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John 5:46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me."
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/jn/5.html#46
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/jn/5.html#46
Originally posted by AThousandYoungNowhere.
John 5:46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me."
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/jn/5.html#46
Originally posted by geniusHi, G—
are you trying to say that the OT doesn't mention a messiah?
Originally posted by vistesdDid Moses write Deuteronomy 34 ?
Hi, G—
Wherever you find the English word “anointed” in the Hebrew Scriptures, the underlying Hebrew word is mashach (verb); as a noun it is mashiach, from which is derived messiah. Just a few examples:
Numbers 3:3—the “anointed priests”: ha’m’shechim (the word "priests" does not actually appear, but is inferred clearly from the contex ...[text shortened]... Judaic religious teaching, e.g., an exegesis of a Torah-text by a rabbi—“here is my torah...”.
Originally posted by frogstompLOL!!
Did Moses write Deuteronomy 34 ?
Originally posted by vistesdWith deapan seriousness isn't exactly the way I read it either.
LOL!!
It says somewhere in the Talmud, that beginning with 34:1, he wrote “with tears in his eyes...”
I think that’s a wonderful tongue-in-cheek statement—but that’s because I don’t take any of it “literally.” Some Orthodox Jews may—but even then, not in the same way... As far as I can tell, most Reform and Reconstructionist Jews take it all as humor in the Jewish approach, and this stuff should not always be read with deadpan seriousness.
Originally posted by vistesdWhat really is funny though is that the mythological writings of the Sumerians are seen for what they are , but the biblical retelling of the same stories are bantered about as word of God.
I know, brother, I know....
Actually, in my efforts to save mythology from being turned into fantasy by being read literally--I may be more guilty of that than you.
Originally posted by frogstompAgreed. My personal hypothesis is that the old-storytellers (and the redactors who weaved them into the early written texts) knew what they were about. Even with the interweaving of historical events (rather like a historical novel) into a literary form that I call “histo-myth” (or “mythtery” đ ).
What really is funny though is that the mythological writings of the Sumerians are seen for what they are , but the biblical retelling of the same stories are bantered about as word of God.
Originally posted by geniusThe most Moses-like prophet that I can think of is Mohammed.
deuteronomy 18:15,19
"The Lord your God will raise up from you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him...If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I (the Lord) myself will call him to account."