........LESSON NO 2, CHRISTIANITY VIS A VIS JUDAISM......... Shalom, Ma nishma, When Jesus was questioned about the Trinity he FLATLY DENIES it as the analysis of Paul Sumner shows which proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that NOT ONLY Jesus is NOT EQUAL to G-d but also Jesus is NOT God!!!!! Yeshua and the Shema When a Torah scribe asked Yeshua which was the foremost commandment in the Law of Moses, he quoted the Shema and its appended command: The foremost is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your understanding, and with all your strength. (Mark 12:28-30) He added the command to love ones neighbor found in Leviticus 19:18 as a corollary of loving God. The scribe responded by affirming Yeshuas answer. Then he shifted focus to what seems to be a veiled reference to monotheism — perhaps to tempt Yeshua to make a statement about his identity. [Note 3] Rabbi, teacher, you have truly stated that He is one, and there is no one else besides him . . . (v. 32) Yeshua didnt take the bait. Instead, When Yeshua saw that he had answered intelligently [about the command to love], he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God (v. 34). [Top] Yeshua didnt take this discussion of the Shema as an opportunity to affirm a theoretical compound unity in the Godhead or his place in it. Rather, he pointed the scribe to the extraordinary passage in Psalm 110:1, which speaks of a Lord who sits next to YHVH. YHVH said to my Lord [Adon], Sit at my right hand, Until I put your enemies beneath your feet. Then Yeshua tested him with an exegetical question about that Lords identity: How is it that the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David? [Ps 110:1] David himself calls him Lord: and so in what sense is he his son? (Mark 12:25-37). The scribe and his theological comrades apparently could not, or dare not, answer Yeshua. Instead, No one was able to answer him a word . . . (Matt 22:46). Yeshuas diverting attention from the Shema to Psalm 110:1 is a significant move. In fact, Psalm 110:1 is the most quoted Hebrew text in the NT, more than Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 53 or Psalm 22. He set the exegetical agenda for all his followers — and for Israel. In essence, Psalm 110:1 is the other Shema in Hebrew Scripture. The one that completes the revelation of the one God to his people and to all peoples on earth. Yeshuas shift of emphasis could become a vision-changing lesson for modern interpreters to follow his example — instead of the example of their teachers and rabbis.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:22:12 +0000
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