by Barbara Cohen Hyland Seeking happiness, wherever it can be found has always been one of the utmost priorities in life. Of course that means focusing on self, instead of others. We live in a “Me-ism” world. Whatever makes me happy is what I want! This has been man’s dilemma from the beginning…” Eve don’t […]
Posted on Abidelines.com on January 25, 2019 by Barbara Cohen Hyland Yeshua was always preaching and teaching others. That was His mission. He spoke in the context of 1st century Jewish thought. His theology today is still the same as it was during His lifetime. We quote many of His teachings and with our modern mindset
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by Barbara Cohen Hyland My husband and I just returned from a wonderful trip visiting our daughter and her husband in Dallas. Not only was it fun visiting our kids, but the Creation Science Research people will be opening a grand new exhibit center, based on creation science, and not the evolutionary ideology that pervades
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The time of accountability. What a confusing time in life when one is saying goodbye to childhood and embracing the blessings of becoming an adult.
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We believe in the biblical principle of restoration. God made everything in the world “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Yet, Adam’s sin and Satan’s rebellion caused much destruction. God’s plan of redemption not only saves us from damnation,
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The Old Testament is the first part of the Bible, and so we must turn to this in order to understand the role of dance in Jewish culture. There are twenty-two references to dance in the Old Testament,
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Resurrecting the Jewish Jesus
“At the first night of Passover, the youngest person at the table asks the question “Why is this night different from all other nights?” Appropriately, the place to begin speaking of The Passion of Yeshua is to ask the question “Why is this Passion Oratorio different from all other Passion Oratorios?”
A devoted educator and mentor, he grew up with both Christian and Jewish faiths in his household. His parents were born in Iran, and he was free to examine his faith from multiple perspectives. Ultimately, he accepted that Jesus was the foretold Messiah, but this did not disavow his Jewishness. After all, Jesus was Jewish.
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What might surprise Jewish readers of the New Testament are the Israel-affirming bits that show that the Gospels are thoroughly Jewish. Jesus and his rivals argue about food laws because, well, Jews argue about food laws. They argue about how to relate to Rome because that was a contentious issue in first-century Judea. They argue together with tools all Jews recognize and honor — the Torah and the life of worship and festival known as Judaism.
So what do we do with these texts that are still in our Christian Scripture? We don’t dismiss them. We situate them historically as I have done here — as a reflection of one claimant to the legacy of Israel clawing for space against another.
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“While it is true that at the present time a majority of believers in Yeshua are Gentiles – a fact we celebrate! – Yeshua is truly the Jewish Messiah. Faith in Yeshua cannot make Jews into Gentiles.
Allow me to illustrate this idea with a story about a Jewish restaurant (the Bible), the food it served (Yeshua, ‘the Bread of Life’, John 6:35), and the mostly Gentile neighborhood where it was located (the world).
Becoming increasingly prevalent among bible students is the realization that the key to proper interpretation of the scriptures is found in understanding the Hebraic nature of the accounts themselves. When embarking on scripture study it should be kept in mind that the Bible is a Hebrew book, written by Hebrew authors, within the confines of
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