by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, Before I begin, first a little about my own ethnic background. I was born in Sri Lanka – the non-Asian side of my family have been there for about 500 years. In addition to my Jewish ancestors, I also have ancestors from various countries in South,...
by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, This article was mostly written in response to the unsubstantiated claim that the Jewish Followers of the prophet Yeshua were always called Ebionites, right from the very beginning, and that Ebionites were the only legitimate ‘Jewish-Christian’ (that...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
(If you want the quick answer to this conundrum, please go to the final three paragraphs of this article. If you want an explanation of the answer, please read on) . I’ve asked ChatGPT an unsolvable question again, just to see what answer an impartial...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, Yesterday at sunset began the day which rabbinic Judaism knows as ‘Simchat Torah‘ (‘Rejoicing of the Torah‘), but which the Torah itself refers to as Yom Shmini ha-Atzéret (Eighth Day of Closed Assembly) – you will soon find out that they are not...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Introduction Quite a few ex-Christian teachers and theologians approach this question starting from the Christian Gospel and working backwards. However, that’s not how I am going to approach it. If we ever want to understand what ‘gospel’ / ‘good news’ means in its...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
For former religious fundamentalists, their greatest sticking point to having a closer relationship with God, is often the Bible itself. I had the same problem, even though I was never a fundamentalist. I had to completely change the way I saw the Bible, because it...
