Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

It was okay. I toned things down a bit because my parents came, and of course, they don't drink! So no alcohol. There was a cake at my sister's wedding, but I don't remember it much. I think in order for everyone to get some, they had to cut it into a LOT of teeny tiny slices. Now for our wedding, w...

Another teacher taught - our lives (actions) are our prayers. Our actions define us as people. Not 'what do you believe', but 'what did you DO/what WILL you do'. You NEVER hear a Jewish leader sending 'thoughts and prayers'. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, free the prisoner - DO something. Also p...

Christianity focuses a lot on 'the afterlife'. Judaism simply doesn't. It's a 'shrug'. Isn't God trustworthy, just and merciful? then why worry? Two thousand years ago, when Pharisaism was forming, ideas about the end of time and the afterlife were a lot more 'alive'. But then, all other branches of...

That said, sure, some Jews think the world will end in - let me think - 6000 - 3760 = 2240, So they think the max age of creation is 6000 years, which means the world should end in 2240 or about that. Or maybe that's the start of a 1000 year messianic age of perfection, and THEN it ends. I forget, b...

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...