Sep 30, 2024
Shalom everyone, In preparation for the upcoming season of repentance, I thought it would be useful to explain the theological background to the process of Expiation – and not the modern Jewish understanding of it, but rather the original, ancient, pre-Exile, Yahwist...
Sep 20, 2024
Shalom everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about having a mission and a purpose in life. This article here is a follow-up to it. In this blog, I want to take a look at the concept of God having a plan – the Great and Ultimate Plan. Free Will and Objections to a...
Sep 5, 2024
Shalom everyone, A friend recently asked me about the topic of, ‘Our Purpose in Life’, and specifically its negative effects on people who are unable to divine their purpose in life. I have to admit that I wasn’t previously aware of this phenomenon. Apparently, some...
Aug 23, 2024
The twenty-ninth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Lk 15:8-10. As a result of having compared the notes of various commentaries, the last verse here is slightly different from the one currently in The Exhortations; I will update it in the next edition. The...
Aug 9, 2024
I occasionally get asked why there are no miracles mentioned in the Sefer Yeshua. The simplest answer is that I wanted Yeshua’s own words to justify themselves, without distractions. If you could read a ‘red letter’ edition of the Sefer Yeshua, you would see that the...
Jul 8, 2024
The twenty-eighth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Lk 15:11-32. The scholars of the ‘Jesus Seminar’ voted it as category pink – that is, that Yeshua probably said something like this, but the scholars had some reservations. 28. 1There was a Zealot who...
