-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Homepage on The Reversal of Causality: The Great Middle Eastern Flip Flop
- What I Learned in Church Today: Anti-Gentilism and Crypto-Supersessionism | Morning Meditations on Inconvenient Truths: Cryptosupersessionism – Dispensationalism’s Sad Legacy
- The Torah of Fellowship and Peace | Morning Meditations on Inconvenient Truths: The One New Man
- David on Jewish Believers in Yeshua and Halachic Torah Observance: Introducing the Issue
- David on Jewish Believers in Yeshua and Halachic Torah Observance: Introducing the Issue
Archives
Categories
- A MessianicJudaism.me blog.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Reflections on a Chilling Comment – Part One (Introduction)
I found a recent comment on one of my postings to be so significant as to warrant some postings by way of reflection and response. The comment epitomizes a certain kind of hard-line supersessionist mindset. (See the original comment in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
5 Comments
Notable Quotable – on Eliezar Ben-Yehuda
Eliezar Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922) was the man who singlehandedly resurrected the Hebrew language for modern use, beginning in the last quarter of the 19th century. Using legitimate grammatical processes extrapolated from ancient Hebrew texts, he developed the many thousands of new … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Does Scripture Provide Precedent And Guidelines For The People Of Israel To Live In Peace With Other Peoples In The Region?
This study and the one previous to it both deal with a volatile and current communal reality. These lessons are intended as summaries of biblical data on the matters covered. While some suggest that these treatments deal too simplistically with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Does Scripture Guarantee the Land of of Israel to the Jewish People as a Perpetual Inheritance?
In view of the shifting political sands in the current Middle East situation, this study builds a scriptural case for Israel’s land rights in the area. In the next study, the rights of others in the area will be addressed. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
What Do You Say to a False Prophet? – Harold Camping
I wrote a letter to 89 year old Harold Camping, President of Family Radio, who stampeded thousands, perhaps millions into being absolutely certain the Rapture would take place May 21, 2011. If he reads it at all, it will likely … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
5 Comments
Inconvenient Truths: Cryptosupersessionism – Dispensationalism’s Sad Legacy
Inconvenient Truths is a series of intermittent postings highlighting concepts calling for changes in thought and action resisted, deplored, or denounced by some. Many Jewish Yeshua believers have deep roots in dispensationalism. Dispensationalism is a theological system which holds that God … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
6 Comments
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Moral Failure, and The Rest of Us
This morning’s L.A. Times brings sad news under the picture of a clearly distraught world leader: In acknowledging he fathered a child more than a decade ago with a member of his household staff, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Another Mold Infestation To Be Wary Of
I spoke here recently of the mold of anti-Semitism which lurks beneath and even on the surface of contemporary social and political discourse. Referencing Natan Sharansky’s “3D Test” I summoned us to be vigilant about this mold, and vigorous … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
5 Comments
“Those Damned Jews” and The Sharansky Test
“It’s those damned Jews” is a widespread accusation that spreads like a toxic mold hidden beneath the surface of polite society, and easily visible on the surface of impolite society. This widely-accepted assumption holds that the Jews are the problem … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Now Read This! Heidi Grant Halvorson’s “Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals”
As a productivity junkie, I often read books to improve my work habits and motivations. One of the most outstanding I have read in the past fifty years is Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, by Heidi Grant Halvorson. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment