Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Christianity is an oral tradition. II

   Christians believe that Jesus came to full fill the law.  What ever that means?  They say that he kept the law perfectly and full filled every commandment.  I will show that this is erroneous.  The first law of the Torah given to man kind in general is the commandment to reproduce and have progeny.  This is mentioned in Genesis 1:28.  It is known and admitted by Christians that Jesus did not marry and did not have children.  Unless he sired children outside of wed lock he did not have children.  Therefore he did not even full fill the very first positive commandment in the Torah.
    There is another problem with this idea that Jesus full filled the Torah.  Of the 613 laws in the Torah, some apply to males, females, Kings, Priests, children and Levites.. ect.  So we can see from this that it is literally imposible for any one man to keep all the laws in the Torah.  It was not meant for one man to come along and keep all the Laws in the Torah.  Unless Jesus was a man, woman, ect. all at the same time he could not keep the Torah.  You might say, "well we don't mean the entire Torah but the obligation that was relative to him.  He was a perfect human being and he kept his part of the Torah".  So how could he relate to a women who has to be unclean every month because of her cycle?  Part of the acertation of Christians is that God came into a body, or became a body so that he could relate to us.  It was neccasary that he be tempted like we are.  As a matter of fact, there is an acount of Jesus going into the desert to be tempted by the Satan.  Never mind that it is impossible for God to be tempted.  He could not be the redeemer of the Jewish women because he could not be tempted in the same areas as women.
      What kind of idiots does the christian god think that humanity is.  Here is a being who is all powerful, who became a man to suffer humanity, only to prove that he was God by doing miracles and showing mastery over nature, ultimately raising himself from the dead.  So if he was God he can not be tempted he is too powerful for that.  If he could actually sin and be weak enough to be fooled into sinning than he is clearly not God.  A god man is not a creature that I can relate to on any level.
        The whole idea of God becoming a man is Christian idea not to be found anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures.  The Christian imagines them to be hidden in layers of the text.  In illusions, they see Avraham offering up his son on the alter as God himself offering his son Yeshu.  They see the suffering of the Jewish people as a whole the suffering of Yeshu.  They see the life of Yoseph to be similar to the life of Yeshu.  All of this is very creative interpretation.  On a plain sense level if you sat down a child who just learned to read and had him read the "Old Testament" he would never ever come up with such a fantasy as Christianity.  The Oral Law to Jews is known as the interpretation of the written law.  There for Christianity claims that their interpretation of the "Old Testament" which happens to be the "New Testament" is the correct interpretation.  Jesus said that the whole bible is speaking about him.  Matter of fact John said that he was the word of God in flesh.  So we see that this interpretation is an oral tradition that was latter written down.  So you see a Christian believes that all the righteous people of the "Old Testament"  were waiting for Yeshu.  So that would mean that Christianity is really the religion of the "Old Testament".  John8:56 Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it, and was glad.  It is essential to understand what Christianity thinks of itself.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Kosher Jesus= Jumbo shrimp: they are both oxymoron.

          I am not going to comment on the book or the author.  Kosher Jesus immediately causes a short circuit. It seems to be a state of cognitive dissidence.  Jesus did say, "this is my flesh come and eat", but even human flesh is not kosher.  If the idea is that Jesus is some how to be accepted by Jews to be benign than I have to say that it could not be farther from the truth.  Jews can never forget the havoc that Christianity has wreaked on the world at large and especially on the Jewish people. 

Two thousand years of shedding blood in the name of that man, by his followers, has put a serious damper on the spirit of the Jew towards this man that is now given the label as kosher. So as you can imagine there has been an uproar among the Jewish community at large.

There are some things about Jesus or Christianity that can be deemed kosher or redeemable. They are those things that Christianity has stolen from Judaism and called there own. It is no secret that Jesus was a Jew. It might have been ignored for centuries but now there is a new found passion to know more among truth seeking Christians and they are digging for the Hebrew roots of Christianity as they call it. So it is a logical conclusion that if Jesus was a Jew and he taught from the Jewish scriptures than it would behoove any serious student to study the material that he taught. Thus the "old testament" which is actually the Jewish scriptures are part of their bible. ( It is interesting to note that even though it is called "old" as opposed to the "new" it is placed before the new testement in position, meaning if you were to read in order you would read the "old" first. Also it is much greater in volume. So if we were measuring as a way to judge importance. Something that comes first in order at least in quantity it can be seen as superior meaning that there is a symbiotic relationship between first and the second, the first is the cause and second is the effect. Although you can never get to the second without the first but that is not true the opposite way. You can never reach the level of second unless there is a first. From this strain of thought you can see how the old testament is not reliant upon the new but the other way around.)

I truly believe that is why we are seeing a huge support for Israel among the evangelical crowd. Now days with all the tools we have you can just Google it and you have a wealth of information at your finger tips. The days of ignorance are over there has been an explosion of knowledge and people are getting smarter. No longer can the pastor, preacher, or priest get away with misinforming his followers.

Yeshu is an acronym for "let his name not be remembered". This is how the sages of the Talmud felt about Jesus. Rambam amongst the greatest of our sages of whom it is written on his resting place for "Moshe to Moshe there was none like Moshe", Meaning from Moshe Rabeinu to Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon there was no one like these two. He had this to say about Jesus, ""Even Jesus the Nazarene who imagined that he would be Messiah and was killed by the court, was already prophesied by Daniel. So that it was said, “And the members of the outlaws of your nation would be carried to make a (prophetic) vision stand. And they stumbled” (Daniel 11.14). Because, is there a greater stumbling-block than this one? So that all of the prophets spoke that the Messiah redeems Israel, and saves them, and gathers their banished ones, and strengthens their commandments. And this one caused (nations) to destroy Israel by sword, and to scatter their remnant, and to humiliate them, and to exchange the Torah, and to make the majority of the world err to serve a divinity besides God."[45]


Nonetheless, Maimonides continued,


"But the human mind has no power to reach the thoughts of the Creator, for his thoughts and ways are unlike ours. And all these things of Jesus the Nazarene, and of (Muhammad) the Ishmaelite who stood after him – there is no (purpose) but to straighten out the way for the King Messiah, and to restore all the world to serve God together. So that it is said, “Because then I will turn toward the nations (giving them) a clear lip, to call all of them in the name of God and to serve God (shoulder to shoulder as) one shoulder.” (Zephaniah 3:9). How is this? The entire world had become filled with the issues of the anointed one and of the Torah and the Laws, and these issues had spread out unto faraway islands and among many nations uncircumcised in the heart, and they discuss these issues and the Torah's laws. These say: These Laws were true but are already defunct in these days, and do not rule for the following generations; whereas the other ones say: There are secret layers in them and they are not to be treated literally, and the Messiah had come and revealed their secret meanings. But when the anointed king will truly rise and succeed and will be raised and uplifted, they all immediately turn about and know that their fathers inherited falsehood, and their prophets and ancestors led them astray." (Hilkhot Melakhim 11:10–12.)
      This can not be ignored.  Rambam says clearly that this man caused the majority of the world to worship a different god.  He also caused much suffering to Israel.  Are we as Jews creating a sense of empathy for this Rebel of our people.  Who would dare come to argue that he was kosher?  Kosher means fit.  Is that an adjective that can be used to describe this man?  Rambam says he was delusional, a stumbling block, an outlaw.  I think I will side with Rambam I know his credentials.
      You see if you want to you can look at what was written about Jesus in the new testament and see a completely different Jesus than the one that Christians portray.  You might see a Jesus that encouraged Torah observance.  It is possible that you could teach that Jesus was a good Jew.  You could teach that he was a great Rabbi who spoke about spiritual things that were misunderstood physically.  I did that when I considered myself to be a messianic Jew.  The messianic movement is starting to phase into a Torah observant lifestyle while maintaining a belief in Jesus as the messiah.  In reality though they are still Christians in Jewish clothing.  What it inevitably always comes down to is the oral Torah.  We have a tradition that goes all the way back to the very first man Adam.  Adam didn't have an earthly Father or Mother for that matter.  That would have put him much greater than Jesus.  That tradition tells us that only part of the revelation of truth was written down.  The rest of it was passed down from parents to children and teacher to student.  I believe that tradition is still being revealed every single day.  We are learning new insights on how to apply an eternal law to our current time.  There is still more to come, but like a chain it is all linked together, and when one link is shook they all shake.  If you believe the sages and those that were much greater than us then you see that Jesus is certainly not kosher.
         It could be that in a desire to sensationalize ideas sometimes we embellish with words.  It was our Father Yaakov that sent a gift to Easav knowing he wanted to kill him.  Now a days they are not killing us with the sword instead they are killing us with money.  It is well known that the struggle for Jews in America was how to make a living.  Many employers did not want to hire some one who took Saturday off.  It was such a concern for many that they began to assimilate.  No service is done for Christians by telling them that their messiah is Kosher.  From what I saw of the reviews it seems that this is not the focus of this book entirely.  I can not speak about the book because I have not read it.  On the contrary, we need to speak loudly now in our days while they are not chopping our heads off for saying it.  Jesus is not kosher, messiah, or God.  The new testament is an erroneous document.  To worship a human being as the creator is considered to be idol worship according to the Torah their old testament.  It is the Jew that is supposed to be a light unto the nations.  So that they should see the truth of the Torah.  If Christians were successful in proselytizing all Jews.  Jews as a people would cease to exist in a few generations.  It is specifically because Jews have held on to their Torah so tightly that has insured their continued existence.  Through inter marriage the Jewish identity would be lost.
         Jesus is as treif (torn, not fit) as a cheese burger.  Take it from a Jew who used to be a christian.   Christianity is a religion that will not last and we are seeing the metamorphosis in front of our very eyes.   As honest Christians are becoming more educated about their religion more and more are realizing like my self that they have inherited lies.  They too will be among those who mentioned in the prophecy of Zechariah 8:23  Thus said HaShem, Master of Legions:  In those days it will happen that ten men, of all the (different) languages of the nations, will take hold, they will take hold of the corner of the garment of a Jewish man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!'  So we see why HaShem allowed Jesus and Christianity to happen because they will hear.  Now is the time and those that know the truth and have the truth.  Now is the time Mashiach is coming Bimhayra V'yameinu!