Day after day, I try not to hurt anyone around me. I strive to mind my own business, yet more and more people seem irritated by my mere existence. I feel subhuman, like a worm or a bug. Why am I despised by these people? Why can’t they just leave me alone? There is noContinue reading “My Mere Existence”
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نموذج الاستبدال في الإسلام: من المراجعة التاريخية إلى التعويض الأخروي
من المعتاد ان تُدرس فكرة “لاهوت الاستبدال” أو “الإحلالية” في السياق المسيحي لوصف الاعتقاد بأن الكنيسة المسيحية قد استبدلت إسرائيل وحلت محلها كشعب الله المختار. ومع ذلك، عند النظر إليها في إطار الدراسات المقارنة للأديان الإبراهيمية، نجد أن الإسلام يطرح نموذجًا شاملاً واكثر رديكالية للإحلالية. لا تعمل هذه الإحلالية الإسلامية مجرد انتقال تاريخي للحظوة الإلهية،Continue reading “نموذج الاستبدال في الإسلام: من المراجعة التاريخية إلى التعويض الأخروي”
The Scope of Islamic Supersessionism: From Prophetic Revisionism to Eschatological Substitution
In the comparative study of Abrahamic religions, however, Islam introduces a comprehensive paradigm of supersessionism. This Islamic iteration operates not merely as a historical transition of divine favor, but as a total structural, historical, and cosmic replacement.
Break Free from Your Bubble: Embrace Diverse Perspectives
A Call to Break Out of our Bubbles: Why our Worldview is Often Smaller Than We Think Have you ever met someone who was totally convinced they were the most open-minded person in the room, only to watch them completely freak out the moment someone disagreed with them? Maybe you’ve even caught yourself doing it.Continue reading “Break Free from Your Bubble: Embrace Diverse Perspectives”
Dignity & Suffering: Immigrants are humans too.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who bravely stood against the Nazi regime, once argued that indifference to evil is a denial of the Incarnation of Yeshua. He believed that if we truly serve a G-d who entered into human suffering, then we cannot stand apart from the suffering of our neighbors. Today, I find myselfContinue reading “Dignity & Suffering: Immigrants are humans too.”
The Myth of the Mutating God
Introduction For centuries, a pervasive misconception has haunted both the pews of Western Christianity and the oriental sanctuaries of Eastern Orthodoxy: the idea that G-d underwent a major personality change between the book of Malachi and the Gospel of Matthew. In the popular Christian imagination, the G-d of the Old Testament is often reduced toContinue reading “The Myth of the Mutating God”
Jacob’s Journey: From Deceit to Divine Purpose
The story of Jacob is a powerful reminder that G-d uses imperfect people to fulfill His plans.
Torah’s Priority: Understanding Scripture’s Progressive Revelation
Torah provides the primary revelation of God’s nature: His holiness, justice, mercy, and faithfulness. Consequently, many central concepts are established in the pages of the Torah.
Bonhoeffer’s Take on Christian Passivism
The failure of much of the German church was not active participation in the Nazi party, but indifference. They simply continued their normal religious lives, seeing the persecution of the Jewish community as an external, secular problem. Bonhoeffer, on the other hand, insisted that true faith demolishes the barrier between the spiritual life.
Moses, Yeshua, and the Revelation of God’s Attributes
I affirm the original meaning of the Torah text. No mortal can survive seeing the unmediated glory of the transcendent G-d (Hashem). At the same time, I acknowledge that Yeshua is actually the Shekhinah made Flesh. He is the only one who can fully reveal Hashem.
Out of Egypt 