tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post5032332962728539251..comments2023-05-28T09:31:56.674-04:00Comments on In the Line of Fire: Misinformation Is Not KosherMLBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-71755390897623192712017-01-27T02:08:42.663-05:002017-01-27T02:08:42.663-05:00Dear Mendel, oh my poor Jewish brother! If you onl...Dear Mendel, oh my poor Jewish brother! If you only knew the riches of HaShem revealed in His Son Yeshua our Moshiach! If you only knew the true redemption awaiting you, the true forgiveness, the true devekut, you would run from your erroneous ways and run into the arms of your Maker. May the Lord grant you true and lasting t'shuvah. I appreciate your love for me, but you could not be more wrong in everything you wrote. I wish you God's mercy!MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-77075316907735699062017-01-26T23:55:46.330-05:002017-01-26T23:55:46.330-05:00plz mr. brown you are a yid you have a neshama do ...plz mr. brown you are a yid you have a neshama do teshuva!!!<br />it visible on your face that you have a lofty soul but unfortunately it was caught by the kelipa i'm a young man a chassid and i have watched your debates as i write this i am crying for you and your neshama plz realize you are no youngster anymore and g-d forbid when your time comes for you to return your soul to its makes i know deep down you don't believe its yushke plz do tshuva before it's too late stop trying to impress a few goyim and realize who you are a son of avraham yitzchak and yaakov you are royalty and you clearly have a high source possibly a neshama d'atzilus but its being wasted to impress a few christian goyim and to c"v shmad some yidden too <br />my blessings and prayers<br />-mendel Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-78590158042450062092012-06-12T21:13:37.035-04:002012-06-12T21:13:37.035-04:00We now have the video of my debate with Rabbi Dr. ...We now have the video of my debate with Rabbi Dr. Schochet posted online: http://realmessiah.com/video/is-jesus-the-jewish-messiah.MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-72373823264689817832012-06-08T14:13:59.935-04:002012-06-08T14:13:59.935-04:00Why would Deuteronomy 4:35 be a difficulty? It sta...Why would Deuteronomy 4:35 be a difficulty? It states that only Yahweh is God. This is true. There is no God but Yahweh. Every Christian affirms this.<br /><br />In order to make this an objection, you need to add additional premises, such as <br /><br />1. Jesus is not Yahweh<br />or<br />2. If the Father is Yahweh, the Son is not Yahweh<br /><br />and it's these additional premises that are in dispute.Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07760732528070189410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-18041103675067588922012-06-07T17:59:32.991-04:002012-06-07T17:59:32.991-04:00Drew, I just happened to ask about the status of t...Drew, I just happened to ask about the status of this today, since we had to convert old video tapes into a current format before uploading. It turns out that the staff member responsible for this got the tapes converted but didn't realize they were supposed to be uploaded, so that should happen any day now, and I'll be announcing and posting the link. As for Michael Licona, I hope he can find a counter-missionary willing to debate him on this! Perhaps I can help facilitate.MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-86751814478825766402012-06-07T14:14:54.665-04:002012-06-07T14:14:54.665-04:00Can I get a link to that debate? I have been wanti...Can I get a link to that debate? I have been wanting to hear the entire debate audio for a while now. Also, Michael Licona of RisenJesus.com has been wanting to debate an anti-missionary over the resurrection of Jesus for some time now. Interested?Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07760732528070189410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-44837184712187244672012-03-23T00:20:46.059-04:002012-03-23T00:20:46.059-04:00Tim, if you have a question you would like asked, ...Tim, if you have a question you would like asked, just go to www.askdrbrown.org and click on Contact and you can send your question there. God bless.MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-70186376047727238902012-03-22T23:30:02.820-04:002012-03-22T23:30:02.820-04:00Where would I be able to properly ask this questio...Where would I be able to properly ask this question? I've been studying your question and answer number 13 on Youtube about the Kippah, and there seems like a contradiction from your answer you gave to the photo I've seen. I live out on the West Coast, I can't really call your show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-28467052824061150282012-03-19T20:42:39.808-04:002012-03-19T20:42:39.808-04:00Not a proper subject, Tim.Not a proper subject, Tim.MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-76280298399252791362012-03-19T16:52:29.014-04:002012-03-19T16:52:29.014-04:00Would a discussion about the Kippah be a proper su...Would a discussion about the Kippah be a proper subject under this blog? It has a lot to do with Judaism these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-57108929136874224742012-02-22T18:29:37.507-05:002012-02-22T18:29:37.507-05:00Eli Cohen,
In order to have a place in the life ...Eli Cohen,<br /><br /> In order to have a place in the life to come, you have to live "righteously". And from your writing you're not too sure exactly what that entails. So nice, you keep some of the law of God out of obedience, but that means if you keep 1 out of obedience than that is the same as your neighbor keeping 50. Yet how many of you have even kept all 10 of the 10 Commandments? So even on your death bed, you won't be too sure how righteous is righteous enough. You'll only know that you've been obedient, but you won't even know if it is obedient enough either.<br /><br />I go by what I know, I know I haven't kept enough, or obeyed enough, and I know that it is Prophecy that the Gentiles will seek Messiah. And I know the only Messiah the Gentiles have sought for over 2,000 years and counting is Jesus the Christ. <br /><br />Now I also know that is one lengthy track record that no man in History will be able to claim...ever.<br /><br />I also know that in the book of Daniel the City and the Sanctuary would fall after the Anointed One is cut off. And this happened in 70 AD after Rome sacked Jerusalem. The only person to fit the Messianic birth, and hometown of Bethlehem is Jesus the Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-47574453528682793682012-02-19T22:34:22.152-05:002012-02-19T22:34:22.152-05:00Tim,
I live in Sydney Australia. I can't spe...Tim, <br />I live in Sydney Australia. I can't speak for anyone but myself and the way I understand Judaism. I cannot comment on discussions you;ve held with other Jews as I wasn't present.<br />The bottom line is as many scholars have finally begun to recognize, jews don't obey G-d's commandments in order to reach perfection or justification. We do it out of a love and obedience to G-d. <br />Daniel 9:18 says it best "for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion." <br />G-d bless you.Rabbi Eli Cohennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-67344645036277078932012-02-18T00:12:32.987-05:002012-02-18T00:12:32.987-05:00Nicholas, all clear!Nicholas, all clear!MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-18312665243276192322012-02-17T20:18:27.257-05:002012-02-17T20:18:27.257-05:00I understand. Sorry for being to harsh.I understand. Sorry for being to harsh.Nicholasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-25148671709790027262012-02-17T19:51:20.384-05:002012-02-17T19:51:20.384-05:00Nicholas,
Why should that surprise you? It's ...Nicholas,<br /><br />Why should that surprise you? It's the first time that a group of Jewish scholars have come together to produce an annotated New Testament, also trying to appreciate it rather than attack it, so despite my differences on numerous points, it's certainly a landmark publication, right?MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-79846397584027142722012-02-17T19:47:11.408-05:002012-02-17T19:47:11.408-05:00Dr. Brown, why are you calling the Jewish Annotate...Dr. Brown, why are you calling the Jewish Annotated New Testament a landmark publication? Are you praising it?Nicholasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-47599362913776601852012-02-14T13:12:22.857-05:002012-02-14T13:12:22.857-05:00Eli Cohen,
Thank you for the response.
To answe...Eli Cohen,<br /><br />Thank you for the response. <br /><br />To answer your question, Daniel was a Prophet. Being a Prophet you are afforded privileges that the priests, and the people are not given. For example, you wouldn't marry a Prostitute, neither would I and yet Hosea married Gomer. <br /><br />So it is the Priests and those of the tribes of Judah and Israel who have to wonder what it takes to live righteously.<br /><br />If we agree that to enter the curse, and the law of Moses from the time of Haggai is still required. Then you can see how one like myself who traces to Israel would begin to wonder just how righteous is righteous enough. How many of the 7 things that I listed do you do in your life? I can maybe complete a couple. <br /><br />And so I believe it is impossible to do, to live righteous before God. We've all gone astray like sheep.That is why I believe Christ is Messiah, because Isaiah 53 speaks of one who would intercede and make many just. Not all, but many. And the Gentiles would seek Messiah. This lines up with the claims by the Jews who claim they were the Apostle of Christ as witnesses.<br /><br />I live in Portland, Oregon. The Chabad-Lubavitch is out here, are you? Are they a good representation of you? Those are the only Jewish community's I know of that exist out here. I mean one of the them study's 8 hours a day and wasn't even firm on being circumcised the 8th day. He told me it was fine that I was circumcised soon after birth. <br /><br />So it seems like many in the Judaism that exists today like to smooth things over rather than follow the law to a "T" as they say. I believe the implications and extent of their actions will affect their very eternal life to come in a negative way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-7401600655470115302012-02-13T21:56:14.832-05:002012-02-13T21:56:14.832-05:00Tim these are all good questions.
I'm sure t...Tim these are all good questions. <br />I'm sure that when you are approached to defend your faith in the eyes of those who see it as wrong, you would feel the need to properly articulate a response. While I could give you some responses to your questions on the blog here, I don't believe it will suffice as it would be more of a debate then a discussion. I will however give you one thing to think about. Biblically, how did someone like Daniel atone for his sins when there was no temple?<br />The Torah is eternal and the law of Moses required in the time of Haggai is still required today. I couldn't agree with you more.Rabbi Eli Cohennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-83932455279747902492012-02-12T20:06:14.203-05:002012-02-12T20:06:14.203-05:00For the record, the above comments about Kosher Je...For the record, the above comments about Kosher Jesus were written by Rabbi Moshe Shulman and posted here at his request.MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-61429350560930600752012-02-12T18:58:25.634-05:002012-02-12T18:58:25.634-05:00Eli Cohen,
Thanks for the response. Here is a que...Eli Cohen,<br /><br />Thanks for the response. Here is a question to zero in on:<br /><br />Although not a literal "challenge", it most certainly challenged my faith as one of Israel, that if I should want to go back to the law and cast off Christ as my Savior. Jews who don't believe in Christ have to have faith, and it takes a whole lot for them to believe that they are OK before God even though they haven't been able to keep the Law of Moses and only uphold a certain amount of the Torah. For example, some Jews do more and some less...and then they have to believe that this is quite alright with God.<br /><br />Nehemiah & Ezra sure knocked down any pillar that could have been put up in my mind as a reason not to believe Jesus is Messiah.<br /><br />One only needs to begin reading Ch. 10 to see that these Jews refused to give their daughters to the people of the land. Yet how many so- called Orthodox have a Jewish Mother and Gentile dad? And they think they're Jewish???<br /><br />Did I do or am capable of completing all of the below? With no Levites on top of it?<br /><br />1. Shewbread.<br />2. The continual meat offering.<br />3. The continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel.<br />4. The wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law<br />5. Keep not only the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, but also offer the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty is required everyday.<br />6. Building an altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.<br />7. Offering the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated<br /><br />Taken from Nehemiah ch. 10 and Ezra ch. 3.<br /><br />Yet what this is what I'm told: "Hey no biggie, we don't have a Temple, oh we don't have secure borders, oh hey, ever read Hosea 3?". This isn't what was taught at the time people lived to see the Prophet Haggai himself and Zechariah the son of Iddo now is it? No.<br /><br />Read Ezra 3:6, How can any Jew posit that without a Temple they don't have to keep blood sacrifice? Or give burnt offerings? When that is exactly what Jews did at the time of Ezra well before the Second Temple was ever built !!<br /><br />"From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid."<br /><br />How can any Torah you've kept in your life ever amount to God smiling on you when compared to what Jews did at the time the Prophet Haggai was alive? I believe that goes for Jews living today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-55847240231308963182012-02-12T13:45:06.511-05:002012-02-12T13:45:06.511-05:00Eli Cohen,
It was both a question and a statement...Eli Cohen,<br /><br />It was both a question and a statement of faith. I would love to sit down with you face-to-face, if you want check out one of my threads on Jews for Jesus forums (jewsforjesus.org/). One that I entitled: "Because of the Nehemiah Challenge" it is located in the Forum titled: "Why I believe in Y'shua (Jesus). That is my main question. My personal name on there is MessianicJew. If you respond to a thread, please let me know on here and if you could send me a private email on Jews for Jesus so I can respond that would be awesome. I have a lot on my heart as you will read from my threads. And it would be very interesting to hear from someone like yourself, I've been looking forward to the opportunity.<br /><br />Also, it is hard to understand what Judaism believes when no one is the supreme authority on the subject. Since within Judaism you have Reform, Conservative, Orthodox etc. It is always funny to me to hear someone say "What Judaism believes" as if Judaism is a real person and not a religion. I guess that is why I get different answers, for example I've been on AskMoses.com and get different responses even with the Rabbi's they use.<br /><br />I would definitely take the time to sit down face-to-face with you, if you live in the Portland Oregon area. I know the Chabad-Lubavitch is out here, would they be a good representation of you? Otherwise this forum is perfect too.<br /><br />However, I know my way around a complete English translation of the entire Tanach with Rashi's commentary better than you might think. I read it in conjunction with the Tanach and New Testament translated under the authority of then King James of England. They're both extremely similar.<br /><br />Please let me know what you decide as I can cut and past the thread here on this forum too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-77100812090152463712012-02-08T21:12:11.577-05:002012-02-08T21:12:11.577-05:00Tim,
I suppose that wasn't a question but rath...Tim,<br />I suppose that wasn't a question but rather a statement of faith. <br />In case your interested, I have a feeling that you don't understand what Judaism believes. It's possible that you may have heard a line here and a line there, but you'd get a better handle on what people like myself believe if you sat down face to face with one and ask them enough questions to zero in on the issues you'd like to know about.Rabbi Eli Cohennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-38558713760621455562012-02-06T11:39:23.075-05:002012-02-06T11:39:23.075-05:00Shmuely Boteach says that anyone who lives a right...Shmuely Boteach says that anyone who lives a righteous life has a place in the life to come. I heard him say that before both Dr. Michael Brown and Sid Roth.<br /><br />Well Mr Boteach...how righteous is righteous enough? What does it mean to be truly righteous? If a Jew has only kept one law of the Ten Commandments is that enough? If by keeping the Torah, that is what it means to be righteous. Yet there are some 600 plus laws, and what Jew has kept them all? I say none, zero. <br /><br />The implications of Judaism today, is so weak, so lukewarm and diluted. It isn't anything close to what my Fathers kept nor did.<br /><br />I believe Jesus is Immanuel, and that without Prophets & Levites, nobody not even Israel is able to truly enter the curse as the people, priests and Levites did during the life of Nehemiah. They write a list of the law in Nehemiah,it is by no means complete but Jews today don't even do that much. No Jew today is able to walk before God righteously. Because we've all gone astray as sheep just as Isaiah 53 says. We need an intercessor as Isaiah 53 states will be to come and it is only found in Jesus the Christ.<br /><br />Remember, the Gentiles will seek Messiah, it says this in the Tanach. And the only Jew that the Gentiles have sought for over 2,000 years is Jesus the Christ.Tim Ashernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-60104055330904782002012-02-02T00:05:31.651-05:002012-02-02T00:05:31.651-05:00Please remember that personal attacks are not perm...Please remember that personal attacks are not permitted here. Differing viewpoints are welcomed, but not personal attacks -- even against me. :) Thanks!MLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337220597557473747.post-53104646086770950532012-02-02T00:02:41.308-05:002012-02-02T00:02:41.308-05:00I'm pleased to hear you made some changes, whi...I'm pleased to hear you made some changes, which speaks well of you, of course. I actually had several more issues to raise but chose not to.<br /><br />I never pulled back from your challenge, but it appears that I didn't answer the objections in a way that you felt was adequate, an opinion you are certainly welcome to hold. As for Deut 4:35, again, I dealt with the Jewish objections the way they were presented to me over the years by traditional Jews (vol. 2, which addresses God's nature and unity came out in 2000, before we even met), and I dealt with the issues relating to Deut 4:35 without citing that particular verse. But as you know, I use that verse frequently in my other apologetics writings and talks and even started by debate with Shmuley at Oxford using that very verse. Whatever you're implying is entirely inaccurate and misleading.<br /><br />Since this is all in the public (to my distaste as well), please remember that: 1) I didn't bring this up here, you did; 2) colleagues of yours are doing things that actually strike me as demeaning to your cause to try to provoke me to finish my responses to your articles, again, bringing this into the public light; 3) you know that I told you over the phone that as I read Contra Brown the first time (before it even had that name), I refuted the arguments in my head as I read it (surely you recall me saying this); and 4) I told you years ago that, since my schedule didn't permit me to respond to every point you were raising to me in emails, etc., that I would devote time to speaking with you by phone once a week (45 minutes to an hour), as often as possible, and we have both tried to keep with this schedule. I now feel that this is being scorned and our agreement is being forgotten. Surely that cannot be your intent.<br /><br />I'm constantly in the midst of writing deadlines, and you have to know me well enough to know that I love refuting objections -- actually, I have to discipline myself not to do so the moment I receive them -- and one reason I struggled with finishing my responses to your points was that I felt uncomfortable tearing them down with such clarity and force, feeling that I was not being sufficiently gracious to you. (We talked about this on the phone too.) In any case, should I get around to finishing my rebuttals (although, to be candid, colleagues of yours posting counter-missionary provocations on the Facebook pages of my friends is NOT the way to get this done and actually gives me reason NOT to respond), you will see that there was not the least problem or issue raised for me, based on the clear testimony of the Word. <br /><br />Re: your last comment: Of course you have other choices, and look at this thread here and others (such as the Line of Fire radio site): Who brings these things up first in public, you or me?<br /><br />Still your friend in the midst of our differences,<br /><br />Michael L. BrownMLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923601653981115527noreply@blogger.com