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  1. John D. Brey

    Biblionics.

    It seems to us a noteworthy peculiarity of the Hebrew language that it uses the same word in one and the same form to express the idea of `ceasing to exist’ and that of `completion’ (`wholeness’ or `perfection’) . . . [Such is] the term תמים (tamim). In most of the verbal forms, it designates a...
  2. John D. Brey

    Reverse Engineering Judaism.

    If there was nothing wrong with the first covenant no place would have been sought for another. . . By calling the covenant "new" God has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear [2 Cor. 3:6]. Hebrews 8:7-13. Reverse engineering (also known as backwards...
  3. John D. Brey

    Christian/Jew -- Nature/Nurture.

    Perusing an article on CNN (Russia's political class is taking a dark and vengeful turn) highlights the shock and surprise that frequently accompanies Jewish persons experiencing the natural inclinations and actions of non-Jewish persons when social events take a dark and vengeful turn. Unlike...
  4. John D. Brey

    Language, Thought, World.

    . . . The comments above are from the recent thread Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry. The title of that thread never took form in the original thread such that it's being continued here under a more fitting title. John
  5. John D. Brey

    Revelation 22:4.

    Another recent thread here mentioned Revelation 22:4 in the context of the "knowers and the chosen" who've seen God's face. Since I don't know the context for "knowers and chosen," and since I don't want to weigh down that thread with too much jargon, I'm starting this thread on the primary...
  6. John D. Brey

    "Judaism Has Been Hijacked."

    . . . So says the most prolific rabbi our our time (Rabbi Jacob Neusner). John
  7. John D. Brey

    Abrahamic Time-Asymmetry.

    We are in possession of this collection of 66 books which we call The Bible, written by more than 40 authors over several thousands of years, yet we now discover it is an integrated message from outside our time domain. It repeatedly authenticates this uniqueness by describing history before it...
  8. John D. Brey

    The SelfishdeGenerate.

    Richard Dawkins' famous book posited the idea that evolution tends to occur by the dictates of the gene's ability to survive through fortuitous adaptations such that fitness for survival is fancied the tautological though it be source for surviving. Since survival is the key to everything in the...
  9. John D. Brey

    "Days of Fertility."

    A famous Talmudic scholar reading an essay composed from a thread that took place here seven years ago, Exegeting Circumcision, could read no further when he came to the exegesis of Genesis 17:12 that interprets the Hebrew word semonat שמנת as the construct form of "fertility" rather than the...
  10. John D. Brey

    Rabbi Shaye J. D. Cohen Examines Circumcision.

    The non-circumcision of girls shows that the circumcision of boys cannot be essential to their Jewishness. Shaye J. D. Cohen. Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism (p. 220). Kindle Edition. Without reading a whole lot into Rabbi Cohen's statement, it could...
  11. John D. Brey

    Virginity: The Pregnant Metaphor.

    Since time immemorial virginity has always been the most rotund, well-rounded, metaphor, for the imminent arrival of whatever it was, is, that religious thought has always been preparing itself to receive? Though it might sound oxymoronic to speak of virginity as a pregnant metaphor, the thought...
  12. John D. Brey

    Pre-ontology, Meontology, and Egoistic Identity.

    I will admit at once that there are difficulties in explaining how we acquire knowledge that transcends experience, but I think the view that we have no such knowledge is utterly untenable. Bertrand Russell, My Philosophical Development, p. 97. Bertrand Russell's acknowledgement that we...
  13. John D. Brey

    Red-Letter Edition Torah.

    The mystics explain that for the time being, only the meaning of the actual letters and words of the Written Torah are revealed through the Oral Torah. However, the deeper meanings behind the “crowns” . . . will only become revealed with the coming of the Moshiach. Thus, every time you see a...
  14. John D. Brey

    Why Does God Wear Fringes?

    In an unredeemed world the Torah must be interpreted in manifold ways---literal, allegorical, mystical; but in the redeemed future it will be revealed in the pure spirituality of the Tree of Life, without the "clothing" it put on after Adam sinned. It will be wholly inward, entirely holy. In...
  15. John D. Brey

    Nazarenes in the Tanakh.

    One of the great breakthroughs in modern Christian theology is the concept of "dispensationalism." Dispensationalilsm delineates and separates the nation of Israel (as a unique entity in the Tanakh), from the so-called "Church" that develops post-first century CE. In dispensational theology...
  16. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 53: The Arm of the Lord.

    One of the greatest illusions in the world is the idea that we come to our beliefs inductively; that is to say that we see arguments, read the Bible, philosophy, or scientific treatises, and from that we decide if Jesus is God, our Savior, or a mere man. The truth is different. No person can...
  17. John D. Brey

    The Metaphysics of Disbelief.

    -Has any one ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible - of God's mortal terror of science? Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ. Is God terrified of science? Or is so-called "science" terrified of God? More importantly, is there a scientific way to determine...
  18. John D. Brey

    Tangible Emblem of God's Presence.

    But you have given a banner to them that fear You, to raise them to its heights even as it adorns them as jewelry or adornment. Therefore now free those whom You have found worthy of Your love, let Your right hand show itself. Psalm 60:6-7, The Hirsch Tehillim (translation and interpretation)...
  19. John D. Brey

    The Gospel Truth According to Karl Popper.

    A perusal of a YouTube debate between astrophysicist Hugh Ross (founder of Reasons to Believe) and renowned atheist Peter Atkins, is something of a vomitive in that it reveals the incredible lack of functional scientific-understanding that exists on both sides of the fence (theistic and...
  20. John D. Brey

    Isaiah's Branch Analogy.

    Throughout Isaiah's prophesies he uses plant metaphors as though they apply to human biology. Through selective breeding, the gardener tries to develop as near perfect a plant as possible. Once he gets what he wants, that plant becomes his "cultivar." Take the "Red Delicious" apple. The Red...
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