Sephardic-male
12-15-2004, 10:19 PM
CRITERIA OF HA MOSHIACH (THE Messiah) ACCORDING TO HEBREW SCRIPUTURE
1. Must be a member of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10
2. Must be a direct descendent of both King David and King Solomon (l Chronicles 17:11; Psalm 89:29-38; Jeremiah 33:17; ll Samuel 7:12-16; l Chronicles 22:10 and ll Chronicles 7:18)
3. Must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel (Isaiah 27:12-13 & 11:12)
4. Must rebuild the Jewish Temple (the 3rd Temple) (Micah 4:1)
5. Must bring in “world peace” (Isaiah 2:4; 11:6 & Micah 4:3)
6. Must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve the One God of Israel (Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 40:5; and Zephaniah 3:9)
All of these criteria for the Messiah are best stated in the book of Ezekiel, Chapter 37:24-28 – if an individual fails to fulfill even ONE of these conditions, he cannot be the Jewish Messiah!
In other words, God told His Prophets His criteria of HaMoshiach during the Messianic era. Why would God change His mind?
Now, if you want to set up another set of rules, OK, but that will NOT be according to Hebrew Scriptures, which Christianity needs so badly to verify their existence.
According to Christianity, Jesus had no human father. Therefore, the discussion of Jesus as the Messiah stops here. Nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does the Royal Blood Line continue by adoption.The Jewish Scriptures clearly state that a person’s genealogy and tribal membership is transmitted exclusively through one’s PHYSICAL father (Numbers 1:18 Jeremiah 33:17)
Nowhere in Hebrew Scripture does it ever say that during the Messianic era, HaMoshiach will come back a second time to fulfill the events that had to occur during his time on Earth. And nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does it say that HaMoshiach would be a deity. Judaism understands the Messiah to be a human being with no connotation of deity or divinity.
If Christianity wants to make a man a deity, so let it – that is a pagan belief taken from pre-existing pagan doctrines stolen from the Mitraic worship, Zoroaster, Tammuz, Adonis, Krishna, Osiris, Isis, Dionysus-Bacchus, Buddha and others. These pagan myths all believed:
Born on December 25
Born of a Virgin
Divinely inspired and became a deity and later worshipped
Had visions and revelations and taught ethics
Went to school as a child and his teachers were surprised at his knowledge
Performed great miracles and restored life to a dead person
Birth announced by a star and a Trinity concept and died a violent death
Descended into Hades and rose from the Dead
Was expected to return in the “later days”
The Christian myth grew by absorbing pagan cults. The Christ had to have a Virgin for a mother. Like the image of the child-god in the cult of Dionysus, he was pictured in swaddling clothes in a basket manger. He was born in a stable like Horus--the stable temple of the Virgin Goddess, Isis, Queen of Heaven. Again, like Dionysus, he turned water into wine &; his resurrection took place, like that of Mithra, from a rock tomb.
The idea of a suffering god atoning by his death for the sins of men who descend into the darkness and rose again to bring life is NOT new. The idea of someone performing many miracles is also not new – many people before Jesus performed many miracles. All the Egyptian prophets, during Moses time performed miracles. Many Oriental cultures performed miracles also.
Christianity is not the only religion in human history to proclaim to the Jewish people that their savior or demigod was resurrected from the grave. The claim of a deity who has defeated the grip of death is one of the most common themes embedded in the flood of religions that have emerged since time immemorial.
Christianity’s whole premise is based on this ONE point―The Resurrection.
Paul said to his listeners, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain” (I Corinthians 15:14). Where does it say that being resurrected makes one a deity? Judaism believes in the resurrection of the dead too. Elisha returns the child to life in 2 Kings 4:34-35. Even in the end of days, there will be the resurrection of all the dead (Isaiah 26:18 and Ezekiel 37:12. And what more can be proved by Jesus' physical resurrection than that of the resurrection of Lazarus, the widow's son, or the numerous cases reported in oriental history? How does this make anyone a deity?
So, as you can clearly see, Jesus in no way can be the Jewish HaMoshiach. Jesus can be:
A pagan messiah, YES!
A Jewish messiah, NO!
One more point, nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does it ever tell that G-d (HaShem) would come to earth as a human being, a man and die, as a human sacrifice.
HaShem told us that human sacrifice was an abomination to him.
Human Sacrifices are “An Abomination!”
Biblical References
Lev.18:21;
Deut. 12:3;
Jer. 7:31 & 32:35;
2 Kings 16:3 & 17;
Ezekiel 20:31, and
Psalms 106:32-38
Again, why would God change his mind?
He would not!
He does not!
http://jdstone.org/cr/files/critmosh.html
1. Must be a member of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10
2. Must be a direct descendent of both King David and King Solomon (l Chronicles 17:11; Psalm 89:29-38; Jeremiah 33:17; ll Samuel 7:12-16; l Chronicles 22:10 and ll Chronicles 7:18)
3. Must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel (Isaiah 27:12-13 & 11:12)
4. Must rebuild the Jewish Temple (the 3rd Temple) (Micah 4:1)
5. Must bring in “world peace” (Isaiah 2:4; 11:6 & Micah 4:3)
6. Must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve the One God of Israel (Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 40:5; and Zephaniah 3:9)
All of these criteria for the Messiah are best stated in the book of Ezekiel, Chapter 37:24-28 – if an individual fails to fulfill even ONE of these conditions, he cannot be the Jewish Messiah!
In other words, God told His Prophets His criteria of HaMoshiach during the Messianic era. Why would God change His mind?
Now, if you want to set up another set of rules, OK, but that will NOT be according to Hebrew Scriptures, which Christianity needs so badly to verify their existence.
According to Christianity, Jesus had no human father. Therefore, the discussion of Jesus as the Messiah stops here. Nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does the Royal Blood Line continue by adoption.The Jewish Scriptures clearly state that a person’s genealogy and tribal membership is transmitted exclusively through one’s PHYSICAL father (Numbers 1:18 Jeremiah 33:17)
Nowhere in Hebrew Scripture does it ever say that during the Messianic era, HaMoshiach will come back a second time to fulfill the events that had to occur during his time on Earth. And nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does it say that HaMoshiach would be a deity. Judaism understands the Messiah to be a human being with no connotation of deity or divinity.
If Christianity wants to make a man a deity, so let it – that is a pagan belief taken from pre-existing pagan doctrines stolen from the Mitraic worship, Zoroaster, Tammuz, Adonis, Krishna, Osiris, Isis, Dionysus-Bacchus, Buddha and others. These pagan myths all believed:
Born on December 25
Born of a Virgin
Divinely inspired and became a deity and later worshipped
Had visions and revelations and taught ethics
Went to school as a child and his teachers were surprised at his knowledge
Performed great miracles and restored life to a dead person
Birth announced by a star and a Trinity concept and died a violent death
Descended into Hades and rose from the Dead
Was expected to return in the “later days”
The Christian myth grew by absorbing pagan cults. The Christ had to have a Virgin for a mother. Like the image of the child-god in the cult of Dionysus, he was pictured in swaddling clothes in a basket manger. He was born in a stable like Horus--the stable temple of the Virgin Goddess, Isis, Queen of Heaven. Again, like Dionysus, he turned water into wine &; his resurrection took place, like that of Mithra, from a rock tomb.
The idea of a suffering god atoning by his death for the sins of men who descend into the darkness and rose again to bring life is NOT new. The idea of someone performing many miracles is also not new – many people before Jesus performed many miracles. All the Egyptian prophets, during Moses time performed miracles. Many Oriental cultures performed miracles also.
Christianity is not the only religion in human history to proclaim to the Jewish people that their savior or demigod was resurrected from the grave. The claim of a deity who has defeated the grip of death is one of the most common themes embedded in the flood of religions that have emerged since time immemorial.
Christianity’s whole premise is based on this ONE point―The Resurrection.
Paul said to his listeners, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain” (I Corinthians 15:14). Where does it say that being resurrected makes one a deity? Judaism believes in the resurrection of the dead too. Elisha returns the child to life in 2 Kings 4:34-35. Even in the end of days, there will be the resurrection of all the dead (Isaiah 26:18 and Ezekiel 37:12. And what more can be proved by Jesus' physical resurrection than that of the resurrection of Lazarus, the widow's son, or the numerous cases reported in oriental history? How does this make anyone a deity?
So, as you can clearly see, Jesus in no way can be the Jewish HaMoshiach. Jesus can be:
A pagan messiah, YES!
A Jewish messiah, NO!
One more point, nowhere in Hebrew Scriptures does it ever tell that G-d (HaShem) would come to earth as a human being, a man and die, as a human sacrifice.
HaShem told us that human sacrifice was an abomination to him.
Human Sacrifices are “An Abomination!”
Biblical References
Lev.18:21;
Deut. 12:3;
Jer. 7:31 & 32:35;
2 Kings 16:3 & 17;
Ezekiel 20:31, and
Psalms 106:32-38
Again, why would God change his mind?
He would not!
He does not!
http://jdstone.org/cr/files/critmosh.html