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For me the highlight of the poem is this question: If life has no meaning, then what does it matter, If our life is a clock, just waiting to shatter?

I haven't written much poetry but this one was the most intense I've created: Moral Chaos. I provide there also a link to a (partial) explanation/motivation of why I wrote the poem. I actually got to use the poem to some positive witnessing effect (for the very purpose I created it) on Facebook...

I don't know the full context of what that guy is teaching, but one word of caution here is that the phrase "in the name of Jesus" was never meant to be a rehearsed formula, which we sometimes are guilty of hastily adding at the end of a prayer (which itself may have been hasty). In modern days...

While we are talking about Rabbinical Judaism, do either of you have any suggestions for this thread by chance?

:agreed Yeah, no kidding. Wikipedia thinks Goliath is a myth. Hmm, well I'm all for more research I just heard it from that Rabbi who emailed me and saw it on wikipedia, so it sounded reasonable. The wikipedia article claims the earliest use of the word "rabban" was in the Talmud 2nd century...

Which diaspora do you mean? When exactly? The exile of the Northern Kingdom and the later exile of Judah to Babylon could both be considered early examples of a disapora. There was a diaspora in Peter's day and James's day (they were writing to the Churches and Jewish brothers abroad in their...

I am a person who is drowning in books (mostly Bible study related - some of them partially or even never yet read) and I just don't have time like I used to to buy tons of new books and read through them in entirety. I lean a lot more toward video education these days, and even audio would be...

Awesome! You are a wealth of information King James! I want to come back and review all the links (and the videos) that you posted when I get a chance.

Ah, interesting! Hillel was called HIllel the Elder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder. That means my guess was right, that it was the Elders that later became Rabbis. Edit: Also from the Wikipedia page on Rabbis - "Rabbi is not an occupation found in the Hebrew Bible, and ancient...

Okay the Rabbi's reply to my initial inquiry was a simple answer in the negative, saying that he doesn't believe God was ever referred to that way (as a Rabbi). In that case I assume that thinking of God that way would be new theological territory, at least for Jews. I asked him a follow-up...

In favor? Certainly not. No more so than the Bible itself is. What God has made one let man not separate. But he does believe in legitimate causes of divorce (as did Jesus). In other words he believes divorce is permissible on certain Biblically defined grounds. He is far more considerate of the...

LOL. I was just talking with a friend today about possibly dating someone who also spoke German. Sounds corny but it actually adds an intellectual dimension to a relationship in that case. :-)

It's definitely German right now. I've only mastered about 20% of it, but it's enough to become conversational. I've joined an online German-English language message board in order to exercise my German grammar more. German is the language that I stand the best chance of learning completely. The...

Interesting. I guess I'll see if I get a response back. I wonder who the earliest "Rabbis" were however. Who did the very first Rabbi draw his authority from? How do the prophets fit in? Jesus even accused the rabbis of killing all the prophets. Perhaps one early example of how Jews addressed...

Haha. *Let him off the leash or he'll drool to death trying to get to the bone!* (In this case the bone is a big juicy hard-back bound Ramban commentary). :funny

Interesting. I may put that book on my Amazon wish list. I think I've heard of Telushkin before from radio talk show host Dennis Prager (who is one of my favorite talk show hosts), since he himself is a Jew and has taught on the Torah before. Sounds like I got it about backwards on the...

Yes, as a matter of fact it was. You hang around there much? I'll try to get to the rest of your post(s) later. I'm at work now. God bless, Josh

Exactly. The classic example is of the Rabbis Shammai and Hillel ("friendly rivals"). If I recall right Shammai's rabbinical school is closer to the Christian point of view than Hillel's. I know that is the case in the matter of legitimate grounds for divorce at least. I found an article...

For us who are Christian it is evident that Jesus was a Rabbi and our Rabboni, but the thrust of the question here is whether or not we can see this as well in the OT as being spoken of the Father himself (whom I believe Yahweh almost always refers to). Can we find evidence of God as a Rabbi in...

I recently submitted a question to an Orthodox Jewish website that has an "Ask the Rabbi" page where you can send inquiries to a Rabbi to answer questions about the Tanak (Old Testament). I crafted my question in a form that is respectful of Jewish conventions of referring to Jehovah/Yahweh as...