God is reality. The dynamic essence of reality, according to the Hebrew conception. I believe God is good, but he is reality first. If he is good, his...
Talmud helps us apply Torah, but Torah is the holier, more primary text. If you're looking for a complete code of halakha just go to Shulchan Aruch or...
I'll try a different approach, as I don't intend to restate what I've already said. Considering other common forms of death in antiquity, death by flo...
Hundreds of thousands? I hear that's only kids -- so that would make millions of dead Palestinians. Now that'll stick it to the Zionists. Who cares ab...
The man would be guilty by divine law, which exists independently of man-made legal systems. :up: The religious view is that God has the right to take...
Terrifying footage earlier today of Syrian troops going into Druze villages and forcibly shaving the beards off Druze men. Same thing Nazis did to Jew...
Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Animals cannot murder, nature cannot murder, and God cannot murder. Beyond ...
The Noahide laws are in Genesis. See, for instance, Gen 9:4 and 9:5. The injunction against murder goes back further to at least Cain and Abel. God is...
Yes, Genesis includes the patriarchal tales, but before that are stories about God's interaction with humanity more generally. Noah is saved on accoun...
Books like Genesis and Jonah present a more universalistic picture, while Exodus is more particular/nationalistic. A group (Israel) accepted him as th...
I wouldn't necessarily equate these things. I would need to read up on Plato, though, but perhaps Plato would perceive God/the divine as unchangeable?...
If you are secular, I would drop the "Christ" and just call him Jesus. Christ is a title meaning Messiah, not a last name. He's a first-century rabbi ...
Reminds me of one of Hitler's early portraits. Aryan Jesus. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Adolf_Hitler_-_Mary_with_Jesus_%281913...
Kinda strange, considering Jesus prayed to the God of the Bible and seemed to hold the Law in high regard. The gospels record him attending synagogue ...
Didn't realize you were a Marcionite, but it makes sense now. We don't know the soul's journey. Perhaps death is simply a soul being called back to it...
IMO, the Flood is the first real moral juncture point in the Bible. It's the first time God truly wreaks mass destruction on humanity. The explanation...
Nature isn't equitable. The problem with these DEI initiatives is that they focus on limited intersectionalities in a world with countless intersectio...
The Middle East has always been "fucked up." To pin it on the Europeans might be politically correct, but it's not accurate. Those living in the area ...
Honestly, this cracked me up. I would have to stop myself from chuckling if I were to hear this one. If it's a conservative, I would suspect that it's...
My post wasn't an argument. I was setting forth a condition for discussion, namely, the understanding that the Iranian regime was wicked. To which you...
I gotta say, you bring up interesting points that point to our differences. Please tell me more about these theory-independent prescriptive facts. We ...
The more I read this the more I enjoy parts of it. You note real points of difference, but from the other side. As opposed to you, where it's all just...
The lemon farming anecdote amused me, but I don't think this is historical, as the Palestinians were displaced from the West Bank, not to the West Ban...
I will keep my responses brief because you've clarified that you probably aren't responding. If you want to continue, I can go into more detail, but I...
It's interesting to me how different countries treat it. WWII is shifting from memory to history. In Russia, it's become a source of great patriotic p...
The Iranian regime is wicked. This should be acknowledged, whether one chooses to strike or not. If one can't accept this fact, then it is not worth c...
This is the matter. No one cares about Muslim on Muslim violence. It's only if the Jews dare raise their hand against one of the regional players that...
You're talking about a regime that rapes female prisoners before execution so that when they die they don't go to heaven. Also, not surprising that on...
The Iranian regime is profoundly cruel and deserving of death and destruction. That is certain. The question is whether the West should actively bring...
We don't hate the Iranians, we hate the Iranian regime which unfortunately has suppressed that beautiful Persian civilization. There are streets in Is...
I can't blame everything on Likud. One event that sticks in my mind was the Olympic massacre of 1972. That wasn't under Likud. The violence has been t...
That's right, Frank. How dare the Jews want to have their own land in their ancestral homeland. I agree -- that's much of what it comes down to. Why c...
Likud rose to power because of the intifadas and the failure of peace agreements. The nice, left-wing Israelis failed, thus you get Likud. Sort of lik...
Here we go again... I suspect Israel's response is proportionate because Hamas has militarized its entire society as well as built an extensive underg...
As a regime, Iran is more depraved than Russia, and I'm no fan of Russia. It would be like, take the repression of Russia, and combine it with the fac...
When will the UN condemn the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians? The intentional targeting of civilians has always been wrong. My position rega...
It must be nice to have nothing to stand for; no nation or power you stand by. It's a simple formula, I see: 1) Have no allegiance to any nation or po...
You seem to be under the impression that the people of Iran are insane fundamentalist muslims. I don't think that's right. I think they're only being ...
I don't know if we'll see a regime change, but I would love to see Iran liberated. It's nice to have other people who value the history of ancient Isr...
Comments