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Hey Nyphilim, take a look at this: THE ALLEGED SONS OF GOD According to an ancient Roman policy, any able-bodied man from the conquered lands, who joined the Roman Army, would obtain automatic Roman citizenship. And if he was lucky enough to reach retirement age, he could choose wherever he...

Would you share with us what in your opinion stands for something "beyond" in this case? Ben

Whose would it be a miracle of, Mary's? God's? If Mary could have induced herself to get pregnant without the help of a man, yes, it was a miracle. A miracle of God, it couldn't be. Not for the Creator of the universe, Whom anything else would be just natural. Ben

All the options above can be explained metaphorically. The only possibility of looking at the Christian doctrine of the virgin birth is through the myth of the Greek demigod, which is the son of a god with an earthly woman. It just happens that Jesus was not Greek but Jewish. The intent was...

Dream, not that I desagree with you, but this post of yours reminds me of the cold war between Catholics and Protestants that started with the Reformation and is still on to this very day. Ben

No, I agree with you that there is no such thing as a 'third Jewish Commonwealth' in Catholic doctrine. The Church never could dream that Israel would ever be formed as a State again till the return of Jesus. No wonder, it took the Vatican almost 50 years to recognize Israel as such. The...

Thomas, please don't take this as an offense, but you are being ridiculous, really making a fool of yourself. You have, all of a sudden, lost your sense to rationalize. That's not a nice way to discard other people's ideas whithout presenting one of your own as an option. For example, if...

Thomas, I think you ignore more than you think about Christian doctrine, especially Catholic. It is only recent that we have Christians (Evangelicals) lobbying for our return to our homeland as a reason to rush the second coming of Jesus. But Christians from the Catholic orientation are of the...

Yes, I understand you. I do agree with you that there is indeed Jewish hostility, mostly from the Ultra-Orthodox sector against Christians, especially of Jewish origin. And they are vehemently hostile to Christian missionary activities among Jewish families. A mistake, I believe, which depicts...

I see our return as the return of the Jewish People from the 70-year exile in Babylon. Quite similar. Even almost the same struggle with occupiers found in the Land of Israel, as then we had the Samaritans and now the Palestinians. Those among us who have doubt of this return being spiritually...

When I say "Biblical" I mean the Tanach. The Talmud is meant only to explain the Tanach with midrashim that must be interpreted metaphorically. If we must be careful with literal interpretation in the Tanach, we must be doubly careful with the Talmud and the writing of the sages. Ben

I am not aware of Kook's interpretation of the Hatikvah or the Waldenberg-Weinberg-Esenberg thesis about termination of preganancy for Nazi rape or Tay-Sach. But I am of the opinion that right be given to the mother of a child conceived as a result of rape or with Tay-Sach disease that the...

What do you mean by "sussed?" I couldn't find in the dictionary. And BTW, since this is the second time you get annoyed when I fail to detect whom you are posting to, tell me, is it unbecoming to pick up a post of one's concern to reply when it is addressed to another poster? Thanks. Ben

In that case, the truth is around there for us to find. The problem is with us who are not doing the best we can. The piece of the puzzle is around there somewhere. We just need some more time to find it. As you can see I was being serious with my question about anything accurate as Cosmology is...

THE POPE HAS A PROBLEM IN ROME The fact that we, the Jews, have ended our dispersion, returned to our biblical homeland, and built there a modern, and vital Jewish State - a Third Jewish Commonwealth - it is extremely relevant to Christianity. However, while some evangelical Christians...

My Judaism is Biblical. Open the Jewish Scriptures and try to refute me. If you succeed, I'll take off my hat to your wisdom. Till then, you have no grounds to discard my knowledge of Judaism. Ben

Does it mean you prefer that they paint us as believers of talking serpents and God walking in the Garden of Eden asking for Adam? Is that what you call normative Judaism? Ben

Why? Do you prefer to be responsible for the idea than to brag about it? I mean, if you are a Christian. If you are not, I apologize for the question. I believe that Christians are responsible for the idea that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier. That is, every time they deny that Joseph was...

What does "Karaite" have anything to do with national Israel? I think that this thread is about the Land of Israel being rediscovered and resettled by its legitimate owners. Ben