tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335270607657867160.post1715348972527977471..comments2023-03-01T11:37:09.936-08:00Comments on Answering Judaism: Deuteronomy 13: A question of vindication 2Answering Judaismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118361261862962380noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335270607657867160.post-30112529437628713462014-05-09T09:28:43.777-07:002014-05-09T09:28:43.777-07:00Hi Yehuda.
My argument is not the resurrection ma...Hi Yehuda.<br /><br />My argument is not the resurrection makes someone synonymous with Ha Shem, My argument is that his resurrection means that he has God's stamp of approval.<br /><br />His deity is not contingent on the resurrection. <br /><br />Jesus while he claimed to be divine, he ultimately claimed to be your God, but didn't claim to be the Father in heaven.<br /><br />While in the TANAKH they didn't pray to Jesus directly, they responded to the Revelations given to them, because of their pointing to him.<br /><br />If the resurrection happened, then Jesus' claims about himself are verified to be true. If his claims to deity were false and if the resurrection never happened, you would certainly be correct that he is leading people to gods you have not known.Answering Judaismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08118361261862962380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335270607657867160.post-77586196883656163992014-03-17T19:28:41.597-07:002014-03-17T19:28:41.597-07:00This is Yehuda Yisrael. Let me reiterate this one ...This is Yehuda Yisrael. Let me reiterate this one more time...<br /><br />If Jesus claimed to be divine, then I would reject him as a prophet of G-d. Why? Because the Torah tells me to! <br /><br />Deuteronomy 13:2. If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, <br /><br />(In the case of Jesus, he claimed that the sign or a wonder was that he would be killed and then resurrect himself three days later.)<br /><br />Deuteronomy 13:3. and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"<br /><br />(In the case of Jesus, lets say that this sign or a wonder that Jesus prophesied about, hypothetically came true, and Jesus actually did rise from the dead on the third day after he was killed on the cross. Let's also hypothetically assume that Jesus claimed to be "fully divine." If Jesus truly made such a claim, then he is telling the Israelites to "go after another god which you have not known, and to worship him.")<br /><br />Deuteronomy 13:4. you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.<br /><br />I do not believe that the resurrection of Jesus actually happened for obvious reasons...But even if it hypothetically did occur, I would still reject Jesus as being a true prophet, especially if he instructed us to acknowledge him as divine. Did Abraham pray to Jesus? Did Moses pray to Jesus? How about King David? Once again, the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that G-d instructed us to acknowledge Jesus as divine in the Tanach. As we both know, G-d never instructed us to do this. Thus, if Jesus indeed saw himself as divine, then he is simply "another god which we have not known." Deuteronomy 13:2-4 makes it abundantly clear that even if the resurrection happened, Jesus cannot be divine...<br /><br />Ultimately, the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that if a man resurrects himself, this means that he is synonymous with Hashem. I've searched the Tanach and I cannot find anything that even remotely supports this idea!<br /><br />Resurrection or not, jesus cannot be divine...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589988406653934350noreply@blogger.com