Prophecies

[searchinmyroots]

Obviously this is your understanding, please don't tell us what our scriptures given to us mean.

It's amazing you think you understand the Hebrew bible more than those who know Hebrew and spent most of their lives reading it.

Every scroll, every verse, every word and every letter.

It would be nice if you applied this principle to Christian literature.

Blue Bird,

To be honest, I would have to guess the vast majority of people who call themselves Christians not only do not know what the original Greek really says and/or don't really care to know.

Hello searchingmyroots,

do you and most of the Jews outside of Israel speak Hebrew or study the Jewish Bible in its original language? I would guess that most Jews don't study the Tora at all (I may be wrong, but from what I heard here and from Jews elsewhere, Bible study is more of a incidental. Why do you think, you are in a position to judge Christians?

Your sages don't speak Greek, much less the original language of the New Testament, the ancient Greek. They haven't read from Matthew to Revelation, let alone studied verse by verse. Yet they believe they understand the New Testament and can afford to judge. I say they can't.

What you wish for, namely that others respect your texts and teachings, would, in my view, be fair if you also practice this attitude towards others. You aren't an aggressive anti-Christian missionary who doesn't respect his non-Jewish counterparts, are you?

(I don't know how that happened, somehow I posted this twice. then deleted one)

Blue Bird,

No, I do not speak Hebrew. But I do study the Hebrew bible in it's original language with the help of other's that do.

I think you are mistaken as many Jewish people study Torah in it's original language along with other Hebrew written sources.

I'm not judging Christians, sorry you see it that way. I'm just saying that I would guess that most Christians (although their are some that might) don't study their bible in the original language it was written in. Why is that being judgmental?

Are you sure our sages didn't speak Greek? How was the Septuagint interpreted then? Many current Rabbi's also understand Greek and what the words of the Christian bible from Matthew to Revelation actually mean. They are not "judging" as you claim, they are merely comparing what is written in the Christian bible as to what is written in the Hebrew bible.

I do respect other peoples texts and writings to a point. Not when they alter, add or leave out things from the Hebrew bible they are quoting.

Just as I'm going to guess you may not actually care for the teachings and additions to the Christian bible from the Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists.

Picture a Muslim coming on a Christian forum saying Jesus is not God but a prophet because that is what the Quran says. 

Would you accept that teaching on your forum? 

Do you respect those writings?

Would you be Anti-Quran if you voiced your opinion to what they say about your Christian bible?