sharrock

And elsewhere ... http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/gods.html

Kosh

Although, you can't exactly claim that all those are confirmation of early polytheism in Jews, reading them all together sure makes YHWH look like more of an organized crime bully....

semiopen

The classical Jewish view of the Torah being written by Moses with no redactions and an unbroken oral tradition, is not taken seriously even by educated modern orthodox.

While Jewish exegesis seems to be superior to Christian, both share the characteristics of randomness.

During a class yesterday, my Rabbi mentioned that the letters in the ten commandments were written in Aramaic script instead of proto Hebrew (or whatever). I must have looked stunned because he told me he would prove it to me... can hardly wait.

storytime

Could we not also say that "God" represents that which all humans have in common - the mind that thinks. So "God" is as a man and so conforms to good and evil and distributes "his" will therewith? The "word" made flesh?

Also, "as a man thinks, so is He". Who then holds the greater power?

Chili

No because omniscience requires no thinking. Thinking is for handicaps or Cave-dwellers in their human condition.

I think they call that 'walking on water' or walking on the celestial sea. . . wherefore Peter had to keep his eye on Jesus, to say that if you are going to go by intuition you must count on it or you will drown. This then is how beauty is the guide and a censorship mechanism for the sage (for lack of a better word) who so is a slave to beauty.

Then I should add that Mary is the heart of Jesus and Elizabeth the mind of the Jesus who so was reborn in the conscious mind of Joseph; wherefore then Elizabeth is the water to walk on and Mary is the beauty of life (or intimacy with life itself), who so teaches us to walk on this water.

Chili

The above solves the riddle in John "mother there is your son" and also explains how "the child is to become the father of the man" . . . and is why the kundalini must be raised for the crotch to the heart first and then from the heart to the mind.

To be reborn then is where purgatory (Galilee) begins and crucifixion is where it ends (in Luke and John). Please note that Mary was Assumed instead of raised and the Coronation of Mary is where She is raised above all to affirm that Love is the greatest of all . . . as life goes on and so now it can be added that heaven is for Catholics only after all (not to say that all Catholics go there but if ever a lazarus was raised outside the Church he would he would have told others about it . . . to which Luke 16:25 is the proper reply in the modern set of John 5:39-40.

Simplyme

Huh???

Am I the only one that has a headache?

Toto

No, not at all. Chili is the house surrealist. When he starts to make sense, start to worry.

Mat

The usual Jewish explanation of Genesis 1:26 is that Hashem(God) is merely consulting with his divine council over creating man. Therefore there is no pre-existant Jesus or Christian Holy Spirit just a deity who likes to talk or consult with heavenly beings before he makes human beings.

Chili

Unless God is the leading egde of creation and so in charge of what Cave dwellers call evolution, of course. Now to keep God abreast of 'changes' to be made, he created the tree of knowledge (TOL) that was perceived by the woman ('womb of the eternal man') to be good for gathering 'knowledge' to be retained in the form of wisdom by the woman in charge. This has to be true if God does not know what it feels like outside without a body of flesh to know.

This then is how the human condition is co-creator with God who's input runs from the TOK to the TOL to the RNA and so into the DNA of man . . . but not of hu-man who has no bodily existence either.