Questions about Jewish belief and the Bible

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Just wanna add as a tiny thing that that's not really what Catholic Christians exactly believe. I know the substance vs. person thing is a bit . . . choppy, but the Christian concept is one of absolute unity. We (and I mean we Catholics) would say that God is indivisible, that God has no "parts" and that the persons of the Trinity do not constitute a mathematical equation where God is divided into three equal parts. Just wanted to add that on, because the Trinity is a Christian teaching that is so logically incoherent (and intentionally so) that you'll find most Christians will generally ignore the doctrine and simply say that they believe in one God because at base, that's what we believe in: One, indivisible, single God.

My concern with Christianity is not that their teaching is "so logically incoherent (and intentionally so)," but that it systematically usurped and distorted Jewish scripture in the service of the deification of an individual, while shielding its logically incoherent heresy with the ad hoc theory of dual fulfillment and enlivening its expansion with the tenets of supersessionism on the one hand and the assaults of antisemitism on the other.

Fortunately, we are witnessing signs of change in the wake of increasing interfaith dialogue. Compare, for example, the (infamous) Isaiah 7:14 as found in the KJV with that found in the NRS and the Catholic bible offered by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.