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by iskander
Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:03 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

Re: The personification of the Shekhinah

Which concept to drop? God is unknowable and utterly indifferent in many enlightened theological systems .In those systems ,God has no attributes and he is remote , but people do not love that God. In Judaism G-d has no emotions. Zero. Nada. G-d is totally Simple. An emotional reaction - love, hate,...
by iskander
Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:29 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

Re: Event Organizers

How far apart from each other were the Christian and the Judaic theological beliefs? In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer provides an answer to this difficult question as follows: When is the real question, and then what version of Judaism when? are you questioni...
by iskander
Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:02 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

Re: The personification of the Shekhinah

Thank you. Excellent work, thanks again. The shekhinah is not found in the Jewish Bible . Sommer appear to be saying that before Maimonides the existence of an actual physical Presence of God was a common belief of Judaism. Kavod is the corporeal presence of God; God is at some particular time and p...
by iskander
Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:35 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

Re: Event Organizers

Event Organizers How far apart from each other were the Christian and the Judaic theological beliefs? In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer provides an answer to this difficult question as follows: This study forces a revaluation of a common Jewish attitude toward...
by iskander
Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:34 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

Re: The personification of the Shekhinah

Hi Semiopen, I am reading , The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel, by Benjamin D. Sommer. Sommer writes in page 127 about the personification of the Shekhinah, but the references he gives --Shafer, Mirror 96 and Goldberg Untersuchungen --are beyond my reach . He also mentions, Midrash M...
by iskander
Mon Sep 14, 2015 12:25 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: The personification of the Shekhinah
Replies: 25
Views: 62691

The personification of the Shekhinah

Hi Semiopen, I am reading , The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel, by Benjamin D. Sommer. Sommer writes in page 127 about the personification of the Shekhinah, but the references he gives --Shafer, Mirror 96 and Goldberg Untersuchungen --are beyond my reach . He also mentions, Midrash Mi...
by iskander
Mon Sep 14, 2015 3:06 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: About Acts 24:5
Replies: 5
Views: 4297

Re: About Acts 24:5

So Acts 24:1-9 : Five days later Ananias, the high priest, arrived with some of the Jewish elders and the lawyer Tertullus, to present their case against Paul to the governor. When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented the charges against Paul in the following address to the governor:“You have pr...
by iskander
Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:00 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Genesis 49:10
Replies: 5
Views: 4589

Re: Genesis 49:10

Hello, I have been doing a lot of reading about OT scriptures that Christians use to say that Jesus fulfilled the messiah requirements. One if Genesis 49:10: The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of ...
by iskander
Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:13 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mythicism--Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Doubt
Replies: 71
Views: 32315

Re: Mythicism--Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love D

[quote="Peter Kirby]... You're doing nothing but reiterating your own personal (and subjective and non-rational) opinions. Exactly like I said you were doing. QED.[/quote] I am trying to explain how intelligent people select explanations when they don't know the answer. In medicine a differenti...
by iskander
Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:36 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mythicism--Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Doubt
Replies: 71
Views: 32315

Re: Mythicism--Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love D

... It's not that the truth should be expected to be nonsensical. Rather just that this is setting the bar much too low. Too many things make enough sense in this way. Saying something that makes some sense as an explanation just means that somebody proposing it isn't a complete idiot, not that the...