tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post5021671000478766977..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: In retrospectRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-33975331531455550032017-10-09T21:56:58.018-04:002017-10-09T21:56:58.018-04:00As I quoted in one of my blogs,
Sommers wrote in ...As I <a href="http://quotesandreferences.blogspot.com/2014/09/regarding-jewish-professor-dr-sommers.html" rel="nofollow">quoted in one of my blogs</a>,<br /><br />Sommers wrote in his book, "The Bodies of God": <br /><br />"“Some Jews regard Christianity’s claim to be a monotheistic religion with grave suspicion, both because of the doctrine of the trinity (how can three equal one?) and because of Christianity’s core belief that God took bodily form. . . . No Jew sensitive to Judaism’s own classical sources, however, can fault the theological model Christianity employs when it avows belief in a God who has an earthly body as well as a Holy Spirit and a heavenly manifestation, for that model, we have seen, is a perfectly Jewish one. A religion whose scripture contains the fluidity traditions [referring to God appearing in bodily form in the Tanakh], whose teachings emphasize the multiplicity of the shekhinah, and whose thinkers speak of the sephirot does not differ in its theological essentials from a religion that adores the triune God.”"-<br />Dr. Benjamin Sommer, a professor in Bible and ancient Near Eastern languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-50300343463581051112017-10-09T14:41:51.865-04:002017-10-09T14:41:51.865-04:00The only significant theological difference betwee... The only significant theological difference between Judaism and Christianity lies not in the trinity or in the incarnation but in Christianity’s revival of the notion of a dying and rising God, a category ancient Israel clearly rejects. 62 – Benjamin D. Sommer, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, p. 135-136<br /><br />All those "angel of the Lord" and Daniel 7 etc texts were interpreted by a lot of Jews to mean "two powers in heaven".<br /><br />Think of it like Roman Catholicism after Trent repudiating stuff in its past that was supportive of the Reformation. Jews did similar stuff.<br /><br />So given that this quote<br /><br />//Thus is it preferable to understand the angel of the Lord not as an ontological equivalent to God himself (e.g. note how the Lord is distinguished from the angel in Judg 6:21-23 and 13:16) but rather as a function that is filled by a human or angelic intermediary who is sent by God to speak and act on his behalf.//<br /><br />strikes me as exceptionally bad reasoning.geoffrobinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14949411893531888555noreply@blogger.com