Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Quite honestly, taken overall, we do not care. We do not care. Thinking about 'Judgment day and the afterlife' is SO NOT IMPORTANT - plenty of Jews - PLENTY of them - don't even KNOW that Judaism - as a faith - even HAS an afterlife idea (even though, if you know what you are looking at, it is all o...

Where do they get enough French speakers in Nashville? Can't be from France. What am I missing? I thought immigrants were mostly Hispanics and a lot of Koreans or something. There is a fairly large Laotian community in Nashville. Most of them speak French. I knew a Laotian refugee a lifetime ago wh...

My old (and formerly quite large) coc is down to ten elders and 44 deacons. A decade ago it was around 40 elders and over 100 deacons. They don't report congregational numbers any more, HOWEVER, I note they are down to ONE Sunday morning service - and there used to be TWO. But there are still Sunday...

Re Kabbalah Well, I'm not any kind of expert on Greek ideas! Kabbalah meaning 'received' (tradition) is Judaism's Mystical branch - like Islam has Sufism and Christianity has Christian Mysticism (like St Teresa of Avila, etc). Chochmah is - as I understand it - 'ordinary' wisdom: education, things y...

So, then, do I interpret your words correctly that most modern Jews don't expect the temple to be rebuilt until after the messiah comes? Or is it the belief that rebuilding the temple will trigger the messiah's appearing? Are there Jews left who can reliably trace their genealogy back to Aaron so t...

That's it in theory - there are even some small (VERY small!) groups of Jews who have reconstructed all the necessary tools for resuming sacrifices, and every few years, news comes out about a red heifer being born (most of them don't STAY all red, but develop black or white spots eventually), which...

Christianity ALSO rose up out of the Pharisaic movement, as long as it stayed within Jewish circles - but frankly Christianity - once it moved into 'gentile' groups - is strongly colored by a whole lot of Hellenistic (Greek, Roman) philosophy, like the dichotomy between 'matter' and 'spirit', immort...

Once the Temple was destroyed, Judaism changed AGAIN, into what we now call 'rabbinic Judaism', which is every single variety of modern Judaism in the world today, really. Rabbinic Judaism is synagogue oriented, text/study oriented, and arose mostly out of the Pharisaic philosophical school of late ...

So, do we count the temple that was erected by Ezra and Herod's temple as one and the same??? Exactly how does that work? I thought they were distinctly different structures. Yes, Herod's temple is not considered a NEW temple, but a (fairly radical and complete) REMODELING on Ezra's Temple. Sort of...

P.S., the third temple hasn't been built yet.