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Why I Am Converting To Judaism - Part 3

Why I Am Converting To Judaism - Part 3

This is the last part of the 3 part series by Angela Dekort about why she converted to Judaism. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 as well. Perhaps, I thought, it really wasn't important that Jesus hadn't fulfilled the main prophecies of the Messiah if he had at least fulfilled some of the others.  I started to go through the prophecies outlined in Matthew, who, as a Jewish writer keenly interested in establishing Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, relied heavily on these prophecies.  But I didn’t get fa
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 28 - Did Hosea Mention a Second Coming of Jesus?

Chapter 28 - Did Hosea Mention a Second Coming of Jesus?

Continued from Chapter 27 (Hosea 5:15) The prophet Hosea declares: “I will go and return to My place until they feel guilt and seek My face; in their trouble they will earnestly seek Me” (Hosea 5:15). In the course of his message of rebuke for apostasy, Hosea stresses the necessity for Ephraim and Judah to first return to God through their own conscious decision before He will grant relief from their affliction. Disregarding context, many Christians interpret Hosea 5:15 as a prophesy dealing
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Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 31 - YOUR KING IS COMING

Chapter 31 - YOUR KING IS COMING

Continued from Chapter 30 (Zechariah 9:9) The prophet Zechariah declares: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your king is coming to you, he is just and has been saved, humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of a she-ass” (Zechariah 9:9). The Synoptic Gospels say that this prophecy was fulfilled when Jesus sent two of his disciples to fetch the animal that was to carry him into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:2-7, Mark 11:2-7, Luke 19:30-35).
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 36a - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Chapter 36a - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Continued from Chapter 35 (Psalms 16:9-10) My flesh dwells in safety The Masoretic text of Psalms 16:9-10 reads: Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my flesh also dwells in safety. For You will not abandon my soul to the netherworld; neither will You allow Your faithful one to see the pit. However, while the Masoretic text renders the Hebrew word spelled shin-vav-hay as “pit” the Septuagint Greek renders it as “corruption,” “decay.” The difference is the result of choosing a
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Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 36b - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Chapter 36b - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Continued from Chapter 36a Physical or spiritual body? What does the New Testament claim happened to the corpse of Jesus? Jesus is said to have been resurrected, to have entered into another kind and level of existence, one in which he will never again die. The New Testament authors are ambivalent on the subject of whether Jesus was resurrected with a physical body or only as a spirit. What was the state of the returned Jesus? The early church could not agree as to what was his post-resurrec
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Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 36c - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Chapter 36c - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Continued from Chapter 36b Could Jesus have risen in either a completely different material body or in an immaterial body possessing the properties of an angelic being which could metamorphose itself from a “spirit” into a solid material form that could be touched (Genesis 32:24-26) or partake of food (Genesis 18:1-18)? These related theories contain respectively inherent problems. If Jesus’ body ceased to be material and later became material again, then it was not the identical body that was
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 37a - THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS AND PSALM 22

Chapter 37a - THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS AND PSALM 22

Continued from Chapter 36c (Psalm 22) Finding the Jesus who never was The early church used the Jewish Scriptures to augment the little they knew of the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death. To this end they made use of Psalms 22:2, 19. Later Christians sought further confirmation of their claims by expanding their citations from this psalm. The historical Jesus was of little interest to that part of the church that had not known Jesus the man personally. What interested this faction was
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 40 - MIXED-UP DRINKS

Chapter 40 - MIXED-UP DRINKS

Continued from Chapter 39 (Psalms 69:22) The Gospel authors often employed scriptural verses out of context in order to support their claim that Jesus is the central theme of the Bible. Sometimes there are subtle contradictions in their respective narrations that show the fictive origins of their assumptions. For example, Psalms 69:22 (verse 21 in some versions) states: “They put poison into my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” Ignoring context and word meanings Matthew writ
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Zalman Kravitz