Well, on my personal side, I can only thank God (or YHWH), for his grace on not letting me escalate more than vanilla. And to be honest, vintage stuff from the 1970's was what I gravitated towards.
While P is still trash, no matter what angle you look at it (Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Jewish....and the list goes on) I don't know of any faith system that truly approves of it. I suppose the south end of those faiths would be the only one to approve it. But I hear it's hot down there.
As far as dialogue between your Jewish faith and my Christian faith, yep, lots in common, right up till Christ's birth. But to my knowledge, the Torah is the same, as well as the prophets, history and poetic books of the bible.
In the new testament, in my view, Christ never annulled the old, but he was what is was talking about the entire time, and he was the fulfillment of it. As Paul wrote in Galatians, "there is neither Greek nor Jew", essentially saying that we are all equal under God.
I know 1 person that reads Greek locally, and I have a few favorite preachers that read Greek and Hebrew.
The one thing that I would like to learn much more on, is the Jewish traditions, as well as historical backgrounds and cultural backgrounds of most of those places discussed in the old and new testament. I have a friend that lives is another part of my country, and she told me that we North Americans have no idea about the middle east culture and context.
And as far as when would I indulge? Stress, anger, frustration, rejected by the Mrs...watching a movie and find an actress attractive and curiosity would get the best of me, bored (lots of this one) and just the straight out, looking forward to edging and trying to find some old vintage.
I'm really praying that this is all behind me. I hate it so much, but it's weird. As some preachers I listen to, you love it, due to the instant gratification you get, but then you hate it right away and you feel ashamed...which is where I am.
While P is still trash, no matter what angle you look at it (Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Jewish....and the list goes on) I don't know of any faith system that truly approves of it. I suppose the south end of those faiths would be the only one to approve it. But I hear it's hot down there.
As far as dialogue between your Jewish faith and my Christian faith, yep, lots in common, right up till Christ's birth. But to my knowledge, the Torah is the same, as well as the prophets, history and poetic books of the bible.
In the new testament, in my view, Christ never annulled the old, but he was what is was talking about the entire time, and he was the fulfillment of it. As Paul wrote in Galatians, "there is neither Greek nor Jew", essentially saying that we are all equal under God.
I know 1 person that reads Greek locally, and I have a few favorite preachers that read Greek and Hebrew.
The one thing that I would like to learn much more on, is the Jewish traditions, as well as historical backgrounds and cultural backgrounds of most of those places discussed in the old and new testament. I have a friend that lives is another part of my country, and she told me that we North Americans have no idea about the middle east culture and context.
And as far as when would I indulge? Stress, anger, frustration, rejected by the Mrs...watching a movie and find an actress attractive and curiosity would get the best of me, bored (lots of this one) and just the straight out, looking forward to edging and trying to find some old vintage.
I'm really praying that this is all behind me. I hate it so much, but it's weird. As some preachers I listen to, you love it, due to the instant gratification you get, but then you hate it right away and you feel ashamed...which is where I am.
