The idea of some kind of sin nature — along with many other ideas — was devel­oped through­out the lat­ter part of the early cen­turies. Spare me from dig­ging out the “when”, you can find plenty of info on Google if you dig hard enough.

The Jew­FAQ has a very good arti­cle about what Jews think about human nature. Here is the link, read “The Dual Nature” portion:

http://www.jewfaq.org/human.htm (more…)

In Joshua 2 we read about the har­lot of Jerico, Rahab. She secretly receives two Israelite spies into her house and when the sol­diers of the city come to search for them she lies to save their lives. (more…)

The pas­sage in ques­tion is often used as a proof­text that the law was abol­ished in order to estab­lish the new covenant. If it was so, what we call “new covenant” is not the new covenant of Jere­miah, which is the law in the heart, not the absence of the law. (more…)

Read­ing Rabbi Schulman’s com­metary we realise that the ser­vant of God spo­ken of by Isa­iah is the right­eous rem­nant of Israel in the mes­sianic times.

How can that be still applied to Jesus? How did he ful­fill these prophe­cies? Are the gospel writ­ers at fault when they claim he did ful­fil these prophe­cies? (more…)

This the­ol­ogy has been held by var­i­ous churches right from the early cen­turies. It says that God changed his mind and now all promises and bless­ings made to Israel go to the Church. Israel totally lost God’s favour and they have no place in God’s future plan as a nation, except as part of the Church.

This the­ol­ogy, how­ever, totally ignores the nature of covenants. (more…)