Recent content by yonah_mishael

Hey, CM. What's new in your neck of the woods?

You just need to look at their arguments to see that they are wrong. Compare the arguments of the anti-Zionists to the arguments of those who support the State of Israel and the need for a refuge for the Jewish people, and you’ll see which side is right. I’m not suggesting that the State of...

Perhaps real life after death is less judgy and negative than you would want people to think? (Or, perhaps it's all in our brains!)

And you think that I would be interested in furthering the Orthodox monopoly on the halachah? I don't think so.

"Trumps" it? No. That would suggest that Orthodoxy is correct on the merit of it being Orthodoxy. No, no, no. The position of Orthodoxy is correct because it interprets the texts accurately, not because it trumps some other position. If another group interpreted it better, they would have the...

If it's based on a bad understanding of biblical languages, it's got a bad foundation.

Isaiah 53 is not forbidden by anyone. It is misunderstood and poorly interpreted by most. This passage should be called "the misunderstood chapter" (הפרק הלא מובן).

No, I don't see a disconnect - or a "connect" either. I think you're writing nonsense.

τῶν νεκρῶν is genitive plural. I don't know where you got this idea that "the rules were made later," but it's absurd. Nothing else to say on that issue.

It doesn't say that God is living. It says that he is God OF the living. This is the difference between νεκρός and νεκρῶν, and between ζῶν and ζώντων. I don't know where you learned Greek, but you're making some serious mistakes.

That's saying that the genitive in the conveniently-omitted phrase (ὁ θεὸς τοῦ πατρός σου) doesn't show us precisely what the phrase meant. It's simply the case that many transliterated names from other languages (not just Hebrew) into Greek are indeclinable. We have to assume, in this case...

Granting prophecy as a true phenomenon, I would still come to opposite conclusions. ;)

"Father of" (אֲבִי) can mean "possessing" in the same way that "son of" (בֵּן \ בַּר) can mean "belonging to" or "participant in" and "husband of" (בַּעַל) can mean "possessing." A ben brit is not the "son" of a covenant. It means "one who participates in a treaty, an ally." A baal nisayon rav...

I never understand this argument that “a gloss I learned was X, therefore this word means X in every context.” That's nonsense. עד can certainly mean “a long time” without meaning “forever.” Do you not know that it can also be a preposition meaning “until” or “as long as”? Context determines...

Where do you see in this text that Hezekiah was already 39 years old? Where do you see any passage of time between chapters 7 and 9? Where did you get this number? A fair point that sometimes the perfect can be used in a way of saying that something has been decided to happen and will -...