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Theological Tug of War

Theological Tug of War

Issue of the week #3 Theological Tug of War with Kids Divorced parents of different faiths can be prohibited from teaching their religious beliefs to their children if it would harm them, the Massachusetts state Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The father, Jeffrey P. Kendall, is a member of the fundamentalist Boston Church of Christ. The mother, Barbara Kendall, is an Orthodox Jew. The children, aged 4, 6 and 9, are being raised by the mother as Orthodox Jews and she argued they would be force
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Just Say Know: What "Real Christians" Believe about Jews

Just Say Know: What "Real Christians" Believe about Jews

Try this: Ask any fundamentalist Christian why his/her spiritual forebears launched the Inquisition, the Crusades, or the Holocaust. 10 out of 10 will retort, "Those weren't real Christians. Real Christians love the Jews and wouldn't do that." So, what then, do "real Christians" believe about Jews? written by  Mark W. Sanders As a former fundamentalist minister, I know the answers intimately. I spent years living by one imperative: Preach the Gospel (personal salvation through faith in Christ)
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Exploring The Syncretic Roots of Paul Properly

Exploring The Syncretic Roots of Paul Properly

Continued from Part 13 Syncretic roots of Paul’s Jesus Much of Christianity is the development of Paul and his theological descendants, who presented the pagans with a diluted form of Judaism in Hellenized garb.  It is true that the Hellenistic Jewish philosophy of Philo paved the way to such a syncretism, but Philo certainly would have been shocked at the resulting distortion which followed in Paul’s wake.  Philo expected the Messiah, but he never identified the Messiah with the Logos, as was
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Is This Phrase proof Enough That Jesus Is A God?

Is This Phrase proof Enough That Jesus Is A God?

Continued from Part 29 Can the Eusebian phraseology, “Go ye, and make disciples of all the nations in my name,” be considered as decisive proof that the clause “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” was lacking in the manuscripts available to Eusebius? Perhaps, in writing “in my name” Eusebius was simply abbreviating the longer clause.  What militates against this proposal is that Eusebius cites the shorter version so often that it is difficult to suppose th
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz