Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Statement of Faith We believe the mission of the Church is to seek the lost and bring them into a relationship with Christ. We recognize the Church is unique since Christ died for no other institution. We recognize there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one body, one spirit, one hope and one Go...

It's my impression that the coc (in a rare spirit of peacableness) decided the whole pre millenium/post millenium debate was simply too toxic, and therefore avoid any mention of it whatsoever, unless they ran into it in a class on the Book of the Revelation. I did ask once, and was told 'we don't be...

To be clear, the coc doesn't have particular clear teachings on ANYTHING. That said, CERTAINLY the denomination as a denomination (sorry Charlie, it is indeed a denomination) believes in the Trinity. Certainly I sang (as we all did) 'God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity' and 'Father, Son and Holy G...

Could be 'I am what is' - Being, Existence - TRULY this is a complex statement EVEN IN Hebrew, and it is not truly possible to capture it easily in English.

Remember I said Hebrew words work and build from a system of root consonants? The Torah is written in Hebrew - and like basically ALL ancient Hebrew (and most modern Hebrew also) it is written without any vowels. As you can see, Sefaria declines to translate it at all, but simply transliterates the ...

End of teeny lesson. Ask something else!

Also Hebrew accents (stresses) the last syllable - it's is ka-DESH. In YIDDISH (which is a Germanic language really - the pronunciation is KAH-dish. In English, it is also 'KAH-dish', because English borrowed the word from YIDDISH, which borrowed it from Hebrew, and merrily proceeded to pronounce it...

Oh - by the way - mourner's kaddish - all the kaddishes - is not in Hebrew. It's in Aramaic.

If you learn a bit of Hebrew, you will notice that these prayers aren't QUITE Hebrew!

There are tons of cognate words in Aramaic, that are very similar to Hebrew, but there are enough differences to tell.

The words are related. Hebrew has a 'root' system for word building, and a word basically consists of three root consonants, FROM WHICH, all forms of the word are built (English does something a bit similar, but with syllables - examples: gen (Latin for 'family', more or less): genre, genes, gentlem...

Mourner's Kaddish: May the great Name of God be exalted and sanctified, throughout the world, which he has created according to his will. May his Kingship be established in your lifetime and in your days, and in the lifetime of the entire household of Israel, swiftly and in the near future; and let ...