Like any other court (Deborah and Roy Bean are great examples). You accept those who consent to the jurisdiction of the seven laws and you rule accordingly and in consultation with other jurists doing the same thing. You can also publish ex parte rulings to speak to situations on your own initiative. Nobody has a monopoly on Noahidism, and the doomers are mistaken to think that those who've spent more time planning the subject have some natural advantage over those who have equal communal access to understanding the laws. This would be a good place to ask questions, but suffice for now that it appears eminently doable and would in theory answer any 3 hours of dooming.
That's my point, it's not the Noahide laws, but their abuse. Since you and I are Noahides we have just as much right to contribute to the interpretation of Noahide law as anyone else. In fact, the constitution of the Swamp Rangers meets all the regulations one could ask of a Noahide court so we can put our interpretations up against anyone else's that claims to be a Noahide court. Anyone who reasonably volunteers to mediate disputes, like Deborah or Roy Bean, constitutes a Noahide court. So the objection is not to the reality but to some imagination based on ambiguous actions and misread Talmudic passages.
Now, as a Constitutionist I point out that all Americans are sovereigns and have responsibilities as such. Many don't take that responsibility and then complain that American law is sliding; but the fact is that as sovereigns they are free to protect themselves, to instruct their public servants differently, and to reject servant overreach by refusing to comply with unconstitutional demands, and when they complain that nothing can be done they abrogate responsibility. So if you don't like an interpretation of Noahide law, promulgate your own interpretation as a Noahide court!
There are seven laws; the law of no idolatry prohibits belief in other than the Creator God; and Abrahamic religions each recognize the principle of diversity of expression in the one God, in different ways. Therefore none of the Abrahamic religions is idolatry in itself under Noahide laws, they are only judged idolatrous within one religion as it judges another.
Maybe since nobody else is really doing it I should just declare myself a Noahide court and start judging, and admitting interrelationship with anyone else who declares a Noahide court. That would be fun, especially when the Jews come along. We could use the Abolition of Man appendix as our base interpretative framework. Then we could put these objections about such courts to rest. Noahidism is not unique to Judaism but can be claimed by 100-200 cultures that each have flood traditions.
Jewish culture is based around seeing Jesus as a heretic, so they have been the enemies of Christian’s ever since it’s inception.
In the first century AD Jewish culture split down two paths, one of which was adopted at large by Gentiles and became called Christianity, and the other of which became rabbinism. But rabbinism was not defined on being the enemy of Christ, but on regrouping after the destruction of the temple. Since all of the first 5,000 Christians and many afterward were Jews, and since many of the first 5,000 were among those who previously called for Jesus's death (Acts 3-4), Jews have not been the enemies of Christians since the inception of the name "Christians"; Christians were just another sect of Jews just like Pharisees. Over a couple centuries, Jewish culture shifted from accepting that there were Christians among the Jews toward trying to avoid the question of why there were Christians at all, and those ethnic, cultural Jews who believed in Jesus became very isolated where they existed at all.
Therefore it seems to me that Jewish culture is based around following Moses and leaving Jesus entirely to the Gentiles, which is why the missionary group Jews For Jesus has, as its motto and goal, making the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue for Jews worldwide.
Rejecting would be having the religious knowledge of the abrahamic religions already and still choosing to hate Jesus.
Yes, for instance, but that's where we should be careful about charges that someone hates Jesus. Most Jews do not hate the man Jesus, because when someone goes on the record they are usually hating on a false concept that doesn't exist and isn't Jesus. For instance, they're hating a name by which they were wrongly persecuted.
Most Jews hate Jesus because the Jewish traditions see him as a heretic.
Not actually true, I've asked for Jewish tenets on this and they aren't forthcoming. Yes, there are a couple folk-religious documents that view Jesus as a heretic that are not endorsed by any rabbi as Judaism, but Jewish traditions as defined by rabbis are essentially about remaining silent about Jesus's status. There's a new wave among some rabbis who want to reclaim Jesus for Judaism as a good Torah-observant Jew so that other Jews will want to be as Torah-observant as Jesus was. But when individuals speak against Jesus, the rabbis distance themselves from that position officially. I'm open to alternative evidence of course.
TLDR: I see no evidence that Jewish culture is based around seeing Jesus as a heretic, that Jews have been the enemies of Christians ever since the inception of the name Christians, that Jews at large choose to hate Jesus, or that Jewish traditions see Jesus as a heretic.
What do you think Noahidism is? What antisemitism laws are perceived as unconstitutional? How could criticizing Israel be legislated as forbidden in America? Since the video is about Australia, what do Australia's laws have to do with the US Constitution?
If a law is unconstitutional it can be challenged up to the Supreme Court, which to my knowledge hasn't permitted any unconstitutional antisemitism law. The speaker's first conclusions don't follow from his clip of Netanyahu doing the ordinary posturing and demanding that sovereigns do one to another.
Since the video is 3 hours without transcript, I'm not bothering to continue beyond the start, which would be to enter the middle of an argument when definitions are not provided upfront.
Did you know that Pharisees gave the world the concept of memory erasure at birth, in Niddah 30b:23? You believe the Talmud now? I don't think Pharisees are doing the memory erasing.
And once emerges into the airspace of the world, an angel comes and slaps it on its mouth, causing it to forget the entire Torah, as it is stated: "Sin crouches at the entrance."
Well, we know that it's ultimately from Life, but the fact is that the record attests that nonliving matter became living matter: the earth brought forth plants, the waters and earth brought forth creatures, and God made man from the dust of the earth. What contradicts what we know is for it to have only happened once. The ICR shatters this paradigm by pointing out that many specimens of each species and one specimen of mankind were created from nonliving matter independently; that allows me to agree with the atheists about abiogenesis and to disagree with them about how often it happens and whether it could ever happen without fine-tuning.
In this case the command not to kill is contradicted by the command to love and serve your family.
The command is not to murder (though it's often translated kill, but this is clarified by the context of executions). The contradiction is not in the intent but in falsely resolving the ambiguity in English. Killing in self-defense is specifically separated from murder in the case example of a night break-in (Ex. 22:2). That separation is not a contradiction but a different case that has a different law; canons of construction allow the general case to be stated in one place and the uncovered specific cases in another place. Reading and resolving the whole Torah is very enlightening about this detail of noncontradiction!
So you reject Augustine, who I understand counts as Orthodox, and affirm a doctrine I've traced only to Origen. I agree there is a time not to tell the whole truth if deception isn't involved, but that time expires when one is asked to testify the whole truth. I don't agree there is ever a time to deceive or mislead and I asked you indirectly who says so. On OrthodoxWiki the only relevant topic I get is prelest. It's an understandable intramural debate that has no polemic in it, so I appreciate your taking the time to engage it.
All the quotes you brought up do not deny that the Jews that reject Jesus are a “child of the devil” .... Bottom line is that the Jews(ones that deny Jesus) are “children of the devil” as a whole and are not the “chosen people of God”. They should be treated like any other group of people.
Essentially correct, anyone who rejects Jesus is a servant or child of the devil (slight diff involved), and they should be evangelized like any people. Keep in mind that a Lifeway survey finds there are about a million Jews who believe Jesus is the Messiah, out of about 15 million Jews in all, so I usually say Rabbinical Jews to distinguish from Messianic Jews. The only difficulty is that it's uncharitable to relegate any whole to the devil when it is our job to spread the good news winsomely (i.e. not to destroy culture but to work within culture and only destroy what is an obvious sin). Much of what's said about "the Jews" is stated as if it applies to every innocent man, woman, and child, and so that calls for care.
Interestingly, the KJV only uses the phrase "chosen people" once, for a certain select Gentile army.
When I’m talking about Jews, I’m talking about those who deny Christ.
Correct, you are, and that's not what the Bible does, and it's not what the Messianic Jews (our brothers in Christ) do. The Rabbinical Jews do not have a formal position on Messianic Jews, but the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that they are halakhically children of Jews even though they do not have full rights (being also Christians). Therefore the proposition that "Jews" automatically means deniers of Christ is not a straightforward use of the word and gets in the way of evangelism.
Further, I've asked for years whether any congregational rabbi or rabbinical organization formally rejects Jesus in plain English, and I've come to find they don't. Rabbinical Judaism does not take a formal position on Jesus because they know what kind of blowback they get when their individual congregants do. I explain to everyone, they're too cagey for that. And that is our opportunity to give them the good news of Jesus the Messiah in the Hebrew Scriptures and their own rabbinical sources.
The Ashkenazi have admitted that they arose from intermarriage of converts, which affects the gene pool. The question is whether they are the same people, and that is answered by the fact that peacefully merging into the same agreed polity as someone else makes you the same people. I've asked for proof that they are not the same people and none has come forth. In tenth century France, Ju was the short form and Judaeus was the long form of the same term for the same people.
If we Americans may tell Jews they're not true Jews and we know who are true Jews, Jews may tell us Americans that we're not true Americans and they know who are true Americans. Those who are othering Jews by calling them non-Jews are doing what they accuse Jews of doing.
if a man comes to kill your friend you actually have a duty to lie to him and save your friend (supposing fighting is not an option).
Many have weighed in differently on the issue, which is why I gave the note. Perhaps you have a magisterial citation about my duty to tell lies as if one man can compel another man's testimony. I appeal to Is. 54:16-17 that no entrapment to lie can succeed:
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Further, no command can contradict another, so if you are faced with an apparent contradiction it is your own failure of discernment, Matt. 22:39-40:
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
You and I denounce Origen, and yet the introduction into Christianity of the thought that Christians have a "right of reserve" to not tell the whole truth is Origenism.
I respect your other comments and you seem wise enough to take direction from a few simple indicators.
Yet the jews crucified him
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus .... and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! ... And they crucified him (Matt. 27:27, 29, 35). Roman soldiers.
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets (1 Th. 2:14-15). Not "crucified". "The Jews" here excludes Thessalonian Jews and Christian Jews.
When Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel .... The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied .... And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead .... And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers .... Many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand (Acts 3:12, 13, 15, 17, 4:4). Hundreds of Israelites who delivered Jesus were of the first 5,000 Christians.
and didn't recognize him as savior.
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) that word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead (Acts 10:36-41).
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Rom. 1:16).
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law (Acts 21:20). Greek, literally "many myriads", i.e. over 30,000 Torah-observant Messianic Jews in Jerusalem alone.
A jewish person who doesn't recognize Jesus as saviour is still a jew and a child of the devil.
Yes, like any Gentile, except the English Bible capitalizes "Jewish" and "Jew".
One who converts to Christianity is no longer a jew, but a christian.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:28). So, only in the sense that one is "no longer" a man or woman. Further:
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew (Acts 21:39). While a Christian.
He is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God (Rom. 2:29).
That's what the bible says.
Yes, in case you didn't see me saying it the last 20 times, Jesus Christ is my Lord, Savior, and King. He also prophesied twice that the Jews would welcome him in the Father's Name (Luke 13:35, Matt. 23:39). Paul expands on this prophecy (Rom. 11). So, for the sake of Jesus Christ, my Lord, Savior, and King, I preach the good news of the death of Christ for my sin and the resurrection of Christ for my glorification to everyone, Jew first and Gentile also. On occasion that includes straightening out the Gentiles about who the Jews are.
I've also denounced the Talmud here repeatedly for its superstitious spiritism, its casuistic unawareness, and its stifling isolationism. However, I cannot denounce the Talmud on things it doesn't say, and there's a lot of other denunciation floating around for that reason. For instance, I've denounced Rabbi Ulla for saying the Jesus who was hung on a tree at Passover was an inciter; but I cannot denounce the Talmud for accurately reporting that Ulla said that as an outlier view and the majority ruled differently.
Did you recant your statement that "King of the jews" (your lowercase) was not an actual title, or do you "pathetic"ally "rewrite" Matt. 2:2?
Lying can be virtuous if you do it to save someone from the gestapo.
Nota bene: Corrie ten Boom didn't lie to the gestapo when they asked if there were any Jews in her house, she said "Search for yourself". Athanasius didn't lie to the government when they asked if he had seen Athanasius, he said "He's very near, you can still catch him."
So you do need a course in linguistics because you don't know the difference between convergent homonyms and etymologically pedigreed variants. Do you want the links?
Lin Wood has credible evidence Epstein is alive.
As to this one (note my reply might be delayed if you don't reply to me directly or ping me with the string "u/SwampRangers"), I just told you the evidence is in Kenyon's extensive field notes. I've also just linked you evidence from many hostile witnesses that Yeshua's life was marked by a reputation for performing inexplicable works ("wonders"). Eyewitness evidence is actually the best testimony, but the miracle (inexplicable event) that 25% of the known world regards Yeshua as God the Son is a pretty good subsidiary evidence that there must be something there.
I understand if you think my suppositions are based on belief. I call myself a skeptic though because I went through doubts and worked out every one of them so that the unevidenced beliefs I had as a child were modified so that my views are now based on all the evidence (facts and logic) available. You might call that "suppositions" if you use the same word for your own hypotheses, but IRL we don't call it a hypothesis or supposition that we ate breakfast this morning. We call it a (sufficiently evidenced) fact. So the actual case is that I have sufficiently evidenced views based on facts and logic that have been tested against all comers, and continue to be. I would hope you aspire to the same.
So, though the Jericho case is very interesting and also involves some conspiracy to control the evidence released, I think it's more tangential and you should focus on what you think happened to Yeshua and his followers when he died, because that's really the hinge on which Yeshua's testimony of other miracles turns. For that I refer you to my separate comment on it.
I never said it changed its meaning, so you changed my meaning. Ju means Judaeus and is the same word as Jew. Would you like a linguistics course? Or would you like to do what nobody here has ever done and explain who the two people-groups are that you imagine existed side by side?
That was written for atheists who are so materialist that they define divine and sacred as anything supernatural (i.e. unexplained by known laws), when they don't realize that all good scientific theories, including the Big Bang in its first Planck instant, admit that unexplained things exist. If the Cosmos is everything that exists, it's also going to be the most divine and sacred of anything, and only the totality of the Cosmos can successfully map itself (any other map is not the territory). So most philosophers cross that pons asinorum pretty early.
I appreciate that you're content with the minimalist god as simply defining it as the greatest of all possibilities. What we find out is that, when we consider all the detailed proposals that have been made to explain it, including all the superstitions (inexplicables) that have been offered throughout history, the goatherders are batting impressively by comparison. Science calls for an inference to the best explanation, and so I choose my inferences based on which concept explains reality the best, and I keep improving my inferences (I trust you do too).
The conclusion of that piece is not only the existence of the messianic (anointed) preacher but also very confident history of the specifics of his teaching. The link had sublinks that detailed these and I added an eighth one here. The historical issue is that the novelty of all these claims together, and the uniqueness of the testimony of wonders (inexplicables) performed by Jesus from both supportive and hostile witnesses, indicates a personality and concept set that is nonpareil in all of history. He had a self-concept that is both unprecedented and transcendent, and he affirmed many historical accounts of the supernatural as true events too. So if the 1st century (so named after him) contains accounts of a man with such world-changing force, then either he really was supernatural, or (if there is no supernatural) belief in the supernatural is still better for the world than the alternative. Descartes said something similar.
I count myself a skeptic, and you obviously count yourself a devil's advocate. I think the path forward is (1) recognize that "supernatural" simply means "unexplained by known law", (2) recognize that all scientific theories by nature leave room for the unexplained, (3) focus on the unexplained aspects of the resurrection evidence, and (4) make an inference to the best (most complete, most sufficient) explanation.
"Jewish" means "being a Jew", how could it mean anything else?
Ioudaios in Latin is Judaeus, which in 900s France was elided to Ju meaning the same thing and referring to the same people, which through many spellings became standardized as Jew.
For there to be a difference between Judeans/Judahites and Jews, there would need to be two different peoples that never merged, but we only see one polity that at times accepted outsiders who converted, were circumcised, and intermarried. There is no historical scenario where there were two different peoples of this description.
The Magi didn't mock Jesus by calling him King of the Jews in Matt. 2:2.
Goyim is plural, we're goyim, you're a goy.
I've been asking for years if anyone has evidence that Jews are not Judeans/Judahites, and nobody has it. It turns out that the first people to say that Ashkenazi did not have 100% Jewish blood were Jews in the first place (Judah Halevi, Abraham ibn Daud, and Isaac Levinsohn from Ukraine). They were hoping that by making that admission they'd get less persecution, but over time it made them more persecuted. You're not perpetuating a narrative written by Ashkenazi Jews, are you?
See, I told you, keep parodizing it and you'll hit the truth sooner or later, Rex. Keep up the good work.
u/LightBringerFlex openly sources the Sadlers' Urantia Book.
Yes except they are not ancestors but analogues. You don't think abiogenesis only happened once, do you? It's so mathematically impossible to happen once (literal probability zero) that it's equally likely that it happened may times, just as Gen. 1 says.
now I’m a lot closer to Yeshu. He told me, I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. He also told me to come close to him near the fire, so I can be close to the kingdom.
u/Graphenium and I have found that there's enough bridge between Thomas and those other gospels that your other statement is immoderate:
Christianity as practiced today all over the World is absolutely false. 100% deception.
What would be absolutely true in your opinion? You have an experience, it seems, how can another person objectively test your experience to see if its source is absolutely true?
The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them. The prison is your mind, the lack of knowledge. That’s why THEY erase all your memory before you are born into this world. So you don’t know who you are and where you came from. And when you die the deception takes over, that’s why THEY work so hard to brainwash you in this life. So you’ll have no chance to make the right choice when it comes to the next life, e.g. “What’s next?”. And you think it's destiny, or karma, or something like that. It's not.
Pharisees are memory erasers now? This is too hastily said. The "memory loss" you describe is the result of a divine thought being compressed into a sparked zygote, it's not a true loss but a severe fractal compression that creates a new Self-Other paradigm. Without getting your terminology sufficiently exact you won't have hope to get it right in this life, and you may have some difficulty rightly interpreting the next too.
The first reference to gnosis is when Paul warns us against pseudognosis. It all flows from those two kinds and it's essential to know the difference.
The Bible says Jesus was Jewish and King of the Jews.
Exactly. The odds of abiogenesis happening by chance are zero since there are only about 10^150 possible events in the extant universe and the simplest organism requires many orders more events than that. Therefore it happened by fine-tuning and could have happened many times as easily as once.