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God belongs to the whole of Humanity . No, no the other way! But in any case, Christians are remarkably bad at interpreting the Hebrew bible. I found this on Chaim.org A reformed ministry to the Jewish people Officially Recognized by the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) http://www.chaim.org/isa...

There is always another opinion when trying to find what happened in the remote past. The forced conversion of the Idumeans has very strong support in the Talmud, among ancient historians, it is accepted by contemporary Jewish historians and is indirectly supported in the Bible , Esther, where the c...

So what? The Hebrew Bible is the word of God. The Hebrew Bible says there is only one God. God belongs to the whole of Humanity . God speaks to humans in many languages. The NT is another understanding of the same unique God. Islam is yet another understanding of the same God The Reformation is yet ...

Judaism and Christianity are two different religions...

The Christians WROTE it, sis. It's not open for interpretation. The suffering servant is a poetic personification of Humanity and that's it. Any alternate interpretations, Sceptic or Mythicist (ESPECIALLY Mythicist) are contrived.

stephan happy huller wrote:http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/

Nihil obstat , Imprimatur

Yom Tov, Hycarnus rides again ESTHER / ΕΣΘΗΡ 8:17 17 κατὰ πόλιν καὶ χώραν, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ πρόσταγμα, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ ἔκθεμα, χαρὰ καὶ εὐφροσύνη τοῖς ᾿Ιουδαίοις, κώθων καὶ εὐφροσύνη. καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν περιετέμνοντο καὶ ἰουδάϊζον διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων 17 in every city and province wherever...

The question I ask, is to see what responses are given by atheist. I am not looking to refute the answers, only to observe the replies. The question is simple: How do we know that evil and suffering exists? Suffering exists because remaining alive necessitates a mechanism to produce the sensation o...

stephan happy huller wrote:http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/

Excellent resource. Thank you

Most non-Greek areas shared a common language back then, Aramaic. So thatcertainly was a unifying factor. But Josephus states that the Idumeans and by extension the Naboteans worshiped a deity called "Koze" prior to their conversion. Presumably that would be a big difference, especially w...