Go ahead and bring the verse.mule said:If you do not believe me then bring out the verse from your bible. Daniel in your bible reads very different.
Quite, they translate from the Septuagint.Ansar Al-Haq said:SpaceFalcon said that Christians translate from greek and Jews translate from original hebrew. (correct me if I'm wrong spacefalcon).
26. And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation.
"And after" those weeks.
the anointed one will be cut off Agrippa, the king of Judea, who was ruling at the time of the destruction, will be slain.
"and he will be no more" Heb. וְאֵין לוֹ, and he will not have. The meaning is that he will not be.
"the anointed one" Heb. מָשִׁיחַ. This is purely an expression of a prince and a dignitary.
"and the city and the Sanctuary" lit. and the city and the Holy.
"and the people of the coming monarch will destroy [The monarch who will come] upon them." That is Titus and his armies.
"and his end will come about by inundation" And his end will be ****ation and destruction, for He will inundate the power of his kingdom through the Messiah, and until the end of the wars of Gog the city will exist.
"cut off into desolation" a destruction of desolation.
It is a bad translation, done bad on purpose I might add. Jews were basically forced to translate it, so they put errors into it. Then there are additional theological errors christians put in, even in the "hebrew" translations. What is your version?mule said:No at the front of the my bibles it says hebrew. How many different kinds of hebrew are there? When was the Septuagint translated?
But he was still KING And a KING is an ANOINTED ONE.Why would that prophecy be by king Agrippa. King Agrippa was an unholy man.
The dead sea scrolls were not in greek, they were in hebrew.I am confused. Do you honor the Dead Sea Scrolls?
It is a bad translation, done bad on purpose I might add. Jews were basically forced to translate it, so they put errors into it.
Then there are additional theological errors christians put in, even in the "hebrew" translations. What is your version?
Interesting that you put it that way. The reason for altering the translation was so that the whole torah would not be misused by the Pagans (at the time, greeks).mule said:I have a hard time believing that the Jews would be that evil to put errors into the text. I think and believe that they would have more respect towards God.
They are reasonably reliable as historic documents, although they are probbly written to the opinion of the essenes that lived there.i know what the dead sea scrolls are. I am asking you if you believe that the scrolls are reliable?
Also this: http://messiahtruth.com/sinless.htmlAnser Al-Haq said:What is the proof from Judaism, that Christ was a blasphemer?
The difference between then and now being that then only the Jews really knew hebrew and would teach hebrew to Jews. It would have been extremely difficult for a non-Jew to learn the actual translation. They just assumed they could force the Jews to translate it for them and that it would be right.mule said:I don't buy it. But if I did it would make me question the honesty of any Jewish translation. How can I trust any Jewish translation if they are afraid I will misuse it?
********* Background
Why would the concept of a sinless Jesus be of interest to a Jewish person?* In principle, it should not matter to a Jew, since Jesus is irrelevant to Judaism – he is in the realm of Christianity.* The notion of Jesus being without sin is tied to the claim that Jesus died as a sacrificial offering to atone for the sins of humanity.* According to the laws of sacrifice in the Torah, a sacrificial offering had to be without blemish or defect.* Christian apologists and missionaries make the claim that the sinless Jesus satisfied this requirement, and that his "shed blood" covered the sins of mankind just as the blood of animal sacrifices atoned for the sinners in Biblical times.* This claim is a prominent component in the portfolio of Christian missions to the Jews.
This essay addresses the question: Was Jesus Sinless?* Since the analysis compares accounts from the New Testament against specific commands in the Torah, it should be noted that the Scripture in force during the lifetime of Jesus, including the time of his death, was the Hebrew Bible.
II.*********** Jesus and Being Sinless
For Christianity, the purpose of the Four Gospels is to testify that Jesus is the Christ (the messiah) and, as such, his sacred mission was to be the sacrificial offering that would make atonement for the sins of mankind.* Consequently, each Gospel climaxes with a narrative that recounts the historical events surrounding this atoning sacrifice.* According to Christianity, the central core of the Gospels creates the pivotal theme of the salvation brought by Jesus, mediated by the suffering and death of the sinless messiah.* This concept is perhaps best summarized by the following verse from the New Testament:
John 3:16(KJV) - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The giving here refers to the so-called sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross.
Christian theology holds that a sinless Jesus was part of the heavenly Father's plan from the outset, to redeem mankind.* After all, the act of disobedience by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Fall of Man, placed the stain of sin on humanity, one that cannot be removed through a person's own actions.* Jesus, the perfect sacrificial offering of the future, was born through the impregnation by the Holy Spirit of a virgin, Mary, who remained a virgin throughout the term of her pregnancy.* Mary gave birth to a child that was not blemished by the stain of Original Sin, since he was conceived of G-d and not through the customary act of copulation by two sinful humans.* Jesus allegedly remained without sin throughout his entire life, since he is said to have perfectly kept all the commandments and, therefore, fulfilled the entirety of the Torah's precepts:
Matthew 5:17-19(KJV) – (17) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.* (18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.* (19) Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
With this passage as a backdrop, several accounts in the Gospel of Matthew are examined to test whether Jesus actually lived up to his proclamation.
Going on the premise that the historical Jesus existed, it should not come as a surprise that many statements attributed to him throughout the Four Gospels are consistent with Jewish teachings.* After all, it is likely that Jesus, coming from a family of Pharisees and being exposed to this tradition, held to it and practiced Pharisaic (i.e., Rabbinic) Judaism.* In fact, according to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus acknowledged the authority of Sages and Rabbinic Judaism of his day:
Matthew 23:1-3(KJV) – (1) Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,* (2) Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:* (3) All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. [See also Mk 10:17-19, Lk 16:16-17, Jn 14:21.]
Although Jesus viewed them as hypocrites, he nevertheless acknowledged that the Biblical authority rests in the hands of the Rabbis who, in his day, were the Pharisees.* The Four Gospels appear to indicate that Jesus instruct his followers to stop obeying the (written and oral) commandments.* While he may have had some issues with various aspects of the Law (Torah), it is understood that Jesus did not advocate doing away with it.* On the other hand, a close look at the Four Gospels reveals conduct and teachings ascribed to Jesus, which are at odds with Jewish Law.
There has been no other prophet who was born by the power of the Holy Spirit but Jesus.
And which is more logical? Is it logical that a simple man who never declared himself God but preached the oneness opf God, should suddenly be included in this grand and self-contradicting notion of trinity?This would strongly indicate that Jesus had a higher purpose for being then any other prophet. The Gospels tells of Jesus higher purpose while the Quran does not.
Is the virgin birth proof?The Quran has Jesus saying the same sort of teachings which it ascribes to all the other prophets. God does not miraculously intervene in human affairs lightly, Jesus would not of had a would not had a miraculous birth if there was no reason to. If all Jesus taught was what Mohammad did, then Jesus have been born just as Mohammad was.
I would disagree that the Holy Spirit is an Angel, but you are correct in saying that the Holy Spirit is a person, and more then just the impersonal manifestation of Gods power. The New Testament makes a distinction between the spirit and the soul, though it does not go into this in detail -Now there is a distinction here between the Holy Spirit, who is Angel Gabriel, and the spirit God gives people, which is their soul.
That is true, but I pointed out their birth because it was also miraculous.Sinner said:The point I think you missed is that Jesus had no human father as Moses, Isaac or John the Baptist had.
no, not necessarily. I am not convinced that this distinction elevates his status. Other prophets were also favoured as I pointed out before.A greater distinction beween Jesus and any other prophet could not be thought up if one tried. If there is this wide gulf between Jesus and everyone else, it must of been that God had a greater purpose for Jesus as well.
Good job, yes we do hold these Scriptures dear. Without them we wouldn't as much of argumentThese are some of the prophecies that Christians hold dear.
- Gen. 49:10. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the student of the law from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be a gathering of peoples.
- Gen. 3:15
14. And the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed be you more than all the cattle and more than all the beasts of the field; you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15. And I shall place hatred between you and between the woman, and between your seed and between her seed. He will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
- Isaiah 7:14 Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman is with child, and she shall bear a son, and she shall call his name Immanuel.
- Micah 5:1. And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah-you should have been the lowest of the clans of Judah-from you [he] shall emerge for Me, to be a ruler over Israel; and his origin is from of old, from days of yore.
- Is.11:1. And a shoot shall spring forth from the stem of Jesse, and a twig shall sprout from his roots.
2. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and heroism, a spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
3. And he shall be animated by the fear of the Lord, and neither with the sight of his eyes shall he judge, nor with the hearing of his ears shall he chastise.
4. And he shall judge the poor justly, and he shall chastise with equity the humble of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall put the wicked to death.
5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his loins.
- Is. 40:3. A voice calls, "In the desert, clear the way of the Lord, straighten out in the wilderness, a highway for our God."
- Isaiah - Chapter 53
1. Who would have believed our report, and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?
2. And he came up like a sapling before it, and like a root from dry ground, he had neither form nor comeliness; and we saw him that he had no appearance. Now shall we desire him?
3. Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness, and as one who hides his face from us, despised and we held him of no account.
4. Indeed, he bore our illnesses, and our pains-he carried them, yet we accounted him as plagued, smitten by God and oppressed.
5. But he was pained because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his wound we were healed.
6. We all went astray like sheep, we have turned, each one on his way, and the Lord accepted his prayers for the iniquity of all of us.
7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he would not open his mouth; like a lamb to the slaughter he would be brought, and like a ewe that is mute before her shearers, and he would not open his mouth.
8. From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them.
9. And he gave his grave to the wicked, and to the wealthy with his kinds of death, because he committed no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10. And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution, he shall see children, he shall prolong his days, and God's purpose shall prosper in his hand.
11. From the toil of his soul he would see, he would be satisfied; with his knowledge My servant would vindicate the just for many, and their iniquities he would bear.
12. Therefore, I will allot him a portion in public, and with the strong he shall share plunder, because he poured out his soul to death, and with transgressors he was counted; and he bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors.
- Psalms 22
1. For the conductor, on the ayeleth hashachar, a song of David.
2. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? [You are] far from my salvation [and] from the words of my moaning.
3. My God, I call out by day and You do not reply, and at night I do not keep silent.
4. But You are holy; You await the praises of Israel.
5. Our ancestors trusted in You; they trusted and You rescued them.
6. They cried out to You and they escaped; they trusted in You and they were not shamed.
7. But I am a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, despised by peoples.
8. All who see me will mock me; they will open their lips, they will shake their head.
9. One should cast his trust upon the Lord, and He will rescue him; He will save him because He delights in him.
10. For You drew me from the womb; You made me secure on my mother's breasts.
11. Upon You, I was cast from birth; from my mother's womb You are my God.
12. Do not distance Yourself from me, for distress is near; for there is none to help.
13. Great bulls have surrounded me; the mighty ones of Bashan encompassed me.
14. They opened their mouth against me [like] a tearing, roaring lion.
15. I was spilled like water, and all my bones were separated; my heart was like wax, melting within my innards.
16. My strength became dried out like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my palate; and You set me down in the dust of death.
17. For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me, like a lion, my hands and feet.
18. I tell about all my bones. They look and gloat over me.
19. They share my garments among themselves and cast lots for my raiment.
20. But You, O Lord, do not distance Yourself; my strength, hasten to my assistance.
21. Save my soul from the sword, my only one from the grip of the dog.
22. Save me from the lion's mouth, as from the horns of the wild oxen You answered me.
23. I will tell Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.
24. You who fear the Lord, praise Him; all the seed of Jacob, honor Him, and fear Him, all the seed of Israel.
25. For He has neither despised nor abhorred the cry of the poor, neither has He hidden His countenance from him; and when he cried out to Him, He hearkened.
26. Because of You is my praise in the great congregation; I pay my vows in the presence of those who fear Him.
27. The humble shall eat and be sated; they shall praise the Lord, those who seek him; your hearts shall live forever.
28. All the ends of the earth shall remember and return to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall prostrate themselves before You.
29. For the kingship is the Lord's, and He rules over the nations.
30. They shall eat all the best of the earth and prostrate themselves; before Him shall all those who descend to the dust kneel, and He will not quicken his soul.
31. The seed that worships Him; it shall be told to the generation concerning the Lord.
32. They shall come and tell His righteousness to the newborn people, that which He has done.
- Psalms 118:22. The stone that the builders rejected became a cornerstone.
23. This was from the Lord; it is wondrous in our eyes.
- psalms 2:7. I will tell of the decree; The Lord said to me, "You are My son; this day have I begotten you.
- Psalms 16:9. Therefore, my heart rejoiced, and my soul was glad; even my flesh shall dwell in safety.
10. For You shall not forsake my soul to the grave; You shall not allow Your pious one to see the pit.
- zeck. 9:99. Be exceedingly happy, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold! Your king shall come to you. He is just and victorious; humble, and riding a donkey and a foal, the offspring of [one of] she-donkeys.
- Isaiah 52;13. Behold My servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up, and he shall be very high.
1. 14. As many wondered about you, "How marred his appearance is from that of a man, and his features from that of people!"
15. So shall he cast down many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for, what had not been told them they saw, and [at] what they had not heard they gazed.mule
- Gen. 49:10. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the student of the law from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be a gathering of peoples.
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