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Saturday 13 October 2012

Is Judaism and Christianity Incompatible ? Part II


Lets begin:

 ii) Messiah has to come from the line of David.

 I'll agree with him and presume that the Christians have got it all wrong.  It also says in the Tanakh. Messiah will come from Bethlehem Ephrathah per Rabbi David Kimhi .

 א  וְאַתָּה בֵּית-לֶחֶם אֶפְרָתָה, צָעִיר לִהְיוֹת בְּאַלְפֵי יְהוּדָה--מִמְּךָ לִי יֵצֵא, לִהְיוֹת מוֹשֵׁל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל; וּמוֹצָאֹתָיו מִקֶּדֶם, מִימֵי עוֹלָם.

 1 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days. [Micah 5]

 Beth-lehem will soon be a Palestinian only town, as percentages of Arab Christians are down to single digits. If Yeshua is not Messiah, will Jew's accept a Palestinian Messiah. I think not.

iii) Messiah cannot be God if he is a man.

 יט  לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב, וּבֶן-אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָם; הַהוּא אָמַר וְלֹא יַעֲשֶׂה, וְדִבֶּר וְלֹא יְקִימֶנָּה. 

 19 God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good? [Numbers 23]

Again, it is True that God cannot be a man per the Tanakh.

There is also no mention of the Trinity in the explicit sense in the Tanakh.  If I may, what does the Tanakh say about Messiah. Is he a mere man?
 
The Book of Isaiah specifically in the 53 chapter identifies the characteristics of the Messiah

 א  מִי הֶאֱמִין, לִשְׁמֻעָתֵנוּ; וּזְרוֹעַ יְהוָה, עַל-מִי נִגְלָתָה. 

 1 'Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed?
[Isaiah 53]

  his suffering

י  וַיהוָה חָפֵץ דַּכְּאוֹ, הֶחֱלִי--אִם-תָּשִׂים אָשָׁם נַפְשׁוֹ, יִרְאֶה זֶרַע יַאֲרִיךְ יָמִים; וְחֵפֶץ יְהוָה, בְּיָדוֹ יִצְלָח. 

10 Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of the LORD might prosper by his hand: [Isaiah 53]


He is the literal 'arm of the LORD' that was 'crush'(ed).

iv) The sacrifice for the Atonement of Sin is a requirement not an option to the Lord

Here is where i disagree with the Rabbi Asher. He quotes verses that imply that sacrifices are not required. So why then, are sacrifices strewn throughout the biblical narrative, if it is not required ?

Why does Yahweh test Abraham by making him sacrifice Isaac, after which, provides a ram
for sacrifice ?  

These are Enigmatic Passages of the Tanakh. What Rabbi Asher quotes is opposite to the biblical narrative at hand.  

The Tanakh has many Enigmatic Passages. I refer to as, only Yahweh knows.  Eg. In the Tanakh, Abraham is favoured by Yahweh.

 ח  וְאַתָּה יִשְׂרָאֵל עַבְדִּי, יַעֲקֹב אֲשֶׁר בְּחַרְתִּיךָ; זֶרַע, אַבְרָהָם אֹהֲבִי.

8 But thou, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham
   My friend; [Isaiah 41]

Yahweh even calls him a Prophet even-though he lied twice to Pharaoh and Abimelech.

ז  וְעַתָּה, הָשֵׁב אֵשֶׁת-הָאִישׁ כִּי-נָבִיא הוּא, וְיִתְפַּלֵּל בַּעַדְךָ, וֶחְיֵה; וְאִם-אֵינְךָ מֵשִׁיב--דַּע כִּי-מוֹת תָּמוּת, אַתָּה וְכָל-אֲשֶׁר-לָךְ. 

7 Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.' 
 [Genesis 20]


am i then, suppose to infer that Jews practice 'Al - Takiya' (Islamic Doctrine of Lying). 



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