Absence

Greetings -

Sorry I've been gone so long but it was due to password problems with Google.

SDG

Yaakov

Christians and Jews

Early Christians weren't called Christians; they were called Jewish Schismatics, meaning that they were still considered Jews but just a bit weird, much like the Hassadic vs Orthodox vs Conservative vs Reformed today. This started at Antioch in the 4th century, not in the first century and popularly conceived.

Constantine the Great (274 - 337) was the ruler of the known world, born in Rome an died in Byzantine, established Christianity, now known as Eastern or Greek Orthodox, as THE official religion of the empire. He saw a vision of the Chi/Rho and the words "En Touto Nika" or in Latin, "in hoc signo vinces" which comes out in English as "In this sign Win". So he had his troops adorn their shields with the Chi/Rho and Cross - and they won. For more information on him, his enforcement of Christianity and toleration/destruction of the Roman gods in mostly at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity#Conversion.

Now, here's a thought: What if we consider Christianity NOT a religion but a political movement and the exultation of Y'Shua (Jesus) as a divine manifestation of G-d himself. Well, the problem there is that this goes totally against the Torah, Talmud, TaNaKh and all other Jewish writings - he can't be G-d and still be Jew. There is only one G-d and, in my own opinion, his name is not Allah. However, I have been informed that Allah should be translated into English as "The G-d" meaning the same G-d as the Jews. Neither is it Jesus, a bad translation of Y'Shua that comes down from the Latin and Greek, to German, to English. You can check out more on Antioch at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch.

So, then, can a Christian become a Jew? Or is he/she already a Jew. So long at they proclaim Y'Shua as G-d, then no. But, if they accept Y'Shua a great Rabbi whose pronouncements were mis-quoted in only a couple of places, probably so. Then the New Testament becomes not holy scripture as is the Masoretic text, but further explanations of the early Christian movement that later conquered the world.

Now we have Islam to cover in another blog. I'll be nice...

SDG

Yaakov

Yaakov Kohen at Blog Spot now

Greetings:

Yaakov now has his own blog on BlogSpot now, http://Yaakov2.blogspot.com - something about Word Press guys upset him and he finally came over here so I won't be posting his blogs any more here. Go check his from now own. TTFN

SDG

jco

For the Little Guys Everywhere

Greetings:

I just finished watching the earlier-taped Rose Bowl. Whatever religion, or none, to which you adhere or profess, you have to admire Andy Dalton's (Offensive MVP) comments after the game and the pure spunk of Tank Carder (Defensive MVP) coming from a broken back earlier in life to win "The Granddaddy of Them ALL! The Rose Ball!!!". And that despite repeatedly falling down due to the short cleats on their shoes (and nobody thought to bring replacements because Nike had designed these shoes especially for this turf and this game) as well as referees who can't see Michigan obviously holding a TCU player or a TCU players head being ripped off since they are the upstarts from Fort Worth, Texas. I still think that the Mafia has bought out the referees in Basketball, Football (USA and European) for sure; and maybe baseball and hockey.

Maybe NOW the corrupt BCS will allow the little guys to play in the bowl games and (maybe?) begin a REAL playoff system where everyone with a winning season of no more than two lost games gets a chance to compete for the national title. But, TCU is not defeated this year. Maybe they will let TCU play the winner of the "national championship" game? Naaaahhhhh - probably not.

TCU Horned Frogs, 21

Michigan Badgers, 19

(Blocked pass by Tank Carter on Michigan two-point conversion to a wide-open tight end with only 1 minute to play)

BTW, for those who don't know, the horned frog is actually a horny lizard that squirts blood from his eyes when cornered or upset. OK, that's my last blurt on sports until the World Games and then only if certain teams get that far. (Being of Norse heritage, my team for the Super Bowl would have been The Minnesota Vikings but.... )

SDG

jco