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@DanBoone1970 @rabbriansamuel G-d can control all the characters. He gives free will as He chooses. Your analogy basically describes a human being with no free will. That's not a god.

God is Spirit. His spirit can occupy a fleshly home. As easy way of seeing it is to put it in a modern simile. God is the programmer working on a virtual world He created on a computer. He is not affected by the computer at all - the time, the virtual sprites, all the creation is inside the game. He can never be “in the game” because he is outside it. So the programmer creates a character in the game to represent him. So he can interact directly with the people in the virtual world. And that character has access to all the cheat codes. He can do anything the programmer tells him too - regardless of the rules guiding the rest of the virtual world. The cheat code is the Holy Spirit. Simplistic in nature, but people can see how this is possible.

What Scriptures led me, a Jew, to believe that Jesus is the Messiah? Part 1 Malachi 3:23–24: Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Adonai. He will turn the hearts of fathers to the children, and the hearts of children to their fathers—else I will come and strike the land with utter destruction. Judaism has long understood that Elijah will appear as a forerunner to Messiah son of David. We even sing about it during the Passover Seder. I was always taught that when Elijah comes, and when Messiah is revealed, the result will be unmistakable: peace on earth, restoration of Israel, worldwide knowledge of God. And if that does not happen, then the Messiah has not yet come. This is often used as a central reason why Yeshua is rejected as the Messiah... because He did not bring about the visible, national restoration described by the prophets. But this passage challenges that assumption. Malachi states that the redemption is conditional. “He will turn the hearts…” — ELSE God will strike the land with utter destruction. Malachi does not guarantee a sequence where: 1. Elijah comes (and Messiah by extension) 2. Redemption follows Instead, the text presents a different sequence: 1. Elijah comes (and Messiah by extension) 2. The people are called to repentance 3. If they do not repent, utter destruction follows This directly challenges the common Jewish expectation that it is impossible for Elijah to come and destruction to occur afterward. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple was the greatest national catastrophe Israel has ever experienced and ever will. Total devastation. The Temple destroyed. The land struck in a way that closely mirrors the language of this verse—utter destruction. If 70CE was indeed the destruction that Malachi warned of, which is a very reasonable conclusion, we must therefore surmise: 1. Elijah must have already come 2. Messiah by extension must have already come 3. The call to repentance must have already gone forth 4. And that call must have been largely rejected The end of Malachi fits the New Testament narrative very well. Elijah and Messiah have come. Their message was rejected. Devastation followed. ——— My next post will explore how the Hebrew Scriptures convinced me of the Messiah’s second coming, when all Israel will truly be saved. The good news is that 70CE is not the end of Israel's story.

@straceX How many lines of code was it?

UNIX was built in one month. Ken Thompson's wife took their son on vacation. He had 3 weeks alone. He wrote the kernel in week 1, the shell in week 2, the editor in week 3. Modern dev teams spend 3 weeks in sprint planning.

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@JMFTkrz @nnahle It ended?? Really now, tell me more Oh and how far back do karaites go? Did they steal Moses' shoes?

@nnahle There are Jewish groups (like Karaites) that Rabbinic Judaism doesn’t recognize as authoritative. Semikhah was never universally recognized across all sects, and the classical chain ended centuries ago.

Thank you for the honesty — that's more than most admit. But "Messianic Jewish Rabbi" ordained by a Messianic organization is a Christian title wearing Jewish clothes. The International Alliance of Messianic Congregations is not part of the Jewish chain of ordination. It never was. You're a pastor. A sincere one, perhaps. But a pastor in the end.

@Opeyemi1137456 @rabbriansamuel It's still not a coherent statement. What does it mean for the Unchanging One to have at some point in time entered somewhere???

@nafg613 @rabbriansamuel Hey, know this and have peace, He entered flesh because of our sins

In Germany in the 1950s there were tens of thousands of men who held ordinary office jobs, went to work in the morning, back to their families in the evening, and never told the world without the horrors they had carried out during WWII. In Gaza today there are many men making cute cooking videos on social media and speaking about their lives coming back together and not telling the world what they did to our sisters and brothers on October 7th. We will not let them forget.

@farmingandJesus That's why it's obviously false

The gospel message is hard for unregenerate minds because the sweet old lady who rejected Christ will go to hell and the serial killer who repents and believes will enter heaven because salvation depends on Christ alone. It’s a scandalous idea to the world and they will hate you for it.

@DanBoone1970 @rabbriansamuel Is that what your Christian translations say? How can flesh be the One Who created time and space? Flesh exists within space and changes over time. So the Creator is not "in" any flesh more than any other flesh, and flesh is *created*.

@nafg613 @rabbriansamuel Have you ever considered he is God in the flesh? From the beginning And not just a man. That shouldn’t be too hard to grasp. God walked with Adam. He ate with Abraham.

@josesaezmerino I tend to have a LOT of tabs open. This is the only way I can read the tabs.

I don't understand vertical tabs. Why would I want less space for the website content I actually want to look at?

@RonSCantor What difference does it make

I'll give $1000 to anybody who can prove to me, using the New Testament, that any of the Jewish disciples of Jesus renounced their Judaism.

@astr0explorer @marsbup @AuthorTroyBlack And no one could possibly think that unless they're paid to say that??

@marsbup @AuthorTroyBlack Its easy. These people are paid by israhell. Hes just gonna say its fake or exaggerated

Never have I received more hate in a short period of time than when I posted a both pro-Israeli people and pro-Palestinian people post earlier today. The funny thing is: the hate came from the anti-Israel crowd, not the other side. I think that says a lot. If you are harboring hate in your heart for any people group, please let it go. Forgiveness will bring freedom.

Hamas has no problem torturing minors, but sure, tell me again about what Israel is doing to innocent Hamas members in Israeli prisons.

@MarcusFidelicus @GregsonDarren Your logic is valid but not sound

@GregsonDarren Tell us Greg, why do you believe in an Iron Age book written entirely (OT and NT) by ancient Jews at a time when they didn't know where the sun went at night? Sane people want to know Do tell

There is coming a day soon, when eight billion people on earth, will come to know that the Bible is absolutely true.

x.com/CapitanBitcoin… Young Afghan woman: “If you’re a woman and you have a toothache, you CANNOT get treated. Women are banned from education, so there are no female dentists… and men are not allowed to treat women.” This is life for women under strict Islamic rule. Let that sink in.

@jakobe291 Why are you talking about him being messiah when the major point of departure is you believe in worshipping him

Being an open Messianic Jew has gained me a couple friends but a lot of hostility, anger, rejection, accusation, and being unfollowed/ blocked by people who I thought were on my side. Hardcore Orthodox religious Jews are determined to give Messianic Jews the rejection experience similar to Jesus, which only makes the lived experience for us more realistic, meaningful, and essentially deepens our connection to Christ Yeshua is Messiah

This is what Palestinian kids are taught from a young age. “Kill all the Jews as human sacrifices for Allah’s sake." "Pick a stone and throw it on the Jews." "I will shoot all the Jews." What kind of SICK CULTURE is this?

This is NOT Gaza. This is NOT Iran. This is Philadelphia, United States of America. In a Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic school, young children are being taught to glorify jihad, martyrdom, and the murder of Jews. Listen to what they’re singing and reciting on stage: “Glorious steeds call us… The blood of martyrs protects us… We will chop off their heads and liberate Al-Aqsa… We will subject them to eternal torture.” One little girl proudly asks: “Will Jerusalem be a hotbed for cowards?” Another declares: “We will defend Palestine with our bodies.” MAS Philly is part of the Muslim American Society, which has 42 chapters across the US. Their official mission? “To convey Islam with utmost clarity” and build a “virtuous and just American society.” Teaching American kids to become martyrs and chop off heads is not “virtuous.” It’s grooming the next generation of jihadists, on U.S. soil. This is insane. And it’s happening right now in America. Share this. The denial has to end.

@strawhatsloth @AIAge_ai @VraserX You're confusing the "faculty" of consciousness with the things you are conscious *of*

@AIAge_ai @VraserX Can it be? If I had a stroke in my parietal lobe, I'd start hallucinating. Take away my neurons and my entire perceptive field shifts. Explain how that's any more or less a mystery than circuits.

The whole “AI becoming conscious” debate is a distraction. Consciousness isn’t some magical spark. It’s an illusion that emerges from intelligence + memory interacting over time. We’re not witnessing machines becoming conscious. We’re watching systems get good enough to imitate the illusion.

@VraserX Wait you think your own consciousness is just an illusion fooling you?

@DSPetolicchio Nope Just the Creator

The Jews are God's chosen people. That hasn't changed. Gentiles are now grafted into the tree through faith in Christ. That said, all Jews and gentiles must believe in Christ in order to be saved.