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This has a
much deeper meaning than is apparent. This is not talking about an abstract
principle. It is an established way to respond in that situation. To hate is
more than a feeling. It is to think, decide and do evil to another. Continue
reading at –
https://mailchi.mp/2b50c5ed0f31/be-a-good-forgiver-in-your-family
A
certain lawyer stood up to test Yeshua, he said, “Teacher, what shall
I do to inherit eternal life?” Yeshua said, “What is written in the Torah?
How do you interpret it?” Yeshua turned the tables on the lawyer and tested
him. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/c2554823f24a/be-a-good-samaritan-in-your-family
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Reading the
teachings of Jesus as “interpretations of the words of the Alliance and
Covenant of Elohim the Creator of the Skies and the Earth” is very
different from reading “the same words as truths based on divine
authority claims of religious institutions.” One place where the
difference is very clear is their claims of divine authority. Continue reading
at - https://mailchi.mp/de1fb3f532e0/the-sacredness-of-every-human-life-and-power
Today, I am
introducing a second way of Exploring the Bible. It is designed to help modern readers
“immediately find time-tested wisdom embedded in ancient text, “The Wisdom
of the Beginnings.” The first story in Genesis introduces the “Alliance the
Creator made with all Families on the Earth. The last story (Genesis 6-10)
contains the “Creator’s Covenant the Creator made with Noah.” The way of
exploring “puts modern readers in the sandals of the ancient readers –
acquiring wisdom they can immediately use in their lives. Continue reading at
-- https://mailchi.mp/20bb23f993fe/the-eternal-alliance-of-the-creator-with-all-families
This is a
preview of the new format we will be using on the BHC Lives 1st Families that
will be online soon. Susan and I have been totally focused on it for the past
week. We will be uploading Explorations like this that will be available online
24 hours a day. This is Day One of the First Exploration: The Seven Days of
Creation. This article will also be turned into a script for videos that will
be made and uploaded. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/cf3fd04360d7/preview-of-new-lives-1st-families-project
“Our Father who is above the skies, may Your name be sanctified. May you continue establishing your Kingdom. May your will be done in the skies and on earth.” Learn what “above the skies” and “will be done in the skies” meant to Yeshua, the Real Jesus. Continue reading at -- https://mailchi.mp/0417d8523726/may-your-will-be-done-in-the-skies
When
Ezra arrived in Jerusalem with the First Torah Scroll in Judah, he was
accompanied by a body of 120 elders, judges, prophets, sages, teachers, and
scribes. They
had been members of the very large Jewish community in Babylon that was
founded by the captives who had been taken there in 586 BCE by the Babylonian
armies that destroyed the previous Temple. This story has been lost for almost
2000 years, but it is essential for understand the words the scribes wrote on
the Torah scroll. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/46277860ee5e/ezra-his-team-and-the-message-of-peace
I am
writing this email to you 113 years after my father was born, 1,946 years after Jesus was
crucified and 1,926 after Luke wrote his two books. Without
knowing what happened in those huge time gaps between me and those events,
it would have been impossible to discover any facts-based examined answer to
the question -- “When did Gentiles first officially become members of the
Jesus Movement?” Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/826a2209e63a/using-belief-models-to-create-transparency-in-belief-conflicts
I am
writing this email to you 113 years after my father was born, 1,946 years after Jesus was
crucified and 1,926 after Luke wrote his two books. Without
knowing what happened in those huge time gaps between me and those events,
it would have been impossible to discover any facts-based examined answer to
the question -- “When did Gentiles first officially become members of the
Jesus Movement?” Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/826a2209e63a/using-belief-models-to-create-transparency-in-belief-conflicts
Although
Hillel and Akiba after him taught that love of man is a central pillar of the
Torah’s teaching, behind it is something even more basic. Love of neighbor is
itself derived from an even greater principle: that man is made in the image of
God; and a religiously inspired love of man flows from the more fundamental
love of God. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/1596bff17ac0/hillel-taught-that-all-people-are-deserving-of-love
If we had
been there at the time of Ezekiel, as we walked around Jerusalem, we would have
seen people giving food to idols and worshipping them on the mountain tops
around Jerusalem. There were idols in the Temple also. Who put the idols
in Jerusalem? Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/f44166b57dd2/lots-of-elohims-idols-and-king-solomon-this-why-we-use-models-guidelines
TZEDAQAH is the outstanding, overriding, and yet simple,
theme of Jesus. This means one thing to people who view Jesus through a
“Religion Box.” It means something very different to people who view Jesus
through the “Alliance and Covenant of the Creator of the Skies and the Earth”
box! Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/b63c22467a93/remember-the-power-of-tzedaqah-and-returning
This a
difficult concept for many American Christians to grasp. However, in order to
understand the movement Jesus led, we must think about the things that he did. His
parents took him to the Temple in Jerusalem every Passover because he was
circumcised and named when he was eight days old. That day he became a son of
the covenant Yahweh made with Abraham and his descendants. If that hadn’t been
done, he would not have been allowed to enter specific areas of the Temple.
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/9a75f2a8590c/jesus-did-not-create-a-religion
We were
known and often introduced as the Professor, Rabbi, and Preacher. Ike Tennison was
the Professor, Jeffrey Leynor was the Rabbi, and I
(Jim Myers) was the Preacher. Everyone knows that when
a professor, a rabbi, and a preacher -- two Christians and one Jew -- are
sitting at the table discussing Jewish and Christian Scriptures -- there
are some very big elephants in the room. Continue reading at – https://mailchi.mp/5c45631843ea/the-professor-rabbi-and-preacher-who-confronted-the-elephants-in-the-room-corrected
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Before 1947
it was impossible to grasp the role of Jesus as a Jewish teacher in his
generation. One of the most important and general contributions of the Qumran
wisdom texts to New Testament studies lies in their extending what
we know about wisdom teachings and wisdom teachers in Jesus’ time.
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/507e97fb90b1/a-kingdom-above-all-nations
In my
previous emails, I have been using a handful of notes I made earlier when I was
translating Psalm 49. Today, I am going to share the entire Psalm without any comments.
For me personally, this is one of the most powerful Psalm I have ever
translated! Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/2e6b69414e8d/the-psalm-jesus-used-to-create-parables-in-his-jewish-teachings
Today I am
writing about the beginning of a prayer that 2.6 billion people
know and pray. Praying it accurately would have a very big impact on the
Infosphere and the minds of lots of people! Imagine 2.6 billion people praying
it every evening, morning, and noon around the world!!! Continue reading at https://mailchi.mp/eeaf4280e142/our-father-above-the-skies
If someone
had handed me a piece of paper with the words from a recent article I had
written, I would have said, “I have no interest in understanding the teachings
of Jesus and I don’t have a clue who Hillel is. And I have no interest in
learning Hebrew! I just read a story about the “sheep and the goats.” I know I
am a “goat” and “I desperately want to know how to become a sheep!”
Continue reading at –
https://mailchi.mp/db0a50c88aeb/i-desperately-wanted-to-know-how-to-become-a-sheep
Today
I was doing research on Jerusalem and the Temple that the New Testament
mentions in stories about Jesus. I dug out the two-volume work, The Jewish
People in the First Century: Historical Geography, Political History, Social,
Cultural, and Religious Life and Institutions . . . Here are some sections
that are loaded with great information. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/ffbbf9f500b2/visiting-the-jerusalem-temple-that-jesus-knew
Rabbi Leynor
wrote this on October 23, 2014. “Studying the Bible and discussing its
ancient words, concepts and ideas is something I enjoy very much. But, holding
the hand of a person that is about to take their last breath or that has just
discovered they have lost someone they loved very much is something very
different . . . But, if you come and study the biblical text with me
– that’s another matter! Choose Life, Do Tov & walk humbly
with “Your Higher Power” (whatever that might or might not be!)” Continue
reading at: https://mailchi.mp/383cc61077c6/hillel-and-jesus-a-kingdom-and-eternal-life-without-human-institutions
