I am developing a series of articles here on Messianic Musings about the writings of Second Temple Judaism that we call the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha. These writings, which date from after the time of the Hebrew Bible and until the end of the New Testament period, are a window into Jewish life and thought of the period.
If you want to read past articles about these Second Temple Jewish writings, you can look at
I was looking forward to your sabbath blog tonight!
They always inspire me
May you and your family be blessed this sabbath
The biggest issue one has is blind ignorance. I’m reminded of Mark Twain – In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. – Autobiography of Mark Twain
At times I see you charging forward into glorious battle like Gideon , at other moments, well,
Hello: This is off topic, but there is an concerted attempt to scrub articles relating to Messianic Judaism from Wikipedia. These four:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messianic_Jewish_organizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Jewish_Rabbinical_Council
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashivenu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_Dr._Stuart_Dauermann
Were challenged (all by the same people, with “Yeshivist” being the ringleader), all but the first were deleted. I will point out that though the motivation for instigating the coordinate the campaign to delete them was clearly religious bigotry on the part of those who reject the deity and Messiah – ship of Christ Jesus and hence were deleted while a multitude of far worse articles remain, the poor quality of the entries gave Satan an opening, as it can honestly be claimed that the deletion of the entries was a simple editing decision. I did restore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Jewish_Rabbinical_Council relying heavily on the information on their website to the best of my ability. But the other links on this list need to be restored, as do the several broken links on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messianic_Jewish_organizations. (It appears that their strategy was to challenge and have deleted all of the links on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messianic_Jewish_organizations so that they could then turn around and demand that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messianic_Jewish_organizations be deleted also because “it contains too many bad links).
In addition, their Messianic Judaism articles in general (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Messianic_Judaism_stubs) are stubs, meaning that they do not contain enough information to be considered a full entry (yes, there is also an effort to either have the Messianic Jewish entries declared to be stubs or merged with other entries whose deletion they are also agitating for). I will do what I can, but I am not a Messianic Jew, so my ability to write informative, accurate, God – honoring entries (as well as those capable of withstanding the coordinated deletion campaigns) is limited. So, I ask of you: please help, either with writing and strengthening these entries yourselves, or by way of contacting others who can! Please note: there is also a WikiProject on Messianic Judaism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Messianic_Judaism Wikipedia entries are always #1 or #2 on Google search results, so this is VERY IMPORTANT for publicizing the cause of Jesus Christ in these last days! Thank you.
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