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The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles Chapter 5 A young priest took the time to reacquaint me with today's modern catechism for Catholics. With the grace of our Lord, I will do my best to contrast with the Didache. Through prayer I am searching for Saint Paul's views on the Shema and obedience of faith. People of the Jewish and Islamic faith have the hardest time with his comments. Romans 1 Could Paul have gotten his idea of faith from Habakkuk? Habakkuk 2 Hebrew Midrash - Exodus Rabba I note a difference in metaphors of God's relationship with the Jewish and Christian faiths. Israel is HaShem's bride and Christians are His Children, Brothers and Sister of His eternal priest, our Lord Jesus Christ. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Great Isaiah Scroll does not concur the Exodus Rabba commentary: "I have no father" "I have no brother" "I have no son" From the Greek Septuagint text as was used by First Century Christians Isaiah 43 1611 King James Version Isaiah 43 The Jewish Encyclopedia has great information on the Midrash Haggadah that gives a brief background on Jewish interpretation of scripture in the Rabba Exodus. Thus the Venice edition of 1545, in which the midrashim to the Pentateuch and to the Five Rolls were for the first time printed together, has on the title-page of the first part the words "Midrash Rabbot 'al Ḥamishshah Ḥumshe Torah" (Midrash Rabbah to the Five Books of the Torah), and on that of the second part "Midrash Ḥamesh Megillot Rabbeta" (Midrash Rabbah of the Five Megillot). At this point I am getting a sense that much of the Jewish and Christian exegesis (written commentary on scripture) occurred after the death of Jesus to the age of Mohammed. Since reading that Hashem (God) gave the title of God to Moses when addressed to Moses it makes me wonder if the same title could be applied to Jesus when he said I AM. I am going to need to better understand the meaning of the word "begotten." According to Thayer begotten is defined as single of its kind, only used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents). According to Strong the Hebrew equivalent is יָחִיד (yaw‑kheed') Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 19b Jesus was born of Mary and begotten of Hashem, who taught and commanded Him to teach those that would listen to Love God and Love Your Neighbor. What I know is true is that God and His righteous creation have many titles that are both understood and disputed. These titles have created wars and bloodshed defined as holy.

The Didache Chapter 5 Here Adonai gives Moses the title of God to Pharoah Exodus 7 I contacted the the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center to find out whether the Jewish faith considers Hillel's Golden Rule is equal to the Shema? Mitzvot are commandments from God and to be intended for the Jewish people to observe. Gilgulei Ha Neshamot describes a Kabbalistic concept of reincarnation. In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" and neshamot is the plural for "souls." Souls are seen to "cycle" through "lives" or "incarnations", being attached to different human bodies over time. The notion of reincarnation, while held as a mystical belief by some, is not an essential tenet of traditional Judaism. It is not mentioned in traditional classical sources such as the Tanakh ("Hebrew Bible"), the classical rabbinic works (Mishnah and Talmud), or Maimonides' 13 Principles of Faith. The Tanya is the main work of the Chabad approach to Hasidic mysticism. The Tanya notes that this soul is unique to Jews alone. He cites various verses (Exodus 4:22: "My firstborn son, Israel", Deuteronomy 14:1: "You are children to the LORD your God") showing that Jews are considered God's children, and then links it to a mystical statement that "a child is derived from the brain of his father." It then cites Maimonides (Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah 2:10) who says, "He is the Knowledge, and He is the Knower," thus proving that the Jewish Divine soul is derived from the Divine Thought, which is the same as God Himself. http://www.chabad.org/library/tanya/tanya_cdo/aid/6237/jewish/Lessons-in-Tanya.htm In Hasidic thought, divine sparks are revealed through the performance of commandments or "mitzvot," (literally, the obligations and prohibitions described in the Torah). One Jewish explanation for the existence of malevolence in the world is that such terrible things are possible with the divine sparks being hidden. Thus there is some urgency to performing mitzvot in order to liberate the hidden sparks and perform a "tikkun olam" (literally, healing of the world). Until then, the world is presided over by the immanent aspect of God, often referred to as the Shekhinah or divine spirit, and in feminine terms. Immanence is a term to explain how the spiritual world permeates our material plane of existence. Is the "Shekhinah" the "Holy Spirit" in my Christian belief? Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 39a Talmud - Mas. Megilah 29a Genesis 1:26 states that God made humans in God's image and after God's likeness. Kabbalists understood this verse literally. If human beings are in the form of an anthropos (human body), and if human beings were made in the image and likeness of God, then God must be an anthropos too. Exodus 19 1 Kings 8 Ezekiel 8 Is Jesus is the Shechinah or the Holy Spirit? In the Bible, the Shechinah is the visible manifestation of the glory of God in which He descends to dwell among us. Jesus would fit that description, but not in the feminine Jewish use of the word. Talmud - Masilah Yoma 56b It appears like the Holy Spirit, Shechinah is not clearly defined in the Jewish community. Jweekly.com has a good article on the subject. Shekhina by Leonard Nimoy

The Didache Chapter 5 In Galatians and Romans, the Apostle Paul echoes the words of Hillel. Sometimes I think of the redaction of Paul as the Mishnah to the Christians. The difference from Luke and Prince Judah was his redaction came both from witnesses and his encounter with Jesus. Galatians 5 Romans 13 Although, Jesus clearly stated love God first and your fellow man second. Paul appears to have spoken from a Jewish point of view on this subject. Being a former student of Gamaliel he would have full knowledge of Hillel's teachings of the Golden rule of brotherly love. It is interesting to note that Pharisee Hillel life is runs parallel to those in the life of Moses. Both lived 120 years (Deut. 34:7), and at the age of forty Hillel went to the Land of Israel; forty years he spent in study; and the last third of his life he was the spiritual head of the Jewish people. When Hillel died in 10 A.D., the Shammites took over the Pharisee role within the Sanhedrin and became the primary religious influence in Judea, whereas in the Galilee region, where Jesus lived and was raised, the teachings of Hillel held sway. Here we see Hillel's famous Golden Rule. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Shabbath Folio 31a The Shema or Great Commandment, as it has also come to be known Deuteronomy 6 Babylonian Talmud : Tractate Berakoth Berakoth 10b Tractate Berakoth Folio 11a Righteous (Perfect) HaShem (Father) = Faithful (Obedient) Jesus (Son) Here we see Saint Paul acknowledge the Shema by stating God is One. Romans 3 1 Corinthians 8 This is verse that brings diverges Catholics from Jews and Muslims. Through Jesus Christ one encounters the one and only God. Romans 9 Hashem gives Moses the title of being God when being addressed to Ramses the Pharaoh (name the son of Egyptian God Ra) and his brother Aaron to be his disciple. Paul relates how Hashem gave the title of God to Jesus to mankind and the Apostles to be his disciples.

Proverbs 2 2:11 Discretion 46 will protect you, 47 understanding will guard you, 2:12 to deliver 48 you from the way of the wicked, 49 from those 50 speaking perversity, 51 2:13 who leave 52 the upright 53 paths to walk on the dark 54 ways, 2:14 who delight 55 in doing 56 evil, 57 they rejoice in perverse evil; 58 2:15 whose paths 59 are morally crooked, 60 and who are devious 61 in their ways; 2:16 to deliver you 62 from the adulteress, 63 from the sexually loose woman 64 who speaks flattering 65 words; 66 2:17 who leaves 67 the husband 68 from her younger days, 69 and forgets her marriage covenant 70 made before God. 71 2:18 For her house 72 sinks 73 down to death, and her paths lead 74 to the place of the departed spirits. 75 2:19 None who go in to her will return, 76 nor will they reach the paths of life. 77 Leviticus 18 18:20 You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her. Deuteronomy 22 22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel. Tractate Sotah CHAPTER V MISHNAH. JUST AS THE WATER PROVES HER SO THE WATER PROVES HIM;3 AS IT IS SAID, 'AND SHALL ENTER' TWICE.4 JUST AS SHE IS PROHIBITED TO THE HUSBAND5 SO IS SHE PROHIBITED TO THE PARAMOUR;6 AS IT IS SAID, DEFILED … AND IS DEFILED.7 THIS IS THE STATEMENT OF R. AKIBA. R. JOSHUA SAID: THUS USED ZECHARIAH B. HAKAZAB TO EXPOUND.8 RABBI SAYS: THE WORD DEFILED OCCURS TWICE IN THE SCRIPTURAL PORTION,9 ONE REFERRING [TO HER BEING PROHIBITED] TO THE HUSBAND AND THE OTHER TO THE PARAMOUR.

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The Didache Chapter 5 According to Jewish tradition, the Tannaim (Sages or Scholars) were the last generation in a long sequence of oral teachers of the Torah that began with Moses. The Tannaim belonged to schools (sometimes called academies) that were more formalized than those of their earlier Pharisee predecessors. The following were Nesi'im, that is to say presidents of the Sanhedrin. 1. Hillel 2. Rabban Shimon ben Hillel, about whom very little is known 3. Rabban Gamaliel Hazaken (Gamaliel the Elder) 4. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel 5. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai 6. Rabban Gamaliel of Yavne (Rabban Gamaliel II)was on friendly terms with many who were not Jews, and was so warmly devoted to his slave Tavi that when the latter died he mourned for him as for a beloved member of his own family. He put an end to the division which had arisen between the spiritual leaders of Judaism by the separation of the scribes into the two schools called respectively after Hillel and Shammai, and took care to enforce his own authority as the president of the chief legal assembly of Judaism with energy and often with severity. He did this, as he himself said, not for his own honor nor for that of his family, but in order that disunion should not prevail in Israel. 7. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, who was Nasi for a short time after Rabban Gamliel was removed from his position other Rabbis of Yavneh after he embarrassed Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah three times. 8. Joshua ben Hananiah was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma'as. Sh. v. 9), and served in the sanctuary as a member of the class of singers (Arakhin 11b). His mother intended him for a life of study, and, as an older contemporary, Dosa b. Harkinas, relates (Yer. Yeb. 3a), she carried the child in his cradle into the synagogue, so that his ears might become accustomed to the sounds of the words of the Torah. It was probably with reference to his pious mother that Johanan b. Zakkai thus expressed himself concerning Joshua ben Hananiah: "Hail to thee who gave him birth" (Pirkei Avot ii. 8). According to another tradition (Ab. R. N. xiv.) Johanan b. Zakkai praised him in the words from Eccl. iv. 12: "And a threefold cord is not quickly broken." Perhaps he meant that in Joshua the three branches of traditional learning, Midrash, Halakah, and Aggadah, were united in a firm whole; or possibly he used the passage in the sense in which it was employed later (Eccl. R. iv. 14; B. B. 59a), to show that Joshua belonged to a family of scholars even to the third generation. He is the seventh most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah. Like Rabban Gamaliel Hazaken, Joshua ben Hananiah proved the resurrection through the following verse: 9. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel of Yavne 10. Rabbi Judah haNasi (Judah the Nasi), known simply as "Rabbi", who compiled the Mishnah, the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions called the "Oral Torah" dating from the Pharisaic Second Temple Hasmonean dynasty established under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus. This is similar to the redaction Luke did 100 to 150 years prior with the early oral accounts about Jesus. Luke 1 The Talmud gives more insight into the Jewish concept of repentance and the gift of immortality through redemption. Here are some keywords to understand before reading below. Minim is plural of Hebrew minuth, in Talmudic terminology, outsiders within the Jewish community. Tractate ‘Abodah Zarah Folio 17a Abodah Zarah 17b It was during Tannaim period of Roman occupation that Jesus demonstrated to the Sadducees his complete understanding of the Haggadic Midrash. Mark 12 Exodus 3 Hebrew - English Bible - Mechon-Mamre I continue to be impressed with Rabbi Wolf. I asked him whether Rabban Gamliel was the first to discuss the concept of the resurrection in the Jewish community. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sotah Folio 49a I wonder if Jesus discussed the concept of resurrection with Rabban Gamliel. In any case Christians believe that Rabban Gamliel was witness to Christ's resurrection. It was also this time that the Apostle Paul, then named Saul was a student of Gamliel. The movie, "The Apostle Paul" presents a Hollywood view of Paul and Gamliel. http://youtu.be/k5XGwasai_s One can only imagine the grassroots news of Jesus rising from the dead spreading in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. The Sadducees were enraged with the Apostles. But, the Pharisees of the House of Hillel supported the idea of resurrection. Their action most likely saved Christianity. I very much want to attend a service at the House of Hillel. Acts 5

The Didache Chapter 5 I have distilled the Rabbinical remarks of the Talmud that support the idea of resurrection and judgement of the dead. Rabban Gamaliel I, lived during the time of Jesus. Gamaliel proved the resurrection of the dead through the Torah, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa and quoted: I have not found a passage that matches the Gamaliel's Talmud translation in all current translations of Deuteronomy 31. Here is the Hebrew - English Bible - Mechon-Mamre. Deuteronomy 31 From what I read Moses [again] is not rising from the dead, but concerning Israel’s future apostasy. So I decided to contact the the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center. I was amazed and grateful to get such a prompt response. Shaul Wolf was referencing at the end of Yoma 52a and the beginning of 52b in the "The Soncino Babylonian Talmud." http://halakhah.com/rst/moed/15b%20-%20Yoma%20-%2028a-61b.pdf Yoma 52a Issi ben Judah (Hebrew: איסי בן יהודה‎, "Issi ben Yehuda", also known as Issi Ha-babli, lit. "Babylonian Issi"), was a Tanna of the latter part of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd century. He made Aliyah from Hutzal, Babylon, to the Land of Israel, and thus was also nicknamed "Issi Ha-Babli" or "Jose the man of Hutzal". It was Issi ben Judah who mentioned in the Talmud that the Jewish scholars did not know how to read Deuteronomy 31. He was a disciple of Eleazar ben Shammua. I would assume that since Eleazer ben Shammua was a master of the law he would taught to Issi ben Judah the difficulty of interpreting Deuteronomy 31. Eleazer ben Shammua or Eleazar I lived around the year 160 A.D. (90 years after the destruction of the Second Temple). It is known that Eleazer was of priestly descent (Meg. 27b; Soṭah 39a) and rich (Eccl. R. xi. 1), and acquired great fame as a teacher of traditional law. Akiva ben Joseph lived around 40 – ca. 137 AD. He was widely known as Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: רבי עקיבא‎), was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century (3rd tannaitic generation). Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as "Rosh la-Chachamim" (Head of all the Sages). Akiva was a devoted friend of Gamaliel, So he would have discussed Deuteronomy 31. It is well known that Rabbi Akiva mistakenly believed that a Jewish leader by the name of Simon bar Kokhba was the Messiah. It is important to note that Judaism does not consider it a transgression to identify oneself or anyone else as the messiah. He called him the name Simon ben Kosiba (Aramaic for "Son of a Star"), referring to the Star Prophecy of Numbers 24:17, "there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab"). Later rabbinical writers referred to bar Kokhba as "Simon bar Kozeba" (meaning "Son of lies" or "Son of deception"). For more information on Simon bar Kokhba use the keyword phrase "The Bar Kokhba revolt." Simon ben Kosiba minted coins for three years. Here is a coin located at the British Museum. Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Eliezer ben Hyrcanus was one of the most prominent tannaim of the 1st and 2nd centuries, disciple of R. Johanan ben Zakkai and colleague of Gamaliel II. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate ‘Abodah Zarah Abodah Zarah 16b Here is some background about the Talmud.

The Didache Chapter 5 According to the Talmud the Jewish Sages understood the concept of Resurrection before the time of Jesus Christ. Christians believe there exist references to resurrection and the New Kingdom throughout Isaiah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_eschatology Isaiah 60 Revelation 21 Still people embrace second death with no fear of God. Like Christians, Pharisee Jews in Babylon had similar views about the resurrection of the dead. Those that do not believe who do not believe and follow God's law will not receive His eternal reward. Here we read that all the Sadducee and the Samaritan Jews that denied doctrine of resurrection have been denied a place in the world to come. Terumah, Terumoh, Terimuh, or Trumah is Hebrew for "gift" or “offering. Haberim is Hebrew for temple priests or members of the Jewish community that cultivated the practice of ritual purity. The is a passage in the Talmud states that the origin of resurrection comes from the gift offerings that are made to Moses brother Aaron. Some Tannaim Rabbis in the Gemara considered Aaron an eternal priest similar to Jesus Christ. The Gemara (also transliterated Gemora, Gemarah or, less commonly, Gimarah is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah. After the Mishnah was published by Judah HaNasi (c. 200 CE). Judah the Prince, (Yehudah HaNasi) or Judah I, also known as Rabbi or Rabbenu HaQadosh was a 2nd-century rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah. He was a key leader of the Jewish community during the Roman occupation of Judea According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of King David, hence the title nasi, meaning prince.The title nasi was also used for presidents of the Sanhedrin. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Chapter 10 (Some have it at 11) In my opinion, it is important to interject Exodus 29 within the Rabbis' debate on Aaron being an eternal priest or Aaron priesthood bloodline. Exodus 29 God made a covenant that Aaron and his sons were granted now the privilege of being a special mediating instrument between Jewish people and Yahweh, their Lord. According to Jewish tradition, only males from the direct line of Aaron could serve as priests in the holy temple of God. There is a "Y-chromosomal Aaron" theory that shows patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", "Cohen", or Kohane). In the Torah, this ancestor is identified as Aaron, the brother of Moses. Click on the link Cohen Modal Haplotype http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron#Cohens_in_other_haplogroups http://www.familytreedna.com/public/R1bCohane/default.aspx Nephrologist Dr. Karl Skorecki decided to analyze the Cohanim to see if they were the descendants of one man, in which case they should have a set of common genetic markers. To test this hypothesis, he contacted Dr. Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona, a researcher in molecular genetics and a pioneer in research on chromosome. Their article, published in Nature in 1997, has had some impact. A set of special markers (called Cohen Modal Haplotype or CMH) was defined as one which is more likely to be present in the Cohanim, defined as contemporary Jews named Cohen or a derivative, and it was proposed that this results from a common descent from the ancient priestly lineage than from the Jewish population in general. But, subsequent studies showed that the number of genetic markers used and the number of samples (of people saying Cohen) were not big enough. The last study, conducted in 2009 by Hammer and Behar et al., says 20 of the 21 Cohen haplogroups have no single common haplogroup; five haplogroups comprise 79.5% of all haplogroups of Cohen. Among these first 5 haplogroups, J-P58 * (or J1E) accounts for 46.1% of Cohen and the second major haplogroup, J-M410 or J2am accounts for 14.4%. Hammer and Behar have redefined an extended MHC haplotype as determined by a set of 12 markers and having as "background" haplogroup determining the most important lines J1E (46.1%). This haplotype is absent among non-Jews in 2099 analyzed in the study. It appeared there would be a 3000 ± 1000 years. This study nevertheless confirms that the current Cohen descended from a small number of paternal ancestors. In the summary of their findings the authors concluded that " Our estimates of the coalescence time also lend support to the hypothesis that the extended CMH represents a unique founding lineage of the ancient Hebrews that has been paternally inherited along with the Jewish priesthood. I wonder if HaShem will gather the tribe of Cohen (descendants of Aaron) when the Temple is rebuilt and reinstate their position? My neighbor told me that Cohen may be the oldest name in the world. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 90b Folio 91a Sanhedrin 91b Folio 92a Sanhedrin 92b

Muhammad al-Ghazālī may have been a great A mujaheddin, but the video you posted sheds light that his reforms stomped out science for the Muslim people. Neil Degrasse Tyson states that scientific innovation for the Middle East has not recovered since. I will have to better understand why Muhammad al-Ghazālī thought "mathematics is the work of the devil." That is why I have written to you that the problem is not with Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Rather the problem lies with with the intelligent scientific approach atheists have learned from Jews, Christians, and Muslims in undoing humanities moral belief in God (Allah, Adonai)and replacing it with a more probable odds approach. Gandhi once tried to figure the best way to protest the British was to follow Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount speech and create a successful peaceful protest which made him famous. Martin Luther King and Nelson Mendela followed the same path and were victorious. That is why I believe that we must show those who do not believe tolerance and display good morals for them to follow.

On this Feast Day of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit my family is now all Catholic. I am so happy that they also my brothers and sisters of God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. The Sun was shining and everyone was smiling. The gift of eternal life is even greater. My next mission is clear. I must teach my family that love and mercy are more powerful than sin and death. Special thanks to my aunt and uncle. They agreed to be God parents to my children and Joe.

I am trying to figure whether you are making a racial or religious, or both racial and religious remark here. I would disagree that Greece was Eastern. I would place it the crossroads of Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. Ancient Greece is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. I am sure you know its history with Persia. I do have a fondness for Cyrus the Great. But, he was Zoroastrian (side note. I believe Zoroastrian was the first religion to believe in one God). I have mentioned several times that it appears the Zoroastrians influenced the concept of 'hell' to the Jewish pharisees held in captivity, then on to Christians. If only Alexander did not decimate the Persian capital we would know so much more about this. I would agree that Babylon had the first recorded use of mutual prime integers estimated 1800 BC. Babylonian's were not Islamic. There deities were copies of the Sumerians. Just like Romans copied the Greeks. Arphaxad's family lived in Shinar and Ur. Abraham and Jacob where Arphaxad's descendants. But, Abraham rejected the world of many gods. So, yes the Jews, Christians, and Muslims have a great linage in that sense. As for Europeans. I would state that you need to read your history of the Roman Empire. Just like Sumerian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Mauryan, Ottoman, ect... the Romans had many great achievements. Look up aeolipile as an example. In short whenever you have a large body of people together great scientific and socioeconomic achievements happen. The United States built and used the world's most destructive weapon from the minds of American and European scientists. Read the Einstein–Szilárd letter to President Roosevelt. http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html Today we have world collaborations like CERN and the International Space Station. Meaning we are all in this together. America is a soup pot filled with people from every corner of the globe including: China, Greece, India, Egypt, Near East as well as Islamic countries. These Americans make the USA great. My family is from Spain, a historical hub for Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Europe is full of migrants too. It is ok to have national, cultural, and religious pride. But, do not think one side is mentally superior to the other. That is a losing argument. We are all the creation of God (Allah).

The Didache Chapter 5 The question I now have was whether the Assembly of Korah were the first humans to enter Gehenna. What I understand is that many in the Jewish faith believed in a conscious life after death before the earthly life of Jesus. Numbers 16 The Hebrew term shakhat "pit" is often used as a title for Sheol. Psalms 103 Here we find a reference of Sheol where Jacob thinks his son, Joesph body has been devoured and says he will mourn for him Sheol. This confirms Sheol is not a resting place for the physical body, but for the spirit. Genesis 37 Is South of Sheol Gehenna? Like a moth to a flame, dark metal captures those governed by their primal instincts. I have mentioned several times that it appears the Zoroastrians influenced the concept of 'hell' to the Jewish pharisees held in captivity, then on to Christians and Jannah Muslims. Gehenna” is sometimes translated as "hell," but the Christian view of hell differs from the Jewish view of Gehenna. Most sinners are said to suffer in Gehenna no longer than twelve months, but those who commit certain sins are punished forever. Pope John Paul wrote about Christ and Gehenna much more profoundly than I can write. Here is an excerpt of IOANNES PAULUS PP. II DIVES IN MISERICORDIA EVANGELIUM SECUNDUM MATTHAEUM The Gospel rendering of the word "Raca" or the latin "Racha" is an Aramaic transliteration for 'rekais' based on Aramaic 'reka', with the change in the first vowel possibly indicating a Syrian influence. Many bible commentators believe "Raca" is an Aramaic transliteration of 'reyqa' or 'reyqah.' Reka means "imbecile," "numbskull," or "blockhead" and those ignorant of God's laws. Some worry that this means God has no place for the mentally disabled. Isaiah answers this question. Isaiah 35 People have argued the true meaning of God's laws. But, it does not mean that we need to insult the belief of another. Barclay, in his Daily Study Bible Series on Matthew (5:22) writes: Fatue is the vocative for fatuus, which means foolish. Psalm 14 Only God has the ability to peer inside a person. So in calling a person a fool in an unrighteous manner is in danger of invoking the wrath of God. Reyqa or Reyqah means “empty one." Both the Sadducees (Manasseh) and the Pharisees (Ephraim) are in contempt of each other. Both groups think the other is ignorant and in violation of the Torah. Mishnah Yadayim 4

The Didache Chapter 5 Isaiah 26 Ezekiel 37 Ephesians 1 1 John 5 Psalms 88 Proverbs 9 Tractate Shabbath Folio 39a Sanhedrin 109b Korah rebelled against Moses, and was punished for his rebellion when God sent fire from heaven that consumed him and 249 of his fellow coconspirators. His two Reubenite accomplices, Dathan and Abiram, also perished when God caused the ground to split open beneath their feet and swallow them up with their families and everything they owned.

The Didache Chapter 5 Babylonian Talmud Tractate Shabbath Folio 104a Tractate Shabbath Folio 104a Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 110a Tractate Baba Mezi'a Baba Mezi'a 58b At sunrise, when the sun is in the East, it is red because of the reflection of the fire of Gehenna on the opposite side (West). At sunset, when the sun is in the West, the redness is the result of the reflection of the roses of the Garden of Eden thrown from the East. Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 84a At sunrise, when the sun is in the East, it is red because of the reflection of the fire of Gehenna on the opposite side (West). Tractate Nedarim Folio 40a Proverbs 21 Rephaim are residents of the Netherworld (Sheol in the Hebrew Bible). Possible examples of this usage appear as "shades", "spirits" or "dead" in various translations of the Bible. Isaiah 14 Isaiah 26

The Didache Chapter 5 Before the Covenant God made through Jesus Christ both Jews and Gentiles were rewarded with long life and prosperity by following Mosaic and Noahide laws. Some of those that openly followed and preached God's Covenant were given supernatural gifts (i.e. resurrection, ascension, healing, prophecy, etc..)As time progressed God has revealed to his sages understanding of original sin, hell, and spiritual death. Enoch reveals that we all have free will one whether we want to follow God's commands or not. After death judgement will be on our decision. The good will be separated from the bad. Enoch further revealed that good would be given dwelling places were they can petition and intercede and pray for the living on Earth. The Book of Enoch Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Tophet or Topheth ("roasting place") where worshipers influenced by the Canaanite Pantheon sacrificed children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive. 2 Kings 23 Here is a Google map of the location and tour of Valley of Ben Hinnom. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-US&ll=31.76915,35.227833&spn=0.001915,0.004128&t=k&mapclient=apiv3&layer=c&cbll=31.76915,35.227833&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-2117585&z=19 Gehenna expressed in Modern Black Metal Music. Slipknot performs to a crowd. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Nedarim Nedarim 39b Tractate ‘Abodah Zarah Abodah Zarah 18b Tractate Shabbath Folio 33a Tractate Shabbath Shabbath 33b

Ennin, I am not arguing that there have been and are now many great inventors and scientist of Islamic faith. I also do not understand your statement that Muslims follow Christ's actions better than Christians. The video you wrote for me to watch is Muhammad Abdul Jabbar scolding Muslims for not keeping the Law of their faith. This happens in Judaism as well. But, you fail to respond directly to my questions: Do you believe our earth was the first to be created before the rest of stars and planets? Can you love a sinner and hate the sin? Instead you cut and paste the same conversation that has been around for at least six years written by a man named Jamaal??? Here are three examples to prove my point. If you are not Jamaal, then please put quotes around the words written by others, so I know what you actually are writing and thinking. Matthew 10 You might like this thought. Both you and I have shared breath. God connects us all. I am sure Mohammed knew this revelation. The Book of the Prophet Enoch (Idris) was written 800 years before he was born. Chapter 40 Chapter 41 As for the Ezekiel. The passage you refer to did not mean that doing good works would atone for past sins eternally. It meant that doing good works could preclude God’s judgment of premature physical death, a judgment promised under the Mosaic Law for those who practiced wickedness. The entire chapter reveals the consequences of good and bad conduct in this physical life under the Mosaic Covenant. It does not deal with the subject of eternal life. Eternal life has always come to a person by faith alone. Christians are personally responsible for our actions, just as the Israelites were. Our personal actions will affect our lives just as was true in Israel. For Christians, who live under the New Covenant, premature death may be God’s judgment for sin. However, under the New Covenant what we do in this life also has eternal consequences, not that we will lose our salvation, but we will suffer the loss of some eternal rewards. The Lord normally gave Old Testament saints the hope that their material reward would come before they died, but He has given Christians the hope that our reward will come mainly after we die. God has always justified people for their trust in Him, and He has always rewarded them for their works. The Prophet Daniel speaks more clearly of death and the glory resurrection. But, it does not define ascension to the new kingdom as mentioned in Enoch and later Jesus. Daniel 12

This statement alone goes against the teachings of love God and your neighbor by Christ. This is the exact opposite. It has the feeling of the Jewish House of Shammai. http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?/topic/24596-the-didache-the-teaching-first-christian-catechism/?p=54274 Jesus said it best on how Christians would be persecuted for their beliefs. Matthew 10 At least we can agree that one who is sinless with God is far closer to him than one that sins daily. I did watch it. We both believe that morals have been lost. But, you consider a warrior to be the best role model of mankind. I believe Jesus Christ, who teaches Love God first and Love thy neighbor second a better fit. One of the most difficult things is to wash the feet of your enemy and turn the other cheek. John 13 1 John 2 I plan to keep on researching the truth of Islam. Here are simple questions for you. Do you believe our earth was the first to be created before the rest of stars and planets? Can you love a sinner and hate the sin?

The Didache Chapter 5 The Wise King Solomon described the breath of the soul. Ecclesiastes 12 Isaiah prophesied the coming of Jesus Christ. The Chaldee Paraphrase of Isaiah also explained the concept of second death (spiritual death) Isaiah 53 The targumim (singular: "targum", Hebrew: תרגום‎), were spoken paraphrases, explanations, and expansions of the Jewish scriptures that a Rabbi would give in the common language of the listeners, which during the time of this practice was commonly, but not exclusively, Aramaic. This had become necessary near the end of the last century before the Christian era, as the common language was in transition and Hebrew was used for little more than schooling and worship. Jonathan Ben Uziel, the author of the Chaldee Paraphrases on the major and minor Prophets lived thirty years before the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was a disciple of Hillel. He is also the author of Targum Jonathan and a book of kabbalah known as Megadnim. THE CHALDEE PARAPHRASE ON ISAIAH Chapter XXII. Chapter LXV By the second death, the Jewish and Christian writers mean an everlasting destruction both of body and soul in hell, a gnawing sense of the wrath of God in everlasting darkness, separated from the all-glorious God, and his saints in light. Proverbs 24 Ezekiel 18 This did not mean that doing good works would atone for past sins eternally. It meant that doing good works could preclude God’s judgment of premature physical death, a judgment promised under the Mosaic Law for those who practiced wickedness. This whole chapter deals with the consequences of good and bad conduct in this life under the Mosaic Covenant. It does not deal with the subject of eternal life. Eternal life has always come to a person by faith alone. As Christians we are personally responsible for our actions, just as the Israelites were. Our personal actions will affect our lives just as was true in Israel. For Christians, who live under the New Covenant, premature death may be God’s judgment for sin. However, under the New Covenant what we do in this life also has eternal consequences, not that we will lose our salvation, but we will suffer the loss of some eternal rewards. The Lord normally gave Old Testament saints the hope that their reward would come before they died, but He has given Christians the hope that our reward will come mainly after we die. God has always justified people for their trust in Him, and He has always rewarded them for their works. The Prophet Daniel speaks more clearly of life after death and the World to Come. Daniel 12 Matthew 10

The Didache Chapter 5 I start this New Year of Lord 2014 with a resolution of better understanding and avoiding the way of death to our spirit. In the way of life of the Didache I have found the voice of Jesus reinforces the ideal morals of his prophetic and rabbinic predecessors that we can strive to imitate. Some writers claim that Jesus was a Rabbi of the House of Hillel that preached against the House of Shammai. Before continuing I plant to spend a great of time researching and sharing the thoughts on Idolatry. There are people of faith who consider Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be blasphemy. My assumption is that the words of the New Testament and Didache are misunderstood by many, including myself. It is with humility and the Grace of God that I find Truth to share with all. Shimon ben Hillel, son of Hillel the Elder (brother of Judah II) continued the mantle of Nasi (Prince (of the Sanhedrin). Some Christian writers identify Shimon ben Hillel with the Simeon who blessed the infant Jesus. Luke 2 Shimon's son, Gamaliel presented an argument to the Sanhedrin and senate against killing the apostles. In any case, Gamaliel the Elder should be considered the first Jewish leader that protected the Apostles and help perpetuate Christianity. Acts 5 Acts 22 According to Photius I (810 - 893 AD), the most powerful and influential Patriarch of Constantinople since John Chrysostom, and as the most important intellectual of his time, "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance" Gamaliel was baptized by Saint Peter and Saint John, together with his son and Nicodemus. The Clementine Literature suggested that Shimon ben Hillel maintained secrecy about the conversion and continued to be a member of the Sanhedrin for the purpose of covertly assisting his fellow Christians. Gamaliel the Elder's son, Nicodemus according to the Gospel of John, showed favor to Jesus. He appears three times in Gospel of John. In this passage Nicodemus visits Jesus one night to discuss his teachings with him. Rabbi Yechiel ben Joseph of Paris, a major Talmudic scholar and Tosafist from northern France. Yechiel concluded that one of the Yeshu stories in the Talmud referred to Jesus of Nazareth. Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 43a John 3 The second time Nicodemus of the House of Hillel is mentioned, is when he debates the law concerning whether the arrest of Jesus is valid. Nicodemus is the first Jewish leader to defend Jesus. John 7 The last time Nicodemus appears in the Bible is Crucifixion, when he assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the corpse of Jesus for burial. John 19 The Sadducees held a majority among the High Priests, but the Pharisees were most popular. The Pharisees were divided into two major groups, the democratic school of Hillel, which was under the leadership of Gamaliel, and the republican Shammite school, which interpreted the Torah and Oral Law legalistically. Smaller movements such as the Essenes, Zealots and Herodians added to the divisiveness. For more information on the classic Torah arguments of Hillel and Shammai please go to this url. http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1451634/jewish/Classic-Arguments-of-the-Talmud-Part-1.htm

Just so you understand, I also know that Jesus was not born on December 25. It possibly was around the end of September. These two authors already wrote about the subject: The Bible does not command anyone to celebrate the birth of Christ. Just as the Quran does not force its believers to celebrate the birth of Mohammed. We do this of our own free will. The date is not important. Men put churches and mosques over temples. Where you worship is not important. It is how you worship that is important. Yet, endless amounts of blood spill over the ownership of these material structures. It reminds me of when I was a boy playing king of the hill with my friends. Christians and Islam replaced pagan and Jewish dates with their own form of celebration to prevent future conflict. I celebrate the birth of the only sinless man this planet has known who preached the power of forgiveness.

Finding God is more difficult that understanding His creation. But, you relegate those that have the gift of foresight with what truly is prophecy. What about Baudhāyana? A Hindu man who lived 1600 years before Mohammed who understood and gave a value of pi. Is he a prophet? What about Charaka? This Hindu lived 900 years before Mohammed. He was the first physician to present the concept of digestion, metabolism and immunity. What about Pingala? A Hindu man who lived 800 years before Mohammed. He understood the binary numeral system. Is he a prophet? Manusmriti was written 700 years before Mohammed. Does this make the writer a prophet to you? The first germ of life was developed by water and heat.' (Manusmriti - Book I, sloka 8,9) Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals. (Manusmriti - Book III, sloka 76) Or maybe the author of the Brahmana should be considered a prophet to your thinking. He was around 1200 years before Mohammed. “The sun never sets or rises. When people think the sun is setting, he only changes about after reaching the end of the day and makes night below and day to what is on the other side. Then, when people think he rises in the morning, he only shifts himself about after reaching the end of the day night, and makes day below and night to what is on the other side. In truth, he does not see at all.” - Brahmanas I am also sure you are aware of the Rigveda that was written 2600 years before Mohammed that claimed one cycle of existence is around 311 trillion years and the life of one universe around 8 billion years. This Universal cycle is preceded by an infinite number of universes and to be followed by another infinite number of universes. Includes an infinite number of universes at one given time. I close my eyes and think of this profound thinker who searched, but never found the true Creator. Nasadiya Sukta Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed? Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of heat. In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is is kin to that which is not. And they have stretched their cord across the void, and know what was above, and what below. Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces. Below was strength, and over it was impulse. But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, he, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know. I wonder why Mohammed wrote the Earth was created first?

Read from the scroll that was dated thirteen hundred years before Mohammed. How could he know the earth was round? You must then follow the words of the Prophet Isaiah if you believe that scientific observations make one a prophet. What does that make Democritus, Epicurus, Linus Pauling, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Jacques Monod, Alan Mathison Turing, Francis Harry Compton Crick, Claude Elwood Shannon, Peter Higgs, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking. Under your way of thinking these atheists should be considered prophets. These visionaries were perfectly clear in their thoughts on the unknown. But, they did not predict future events. It takes more than proving a theory of the unknown to make one a prophet with Allah. Isaiah 40 To be bound by real world observation is to not understand the dynamic change of scientific thought and what is later called myth.

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I am finding the teachings of Jesus and Paul conflict. Here Jesus states that we have no Father except God. Matthew 23 Here Paul says he has become our Father in Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 4 Here Jesus tells us to keep our keep our good works to ourselves. Matthew 6 Here Paul tells his works to everyone around him and in his gospel message. 1 Corinthians 15 2 Corinthians 11 Here Paul states that loving our neighbor is the most important law. Galatians 5 Here Jesus states that loving God is the most important law. Matthew 22 Here Jesus states that God's commands must be still followed. Matthew 5 Here Paul states that through faith we no longer need to follow God's command to be circumcised. Romans 3

I do not know of any Blue Christmas Services. I always loved the Elvis song If you cannot find anyone to celebrate Christ's Mass, you are more than welcome to join our family. Remember that God wants us to endure. Jesus suffered an unjust death, so we all can live. If you have time read the Didache I have been writing for the past five months. It has helped me get thru my loss. God bless you.