{"quotes":[{"text":"Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying 'is He real?","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["israel","jesus","jewish","messiah","nation","rejection"],"id":7804,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"The nails did not kill Him... It was the needs that did.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["christian","christianity","church","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-the-christ","messiah"],"id":23312,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."},{"text":"Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow'.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bible","christ","christians","church","compare","comparing","follow","food-for-thought","god","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-love-you","king-of-kings","lord-of-lords","messiah","saviour","sermon","worship"],"id":23408,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["academic","bible","end-times","exegesis","hermeneutics","inspirational","interpretation","jesus","messiah","mysticism","prophecy","religion","spirituality","symbolism"],"id":41655,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":"Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["god-s-unconditional-love","messiah","messiah","messiahs","predestination","salvation","salvation-by-grace","salvation-by-works","salvation-in-death","salvation-of-the-world","salvation","save","save-me","saved","saved-by-christ","saved-by-grace","saved-from-sin","saved-from-sins","saved-souls","savior","savior","unconditional","unconditional-acceptance"],"id":68066,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["god-s-unconditional-love","messiah","messiah","messiahs","predestination","salvation","salvation-by-grace","salvation-by-works","salvation-in-death","salvation-of-the-world","salvation","save","save-me","saved","saved-by-christ","saved-by-grace","saved-from-sin","saved-from-sins","saved-souls","savior","savior","unconditional","unconditional-acceptance"],"id":68066,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"In a remarkable midrash (commentary) on Proverbs, we read the following: “All of the festivals will be abolished in the future [the Messianic Age], but Purim will never be abolished.”The miracle of Purim is very different from the miracles mentioned in the Torah. While the latter were overt miracles, such as the ten plagues in Egypt and the splitting of the Red Sea, the miracle of Purim was covert. No law of nature was violated in the Purim story and the Jews were saved by seemingly normal historical occurrences. Had we lived in those days, we would have noticed nothing unusual. Only retroactively are we astonished that seemingly unrelated and insignificant human acts led to the redemption of the Jews. The discovery that these events concealed a miracle could only be made after the fact.Covert miracles will never cease to exist explains the Torah Temimah. In fact, they take place every day. The midrash on Proverbs is not suggesting that the actual festivals mentioned in the Torah will be nullified in future days. Rather we should read the midrash as follows: Overt miracles, which we celebrate on festivals mentioned in the Torah, no longer occur. But covert miracles such as those celebrated on Purim will never end; they continue to occur every day of the year. Purim, probably rooted in a historical event of many years ago, functions as a constant reminder that the Purim story never ended. We are still living it. The Megillah is open-ended; it was not and will never be completed!","author":"Nathan Lopes Cardozo","tags":["jewish-history","messiah","messianic-age","miracles"],"id":82056,"author_id":"Nathan+Lopes+Cardozo"},{"text":"Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["bible","bible-interpretation","bible-prophecy","eli-of-kittim","end-times","eschatology","hebrew-scriptures","jesus-christ","jesus-christian","last-days","messiah","messianic-judaism","new-testament","old-testament","prophecy","prophecy-in-the-news","the-little-book-of-revelation"],"id":118405,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":"Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single passage of scripture or prophecy about the promised messiah that even hints of his ignominious death, let alone his bodily resurrection.","author":"Reza Aslan","tags":["jesus","messiah","scripture"],"id":123608,"author_id":"Reza+Aslan"},{"text":"The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["belief","belief","believe","believer","believing","messiah","messiah","messiahs","nature-of-god","salvation","salvation-by-grace","salvation-by-works","salvation-in-death","salvation-of-the-world","salvation","save","save-me","saved","saved-by-christ","saved-by-grace","saved-from-sin","saved-from-sins","saved-souls","savior","savior"],"id":164147,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}