Sunday, January 18, 2009
Why There Are No REAL Christians
New Testament Canonicity Study -- Part 1
(Part 1 of ?) Reading and commenting on "Study Four - The Bible and Its Canon" in the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's publication "All Scripture is Inspired of God and Beneficial" (mine is the 1983 Edition).
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sources for Canonicity Study
A video introduction to the sources that I'll be referencing in a serious of videos on the canonicity of the Christian scriptures.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Muhammad Proves He Is Not A Prophet!
Amana Sheikh, a convert to Christianity from Islam, reasoned out that Muhammad was a false prophet. (Here's hoping she'll apply this clear-thinking to her new Christian faith.)
Temple Judaism for Non-Jews, Too!
Contrary to popular Christian belief, non-Jews participated in 1st Century Judaism. A look at an illustration of the Temple Mount in the 1st Century C.E. reveals this.
Celestial Slamtoons (2007)
Check out this slideshow of funnies about Mormonism, taken from the Slamtoons of the Salamander Society website.
Many of these are "inside jokes" that would only mean something to knowledgeable Mormons and ex-Mo's.
Stealing from the Children of Israel
The difference between borrowing and stealing, being a guest and being a squatter.
The Messiah is a Rooster?!
The writing of Rabbi Moshe Shulman demonstrates how the Christian working method of mining the Hebrew Tanakh for so-called "Messianic Prophecies" results in very strange Soteriology (the study of salvation).
Spinning Jesus
Watch a video demonstrating the many costume-changes and make-up jobs that various evangelizing groups will put their idol "Jesus" through in order to seduce people to their idolatry.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
The Commitment Pattern
Here are a couple of pages that break this process down for you: a brief discussion and the full shebang. Of course, if you want to go through the whole course, yourself, you can scan Ebay for copies of "The Missionary Guide".
Right now, it's only listing "The Missionary Pal", an unofficial collection of supposed proof-texts for Mormon doctrine, a must-have if you want to get a handle on the sorts of wacky scriptural exegesis your more-"studious" Mormon missionary might throw at you. While you're shopping, you might as well pick up "The Day of Defense", a fictional theological debate between a pair of Mormon missionaries and every other Christian sect under the sun. (Guess who comes out the winners?)
Searching for "missionary discussions" (the 6 hour-long lessons that the "investigator" of Mormonism must sit through) also resulted in no relevant matches. I'm guessing that the official publications that were used by Mormon missionaries, at least during my mission, are snatched off of Ebay as quickly as they appear?
Walk the Walk Before You Talk
- Are you studying the Tanakh and the Oral Tradition as much as you could be? This is where the battle will take place. Know the "lay of the land" before committing yourself to a battle on it. (This might mean giving up some T.V. or sports.) Alternatively, you can go into it ignorant and just "trust HaShem". (Let me know how that goes. It seems to be working for the Christians.)
- Are you as Torah-observant as you could be? Take on at least one more mitzvah in your daily routine.
- Are the members of your household won to Torah-observance? Have you demonstrated your caring for loved ones before you start working with strangers?
- Do you have a clear goal in mind for the next time you encounter a missionary? (e.g., I just want them to leave me alone; I want to persuade them to become more Torah-observant, whether Jewish or not)
- Is it out of genuine caring for the missionary that you want to show them their error?
Isaiah 53 Lead Me Out of Christianity
A former-Christian convert to Orthodox Judaism (who lives in Jerusalem) was led out of Christianity by Isaiah 53, a passage often appealed to by Christians as a so-called "Messianic Prophecy" of Yeshua of Nazareth.
No One Can Keep All of Those Commandments!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Welcome to My Blog!
Those who are looking for information to combat the deception carried out by Christian missionaries will find value in this blog.
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