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- From: Bill.Carlson@p0.f18.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Carlson)
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- Subject: Queries From Former Sda
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:32:08 GMT
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- To: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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- Mi> Date: 18 Dec 92 02:14:30 GMT
- Mi> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
- Mi> Message-ID: <1992Dec17.201431.45731@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Mi> Newsgroups: alt.messianic
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- Mi> publications on the Yiddish language, and an avid reader and
- Mi> admirer of Jewish literature. I even have a copy of Einspruch's
- Mi> _Bris Khadoshe_ which I treasure (and can pretty well read).
-
- If you could provide any English translations of Rashi on Is.7
- with the sources I'd sure appreciate it.
-
- Mi> 1) Is there a diversity of MJ groups, or is it more or less a
- Mi> unified movement?
-
- More or less a unified movement - with some diversity :-) Of
- course, I'm given to understand there is a conservative and
- reform expression of SDA's too, correct?
-
- Mi> 2) If there are factions, what divides them?
-
- "Mainly" specifics of expression; but little in the way of major
- doctrines. Dogma mostly.
-
- Mi> 3) What positions along the liberal-conservative continuum does
- Mi> the theology take?
-
- Conservative.
-
- Mi> 4) Where do MJs stand on the current U.S. "culture wars?"
-
- Could you be more specific?
-
- Mi> 5) Are there many adherents who are ethnically non-Jewish, like
- Mi> me? Does it make any sense to speak of "conversion" of an ethnic
- Mi> Christian to MJ?
-
- It would be more of a "return" than a conversion to take upon ones
- self a Messianic expression. {of course, that is what the Greek
- word sometimes translated as 'conversion' means, if I recall
- correctly, a 'returning'} But there are Messianic Jews and
- Messianic Gentiles in our Shules. Being SDA no doubt you already
- have somewhat of a understanding of the 'commandments' and
- Shabbat, and we have several former SDA that attend here in
- Denver. But you don't have to "convert" to Judiasm to either know
- Messiah Yeshua, or to attend and fellowship together.
-
- ... 012 Think not that I am come to annul the Torah or the Prophets: 210
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