Posted on 08/20/2008 11:08:01 AM PDT by Salvation
Once one rejects one's lifelong worldview, where does one stop?
In that case, what does it matter than no pre-Mosaic Jews survived the centuries?
There is no such thing as a "pre-Mosaic Jew." "Pre-Mosaic Jews" became "Mosaic Jews." Unlike the "new testament," the Torah has no older rival.
I’m wary of this whole logical progression idea...it seems a little too Enlightenment for my taste.
That sounds strange coming from a member of the world's most rationalistic religion.
God only knows where one stops, or why one rejects one’s traditional religion in the first place. But logic is often not the reason.
When that Divine light punches through the veil of the world, you simply are not the same anymore. I’m sure, ZC, you could have talked the Apostles up and down with logical progressions about what they were rejecting and why. But never in a thousand years could you or anyone else take out of their heads what they saw with their own eyes. You mentioned the Lord speaking to all at Sinai...indeed. And he raised the dead and cure the blind from one end of Judaea to the other, and lifted up Him whom they pierced upon the third day before crowds of hundreds.
It was none other than Mr. Scholasticism himself, Thomas Aquinas, who upon seeing a divine vision at the end of a life of intense theological labor and study, could only stammer: “All I have written is only straw.” We are not, perhaps, as rationalistic as your studies would suggest. :)
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