Friday, July 29, 2016

Abraham's Covenant - not with Ishmael

Does Abraham's covenant include Ishmael?

According to Torah, muslims are NOT considered part of Abraham's spiritual covenant. Ishmael is BLESSED, yet the covenant is through Isaac, Sarah's son. The covenant consists of Abraham's commandment of CIRCUMCISION- which quran does NOT command on muslims.

Abrahams covenant: (Genesis.17:)
9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants in every generation. 10 This is my covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Circumcise every male. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it will be a symbol of the covenant between us. 12 On the eighth day after birth, every male in every generation must be circumcised, including those who are not your own children: those born in your household and those purchased with silver from foreigners. 13 Be sure you circumcise those born in your household and those purchased with your silver. Your flesh will embody my covenant as an enduring covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin remains uncircumcised will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
15 God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, you will no longer call her Sarai. Her name will now be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and even give you a son from her. I will bless her so that she will become nations, and kings of peoples will come from her.”
17 Abraham fell on his face and laughed. He said to himself, Can a 100-year-old man become a father, or Sarah, a 90-year-old woman, have a child? 18 To God Abraham said, “If only you would accept Ishmael!”
19 But God said, “No, your wife Sarah will give birth to a son for you, and you will name him Isaac. I will set up my covenant with him and with his descendants after him as an enduring covenant. 20 As for Ishmael, I’ve heard your request. I will bless him and make him fertile and give him many, many descendants. He will be the ancestor of twelve tribal leaders, and I will make a great nation of him. 21 But I will set up my covenant with Isaac, who will be born to Sarah at this time next year.” 22 When God finished speaking to him, God ascended, leaving Abraham alone.'
''Gen.17:
9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants in every generation. 10 This is my covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Circumcise every male. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it will be a symbol of the covenant between us. 12 On the eighth day after birth, every male in every generation must be circumcised, including those who are not your own children: those born in your household and those purchased with silver from foreigners. 13 Be sure you circumcise those born in your household and those purchased with your silver. Your flesh will embody my covenant as an enduring covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin remains uncircumcised will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
15 God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, you will no longer call her Sarai. Her name will now be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and even give you a son from her. I will bless her so that she will become nations, and kings of peoples will come from her.”
17 Abraham fell on his face and laughed. He said to himself, Can a 100-year-old man become a father, or Sarah, a 90-year-old woman, have a child? 18 To God Abraham said, “If only you would accept Ishmael!”
19 But God said, “No, your wife Sarah will give birth to a son for you, and you will name him Isaac.[d] I will set up my covenant with him and with his descendants after him as an enduring covenant. 20 As for Ishmael, I’ve heard your request. I will bless him and make him fertile and give him many, many descendants. He will be the ancestor of twelve tribal leaders, and I will make a great nation of him. 21 But I will set up my covenant with Isaac, who will be born to Sarah at this time next year.” 22 When God finished speaking to him, God ascended, leaving Abraham alone.''

Jewish Trinity

chrystians like to give the example of water to illustrate the concept of their triune deity. The example goes as follows: water can have three basic states- liquid, solid, and vapor, yet it is all the same water.

Here i'll try to explain how this example is not just wrong, but heretical and misleading. i'll also let u in on a secret- jews have the concept of 'trinity' too...
-true, water might have three basic states of matter it appears in, but to refer to water as ONLY interacting with us in ONLY these three ways would be EXTREMELY MISLEADING. moreover, it would DETRACT from the very ESSENCE of water- as the universal solvent, life giver, deliverer of nutrients, 90% or so of our bodies, etc.

To insist that we MUST approach the subject of water ''ONLY'' through its frozen form, would be grossly misleading. The MAIN quality of water is- it is EVERYWHERE. As a matter of fact, judaism compares Go'ds TORAH to life-giving water...

Water is NOT just these three states of being. Water is H²O within our bodies, it is falling from the sky, it is clouds, it is the oceans and rivers. It is the very blood flowing in our veins, as well as urine flushing out the impurities out of our bodies.

To focus on the three basic physical states water appears in would be misleading. and unnecessary... And lets remember of millions of innocent loyal jews who gave their lives for refusing to trivialize our Almighty Creator to such nonsensical arithmetic!!!

Go-d is INFINITE, UNLIMITED in every possible way- unbound by skin or heart beat or oxygen or physical wounds. Go'd is the CREATOR and the SUSTAINER of everything.

To insist that we need to approach Go-d's presence through some long gone brief supposed episode of being 'embodied' in certain jewish maveric individual named Josh is soooo senseless and MISLEADING to the whole spirit of monotheism!!!

In fact, according to the first, second, third and the ninth commandments of Go-d given Decalogue- it is plainly HERETICAL BLASPHEMY no different than Hindu worship of the murderous Ka li, or elephant Ga nesh or blueman Krish na...

Now about the JEWISH ''trinity'': three major tenets of judaism are: Go-d, His Torah, and Israel.

Why is it important? well, one might doubt that the Creator would be interested in continued relationship or moral conduct of His creation- hence our sages stress the unbroken bond between Go'd and humanity through His revealed will- duly 'notarized' for all generations in the form of Five Books of Moses, the oral transmission and the entity it was given to- the Children of Israel.

A final note- Go-d might have communicated with us through burning bush, talking donkey, angels, etc, yet nobody WORSHIPS those entities nor insists that we ''must'' approach Go'd solely through  His donkey configuration😃

Parsha Re'ei

Parsha Re'ei (Deut.11:26-16:17) starts with Torah urging us to open our eyes and really SEE (Re'ei) the available blessings of a li...