/lit/ - Literature

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>>14600750
>>14600776
I'm late, it took me a while and I had a familar matter to attend to. I will give you 2 points. I always use the most Jewish-sympathetic versions possible, unless they are deliberately mistranslating a word to fit their narrative, as I demonstrate an example of in >>14543721 .

**Time**
The Messiah should have already arrived. This is not an iron-clad proof for Christ, but propose any other candidate as the Messiah that has already arrived and is not Christ as understood by Christians and you look so foolish that I don't have to worry about people reading this being persuaded of your view. This point is twofold, both from Daniel.
The first comes from Daniel 7 (https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16490/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-7.htm)), where Daniel sees four beasts, representing four gentile kingdoms respectively. They are, as the Jewish sage Rashi tells us, Babylon, Persia, Alexander the Great's empire, and as even he admits, the Roman Empire. The problem is, of course, that as the fourth beast arrives in 7:10-27, God personally judges the beasts and the Messiah arrives to establish an eternal kingdom and so on, all while the Fourth Beast has a dominion, and certainly it is tied to historical figures, e.g. Titus and Vespasian. Yet the Jews can find nobody who might fulfill such, a Messiah during the time of the Roman Empire, who brings any kind of judgement to those degenerate pagans, except for Jesus Christ.
The second comes from Daniel 9, particularly Daniel 9:26. Regardless of the Jewish numerology autism Rashi includes in his commentary, one thing is clear to even the most illiterate Louis Lunchbox guy:
26 *And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation.*
The Messiah comes, dies, and is אַיִן or has אַיִן, is nothing or has nothing, all before the destruction of the Second Temple decreed to be rebuilt in 7:24-25. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Fourth Beast, who "trampled" it into nothing, a beast more odious than those who came before, in 72 AD. Where was the Messiah? Who else could it have been but Jesus Christ? I have yet to hear a Jew answer me, and yet I have asked 3 wise ones I know of in real life.

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>>14479936
Any books that relate to either of these, /lit/erate anons?

>>14449269
based, I have all of Kreeft's books.