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By Ted Belman

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April 16, 2020 | 7,781 Comments »

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  1. @ bernard ross:

    “For perhaps 60% of the things we talk about I could offer a link to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica Online and expect that SOMEWHERE in there it would make my case (instead of my doing it myself) for damned near anything I took a shine to. BFD.”

    “rubbish, a ridiculous analogy, some of the videos are quite short and to the point”

    If so, it should give you & your tag-team partner no grief to come to the point[s], and state them in your own words, instead of expecting a video to do your arguing FOR you.

    In any case, the analogy is neither ‘rubbish’ nor ‘ridiculous,’ because — long video or short — the principle behind the analogy is sound. A referenced article or video speaks only for its MAKER until such time as someone identifies some assertion or detail in it that he wishes to use in support of a holding of his own, and actually presents it from that angle. Up to that juncture, any NUMBER of conclusions can be drawn from even the briefest article or Youtube.

    “…without obfuscation, confusion, complexity, distraction, tangents and red herrings……

    Your back-handed way of admitting that I can see you trying to steer the exchange to push your agenda, and have no intention of letting you do so.

    “there is so much more evidence to the contrary”

    Not a scrap of which is anything other than purely circumstantial.

  2. @ bernard ross:

    “Facts and arguments have not one shred of reliance on your, or my, personal convictions or beliefs.”

    Nor vice versa in YOUR case, it would appear. You’ve persuaded yourself that you’ve ‘proved’ something, when nothing could be further from the truth. All your claims of ‘debunking’ the JC narrative are based entirely on speculation, NOT fact.

    At bottom, all of your (& Huff’n’Fluff’s) claims amount to:

    A. the argument from silence (as to non-Xtn corroboration);
    B. the rumination over how it COULD’ve been faked, how it COULD’ve been back-dated, etc; and
    C. the observation that the pertinent imagery had appeared elsewhere before

    — all 3 of which such assertions, whether individually or all at once, are not, in any of their natures, EVER logically conclusive.

    So far, indeed, no smoking gun; just lotsa coulda-woulda-shoulda. The only thing you’ve ‘proven’ to date is that it’s damned hard to prove a negative

    — well, that. . . and that your ego depends, for its Jewish identity, fragile as it is, on an abiding (and growing) hatred of Xtns. That’s it; c’est tout.

  3. @ bernard ross:

    “You cannot use these or other devices to make your case. You have to do it in your own words. You can use articles & media in illustration of a point, or as back-up support — but you cannot use them as a SUBSTITUTE for your own argument.”

    “they CLEARLY DO constitute arguments obviously to any one reading them.”

    Only in a sterile, non-communicative sense. Not, however, in the context of a blogging forum, where readers may wish (and are expected) to argue back — nor indeed in any other forum where other living parties are expected to contend on an ongoing basis. One does not argue with an article. One does not argue with a video. One argues with another arguer.

    “Facts and arguments are not made by who makes them but by the their own nature separate from any person.”

    Facts, by their nature, are created by reality.

    Arguments, by their nature, OTOH, are created — or affirmed — by those who actually advance them, offer them, present them.

    If you like somebody else’s argument — but merely say (or write), “Ditto for me, Your Honor,” and leave it at that, w/o making the argument your own — the judge is quite likely to toss your case out on its keister; maybe sanction you, as well, for coming into his courtroom unprepared.

    “If you DO presume to use linked articles & media as substitutes for your argument, then it is clear that you do not understand the subject well enough to have any personal conviction in the matter; that rather than expressing your own belief you are merely cheering for a side. And that becomes increasingly apparent in YOUR case all the time.”

    “This is your problem as always, you cannot distinguish between facts and personal convictions and beliefs.”

    Whereby you show that YOUR problem, as always in these matters, amounts to sheer projection — because you missed the point ENTIRELY. No surprises there, of course, since, typically, you’d taken my remark out of its context (now restored above), so you could use it to take the wheel & drive out into a different lane of traffic, in order to push your agenda instead of addressing the point.

    In alluding to “personal conviction in the matter,” I was speaking solely of personal conviction in the soundness of the argument you were making or claiming for your own — as evidenced in your familiarity w/ the ins & outs of it — so as to make the argument in your own words & hold forth on it personally in the teeth of all questions & challenges.

    “Thus far, in any event, all I have seen in what the two of you have said comes down to mountains of speculation as to how history could’ve been faked, backdated, etc, in re JC specifically — but no probative evidence that this is, in fact, what actually OCCURRED.”

    “you offered weak speculations from tainted sources, certainly nothing one could call history, even with your delusions.”

    I ??? — It’s YOUR case we’re talking about here, not mine! (And your remark was a transparent attempt to deflect attention from that fact.)

    You offer no contemporaneously conflicting narratives from same era. And the linked videos & linked articles keep turning out to be nothing BUT speculation (and frequently based on each other).

    There is no hard evidence that any of that speculation ever in fact occurred. And there’s nothing ‘delusional’ in noting that. Any objective observer would draw precisely the same conclusion.

    Characterizing what I’ve said as “delusions” is merely the way you inadvertently acknowledge that — at bottom — your entire proposition (thus far, anyway) amounts to a handful of wind.

  4. @ yamit82:

    “I always though[t] and believed a picture is worth at least 1000 words…”

    Subtext: He can’t write 1000 words of coherent prose

    — (and isn’t interested in developing the discipline to do so either).

    “why write…”

    Because writing is the coin of the realm in the blogosphere.

    “…a long essay…”

    No need for a long essay (long essays are often snowjobs) — but if your ideas are, in fact, your own, then you share them here w/ others whose ideas are THEIR own. You can always link to or excerpt from other people’s work — in ADDITION — as a supporting “exhibit” or by way of reference. But not as a substitute for your OWN remarks.

    “… when my arguments have already been made by others and in most cases more erudite.”

    Erudition is less important than communication.

    There have been too many times in the past when FOLLOWUP on articles you’ve used that way was IMPOSSIBLE, because the author was not here to explain questions or defend against challenges — and you (not being s/he) had not spent the hours (perhaps weeks) which the author had spent researching & editing the piece, and you were thus at a loss to deal with those questions or challenges.

    “dweller requires you to read his garbage and I require him to see videos. he didn’t write the garbage he wants you to read only quotes from them”

    “Requires”??? — hardly. If you don’t wanna read my stuff, it’s no skin off my nose.

    1. If somebody wants to dispute something I’ve said, yet hasn’t READ what I said — then it’s he himself who comes off looking like an imbecile; not YoursTruly.

    2. If I put something in print without quotation marks around it, then you can bet the mortgage that it is INDEED my stuff. Anybody who says otherwise is a lying sack of shit — twice warmed over.

    “Each clip takes a chain saw in debunking everything he claims to believe with conviction.”

    If that were true, you would not HESITATE to summarize each such clip in your own words and emblazon the ‘debunking’ across the screen in ALL-CAPS and boldface type designed to catch a reader’s eye promptly.

    — You’re clearly MOTIVATED to do so; yet you never do.

    Clear, cold logic says you’ve got bubkis, bubbeleh.

    “We also have shown dweller to be a plagiarizer”

    ROFLMFAOBSST! — In all the years I’ve posted on this board, I’ve ‘plagiarized’ the work of one writer, and one only — and THAT individual (whom I ‘plagiarize’ flagrantly & shamelessly)

    — is none other than myself.

    The TRUE plagiarist on this blogsite is the poster who claims to have ‘shown’ me to claim others’ work for my own. But he does this only to divert attention (mostly his own) from his own guilty conscience.

    “We also have shown dweller to be… a liar…”

    If that were the case, then Capt Huff’n’puff here would INSTANTLY put the ‘lying’ post(s) on full display. He’s been challenged, on myriad occasions, to display examples of such ‘lies,’ but has never ONCE put up the goods. He talks a good game.

    George Washington couldn’t tell a lie.

    Bill Clinton couldn’t tell the truth.

    Yamit82 couldn’t tell the difference.

    @ yamit82:

    “No not the same video must have the same name”

    Same running time, just under 11 minutes.

    If it isn’t as I described it, then summarize it.

  5. @ dweller:

    No not the same video must have the same name, You just wasted time writing about something else and not Germain.

    Seems you are groping for any life line before you sink totally under your pile of dung.

    Watch the videos I supplied!!! Several of them and all Germain and relevant as arguments taking your beliefs and strong convictions… dicing them up into very fine grains of silicone.

    You are such a coward you are afraid to watch them, but I knew you wouldn’t because your a scared rabbit and a coward.

  6. @ yamit82:

    “Real Proof that Jesus was NOT real”

    If this is the actual TITLE of the video, then I have seen it before. And notwithstanding such a title & claim, it does NOT, in fact, provide ‘proof’ of any sort (thin or solid) “that Jesus was NOT real.”

    All that it does do is to show that the imagery attendant to the narrative about JC had long been part of the collective consciousness of humanity, as encoded in the very structure of the universe, before his actual advent (matters which I recognized 40 yrs ago, and over which observations I’ve never had a problem).

    To go from that, however, to suggesting that it must therefore not be historical & literal as to haNitzri constitutes ITSELF a leap of faith grounded in sheer speculation

    — and not a snort more.

    Since ‘proof’ in this matter is important to you, I’ll continue awaiting REAL evidence generating that ‘proof.’ Meanwhile, spare me these infantile excursions; they do no more credit to you than to your claims.

  7. yamit82 Said:

    I always though and believed a picture is worth at least 1000 words

    the best one is the queeg you first posted, its so appropriate.
    your video arguments, I could only watch the shorter ones, were perfect.

  8. yamit82 Said:

    Each clip takes a chain saw in debunking everything he claims to believe with conviction.

    his convictions are irrelevant to facts and sound arguments, and so are his personal beleifs. He is prone to making absurd statements but there is no relevance between the soundness of an argument, the existence of a fact AND the person who is asserting. His statement is entirely illogical. His opinions, beleifs, convictions have no relevance to arguments and facts asserted.
    Now he is just recycling the same debunked narratives from days ago.

  9. @ bernard ross:
    I always though and believed a picture is worth at least 1000 words and it it comes with illuminating commentary why write a long essay when my arguments have already been made by others and in most cases more erudite.

    dweller requires you to read his garbage and I require him to see videos. he didn’t write the garbage he wants you to read only quotes from them and claims to bases his beliefs and conviction from them. Each clip takes a chain saw in debunking everything he claims to believe with conviction.

    We also have shown dweller to be a plagiarizer and a liar as well. He demand from us that which he is unwilling to do same in return. So much for hypocritical civil libertarians 😛

  10. dweller Said:

    “Jeshua’s mission necessitated — expressly required (inter alia) — that he not merely die, physically die; but be actually killable, physically killable. By men; finite men. That wasn’t an optional feature but an integral requirement; it came w/ the job description. No way his mission could be performed, then, by a divine being of any kind, cast, description, or degree. Capiche?”
    Bernard ross said:
    “lost his strawberries again”
    Dweller said:
    That’s all you’ve got, isn’t it. . . . No discourse, no argument, no case. Just a handful of moldy strawberries you hope will divert attention from the fact that you’re running on empty.

    I posted the video which clearly shows the relationship between your rant and captain Queegs strawberry rant. One does not submit arguments to someone who is ranting absurdly about his strawberries or his yeshu.

  11. Bernard Ross Said:

    “is there a manual for half gods?”
    Dweller said:
    There is an entire academic discipline involving the study of Divinity. It’s called Theology. There’s also something called Reason; it’s typically accompanied by an appreciation for logic.

    surely you could have shown us the reason and logic behind your assertion that your mythological yeshu popped out of the womb of a virgin after a god has a union with her, and……. wait for it….. resulted in a Jewish messiah who, although born of a union of a god and a woman had absolutely no godlike powers (apparently your god had very weak genes and could not even create a half god)
    Please show us all the “Reason” that demonstrates your appreciation of logic in this (ahem) “narrative”. I think everyone would be interested to see how you arrive at this with “Reason” and an appreciation of “Logic”. Surely your half god theological manual can aid you in your logical pursuits?

  12. Bernard Ross Said:

    “you appear to ignore all the links and videos which debunk your pulpit fantasies”
    Dweller said:
    Even if I could open videos, …..they would not constitute an argument . You cannot use these or other devices to make your case. You have to do it in your own words. You can use articles & media in illustration of a point, or as back-up support — but you cannot use them as a SUBSTITUTE for your own argument.

    they CLEARLY DO constitute arguments obviously to any one reading them. Facts and arguments are not made by who makes them but by the their own nature separate from any person.

    dweller Said:

    If you DO presume to use linked articles & media as substitutes for your argument, then it is clear that you do not understand the subject well enough to have any personal conviction in the matter; that rather than expressing your own belief ……

    This is your problem as always, you cannot distinguish between facts and personal convictions and beliefs. Facts and arguments have not one shred of reliance on your, or my, personal convictions or beliefs. Personal convictions and personal beliefs are irrelevant and unrelated to the determination of facts or the soundness of argument. To your absurd comment I can only say DUH???? Certainly if you wish to whine about your personal convictions and beliefs I would be uninterested for obvious reasons.

    dweller Said:

    I could offer a link to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica Online and expect that SOMEWHERE in there it would make my case

    rubbish, a ridiculous analogy, some of the videos are quite short and to the point unlike your mountains of irrelevant
    garbage.
    dweller Said:

    all I have seen in what you two have said comes down to mountains of speculation as to how history could’ve been faked, backdated, etc, in re JC specifically

    you offered weak speculations from tainted sources, certainly nothing one could call history, even with your delusions.

    his·to·ry ?hist(?)r?/noun
    1. the study of past events,……

    e·vent ??vent/ noun plural noun: events
    a thing that happens,

    hap·pen?hap?n/ verb 3rd person present:happens
    1. take place; occur.

    your faux “history” has no evidence of ever happening, taking place or occurring. In fact, as so many have pointed out in yamits videos, ….quite clearly, without obfuscation, confusion, complexity, distraction, tangents and red herrings…… there is so much more evidence to the contrary

  13. @ bernard ross:

    “Meanwhile, if you believe that ANYTHING I’ve said above is not so, then I cordially invite you to show me examples which stand as exceptions to that remark, and thereby challenge it. Otherwise I cordially invite you to go soak your head.”

    “you appear to ignore all the links and videos which debunk your pulpit fantasies”

    Even if I could open videos, and even if I could take the time to watch them (two normally unlikely scenarios), they would not constitute an argument . You cannot use these or other devices to make your case. You have to do it in your own words. You can use articles & media in illustration of a point, or as back-up support — but you cannot use them as a SUBSTITUTE for your own argument.

    [For perhaps 60% of the things we talk about I could offer a link to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica Online and expect that SOMEWHERE in there it would make my case (instead of my doing it myself) for damned near anything I took a shine to. BFD.]

    If you DO presume to use linked articles & media as substitutes for your argument, then it is clear that you do not understand the subject well enough to have any personal conviction in the matter; that rather than expressing your own belief you are merely cheering for a side. And it becomes increasingly apparent in YOUR case all the time.

    Thus far, in any event, all I have seen in what you two have said comes down to mountains of speculation as to how history could’ve been faked, backdated, etc, in re JC specifically — but no probative evidence that this is, in fact, what actually OCCURRED.

    “and keep repeating your fantasy mantras in circles.”

    The notion that I entertain ‘fantasies’ is itself YOUR fantasy.

    “Perhaps you have alzheimers with a small memory retention and forget that you repeat the same old silly tales already debunked”

    “Debunked” by whom, pray tell? YOU couldn’t debunk the tooth fairy.

    “Talmud’s ‘norm’ of not repeating certain things is not specific to matters Jewish so much as it is specific to matters (originally) ORAL — as an oral discourse is one which must be memorized, and the fewer things that need to be committed to memory, the lesser the burden on the party charged w/ memorization. Jewish written literature that wasn’t originally oral does not maintain such a ‘norm.’ No reason it would.

    There is absolutely no reason why ACTS, as a history, would not continue to call the disciples ‘Christians’ from the point where it first mentions the name all the way until the end of the narrative — if that had, in fact, been their accepted name for themselves; it wasn’t. The reference in 11:26 is clearly a convenient handle for them used informally by outsiders, nothing more.

    The very word, Christian, itself does not appear anywhere ever again THROUGHOUT the entire NewTestament, aside from one, solitary, stylized usage of it in 1 Pet 4:16 — and then not as a self-designation of members of a group (nor, indeed, as a ‘name’ of any kind), but purely as a reference to one who suffers persecution because of his faith in The Christ.”

    “…what other reason could there be for leaving significant things unrepeated…?”

    “the non existence of… [Jeshua] is the reason…”

    No; actually if he were ‘non-existent,’ that would constitute reason to make MORE, not less, mention of the term, “christian” — and as a self-chosen name too — to ‘cover’ for his purported ‘non-existence.

    “…and only your incredulous christian associates tout your myths.”

    Xtns are not my ‘associates’ except in the sense that YOU are. (They do have better manners than you, however, and generally exhibit more integrity.)

    “And I know that even SINGER acknowledges that the early ‘Christians’ viewed Jeshua haNitzri as Moshiach, but not as ‘God.’ The way he stated it, as I recall, was, ‘the original Christians were monotheists,’ or words to that effect.”

    “it does not matter how cult followers viewed their mythical idol.”

    If they were, as Rabbi Singer states, “monotheists,” then they were NOT idolaters.

    ” There is no evidence or support for the existence of [Jeshua haNitzri], plain and simple…”

    Take it up w/ Tovia Singer. The statement to which you were replying came from him.

    “A HALF-GOD CANNOT DIE — ANY MORE THAN A HALF-WIT CAN REASON

    — (know what I mean?)”

    “cite the pagan, or christian, myth which corroborates your assertion.”

    It seems you DON’T “know what I mean.”

    (That’s all right; other readers DO, rest assured.)

    “is there a manual for half gods?”

    There is an entire academic discipline involving the study of Divinity. It’s called Theology. There’s also something called Reason; it’s typically accompanied by an appreciation for logic. When you grow up, you may find you want to activate your own faculty for that.

    Of course, for that to happen, your maliciousness will have to relinquish the driver’s seat and go to the back of the bus; a sacrifice you may not be feeling up to.

    “Jeshua’s mission necessitated — expressly required (inter alia) — that he not merely die, physically die; but be actually killable, physically killable. By men; finite men. That wasn’t an optional feature but an integral requirement; it came w/ the job description. No way his mission could be performed, then, by a divine being of any kind, cast, description, or degree. Capiche?”

    “lost his strawberries again”

    That’s all you’ve got, isn’t it. . . . No discourse, no argument, no case. Just a handful of moldy strawberries you hope will divert attention from the fact that you’re running on empty.

    Pitiful.

  14. @ yamit82:
    a must see for dweller, the much more sensible and logical explanation for his yeshu fable…. too bad he cant see it or hear it……. he will have to continue to live in darkness following his yeshu to the dark side.

  15. dweller Said:

    you’d’ve wasted no time hauling it out & pounding me senseless

    he has been pounding you senseless but you dont realize it because you were senseless to begin with….. spouting your ludicrous yeshu tales of jewish messiahs popping out of virgins who had a “union” with a god ….
    dweller Said:

    “God is a SPIRIT…” Jn 4:24

    more gratuitous NT quotes from your pulpit?
    dweller Said:

    All you’ve done thus far is run ’round in circles pushing your fantasy agenda….

    perfect example of projection, you appear to have run out of garbage to post on this discussion of yeshu fairy tales as you keep repeating the same old baloney along with your bible thumping quotes while Yamit keeps posting more and more relevant and interesting facts about the big lie.
    Get a collar and a proper pulpit and come out of the closet..

  16. @ yamit82:
    he cannot, quite conveniently for him, watch or listen to videos. His mother superior has him on a short lease. he is not interested in support or evidence only, like so many other preachers, in marketing his yeshu fables and citing his gospel.

  17. dweller Said:

    You have not established that they are not factual;

    Dweller logic 😛 😛 😛 😛
    dweller Said:

    The “Jews” and the “Xtns” are BOTH wrong.

    the repository of knowledge lives in a library and is not allowed to watch videos.
    dweller Said:

    I do not EVER “quote” my intuition. A quote entails words

    nice avoidance trick, you said you get your beleif in yeshu from intuition after your fables of getting it from jewish sources was debunked and your christian sources rendered incredulous. It still comes to the same thing, your yeshy fables come from your intuition(mind fantasies), adoration of mythical sayings and the incredulous christian narratives. you have a god in a union with a woman popping out a jewish messiah, nothing has changed in spite of your tangents, obfuscations, mountains of irrelevant garbage…… you are still left with the same fairy tale which has less facts than goldilocks talking bears.
    dweller Said:

    I dig Jesus — he is the jewel in the crown of Jewish civilization — but am not a Christian.

    LOL, a christian is a follower of jesus! 😛
    I dont care what myths you follow but your rendition of a Hebrew G_D in a union with a woman popping out a Jewish messiah reminds me of an incubus. couldn’t you find a different bible to plague with your grafting and leave the Jews alone with their bible intact?
    Bernard ross Said:

    “in spite of you and your religions attempt to graft your myths onto the Hebrew bible.”
    Dweller said:
    YOU don’t even know what’s IN the Hebrew Bible, Sir. So YOU can’t know what ‘grafting’

    everyone can see it is self evident; then whose bible did the christians use as the base of their mythology? did you not recognize the Hebrew bible in their “old testament” or are you once more being dishonest and avoiding the truth of your collectives MO?
    dweller Said:

    YOU are a pridefully empty-headed ignoramus presuming to hold forth on matters YOU know less about than brain-surgery.

    LOL, you like to make it appear complicated but the dictionary gave me a correct definition of christian, follower, hijacking and fetish. We all know they use the hebrew bible and we all know the christians libeled, tortured, swindled and slaughtered the Jews for 2000 years. No rocket science here, nothing to know… I dont need to read goldilocks to pass judgement on whether the 3 talking bears are factual. I dont need to be a brain surgeon to see that there is no evidence except through the christians who have a long history of lying about Jews.
    no need to make this complicated, yamit has given you many links and videos which you are not allowed to, or incapable of, viewing. He has given so much debunking evidence and you keep running in circles with your NT in hand, reduced to an Elmer Gantry citing his gospels. I notice your incidents of citing the NT have increased. Its not a source taken seriously here, even though you do.

  18. dweller Said:

    Meanwhile, if you believe that ANYTHING I’ve said above is not so, then I cordially invite you to show me examples which stand as exceptions to that remark, and thereby challenge it.

    you appear to ignore all the links and videos which debunk your pulpit fantasies and keep repeating your fantasy mantras in circles. Perhaps you have alzheimers with a small memory retention and forget that you repeat the same old silly tales already debunked; or are you hoping we will forget your pulpit fiction.
    dweller Said:

    Forget this dumb-assed game, and consider the real question: what other reason could there be for leaving significant things unrepeated,

    the non existence of your mythological yeshu is the reason and only your incredulous christian associates tout your myths.
    dweller Said:

    the early ‘Christians’ viewed Jeshua haNitzri as Moshiach, but not as ‘God.’

    it does not matter how cult followers viewed their mythical idol. There is no evidence or support for the existence of your nitzri, plain and simple…..
    dweller Said:

    A HALF-GOD CANNOT DIE —

    LOL, cite the pagan, or christian, myth which corroborates your assertion. is there a manual for half gods?
    dweller Said:

    Jeshua’s mission necessitated — expressly required (inter alia) — that he not merely die, physically die; but be actually killable, physically killable. By men; finite men. That wasn’t an optional feature but an integral requirement; it came w/ the job description. No way his mission could be performed, then, by a divine being of any kind, cast, description, or degree. Capiche?

    LOL, Dweller lost his strawberries again
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV3oQ3pLA0

  19. @ yamit82:

    “The rabbis would not talk to him because it’s like a high-school graduate wanting to have a debate with the university professors; he wouldn’t even get an appointment.”

    “He wouldn’t need one. The learned doctors in the Temple seem to have thought he was pretty sharp, even as early as age 12. See Lk 2:41-52.”

    “There you go again equating NT gospels which we have established have no factual or historical credence.”

    You have not established that they are not factual; nor have you established that they are ahistorical.

    (Nor have you established the factuality or historicity of Eliyahu or Avraham or Shmuel when asked.)

    All you’ve done thus far is run ’round in circles pushing your fantasy agenda of ‘debunking’ something you can’t even get your head around. And the prodigious strenuousness of the effort is more than a little amusing.

    “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’ Zechariah 8:23″

    “If you christians…”

    I dig Jesus — he is the jewel in the crown of Jewish civilization — but am not a Christian. (Sorry to disappoint you.)

    “If… the Jews [are] wrong why will… christians come to the Jews and not the other way round?”

    The “Jews” and the “Xtns” are BOTH wrong. They both assume, each in his own presumptuous way, that THEY are the “Xtns” or “Jews” referred to in the verse.

    SOME goyim (doesn’t say “Xtns,” but men from the nations & tongues) will indeed come to SOME Jews

    — not, however, to your kind of ‘Jew,’ in ANY event, I daresay.

  20. @ yamit82:

    “definition of demigod”

    Resort to a dictionary in specialized matters, and you get nowhere. It’s not like looking up the definition of “capability,” or the pronunciation of “telephone,” or a synonym for “rapid.”

    One of the attributes of divinity is infinite self-existence — “always been; always will be,” etc.

    A ‘god’ of ANY sort is self-existent: Cannot be created; cannot be destroyed. If anything CAN create a ‘god,’ then what was created was NOT, in reality, a ‘god.’ If anything CAN destroy a ‘god,’ then what was destroyed was NOT, in reality, a ‘god.’ This is fundamental; absolutely no way around it.

    A HALF-GOD CANNOT DIE — ANY MORE THAN A HALF-WIT CAN REASON

    — (know what I mean?)

    Another attribute of divinity is omnipresence: He’s everywhere at once, and at all times, cannot be confined to specified locations to the exclusion of others; has no spatial limitations of any sort. Therefore, is strictly a spirit; cannot be physical, cannot be material.

    Jeshua’s mission necessitated — expressly required (inter alia) — that he not merely die, physically die; but be actually killable, physically killable. By men; finite men. That wasn’t an optional feature but an integral requirement; it came w/ the job description.

    No way his mission could be performed, then, by a divine being of any kind, cast, description, or degree. Capiche?

  21. @ mrg3105:

    “I have said that I have on occasion read some parts of the ‘NT’.”

    But not the whole of it? How recently?

    “I think you should watch the video Q&A With Rabbi Tovia Singer.”

    I use the computers at the public library. As a courtesy to to other patrons, I don’t use sound, and the present state of closed-captioning technology leaves quite a lot to be desired. Sometimes I use computers at the local state university, but they frequently block plug-ins of all kinds (hacking is a problem); so videos are out entirely (even w/o sound) in those instances.

    Once in a blue moon, I can make my way over or around these hurdles, but the Singer video is nearly 2 hrs long, and there’s no way I can set aside that much online time for it; not these days anyway. Maybe at some point, I’ll be able to; not now. Have seen Singer’s stuff before, however; usually essays. (Yamit always likes to pull it out, expecting it to do his arguing for him.) So I’m not altogether unacquainted w/ his p-o-v.

    And I know that even SINGER acknowledges that the early ‘Christians’ viewed Jeshua haNitzri as Moshiach, but not as ‘God.’ The way he stated it, as I recall, was, “the original Christians were monotheists,” or words to that effect.

    “He says there that its not possible to understand ‘NT’ without Talmud.”

    So he’s saying NT was written by those who knew the Oral Law that became the Talmud?

    Frankly, as I said earlier, I don’t think it’s possible to grasp NT in any depth w/ or w/o Talmud, if the reader doesn’t share the frame of mind that the authors had in writing it.

    “Its not I who needs to read the ‘NT’, but you need to look at the Talmud.”

    That’s what is known stateside as a “cop-out.” One needs to read the contents to be able to discuss it intelligently from ANY point-of-view.

    “Xtianity is dying.”

    Working with that broad brush again, I see.

    Old line Xty IS dying. Restorationist Xty, however, is very much alive.

    “Xtians assumed too much, and the ‘Jews’ are to traumatised to care. However, we have a record of doing this before, with individuals coming to restore the culture.”

    Indeed. Often from the least expected quarters. . . .

  22. @ honeybee:

    “What is this obsession with Virgins ?”

    “Nu, ask a virgin. Maybe, bli ayin hara, she knows something the rest of us don’t.”

    “Speak for yourself, Sweetie !”

    Always do.

    But if you want to know something about the ‘obsession w/ virgins,’ then it would seem that you’d be making a mistake to not INCLUDE virgins in your inquiries.

  23. @ bernard ross:

    “Your whole MO is that of an evangelist who comes spouting the myths of his religion and quotes his intuition and religions documents as proof of the facts of his religions myths.”

    What a crock. You’re so fullovit, it oozes from your pores. You KNOW you can’t prove anything I’ve said to be a ‘myth.’ But more significantly, it would constitute an (unwarranted) act of charity to designate your misrepresentational accounting of what I do as ITSELF a myth. (The more honest name for your spurious summation is a steaming pile of putrescent pig plop.)

    I do not EVER “quote” my intuition. A quote entails words (and/or numbers), and intuition is NEVER communicated in words — so how would I go about ‘quoting’ it?

    Nor have I presumed to offer ‘proof of the facts’ of what I say. Proof is most typically YOUR thing, not mine. You like to DEMAND ‘proof,’ because you are utterly unable to discuss these matters on their own terms — so you routinely demand ‘proof.’ (How better to derail, deflect, or redirect the discussion?)

    I may offer an observation of mine that is GROUNDED in intuition, and attended to by simple reasoning. But that is not offered as ‘proof,’ only something to think about, and perhaps discuss.

    “I see no difference between your pagan myths of gods mating with woman than others”

    Of course you don’t; why SHOULD you? When you know nothing , you can claim anything. And PresentCompany’s ignorance is nothing short of breath-taking.

    Pagan ‘gods’ were corporeal. They had bodies — flesh bodies when it suited them. They were INTO phuqing humans. Why? — because they weren’t the real article, and everybody knew it. They were clearly ‘created’ in the image of Man, instead of vice versa .

    They were w/o integrity, and had all the weaknesses, foibles & insecurities that finite men have — only writ large & accompanied by the powers of nature (and super-nature). They were subject to hatred, vanity, jealousy, cruelty, spitefulness, lying, deceit, duplicity, breaking their word — the whole 9 yds.

    They had affairs not only w/ humans of the opposite (and same) gender, but also w/ other gods & goddesses, as well as w/ the ‘divine’ spouses of those other ‘divinities’ — and that’s not to be overlooking the animal kingdom (oh, yes; if it moved, they weren’t above phuqing it or getting phuqued BY it). . . .

    Ruach elohim (ruach haKodesh), OTOH, the eternal Spirit of God — which had hovered over the face of the waters before the universe was created, and which conceived The Christ in the womb of the virgin Mary — is not corporeal, nor physical, nor gendered (let alone, ‘sexual’), inasmuch as a self-existent, truly everlasting Being has no need to perpetuate Itself. “God is a SPIRIT…” Jn 4:24

    “in spite of you and your religions attempt to graft your myths onto the Hebrew bible.”

    YOU don’t even know what’s IN the Hebrew Bible, Sir. So YOU can’t know what ‘grafting’ (or ‘attempted’ grafting) is/isn’t in play either, or even significant; let alone, what does/doesn’t constitute a ‘myth’ in this matter. YOU are a pridefully empty-headed ignoramus presuming to hold forth on matters YOU know less about than brain-surgery.

    “You have lots of long winded posts”

    Not nearly so windy, nor so consistently so (as the archival record will amply show) as yours.

    Then too, if you find the length of my posts too much for you, nobody’s holding a gun to your head insisting that you read them. You have my full & unreserved permission to ignore me. (Consider it a standing authorization, which you can whip out at any time as a guaranteed consent.)

  24. @ yamit82:

    “if you believe that ANYTHING I’ve said above is not so, then I cordially invite you to show me examples which stand as exceptions to that remark, and thereby challenge it.”

    I don’t have to but I can

    Horseshit, and horseshit.

    A single exception to the rule I laid down (WRT Jewish writ lit) is all you would’ve needed, if you had a case.

    And if you had such an exception, you’d’ve wasted no time hauling it out & pounding me senseless w/ it, accompanied by fanfare & flourishes. You’d’ve been all over me like a cheap suit w/in the space of a fetal heartbeat.

    You’ve got nothing. You know it. I know it. And you know I know it.

    Forget this dumb-assed game, and consider the real question: what other reason could there be for leaving significant things unrepeated, if not as a consideration to the party stuck w/ the memory work?

  25. @ dweller:
    I don’t have to but I can but since you made such a stupid and incorrect statement with no authority falls under the category of opinion which I inferred is a load of crap.

    Opinions should have some foundations that can be tested otherwise it’s your stupid opinions against any other opinion. Now I will submit my opinion: I submit it a load of crap as you are. Just prove your case and I will concede.

    You can’t but I can mine, just letting you know in advance. 😛 AH

  26. @ yamit82:

    “Here you go again bloviating”

    Projection, pure & simple.

    Lots of heat. No light.

    Epithets galore. Nothing more.

    “your own words and ideas condemn you.”

    Where? specify.

    “A self styled religious fanatic”

    “Self-styled”??? — I called myself a ‘religious fanatic’?

    — in what parallel universe?

    @ yamit82:

    “Did it ever occur to you why no two philosophers ever agreed with another?”

    Yes. (At last, a REAL question.) That’s an easy one; would that all real questions were that easy.

    The answer is quite simple:

    They were intellectuals. They LIVED in their intellect. They were LOST in their intellect.

    And the intellect has no direct connection to the Source of objective Reality.

  27. @ dweller:

    “I didn’t ‘decide’ it. He decided it. All I did was figure it out — using the common sense & reasoning capability that He gives every man as a birthright.

    Therefore anyone who disagrees with you has no common sense, or capability to reason???? Such arrogance, suchPRESUMPTUOUSNESS such stupidity!!!! Keep digging your grave it gets deeper every time you post.

    Did it ever occur to you why no two philosophers ever agreed with another?????

  28. @ yamit82:

    “Acts is a chronicle; a history — completed BEFORE destruction of the Temple. Talmud, OTOH, is legal commentary, w/ its own characteristic internal discipline — and the earliest part of which would not even begin to be written for well over a century AFTER the Book of Acts was completed.

    Moreover, Talmud’s ‘norm’ of not repeating certain things is not specific to matters Jewish so much as it is specific to matters (originally) ORAL — as an oral discourse is one which must be memorized, and the fewer things that need to be committed to memory, the lesser the burden on the party charged w/ memorization. Jewish written literature that wasn’t originally oral does not maintain such a ‘norm.’ No reason it would.

    There is absolutely no reason why ACTS, as a history, would not continue to call the disciples ‘Christians’ from the point where it first mentions the name all the way until the end of the narrative — if that had, in fact, been their accepted name for themselves; it wasn’t. The reference in 11:26 is clearly a convenient handle for them used informally by outsiders, nothing more.

    The very word, Christian, itself does not appear anywhere ever again THROUGHOUT the entire NewTestament, aside from one, solitary, stylized usage of it in 1 Pet 4:16 — and then not as a self-designation of members of a group (nor, indeed, as a ‘name’ of any kind), but purely as a reference to one who suffers persecution because of his faith in The Christ.

    Of course if you think there ARE other such references to ‘Xtn’ to be found in NT, I welcome you to show them to me; I dare you to show them to me.”

    “Do you make everything up from whole cloth or can you base your stupid comments on some firm authoritative foundations???”

    That wasn’t a question.

    That was a statement COUCHED as a ‘question.’

    If you wanna make a statement, don’t be candy-assed about it; be up-front.

    Meanwhile, if you believe that ANYTHING I’ve said above is not so, then I cordially invite you to show me examples which stand as exceptions to that remark, and thereby challenge it.

    Otherwise I cordially invite you to go soak your head.

  29. dweller Said:

    A strictly false dichotomy — generated by a false leader who Huffs & Puffs and does his damnedest to distract a reader from the stark, staring fact that there is not a scintilla of difference between what I’ve said and what he has quoted.

    Not a scrap.

    Not a smidgeon.

    Not a soupçon.

    Here you go again bloviating … denying, (always denying) but your own words and ideas condemn you. I was just calling a spade a spade, a liar, a fool, a charlatan & if Jewish ( which I don’t believe) then a heretic and apostate. A self styled religious fanatic, and a believer in falsehood and pagan mythologies. A mentally unstable sick POS!!!!!

  30. dweller Said:

    Moreover, Talmud’s ‘norm’ of not repeating certain things is not specific to matters Jewish so much as it is specific to matters (originally) ORAL — as an oral discourse is one which must be memorized, and the fewer things that need to be committed to memory, the lesser the burden on the party charged w/ memorization. Jewish written literature that wasn’t originally oral does not maintain such a ‘norm.’ No reason it would.

    Do you make everything up from whole cloth or can you base your stupid comments on some firm authoritative foundations???

  31. @ yamit82:

    “And just to reveal a bit of the Future to our people, G-d immediately added to the preceding Admonishment this specific Prophetic Warning:

    ‘If there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream, and he will produce to you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us follow gods of others that you did not know and we shall worship them’ — do not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream; for, HaShem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love HaShem, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. HaShem, your God, shall you follow, and Him shall you fear; His Commandments shall you observe, and to His Voice shall you hearken; Him shall you serve, and to Him shall you cleave.’ (Deuteronomy 13:2-5).

    “Should we believe G-d or dweller the sick loon?”

    A strictly false dichotomy — generated by a false leader, a demagogic, power-tripping LIAR, who Huffs & Puffs and does his damnedest to distract a reader from the stark, staring fact that there is not a scintilla of difference between what I’ve said and what he has quoted.

    Not a scrap.

    Not a smidgeon.

    Not a soupçon.

    @ yamit82:

    “dweller is calling G-d a liar”

    No, mamzer, I’m calling YOU a liar.

  32. @ dweller:

    Truth be told, they follow a ‘God.’ I follow a man

    “I didn’t ‘decide’ it. He decided it. All I did was figure it out — using the common sense & reasoning capability that He gives every man as a birthright.

    warning to the Gentile nations; for, the Prophet Isaiah says to them:

    “For thus said HaShem, Creator of the Heavens; He is the God, the One Who fashioned the Earth and its Maker; He established it; He did not create it for emptiness; He fashioned it to be inhabited [and then declared]: ‘I am HaShem and there is no other. I did not speak in secrecy, some place in a land of darkness; I did not tell the descendants of Jacob to seek Me for nothing; I am HaShem Who speaks Righteousness, Who declares Upright Things. Gather yourselves, come and approach together, O survivors of the nations, who do not know, who carry about the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god who cannot save. Proclaim and approach; even [let your leaders] take counsel together: Who let this be heard from aforetimes, or related it from [times] of Old? Is it not I, HaShem? There is no other god besides Me;

    There is no other god besides Me; there is no righteous god besides Me, and no savior other than Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all ends of the Earth; for, I am God and there is no other. I swear by Myself, Righteousness has gone forth from My Mouth, a Word that will not be rescinded: that to Me shall every knee bend and every tongue swear.’”

    (Isaiah 45:18-23).

    dweller is calling G-d a liar he is smarter je know more!!!

  33. @ bernard ross:

    “… then it makes sense that [Acts] would have observed jewish norms, etc. and the talmud would likely have had a better handle on what were Jewish norms in Jewish history as opposed to the source from the jew libelers.”

    “This is bone-headed & ignorant. There was NO (formalized) Talmud at the time the Book of Acts was written. Moreover, they are 2 different genres of literature, w/ different parameters & different norms.

    Acts is a chronicle; a history — completed BEFORE destruction of the Temple. Talmud is legal commentary, w/ its own characteristic internal discipline — and the earliest part of which would not even begin to be written for well over a century AFTER the Book of Acts was completed.”

    Moreover, Talmud’s ‘norm’ of not repeating certain things is not specific to matters Jewish so much as it is specific to matters (originally) ORAL — as an oral discourse is one which must be memorized, and the fewer things that need to be committed to memory, the lesser the burden on the party charged w/ memorization. Jewish written literature that wasn’t originally oral does not maintain such a ‘norm.’ No reason it would.

    There is absolutely no reason why ACTS, as a history, would not continue to call the disciples ‘Christians’ from the point where it first mentions the name all the way until the end of the narrative — if that had, in fact, been their accepted name for themselves; it wasn’t. The reference in 11:26 is clearly a convenient handle for them used informally by outsiders, nothing more.

    The very word, Christian, itself does not appear anywhere ever again THROUGHOUT the entire NewTestament, aside from one, solitary, stylized usage of it in 1 Pet 4:16 — and then not as a self-designation of members of a group (nor, indeed, a ‘name’ of any kind ), but purely as a reference to one who suffers persecution because of his faith in The Christ.

    Of course if you think there ARE other such references to “Xtn” to be found in NT, I welcome you to show them to me; I dare you to show them to me.

    “Acts comes through the christians and therefore there is no credibility regarding any facts contained therein including dates.”

    This worn & tiresome, tissue-thin escape hatch of yours is, by now, a well-marked deck that 2 can play with as easily as one. Inasmuch as you are a flagrant, confessed (and quite demonstrably), anti-Christian bigot, your OWN credibility is itself well beyond the pale.

    “Revisionism can include backdating as already given.”

    And revisionism can also include historical suppression, as already RECOGNIZED to have happened in other circumstances. Either way, all you have here is speculation.

    “However, it is moot as you are long spinning your ‘neighbors’ shtick which was already shown to be irrelevant.”

    “Irrelevant” to what? It’s clear that the disciples did not begin calling themselves “Xtns” until a long, long time after the death & resurrection of Jeshua.

  34. dweller Said:

    THEY don’t seem to think so. In fact, they disagree most heartily with you. And in that regard they are correct, while you are flatly out-to-lunch. Truth be told, they follow a ‘God.’ I follow a man. Manifestly, there are two DIFFERENT ‘characters’ in question, not one.

    Idiot!!!

    Truth be told, they follow a ‘God.’ I follow a man

    The Entire Word that I command you: that shall you observe to do; you shall not add to it and you shall not subtract from it.” (Deuteronomy 13:1).

    And just to reveal a bit of the Future to our people, G-d immediately added to the preceding Admonishment this specific Prophetic Warning:

    “If there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream, and he will produce to you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us follow gods of others that you did not know and we shall worship them’ — do not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream; for, HaShem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love HaShem, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. HaShem, your God, shall you follow, and Him shall you fear; His Commandments shall you observe, and to His Voice shall you hearken; Him shall you serve, and to Him shall you cleave.” (Deuteronomy 13:2-5).

    Should we believe G-d or dweller the sick loon?

  35. dweller Said:

    Truth be told, they follow a ‘God.’ I follow a man

    not exactly….
    they follow a god who was born of a union between a god and a woman whereas you follow a man who was born of a union between a god and a woman.
    Once one accepts the union of the god and woman one should rationally expect that the gods genes were strong enough to produce at least a half god. Two nutty stories quite similar but they went the whole hog and you got cold feet.

  36. dweller Said:

    2. “If they’d wanted to ‘get rid of the witnesses,’ then ALL the Jews would be dead & all the Tanachim destroyed (and Jewish-wannabe twits like PresentCompany wouldn’t be around to rail & hiss). Clearly, however, there are plenty of ‘witnesses’ still around.”

    wanting something does not ensure success, sometimes they get by with expelling, torturing, extorting and blackmailing…. the main thing is to keep the crimes covered up by killing the Jews, getting rid of them,keeping them quiet, etc. Right now the problem is that the success of Jews in Israel is an inconvenient truth which makes their lies transparent. Those that create massive lies tend to engage in highly despicable acts.

  37. Bernard Ross Said:

    “Why introduce your fetishes here, they are irrelevant to the discussion?”

    dweller Said:

    “Fetishes”? — none here. …….Perhaps you have a “sex fetish” — a sex addiction?

    HMMMMMM?????

    fet·ish ?fediSH/ noun
    a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular ……part of the body, etc.

    the following are YOUR words, not mine, perhaps you can explain how they do not represent YOUR fetish?
    dweller Said:

    And I don’t mean the cheeks that sit on your face —

    did you get these urges at your convent? 🙂

  38. dweller Said:

    I didn’t ask you to define “hijack.” That was entirely your own idea

    I posted it becuae you keep asking the obvious and self evident. I posted it because you dont seem to understand simple words like Hijack.dweller Said:

    in THIS instance, however, asked you to prove that a ‘hijacking’ occurred, since you seem to think you can make the claim w/o even reading either the thing ‘hijacked’ OR the ‘newly purposed’ product.

    LOL, you appear to have serious learning difficulties with regards to the simplest of discussions. the christians used the hebrew bible as the basis for their NT do you deny that fact?… its self evident, Hebrew bible cam first then the christians used it for their own purposes of yeshu fables. Which part do you not understand? Is there anyone esle who does not understand the simple statement and definition of words?
    Bernard Ross Said:

    “…’hi·jack ?h??jak/Submit verb. take over (something) and use it for a different purpose.’

    christianity hijacked the hebrew bible [and used it for a different purpose”]

    DUH????????????????

  39. @ bernard ross:

    “certainly an omnipotent G_D can do whatever men can do or whatever men can conceive of or imagine.”

    “You’re sounding more like a self-styled ‘Christian’ all the time. They take the same view as you’ve just expressed. But the truth is that ‘an omnipotent God can do whatever men can do or whatever men can conceive of or imagine’ ONLY if He’s made in the image of Man (instead of vice versa).

    If He is in fact God, then there are some things which He cannot do. As He is self-existent, dying is one of them. (As His integrity is infinite, lying is another & breaking His word, a third.)”

    “so dweller decides what G_D is capable of doing”

    “I didn’t ‘decide’ it. He decided it. All I did was figure it out — using the common sense & reasoning capability that He gives every man as a birthright.

    “I think you use the ‘same common sense and reasoning capability’ as the…Christians, who…slaughtered the Jews to get rid of the witnesses. It appears that you both follow the same … character.”

    THEY don’t seem to think so. In fact, they disagree most heartily with you. And in that regard they are correct, while you are flatly out-to-lunch. Truth be told, they follow a ‘God.’ I follow a man. Manifestly, there are two DIFFERENT ‘characters’ in question, not one.

    “YOU could figure it out too, if you didn’t have your brains lodged between your cheeks. And I don’t mean the cheeks that sit on your face — I mean the cheeks you sit on.”

    “Why introduce your fetishes here, they are irrelevant to the discussion?”

    “Fetishes”? — none here. It is you who insists that sexual releases are ‘necessary’ to live, and who resents hearing the contrary. Perhaps you have a “sex fetish”? — a sex addiction? What does your headshrinker say (apart from the acknowledgment that he shares the malady)?

    Anyway, what’s truly NOT ‘irrelevant’ to the discussion is that PresentCompany’s invincible denseness (evidenced by his aforenoted choice of storage area for his reasoning equipment) is a direct consequence of his own inveterate maliciousness: it quite simply makes a man stupid (a term which derives from the word stupor).

  40. @ bernard ross:

    “I think you use the ‘same common sense and reasoning capability’ as the… Christians[,] who hijacked the Jewish bible and slaughtered the Jews to get rid of the witnesses.”

    1. “When you’ve READ their Bible and compared it with the Jewish Bible (of course, you’d have to get ’round to reading THAT sometime too), you’ll have a right to make a judgment over whether in fact a ‘hijacking’ has occurred. Till then, you’re just parroting talking points over what you don’t know for yourself.

    2. “If they’d wanted to ‘get rid of the witnesses,’ then ALL the Jews would be dead & all the Tanachim destroyed (and Jewish-wannabe twits like PresentCompany wouldn’t be around to rail & hiss). Clearly, however, there are plenty of ‘witnesses’ still around.”

    “…’hi·jack ?h??jak/Submit verb. take over (something) and use it for a different purpose.’

    christianity hijacked the hebrew bible”

    Hypothesis presented as fact. Prove it.

    “and used it as a foundation stone to build their bible. Since then they have been libeling and killing the witnesses to their crime. Why do I keep having to post definitions to you for simple words that every one knows?”

    Why? — Because you get off on doing that, and use it as a tool to steer the discourse toward your own agenda.

    I didn’t ask you to define “hijack.” That was entirely your own idea. I have, in THIS instance, however, asked you to prove that a ‘hijacking’ occurred, since you seem to think you can make the claim w/o even reading either the thing ‘hijacked’ OR the ‘newly purposed’ product.

  41. dweller Said:

    Well, I’d say that envy (not ‘jealousy’) is indeed Replacement Theology’s biggest problem in re the Jews. Certainly it stands guilty of covetousness; in its very NATURE it violates the 10th Commandment, to which all soi-disant “Xtns” presume to subscribe.

    Its’ biggest problem is that it is a lie upon which much of the other lies depend. Having tried to build a bridge to the hebrew bible in order to authenticate its mythology it must explain why the christians have now taken the place of the jews. This is also why the BDS churches are so enthusiastic about libeling Israel because it exposes the lie with fact. Until now christianity said the jews were cursed and the christians replaced them as the chosen but the barren land blooms for ingathered jews and NOT the replacement theology supersessionist christians. Israel endangers the business model of many very lucrative international corporations, it strikes to the very heart of the cluster of lies. christianity must cause the failure of Israel and its backup plan is their destruction by the muslims. They are excellent strategists and well versed in doublespeak, they influence secular europe through their powerful tentacles. The libels of the christians against the jews always preceded their pogroms and genocides. They are in the libeling stage and hiring others to do their dirty work. They empower the muslim narratives because of their need to delegitimize the Jews.
    Nothing has changed!

  42. bernard ross Said:

    virgin birth

    Big deal Yankee boy, everybody is born a virgin. And those “red herrings ” of yours, do they come packed in sour cream with raw onions?

  43. @ yamit82:
    yamit82 Said:

    yeshu kills a fig tree for not bearing figs,

    will the real yeshu (Dweller) please stand up….. 😛 😛 😛 😛

    dweller Said:

    “[Adonoi] neither ‘lowered’ Himself NOR ‘mated’ with a woman. You make the Almighty sound like some kind of incubus. Yecch! GAG me.
    yamit said:
    “Describe how he did it if you know?”
    Dweller said:
    Sure, no problem; right after you describe for me how He wrote the dibrot on stone tablets.

    This is his usual MO when he cannot answer a question which will expose his argument as ludicrous….. running away, asking a question back instead of answering..
    He makes his god sound like an incubus.
    dweller Said:

    The Talmud also contains serious discussions over the relative sizes (and merits) of various rabbis’ whoozisses.

    should we assume that Dwellers god used his whoziss?