torah
Explorations of the Torah’s teachings, historical context, and theological foundations.
Jesus Forbids Sabbath Keeping Paid Members Public
Rev. Dr. Christiaan Kappes Jesus thought that destruction of the Sabbath observance by his Apostles was among the top items on his list to eliminate during his ministry to usher in the Kingdom of God. Jesus first exercises his loosing power over injustice or sin upon the allegedly non-workable Sabbath,
EARLY CHURCH ON JEWISH CHRISTIANS AND LAW OBSERVANCE Paid Members Public
In this post I will cite from some of the church fathers and apologists of the first four hundred years in relation to their view of Torah keeping, especially in regards to Jewish Christians who continued to observe the Mosaic Law. All emphasis mine. IGNATIUS Chapter 8. Caution against false
EARLY CHURCH’S VIEW OF THE SABBATH DAY Paid Members Public
The current post has been adapted and modified from the following article: What the Early Church Believed: Sabbath or Sunday?. All emphasis shall be mine. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood that Sunday became the Lord’s Day as a result of Christ’s resurrection, and therefore
THE RABBIS’ DILEMMA: WORSHIPING GOD’S ANGEL Paid Members Public
The Tanakh prohibits the worship of any created being, including angels that dwell in the heavens above: “God spoke all these words, to respond: ‘I am the Lord, your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall not have the
CHALLENGE TO THE RABBIS: SEEING THE GOD OF ISRAEL Paid Members Public
In this post I will cite examples from the Hebrew Bible or [O]ld [T]estament where YHVH the one true God of Israel appeared visibly to various individuals. Some of these visible encounters include God eating actual food and physically wrestling someone till daybreak! My purpose is to challenge
Akedah: What Could It Mean? Paid Members Public
By Rich Robinson |January 01 1986 Every Rosh Hashanah, synagogue readings include the story of the Akedah from Genesis 22. Akedah is Hebrew for “binding” and refers to the central action in the story when Abraham binds his son Isaac on the altar in order to sacrifice him. The Story
TWO CREATION ACCOUNTS IN GENESIS 1 & 2? Paid Members Public
The following is taken from the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publications, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, pp. 57-59. Do the names for God in Genesis 1 and 2 show a difference in the authorship of the two chapters? It
RAMESES II WAS NOT THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS! Paid Members Public
In this post I will be excerpting the section of the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s book Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, where he provides a somewhat lengthy refutation of the claim that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, which would place this miraculous