A lot of things aren't in the Scriptures but we accept them because they are common sense. Someone treating step children like close family doesn't have to be mentioned in the scriptures for it to be valid.
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A lot of things aren't in the Scriptures but we accept them because they are common sense. Someone treating step children like close family doesn't have to be mentioned in the scriptures for it to be valid.
Believing in Jesus is not inconsistent with being Jewish. As Jews in the Old Testament sought to atone for their sins through a system of animal sacrifices, here was Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial Lamb of God, who paid for sin once and for all. Here was the personification of God's plan of redemption. Christians didn't rewrite the Old Testament and twist Isaiah's words to make it sound as if the prophet had been foreshadowing Jesus. Isaiah 53 is in the Jewish Bible.
Is being Jewish by birth and being Jewish from the mother the same thing, and when did that tradition develop?
rosends
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No, Jesus wasn't. Next?
The more people read, it seems, the more they invent. Deut 18:15 says nothing about anyone greater than Moses. Making things up doesn't help you.
No it isn't. It is about any one of the many prophets who followed Moses and whom the people had to listen to. Since Jesus wasn't a prophet, it wasn't about him.
rosends
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Sure it is. We have already established that you don't understand Judaism, so it isn't for you to state what is and isn't consistent with Judaism.
No, not exactly. This is just more you don't understand.
Lambs weren't sin sacrifices. Neither were people.
But Jesus isn't.
rosends
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That tradition developed from Deut (some say Leviticus). Why?
rosends
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who is "we"? and why do you think that your vision of "common sense" has any impact on Jewish law? Hint -- it doesn't.
And someone treating someone a certain way has nothing to do with Jewish law also.
What law in the Tanakh says that a stepfather isn't close family?
Jesus not being Jewish if Mary wasn't Jewish (which is a non issue) doesn't mean that Joseph wasn't his father for all intents and purposes.
rosends
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what law says vanilla ice cream isn't close faily? Law tells us who IS family. There is no mention of step parents in the text.
rosends
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When did I say anything about Jesus' not being Jewish? You are still inventing things.
I was making an analogy for why Jesus being born of a virgin doesn't mean that he isn't a descendant of King David. I wasn't saying that Jesus was a Khazar.
Jewish law doesn't exclude step parents from being close family.
Jewish law doesn't exclude step parents from being close family.
rosends
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But no one was talking about this. You are arguing a point that no one is raising.
The discussion was about Jesus being the son of Joseph.
rosends
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There is no status in Jewish law of "close family" that would include step parents on the same level as parents. You can look it up.
rosends
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Show me where I was talking about that.
Jewish law doesn't exclude the possibility of other people being close family.
Jesus was treated as the father of Jesus even though he was Jesus' stepfather. Joseph the Father of Jesus