I don’t know what happened to my post so I’m reposting.
Are the rabbis always right, like the Pope claims to be? Isn’t that just a little on the arrogant side? Christians do the same thing. They have their fav preacher that they listen to - or maybe a handful. They might read the Bible but in-depth study, especially difficult research, time consuming and hard, may not happen. They reason the preacher is smarter or more educated and has studied longer - so they just accept it. It’s just human nature.
My youngest son lives just southeast of Jerusalem in a mostly Arab village. He works as a journalist. He’s the only gentile in his office. His major was the history of the Jewish people. He went to Hebrew Univ to get it straight, so to speak, from the horses mouth. He is fluent in Hebrew and knows how to read and understand ancient Hebrew. He was very surprised at some of the professors he had and how honest they were willing to be about our differences. He was confident, some believed Jesus was who he claimed to be. The prophet Daniel wrote that the Messiah had to die before the 2nd Temple would be destroyed. I think folks here are sometimes unkind and blunt in their responses. But there are reasons to believe what we as Christians believe. As a family, we love the Jewish people and pray daily for Israel. She is facing a horrible time and the immediate future doesn’t look good. I still believe Ezekiel 38 is on the horizon. The way I understand it is that Israel will suffer but her enemies will be severely defeated and by divine intervention of some kind. Joel states that the land will be divided, maybe Jerusalem as well into east and west. I’m thinking from Ashkelon to Gaza will be given to the Palestinians but Judea and Samaria Israel will retain. I think most Christians would just ask you to keep an open mind as watch history unfolds.
The rabbis are right about the translation for one. How many Americans know Hebrew? Which has more authority - the original Hebrew or the King James translation into the Jacobean English?
You see people here on FR trying to state that the various names of God mean this or that. Sorry, they don’t Hebrew, which means they can get conned into believing anything about what it can mean.
If Americans knew how to read and translate Hebrew correctly, the Christian leaders could not con Americans into believing all the bizarre Christian beliefs that have been perpetrated upon them.
Maybe one day our home schools, parochial schools, private schools and even government schools will teach Hebrew. It was the singular language up to the time of the Tower of Babel and it will be the global language talked about by the Jewish prophet, Zephaniah.
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will convert the peoples to a pure language that all of them call in the name of the Lord, to worship Him of one accord.
כִּי־אָ֛ז אֶהְפֹּ֥ךְ אֶל־עַמִּ֖ים שָׂפָ֣ה בְרוּרָ֑ה לִקְרֹ֚א כֻלָּם֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהֹוָ֔ה לְעָבְד֖וֹ שְׁכֶ֥ם אֶחָֽד