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What I really don’t see at all is that Jesus taught us not to obey the teachings in the NT books.

We can have democratic institutions (universal suffrage, direct election of Senators, term limits on the presidency, etc.) And we can have undemocratic institutions (electoral college, 3/5ths compromise, filibuster rules, etc.) This looks suspiciously like Democratic institutions, not democratic in...

No, most of the Jewish people did not become Christians. Not at all. That's why the early Christians had to scatter from Jerusalem. That's why Paul, after initially preaching in synagogues wherever he went, would take the gospel to the Gentiles after being rejected by most of the Jews. Furthermore,...

I suppose if one thinks "might makes right"; what I question is why many Christians assert that "Israel has a right to exist" but they don't also assert that Palestinians and their lands in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to exist. Or do they believe that might always makes r...

Well put. I think there are indications of a return to the land of Israel, Who is doing this returning? As I’ve clarified earlier, most of the Jewish people became Christians. The rest died in 70 AD making a last stand at the temple. Whatever modern day Judaism or Jewish identity is, it has no prom...

Interesting group. Really hard to get up there, at least when I was there. Even harder to find out exactly what they have in their "temple." My friends at Jerusalem University College think they have a priceless trove of manuscripts, that outsiders can't get access to. Yes. They end up wo...

And is full of a combination of essentially atheistic seculars and believers in a made up religion that was posited as a replacement for the true religion that God prescribed, commonly called Rabbinic Judaism. One of the more interesting groups are the Samaritans - all 900 of them. About half are i...

Just so I understand you clearly. You believe ALL the unbelieving Jews were slain at that moment leaving ONLY believing Jews...including Josephus? I don't have any idea of ALL of them were slain. I am simply saying that those who decided to stay and "defend" the temple, and attempt to fig...

The Pharisees were supposed to be keeping the law. The reason Jesus criticised them is because they weren't obeying/keeping the law, not because Jesus was against the law.

"Think not that I came to abolish the law."

The question could be asked this way: How does carrying out Jesus' "great commission" look different from religious folk straining to bring as many converts into their system as possible? Motivation and intent of the heart; is it a selfless motivation to bring others to the knowledge of J...