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    Rate the historicity of Bible books

    I believe the books listed are a mix of fact and mythology and especially Genesis which is largely myth.
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    Is modern day Judaism the same as Ancient Judaism?

    Unlikely, if anything the second power would have been seen as God's wife/consort to the ancient Isrealites. In the context of Judaism I believe it as there is plenty of archeological and biblical evidence to prove it.
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    Is modern day Judaism the same as Ancient Judaism?

    Subordinationism would agree that this is true.
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    Is modern day Judaism the same as Ancient Judaism?

    I saw snippets of it, but we must remember that the Hebrew Testament was largely henotheistic and it was believed for many centuries that God did not exist alone in heaven. He had not only angels but others gods or celestial beings in heaven with him and where his divine council. There was even...
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    Is modern day Judaism the same as Ancient Judaism?

    But that second power does not equate with being the same as God. It is highly possible they believed in a subordinationism in which Jesus was a divine being, but was lesser than the father. Such a view was common and popular until the Arian Controversy.
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    Any Christians agree with Bart Ehrman?

    I do not believe Jesus said those words and it is merely a statement of an oath or prophecy of the author. According to the scholars from the Jesus seminar: "This is a Judean oath to affirm the truth of the accompanying statements. The allusion in the previous verse to 'this generation passing...
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    Any Christians agree with Bart Ehrman?

    You may not recall, but I personally have a Christology similar to what Bart Ehrman and others argue that many early Christians had. Jesus was 100% human, the "messiah" in that he was anointed spiritually by God during his baptism, and only symbolically the "Son of God" and not literally (we...
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    Magic in Judaism and in Christianity

    Isaiah was not condemning magic here but the fact that nothing will save Babylon and its king from the wrath of God! Not magic, not merchants, not armies, no one will deliver it from the punishment of God.
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    Magic in Judaism and in Christianity

    Magic and other supernatural practices within the bible is an interesting topic that generates some interesting views. The reason there is a difference between the view of magic in Judaism and in Christianity is largely because of the traditions surrounding the two. Judaism evolved from the...
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    Magic in Judaism and in Christianity

    I can easily answer this or at least offer my opinion, but I doubt few would event listen to me anyway :).
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    Is modern day Judaism the same as Ancient Judaism?

    I think the earliest disciples of Jesus did not see him as God, but instead as simply the messiah and a prophet. As you stated, there is no way devout Jews could reconcile the shema and other Jewish laws and customs with the belief that Jesus was God incarnate.
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    Non-Trinitarian What are the attributes of God?

    I do not believe that to be true.
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    Non-Trinitarian What are the attributes of God?

    That is not logically possible. Jesus was fully human. He was not God in anyway.
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    Non-Trinitarian What are the attributes of God?

    Indeed, he cannot be a man and be God at the same time.