with the Babylonians and rendered themselves unfit for Temple service.
Ezra was himself a Kohen and in reestablishing the Temple service he had to determine which families disqualified themselves by corrupting their lineage and which families were fit to serve.
Bookmarking....and thanks, Missy :-)
"Oh, please. Contrary to "What Your Religion Teaches You About How To Interpret What Is Written", perhaps."
Would you like to start in Genesis? Most Christians have no clue what we are really told.
I guess to a degree all religion is interpeted the more I read the more I know that "GOD" is within a person's heart and mind it is what gives you the strength, the hope and the value to do the steps which are a guide to this life outlined in the Bible.
If GOD is not part of your concious mind all the Bible reading is not going to mean a hill of beans.
That's why prayer is the key to change a man's heart, homosexuals cannot change if you tell them to pick up the Bible and read Leviticus but if they remain in prayer GOD can change there behaviour and then when they read Leviticus they will be all the stronger.
What this thread and posts says about people is that they have GOD in there heart and mind and are passionate about his word
I do not follow man's traditions.
"Sure you do. You just think you don't."
Really, could you please tell me what tradition of 'man' that I follow.
"Ezra was himself a Kohen and in reestablishing the Temple service he had to determine which families disqualified themselves by corrupting their lineage and which families were fit to serve."
A Kohen?
Thanks,probably the start of things to come.
We are told that many are called but few are chosen.
We are told that some have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Thus far there seems to be 3 different groups. Those who overcome, those who outright rebel, and those that sit upon the fence to see which way the wind blows.... "freewill".
We are told that the overcomers will be singing the song of Moses.
Ezra 7:1-6.
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