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>>20981411
>Oven of Akhnai
No wonder Jesus could not even convince these pilpuling Pharisees. Rabbinic trickery has retconned the Messiah into two different people, Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David, the suffering Messiah and the king Messiah.

The Talmud even affirms that the Messiah should have came already, but because of their sins it hasn’t. How weird!

> It is written: “There came with the clouds of heaven, one like unto a son of man…and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom…his dominion is an everlasting dominion” (Daniel 7:13–14). And it is written: “Behold, your king will come to you; he is just and victorious; lowly and riding upon a donkey and upon a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9). Rabbi Alexandri explains: If the Jewish people merit redemption, the Messiah will come in a miraculous manner with the clouds of heaven. If they do not merit redemption, the Messiah will come lowly and riding upon a donkey.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5458622/jewish/98a.htm

And he came on a donkey!

> In relation to the discussion on the calculation of years, the Gemara states that one of the Sages of the school of Eliyahu taught: The world is destined to exist for six thousand years. For two thousand years the world was waste, as the Torah had not yet been given. The next set of two thousand years are the time period of the Torah. The last set of two thousand years are the period designated for the days of the Messiah, but due to our many sins there are those years that have been taken from them, i.e., such and such years have already passed and have been taken from the two thousand years that are designated for the Messiah, and the Messiah has not yet arrived.
https://www.sefaria.org/Avodah_Zarah.9a.5?lang=bi

The Talmud also says that the sins at the Temple stopped being forgiven FORTY YEARS before its destruction (in 30AD—how weird!)
>The Sages taught: During the tenure of Shimon HaTzaddik, the lot for God always arose in the High Priest’s right hand; after his death, it occurred only occasionally; but during the forty years prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, the lot for God did not arise in the High Priest’s right hand at all. So too, the strip of crimson wool that was tied to the head of the goat that was sent to Azazel did not turn white, and the westernmost lamp of the candelabrum did not burn continually.
https://www.sefaria.org/Yoma.39b?lang=bi

Look at the cope, they know something is awry, and the cognitive dissonance is sad.

Let’s not forget the Talmud is full of seething against proto-trinitarian interpretations of Jewish scriptures. Read the book ‘Two Powers in Heaven’

Western philosophy is no more than a series of footnotes on Moses.

>>20850085
Moses and Joshua were prophets and commanded armies and killed their enemies in the name of the Lord. I have never found the criticisms of Muhammad as ‘violent’ compelling for this reason. Of course, the teachings of Christ are of an infinitely higher standard than those of Muhammad, who never rose beyond a rehash of petty pharisaism. The real critique of Muhammad comes from the nature of his revelation and its incompatibility with the true revelations of the Old Testament and New Testament. Basic historical facts are twisted and denied in the Qur’an, and the plagiarism of the Qur’an from Syro-Aramaic texts is as clear as day. The incorporation of fictional stories such as that of Dhul Qarnayn, so named for the horns of pagan god Zeus Ammon adorning his head from the Alexander Romance makes the claims of the Qur’an laughable.

Likewise the earliest generations of Christians—Paul, the Twelve, Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus, Polycarp, etc. all declared Jesus Christ to be divine, just like the OT teaches. Multiple groups of pre-Christian Jews also believed in a divine Word of God, such as Philo of Alexandria and many groups referred to as ‘minim’ by Talmudic Jews. Targum literature is also full of mentions of the Memra of God, i.e. his Word.

Muhammad, fundamentally, was man who was attacked by a fallen angel in a cave and was told to deny every central Christian doctrine (very telling). He was enslaved by his passions and worldly interests, an instrument of Satan. Today we see the fruits: backwardness, pedophilia, polygamy, terrorism, autistic legalism, kissing a black stone and widespread superstition about jinn and practice of magic. The Islamic world is afflicted by demons and is unable to drive them away. Just look at how often they resort to apotropaic magic, amulets and other things. Pray that they renounce the false god of Muhammad for the triune God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Remember Muslims, Muhammad is told to ask Christians if he is confused about anything (Q 10:94)— listen up!

>>20811873
> The religion of the peoples and of their cities, of the backbone of Hellenstic culture, was genocided wholesale by the Christians
Deus vult, heathen.

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.