Didil -
Per your request, I started a new thread.
Please note that this is the Counter-Missionary forum, so any attempts to spin Christology into the divinely inspired words of our true Jewish prophets will be refuted.
You wrote:
UriYosef
Per your request, I started a new thread.
Please note that this is the Counter-Missionary forum, so any attempts to spin Christology into the divinely inspired words of our true Jewish prophets will be refuted.
You wrote:
Quote:True prophecy disappeared from Israel and the face of the earth long before the 1st century C.E., and will not return till the advent of the messianic era that is foretold in the Hebrew Bible [Psalms 74:9 & Joel 3:1, Malachi 3:23{4:5 in Christian bibles}, respectively]. So putting "Aposltles and Prophets" into the same "breath" is a misstatement of the facts.
I firmly believe that following the death of the Apostles and Prophets who had been called to lead Christ's church, there was a falling away from truth.
Quote:You are not reading Amos in context. Look at Amos 7:16, then read Amos 8:11-12. This is about Israel and the Jewish people, and has nothing to do with Christianity. For example, in Amos 8:12 the prophet says, "And they shall wonder from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; ..." Those are the four directions: from the Red Sea[ to the south of Israel, to the Mediterranean Sea at the west of Israel, and from the north to the east. This is all part of the coming judgement on Israel [Amos 8:4-14]. This was fulfilled, indeed, during the days of the Second Temple after Malachi (the last true prophet of Israel), and it has nothing to do with the advent of Christianity during the 1st century C.E.
In other words, there was an apostasy among what was know as the Christian church, and that what resulted was many different variations of "Christianity." Now, this came about not because the teachings weren't true (I.E. Paul's teachings) but because men were interpreting them without divine assistance. (I.E. Prophets and Apostles) I believe that this is what is meant in the prophecy in Amos 8:11-12.
UriYosef
