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It's not as glamorous as you might think. You can support Israel just as easy from America - in fact better. Buy Israeli products either online or at your local stores. Living in Israel is expensive and hard. How do you mean "living a Biblical lifestyle?"
I will grant you the fact that Shabbat in Israel is good. Everything does shut down, but most of the Messianic congregations are run pretty much like your typical church here in the US. Tel Aviv on erev shabbat is pretty wild. More noise, more parties, more cars out and about.
Festivals are fun. Lots of celebration - especially in Jerusalem. And it's a breath of fresh air to not have to question how food is processed or what you're eating.
When I think of living a biblical lifestyle, I think of religious observance, or living like Yeshua and the talmidim lived. Israel is very modern and secular.
I have never in my life heard such a thing?
And that's fine. But I see no reason to act like it's a dirty word or that Jews go around thinking "my goodness, those people do such Gentile things".
Gentile, Non-Jew, no big deal.
Well Dahling I guess you never heard that the Jews considered the Gentiles dogs, huh, or that Jews considered Gentiles unholy or unclean? I think maybe you have. That's the whole concept that God used in Peter's vision to wake him up to the idea that maybe Jews shouldn't be considering Non-Jews unclean (unholy).
You know how you know that Gentile isn't a lovely term? Getting "cut off from among my people" was a punishment. When one was cut off and set out of the camp, they were left to wander with the Gentiles.
So hangin' with Gentiles was seen as a consequence of bad actions. Let me ask you this, remember when Israel was returning from the diaspora and all the Israeli men who had taken Gentile wives and had children were commanded to divorce them all. Now is that anyway to treat perfectly good Gentiles?
Being a Gentile was so loathed by Israel and subsequently Jews that no one in the whole Bible tries to become a Gentile. LOL!!!
Can you see a good Jew with his payot and tzit tzit scurrying around and saying, "Let's see what must I do to become a gentile? Well I guess the list would look like this: eat some pork chops, work on the Sabbath, ignore God's ways, mingle your worship with false gods. Yep that's a good start."
Maybe the Jews should have begun a conversion class and disciple people into Gentilehood for when Jews were tired of being Jews.
But, of course, I'm just being a little light here.So seriously, have you had a chance to read any Josephus? Great source for learning some insight into Jewish thought.
Well Dahling I guess you never heard that the Jews considered the Gentiles dogs, huh, or that Jews considered Gentiles unholy or unclean? I think maybe you have. That's the whole concept that God used in Peter's vision to wake him up to the idea that maybe Jews shouldn't be considering Non-Jews unclean (unholy).
You know how you know that Gentile isn't a lovely term? Getting "cut off from among my people" was a punishment. When one was cut off and set out of the camp, they were left to wander with the Gentiles. In fact, the children of Israel, were flushed like a toliet into the Gentile lands as a punishment for their sins.
So hangin' with Gentiles was seen as a consequence of bad actions. Let me ask you this, remember when Israel was returning from the diaspora and all the Israeli men who had taken Gentile wives and had children were commanded to divorce them all. Now is that anyway to treat perfectly good Gentiles?
Being a Gentile was so loathed by Israel and subsequently Jews that no one in the whole Bible tries to become a Gentile. LOL!!!
Can you see a good Jew with his payot and tzit tzit scurrying around and saying, "Let's see what must I do to become a gentile? Well I guess the list would look like this: eat some pork chops, work on the Sabbath, ignore God's ways, mingle your worship with false gods. Yep that's a good start."
Maybe the Jews should have begun a conversion class and disciple people into Gentilehood for when Jews were tired of being Jews.
But, of course, I'm just being a little light here.So seriously, have you had a chance to read any Josephus? Great source for learning some insight into Jewish thought.
I am avoiding rewriting anything I already wrote in my previous post, so I think that'll do.
Have you not noticed that you were speaking to a Jew? I don't think she needs to read anybody to have some insight into Jewish thought.
Hmm....you think being born American means you never need American history? Or do you presume that all Americans have a sufficient knowledge of American history or American historical attitudes? Probably not. Being Jewish or being born Jewish doesn't automatically mean one knows or even cares about Jewish history or historically documented Jewish attitudes. Think about how many Christians are completely unaware of the pervasive antisemitic attitude that Christians have had. Christians need a history lesson too.
I agree with you. However, Josephus is not where I go for a Jewish history lesson.
2. Where *would* you go for Jewish history
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