Markos, all you are doing is taking these verses out of context.the four verses that you mention are constantly used by people who hate islam to distort the true meaning.First of all, you need to post the entire chapter and it's interpretation to put it into context.You can't just take one verse out of a chapter with a couple of hundred verses and use it as proof that islam is a violent religion.The quran was revealed in small segments during the life of prophet muhammad and wasn; t revealed all at once.There is a long story to these verses which could require an entire page to tell.look it up.EVERY RELIGIOUS BOOK HAS TEXTS THAT CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.I am sure that if I look in
the jewish torah, talmud or even the bible especially the old testament, i'll find many texts that I can take out of context.
Remember, the Old Testament and
the Jewish Torah state not only that God condones slavery, but they even lay down the ground rules for it.
if you think some of the passages in the koran are ugly, you should read
the jewish torah.
The first five books of the Bible were written by Moses and are found in
the Jewish Torah, completed approximately 1473 BC..
The original church was created from the Satan in
the Jewish Torah.
Muslims therefore accept the teachings of both
the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels.
Well, being the cyclical time in
the Jewish Torah of the reading of NOAH, I remind Blankfein that Noah was also part of God's work.
Not exact matches
I suggest that Mr. Miller spend less time writing odes to his
Jewish alienation and start on the lifelong task of learning
Torah.
Atlanta (CNN)-- According to
Jewish tradition, a boy becomes a man at 13, when he's called before his community to read from the
Torah and become a bar mitzvah, meaning «son of the commandments.»
The study of the
Torah (as well as the rest of
Jewish scripture) demands the reading of secondary and tertiary sources.
For this observant Jew, hearing an Orthodox rabbi quote
Torah to open the Republican convention was a milestone for America as well for the
Jewish people (not to mention the fact that Rabbi Soloveichik is associate rabbi of my synagogue).
From your source, «According to
Jewish tradition (later adopted by Christianity) the
Torah was dictated to Moses by God, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy, which describe the death and burial of Moses.»
His
Jewish Home party, a successor to the National Religious Party, quadrupled its representation from three to 12 seats.Together with the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party and the haredi Orthodox United
Torah Judaism, the right - wing Knesset bloc will hold 62 of the Knesset's 120 seats — a slim majority.
Without a doubt, the significance of historical study for a traditional Christian reading of the New Testament differs significantly from its influence on traditional
Jewish reading of the
Torah.
I think Paul is hinting the Spirit of God will lead people into the ideas of God (from the whole Tanakh) and they don't need mind themselves with
Jewish rituals (ie: circumcision — then I would also say — for that matter atonement — which is a
Torah ritual).
A problem here is the Orthodox
Jewish community has always attributed authorship of the
Torah to God Himself.
And while itler did bad things, but he was not without his reasons, the
jewish comunity pourposefully segrigates itself, and if you read the
torah and learn what jews think of gentals (not jes) it is sick and sad.
People paid millions for everyone to bash against
Jewish Laws &
Torah.
Unite humanity in the worship of the
Jewish God and
Torah observance
Sara Hurwitz, a learned and devout Orthodox
Jewish woman was conferred the new title of MaHaRa'T, an acronym for Manhigah Hilkhatit, Ruhanit, Toranit (for a halakhic spiritual and
Torah leader) by Rabbi Avi Weiss, senior rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.
If the Bible were clearer on exactly what we are and are not supposed to do, then the focus of Christianity would shift on to those instructions; much as
Jewish focus zeroed in on the
Torah.
I don't think this is how it really happened, but the point of the story is that no
Jewish person would ever expect a non-
Jewish person to obey or observe all of the
Jewish laws, either the 613 of the
Torah, or the 6000 + laws of the Oral
Torah.
Can you imagine the backlash if this article would have been how a Catholic President would take orders from the Pope and have statues of saints all around the White House (shades of 1960) or a
Jewish President who would take the oath on a
torah while wearing a yurmulke.
The
Jewish worshiper delights in
Torah and reflects on it continually.
His attacks on the
Jewish Law in his epistles do not seem to have been on the
Torah as such, although this is how they have often been understood, but upon those who insisted that gentile believers were required to observe all the commandments of the Law.
Augustine wrote that «the ceremonies of the Jews are both baneful and deadly to Christians and whoever keeps them whether Jew or gentile, is doomed to the abyss of the devil».2 In recent years, to the anger of many in the
Jewish community, some Christians of
Jewish descent, such as the Messianic Jews, have tried to observe much of the
Torah while affirming that Jesus is the Messiah.
In
Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written
Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral
Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)
Jewish tradition holds that
Torah has 70 faces, which tells me that
Torah has many facets and can be understood in a variety of different ways — indeed, it's that very richness and multiplicity which allows us to continue to experience it as holy.
Though they did not think of these things as being fully God the way we think of Jesus Christ, the
Jewish people did view The Temple, the
Torah, and the Land as being the meeting place between God and man, the nexus where heaven and earth became one.
Because that scribe is a
Torah - observant Jew and because Jesus is a Jew as well, the scribe asks this great question in a first - century
Jewish manner: «Of all the commandments [and you know Jesus, there are over 600 of them], which is the most important?»
An appeal to «what history has given» suggests the same reverence with which my fellow
Jewish believers, for example, praise God as «the Giver of the
Torah.»
-- Atheists bash Christianity based on
Jewish scriptures (Old Testament /
Torah) and organized religion, and tend to ignore or forget how amazing, loving, friendly, supportive, and excellent the most influential person who has even walked on Earth, Jesus Christ, was.
As a consequence, the practice of the
Torah was formally forbidden among baptized Jews, and baptized Jews typically lost their
Jewish identity within two or three generations.
Jeremy, I have never come across the milk - idea before and therefore checked a number of Bible versions (Holman's, Benner's Mechanical translation, Green's Interlinear Bible, AESV
Torah, NET,
Jewish Publication Society, Tyndale and Geneva), as well as Hebrew word studies (Strong's, Zodhiates) and a concordance.
If the church acknowledges the permanence and centrality of Israel's election as central to its own identity, it will expect baptized Jews to continue to affirm their
Jewish identity and continue to observe
Torah.
Maimonides (mentioned in the article) was a
Jewish scholar who wrote excellent commentary on the
Torah.
Law as he here conceives it is necessarily external; it derives from the Greek conception of an objectivum and is foreign to the
Jewish understanding of
Torah as instruction.
Convinced of the
Torah's Divine origin and aware that, to be decipherable, the Pentateuch must have been given with an oral explanation, I sought the
Jewish movement in possession of that ancient Mesorah.
Not at all related, David, but a neat thought — According to
Jewish tradition, the reason Creation was given the
Torah but not the angels was that following the
Torah required free will.
Jewish scholars separate the prophets into two categories, the prophets and the writings, so that the entire Hebrew Bible was called the Tanakh (TNK, shorthand for
Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim).
(Well, TECHNICALLY he was because his mom was
Jewish), so I'm not positive if the word play really matters, since an uncircumcised Gentile would NEVER be allowed to read the
Torah, so he would not have been familiar with it.
2A) that is your opinion; a follower of islam would say the quran and a
jewish person would say the
torah.
He was brought up in the Pharisaic school of Judaism and was most earnest in his observance of the
Torah or
Jewish Law.
Anyway from Wiki A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the
Torah and how to apply it to current
Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written
Torah and rejecting doctrines such as the Oral
Torah and the Resurrection of the Dead.
Messer leads the Simchat
Torah Beit Midrash congregation in Colorado, which describes itself as a community of
Jewish and non-
Jewish believers in «Yeshua,» or Jesus Christ.
All of this may sound absurd to those for whom the theological singularity of
Jewish existence and
Torah is an intellectual formula rather than a vivid, pervasive experience; and this kind of modesty is alien to a compulsively talkative culture that sees reticence as an obstacle to be overcome.
The Old Testament, the
Torah of the
Jewish faith, combined with the New Testament to make up the Bible for Christians.
There's no
Jewish coronation ceremony where someone is wrapped in a
Torah and made a king, he said.
The fully «orthodox,» who have internalized the Rav's attitude to
Torah and
Jewish singularity and share Auden's esteem for reticence, may already have a sense of how to strike a balance between communication and modesty.
the
torah is filled with bigotry and hatred for everyone who is not
jewish.