History, Yeshua, and His Predictions
Yeshua’s predictions of his suffering and resurrection can easily be doubted. It is easy to come up with a plausible, non-supernatural scenario, in which a Jewish teacher believed he would be martyred...
View ArticleHidden Corners and the Messiah Revelation
The single greatest reason devotion to Jesus is something hard for people to believe is important is that God does his work quietly and in hidden corners while the world is looking for noise and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Legalism, John 8
Legalism is not what you think it is. The term “legalism” is primarily used in Christian discussions and comes up in Messianic life often, especially when interacting with Christians. It is a...
View ArticleLazarus and the Fourth Gospel’s Unique Insight
In my comments on John 11 today for the Daily D’var email list, I bring up a little known issue about the authors of the four Gospels. Only one of them was an eyewitness. Feel free to comment and/or...
View ArticleDid Yeshua (Jesus) Speak Hebrew or Aramaic? Yes.
Here is the best, clearest, and IMHO most accurate article I have seen on the subject. Hopefully it’s length will not dissuade you from reading it. He clearly explains why we should not be fooled by...
View ArticleThe Bible Is Not the Origin of Faith, Part 3
See Part 1 and Part 2. People will tell me, “I am willing to consider whether there is a God, but I don’t want to use the Bible as a source for thinking about it.” To many people the Bible...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Matthew 5:17
Figuring out why Jesus said, “Don’t think I have come to abolish the Law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fill” would be a helpful step in understanding our Jewish Messiah. One...
View ArticleA Closer Look at the Narrow Gate
The way many people read it, Yeshua said: “Get into heaven by the narrow gate, which hardly anyone will do, for the masses will be doomed forever and hardly any will make it.” There are a few problems...
View ArticleDivine Messiah Seminar, A Taste, #1
Talking about the early believers in Yeshua and the inconvenient truth of his divinity is something I’ve done a few times. I’ll be continuing to share seminars on the topic in 2015. I’m updating my...
View ArticleThe Early Believers and the Divine Messiah
This is yet another taste of my book Divine Messiah and of a seminar I present to groups. I will be presenting in Columbus, OH, this weekend and the following is an excerpt from my notes. Many people...
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