April 13 - Jesus on Murder: Contrast to the Rabbis - Devotional

GracetoYou.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church

[Ezekiel]

I should have added that the requirements on the side of the man-god messiah is that everyone know what's *not* in the contract, so they won't mistakenly perform any work that's not in the contract. Just let union-boss messiah work the deals.

The Jesus of the NT told people that their sins were forgiven so they could go ahead and get on up now, but for "some reason" a popular hopeless sinner paralysis spread throughout the system.

The system. This stuff become entrenched and then the simple "mavrik" solution to business becomes the devil incarnate.

Idle worship does not a Temple build.

Can you believe how the Big Dig ultimately ended up?

The Revolution happens here. ;)

Have you read the story about the grasshopper weathervane atop "Penuel" Hall? Famous!

In benchmark-speak, its ID is MY 3130, and the seeker has to look up in order to see the weathervane.

Interesting, the first verse that = 3130:

Gen 35.18. And it came to pass, as her soul was departing, for she died, that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin:

That name was tossed to the wind... like the seeds of a dandelion.

Egg yolks on everyone's lawn, sunnyside up. Some people get really annoyed at their vigor. Who could ever keep count?

Rachel the mother of all Israel saw Joseph and immediately knew that God would add to her another son. As I've mentioned, the quintessential Jewish mother would know this because Joseph was the accountant son, but then there's his brother!

[Faith Presses On]

I’ve been meaning to get back to this discussion, but it wasn’t so easy to with so many weighty matters involved.

On some of what you wrote, though, I’ve heard of Tzadikim. I would think they couldn’t be absolutely perfect, however, like G-d is.

And on the Law and faith, it seems like they couldn’t be mutually exclusive. And I think we Gentiles do have some understanding for the Law, even while we don’t perform it.

“Who said he’s a deity (G-d forbid)”

Most Christians don’t claim to wholly understand the nature of G-d. We just don’t. But I keep running into the idea from Orthodox Jews (probably just yesterday, too, when I looked a bit at the Tanya you mentioned) that in some way G-d might or could incarnate people.

On the Holy Spirit, I’ve watched some videos on the topic from Rabbi Tovia Singer, who Ancesthntr mentioned here. I’ve watched dozens of his videos recently, and some of the things he says I’ve found to be very challenging to the Christian faith like really nothing else I’ve encountered. Several times I went to Scripture and prayed and thought about what he said for days. And I’ve been studying Isaiah
for months, too, in response.

So in his video “Judaism vs. Christianity on the Holy Spirit,” he says at about the 5-minute mark that the Holy Spirit in the Christian Bible is very similar to the Holy Spirit in the Tanakh. But, he says, it isn’t distinct. The thing is, though, that there is the distinction made in the Tanakh itself. Christians, of course, didn’t invent it. And the Holy Spirit is much more noticeably active in the Christian Bible, so the distinction becomes more prominent. Yet as Rabbi Singer himself says, G-d sometimes puts His Spirit on people. But we are not thinking (6-min) that somehow the Holy Spirit isn’t infinite and everywhere. I understand why he says “person” is objectionable, but it’s a clumsy human way to try to articulate that distinction. And even Rabbi Singer himself, at around the 14:50 mark, asks G-d’s forgiveness while trying to describe the Holy Spirit if he doesn’t do it well enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKCXhczoaLs