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In the Articles section (accessible via the menu), I cover topics grouped into categories like Torah, Hebrew, Gospels, Paul, Mary, Prayer, and Hot Topics. However, I’ve noticed that some of you have questions that don’t neatly fit into these categories. To address this, I’m creating a dedicated space for those off-topic questions.
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Comments (27)
Hi Dr Eli,
I think your analysis is very possible. Rome under Caesar needed the authority to declare itself master of all,something Julius began by instilling himself into Romes religious institutions and also creating a new calendar, from whence the gregorian calendar derives. Pilate seems to be using the political ploy of being the man with the power to decide one way or the other,using it for empirical purposes,but denying responsibility.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, Jon.
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Try a different browser or device. I checked that everything works fine. Everything is in the Articles section. Blessings!
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I have often wondered if the Jewish people who see Jesus as the promised Messiah view Him the same way as gentile Christians. If differently, how differently.
Wil
Very differently, my brother! Perhaps I will do a study one day on this.
Hello Dr Eli!
I have been wondering what the significance of the two leavened loaves at Shavuot/pentecost are in contrast to the unleavened bread emphasized at Passover. I have some ideas but I would live to have your perspective.
Maybe you could write an article on it since we are so close to this celebration.
Blessings!
Lois
Lois, there are so many takes on this. I have not studied this enough to offer my opinion. Blessings and much peace!
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How can God condemn Pharaoh since He hardened his heart?
Hardening someone's heart in the Bible is an old-fashined expression of letting someone to do evil they have desired to do in their heart already.
One thing that I have notice among you Hebrew scholars is the reluctance to impact wrong Christian hermaneutics and thus theology .....You know Hebrew and so why don't you communicate with those in error? Good example is Daniel Chapter 9....have you not noticed the error upon error in their skewed interpretation which has been taught from generation to generation? Now they have 95% of Protestants thinking that there must be a 7-year tribulation and that 9:27 is all about the Anti-Christ his covenant-------which is just the opposite of what the early Church fathers believed and makes no sense both grammatically and with context!
It must be because we lack your overconfidence and arrogance.
Evening Doc.
Can you send me that information which is titled “He has Risen” please
Thank you
Regards
Mlungisi Fani
From South Africa, Cape Town
email: fani2405@gmail.com
I only have this article on the the topic https://jewishstudiesforchristians.com/easter-as-christian-passover/ did you mean something more specific? What ressurection is?
Jesus refers to Jonah's three days and three nights in the belly of the giant fish when He speaks of the time He would be in the grave. There are many who believe and teach He was there part of three days as in two partial days and a full day. Others teach a full three days from sundown to sundown each day. Which is correct? Three full days or three days including partial days?
Jesus’ reference to “three days and three nights” in Matthew 12:40 aligns with the Jewish understanding of inclusive reckoning, where any part of a day counted as a full day. Thus, His burial from late Friday afternoon (Good Friday) to early Sunday morning (Resurrection Sunday) constitutes three days: Friday (partial), Saturday (full), and Sunday (partial). This matches the “sign of Jonah” as understood in Jewish tradition, where a portion of a 24-hour period was considered a day and a night. While some argue for a literal 72-hour period, the biblical timeline and Jewish custom support the inclusive reckoning, making both descriptions valid depending on interpretive framework.
I take Genesis chapter 34 in which the 12 brothers and sister Dina conspired and convinced the men of Shekem to be circumcised, then when at a disadvantage, the brothers killed all the men in a the of gross barbarity which toi this day is used as a guide of moral conduct and an exemplar of “Right Conduct” by the Freemasons, a wholly Jewish construct whose god is found in Genesis 33 as El-El-O-Eh-Israel. Today in the news in London, two Iranians were arrested for allegedly spying on the Jewish community; perhaps there ought to be an investigation into the Freemasons not only spying on gentiles but in breaking businesses, denying justice, committing fraud etc.
Best I understand your comment, Paul, you don't much like Israel and Jews :-). The only problem with your interpretation and reading everyone unrelated into the story is that the story actually is condemned by Jacob (Father of Israel) and serves as a bad example in the Torah for behavior within Israel. Jacob in the end of this life, said, “Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence. Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel." (Genesis 49:5-7)
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