@@kles44: I'm surprised nobody has answered you after a year! You would need to speak with an Orthodox Rabbi and discuss conversion with him. Only conversions by Orthodox Rabbis are accepted by the Rabbinical authorities of Israel. .
@@kles44 and they specifically will push ypu away a few times. They want to see you returning and push and push. Male sure you are sincere and realise what 613 laws are as it is irreversible.
@@ToviaSinger1 Assalam alaikum Alhamdulillah I am indian muslim ..please expose the unscientific verse from bible new testament...because the pagans Christian feels proud to be a Christianity ..
@@frankvissen1186 because the indian peoples find peace only in Islam every day numbers of indian read holy Quran and they do research about Islam they read holy scriptures and holy quran and then they converted into islam because they find peace only in islam and islam is only the truth religion from Almighty God and the holy Quran is the last revealed book from Almighty God and the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him last and final messenger of Almighty God .I invite you came to islam here you will find peace
@@indianbharti6800 For understanding the christian new testament better I looked first at the islam websites, and asked about jesus. I don't believe that Jesus can be god, or in a trinity with two other gods. BUt I am not a christian anymore since I learned from Tovia Singer. I like the repentance surah number 9 in the quran very much.
Proverbs 30 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal: 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven or hath descended? Who hath gathered the wind in His fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, if thou canst tell? 5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. 6 Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee and thou be found a liar. as you can see the Tanah tell us that GOD has a SON Psalm 2 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people devise a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds asunder, and cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. 5 Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure: 6 “Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion.” 7 “I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto Me, ‘Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee. 8 Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’” 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.
@@harveywabbit9541 BS. He was born of a human mother and father like everyone else, and his mother was called Amaslaah and his father was teach, and his mother nursed him like everyone else s mother
@kenneth dinning merely self-serving speculation on your part. Though I don't know or represent Rabbi Singer. In fact he has presented Jewish responses to Christianity with incredible clarity and force, and I really appreciate it. For so many years, I had no idea how compelling the Jewish response really was.
@kenneth dinning Again I have no business speaking for him, but I think he spreads powerful argument against Christianity. I think attributing "demonic" forces is not warranted and there is no evidence for this.
@kenneth dinning I think a lot of people resort to accusing people they disagree with of being demonic, with no evidence. Saying "intellectualism" is demonic sounds like the evasion of someone on the losing side of an argument.
What is it that makes me immediately think of zombie and voodoo when I listen to the thought processes of some folks expressing their particular Christian beliefs, they for reason I will never understand suddenly seem to be transported to some alien universe where logic and reason simply has no existence and simply does not exist.
@Your Cell Phone Yes, until they start discussing their religious beliefs, which of course they are perfectly entitled to do.Reformed Myth is Myth reformed.
I am a follower of Jesus (I don't even like the tern christian), and what is called reformed theology, or calvinism is just incoherent, nonsensical and contadictional
I appreciate the kindness that you show to those of us (“sweethearts”!☺️) who are new to any of these understandings of the Hebrew Scriptures! You speak with authority and knowledge but also with kindness and grace. Thank you!
Calvin's father was quite the control freak himself. No wonder his theology is so messed up. I believe that God endows all people with a basic sense of worth and value.
@kenneth dinning Jews believe in only 1 G-d, not three. We reject the demi-god model, since it contradicts what our Father spoke to us in His word, saying that besides Him there is no other, he is one. We reject the Greek book because it is riddled with errors, just as we reject the book of mormon and Ron Hubbard's scientology.
You must learn how to seek, don't just be a believer, is a risk to be like that. People of this generation are so educated, they're very intelligent, they can forge a lie to become like a truth just like what the lawyer who stand for the trial of the guilty person does, he can win the case yet he's wrong. Seek you shall find it.
@@samueljali9446 oh this I know forsure....I was seeking back in 2011/2012 & found...I never hold things closely until I can get in the word & read for myself...but the problem is that our book was given to us from the "king James" interpreted from greek language...I all I know is that the pages of Yeremiyah 10 were alive...since then I have been seeing that christianity which is a man made religion just like all the others....I am starting from the beginning & will study Tanahk...I have before this known paul wrote 13 of the 27 books in the NT...but I truly believe for me is to start on the Tanahk...😇💜📜
@Strava 89 I will have to look into the noahide commandments but I think it should translate to instructions but either way I don't believe in luck but I definitely will look into this....I will not do the oral "laws" of the talmudic laws 🤔🤔 I believe those are what are given by the pharisees and scribes of early days...I have much to learn😇💜📜
@@samueljali9446 thank you brother...I agree with this....I must seek...oh I listen with reserved ears lol but I must admit it sounds good & possible but I need the very spirit that opened my spiritual eyes back in 2012 via Jeremiah 10...it came to life...😇💜📜
@kenneth dinning I don't know where you got your information but I disagree with you, and Rabbi Tovia Singer has been studying the Tanak and new testament for MANY years!! I worship the One and ONLY G-d whom spoke to Moshe on Mount sinai in front of thousands of witnesses. I will NEVER worship any other God. Isaiah 44:6 I Am the FIRST, and I Am the LAST, and there is NO God besides Me.
@kenneth dinning It is not nice to talk about a very respected Rabbi. If you don't like or agree with Rabbi Singer stay away from watching his lectures and go listen to your Christian pastors.
As an ex-Christian, I always want to cry when listen to your words. I finally find a Ture path, the right way to love the G-d. Please keep doing this, I truly believe that you people are the priests for our non-jews.
@Strava 89 I already did, since the lockdown for this terrible virus. At that time, I have much free time to read my bible and found out so many differences between new and old testaments. And Rabbi Tovia organized these differences systemically. Between the direct enlightenment of the G-d and the statement of some human, I decided to choose the first one.
@kenneth dinning Don't simply accuse someone is worry, please provide which part is worry and provide the related evidence. So tell me specific, where is the mistake in Rabbi's statement. Based on my view, he just simply shows what really writein the Torah.
I live in NW Iowa (United states) and the biggest denominations here are Dutch reformed. TULIP is a big thing around here. Calvinism is a stain on Christian theology.
On sunday at around 10 am cst the show is held. You can call the number on the screen. It's a bit of a weird system but u have to keep calling and hanging up until u can hear the show thru the phone and wait till they cue u in.
Such an amazing point to raise. The gospels do not have theology. How many Christians know or understand this. They don’t even think they have a theology, just a “relationship”. Never mind that the entire relationship is defined by Pauline theology.
doesnt even the tanakh say Abraham sinned? just cause he was righteous, doesnt mean he was sinless yet judaism says you have to be sinless (spotless, no criminal record) to be saved
@Paula Wallace You got the point. Many Hindus definitely believe Jesus is their Lord Krishna. Christian missionaries properly use this opportunity and divert them to the Christianity. Similar technique Hindu missionaries apply on Christians. Both are hilarious.
Favian - that’s difficult because... “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” (George Santayana 1863-1952) But I like what the Rabbi has to say and it clears up key items of my personal faith.
@Paula Wallace Krishna and Jesus both are son of God and born from a virgin. Basically Christianity is a branch of Hinduism. According to Hinduism, 2 billion gods, goddesses all are branches of one God Brahma. And both are one but not separated. Base on the core formula they claim they worship only one God. Similarly Christians believe there are 3 gods: Father, Son, Holy Spirit all are branches of one God. And they altogether one God but not separated nature. No difference between two. Just one difference is Hindus believe 2 billion in One God. And Xtians believe 3 in one God. Almost same. But the Krishna playing a vital role. Roman stolen the concept of Shiva and begotten the Christianity. Both worship idols and graven images of Krishna=Jesus and his Mother.
I had one of those conversions that William James wrote about in his "Varieties of Religious Experience", similar to that experienced by Marie- Alphonse Ratisbonne. This being said, I do appreciate the shows/lectures that you put on such as this one. It is disturbing that Christians threw stones at you when you were a kid in Brooklyn. There is no symmetry on that. In other words, I have never heard of a Christian complaining that Jews threw stones at him and chased him around.
From what I got is that it is eternal & all Males should have it done as a covenant for all generations...I think somewhere it says the heart needs to be circumcised as well but in Torah it is clear cut 😇💜📜
harry camper there are one or two sects who worship Buddha or, at least, seem like it. Catholics have statues of saints, they’re not worshipped either.
harry camper , it is not the only thing people get wrong here. Hindus have Brahman as a singular god. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Trimurti, are one way of presenting Brahman. Now they are actually worshipped.
harry camper , wow, you sound like a Christian bigot. By this kind of reasoning, Jews worship angels. Just don’t build statues cause their laws prohibit it.
Hey y’all I believed this stuff at some point. It is very difficult and requires a massive dose of self denial regarding any compassion that I had toward so called non- believers. So happy I gave it up and can look at everyone with love knowing they are in Ha Shem’s good hands only just like me. Now I can embrace them without this lingering thought that they are destined to be fuel for G-d’s fire without any hope of redemption. Nonetheless the logic of Christian theology requires either Calvinism or Universalism. Thankfully many Christian’s have chosen the latter route.
@Kenneth's - God & Nature: Your comment indicates that you speak from ignorance about Judaism. FYI, once a Jew converts to ANY OTHER religion, he is NO LONGER considered by the Jewish Community, to be a Jew - he has become a pagan. He is, however, welcome at any time, to renounce the false, pagan religion he has attached himself to, confess that sin, repent of that sin (called "teshuva" - return), ask God for His forgiveness, and start observing the Torah as God commanded us. He will then be welcomed back into the Jewish Community with open arms! PLEASE do some honest research on this subject, and learn from the Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. PLEASE buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover), so you can see for yourself what God actually said to us at Mt. Sinai. Also extremely helpful to you would be Rabbi Singer's 2-vol. set of books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?" that shows us the vast differences between Judaism and Christianity, and the multitude of ways in which Christianity has raped and bastardized God's original words to us, and "Christianized" them, to make it 'appear' as though the "Jesus" character is prophesied on ever page, which, of course, is blasphemous, and it NOT what God said to us.
@@janishart5128 I cannot speak to the other poster's entire comment, but to be fair, the position of Christian theology is to present Christ as the culmination of Jewish writing not because we think Jews agree with it, but because we (as Christians) accept Messianic prophecies from the book of Daniel that Judaism rejects. My point is that Christians understand the repudiation of Daniel by Jews for the same reason we understand the repudiation of Christ by Jews, which according to the most famed Jewish scholar in all of history, the Apostle Paul, was ordained by Hashem until the end of time.
@@PETERJOHN101: HUH??!! I see nothing "hot-tempered" about anything I said above - I was merely stating God's Truth! If a few CAPS offend you (which I use for emphasis, and I assume is why you're offended), you have a problem. I would encourage you to re-read what I said to "Kenneth", above, and buy yourself a Hebrew Bible and Rabbi Singer's books, so you can see for yourself what God ACTUALLY said to us at Mt. Sinai, and WHY Jews absolutely will NOT accept the Christian 'Messiah'.
@@janishart5128 I had removed reference to your being hot headed before you even replied, but you were so eager to respond that you preempted my almost immediate edit to demonstrate my original point. In any event, you will either accept Christ as Messiah or you will be without a Messiah.
@@PETERJOHN101: OK, thanks - I replied at whatever point I saw your reply. Replies appear in the drop-down menu under Notifications on YT, and they also appear in my gmail - so I'm not sure which one I saw first, and I have no way of knowing what time your reply appeared. PLEASE, as I mentioned above, buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover) - PLEASE, I'm begging you! Nowhere in the original Hebrew scriptures given to us by God at Mt. Sinai, did God ever mention anyone named "Jesus" or "Christ", and nowhere did He ever tell us that we need to be "saved", or that He requires HUMAN blood (a purely pagan ritual that God ABHORS!) as atonement for our sins. We have been outright LIED to by "Christianity" for thousands of years (which resulted in the religion of "Christianity" that did NOT come from God!) and you need to thoroughly research this subject, and learn from the Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. In the absence of the Temple, and since God didn't leave us with no spiritual guidance, the Rabbis stand in for the Judge and the Priests mentioned in those verses.
@@harveywabbit9541 Numbers 22:23 spells it out clearly to the reader. "When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road."
It's strange that Paul would say people cannot keep the law, when he seems to say he did keep the law. "In righteousness based on the law I was blameless." Phil 3:6. He also praises the law. "So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good." Rom 7:12. Is this another case of church dogma overriding scripture.
@Ken Brownsher Paul says he kept the law. It makes no sense for him to tell others they can't keep the law. Maybe it's Calvin and the church telling people they can't keep the law, not Paul.
This is a really powerful discussion of truth. I greatly respect Rebbe Singer for not shying away from a controversial topic. Thank you for the work you do.
Back at my time in Bible college, I was a reformed Christian. Listened to all the popular reformed theologians of the day. Matt Chandler, David Platt, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, James White, Jeff Durbin, etc. Jacob Arminius believed in a partial depravity, whereas the followers of Calvin believed in a complete depravity. As well, Pelagianism rejects depravity all together and said Adam's sin had no effect on man. I would argue that the Reformed position on Total Depravity is just a little bit different than what you had presented. All Christians agree that no righteous deed can earn salvation, but total depravity takes it a step further and says that man is not capable of repenting or even believing the gospel. Meaning, that an un-regenerated man left to his own doing would never ever choose to worship or follow God. They are "slaves to sin." and that "no one in the flesh can please God." Arminius believed that mankind is partially depraved. They are unable to choose God on their own, until God "draws" the person to them. Most Christians who don't believe in reformed theology but still hold to a partial idea of depravity says that it is through the power of the gospel that enables unbelievers to repent or have faith. But to the Calvinist, faith itself is a gift. If the Holy Spirit did not regenerate your heart and give you the gift of faith, you would be forever stuck in your sins and never repent even if you heard the gospel day after day. So I would argue that Total depravity is controversial. At least to the Calvinist. Without total depravity, there is no need for irresistible grace, unconditional election, limited atonement, or perseverance. (Which is why I always joked with people who called themselves, "3 point calvinist.")
I've been watching your videos a lot lately and have found them to be very eye opening. To find out, after so many years of Christianity, that I might not have ever had any good idea of who exactly hashem is has been a tectonic realization for me. I'm still wrestling with what to do with this knowledge. I present the following in all respect and earnest, mainly because I believe you can give a good answer. These matters are important, and they are questions for which I need answers as I consider the course of what remains of my life. Firstly, let me point out that I share every bit of the revulsion and disgust that you have toward Calvinist theology. It seems, however, that the problem you've identified here is fundamentally the problem of evil, and is a consequence of the idea of an all-powerful god who created all of us, of whom not all will find our way to him. In short, if god is all powerful, and if he created us all, and if not all of us find our way from damnation, then he is ultimately responsible for those who will be damned. I'm afraid I find very little in what I understand to be Tanakh that can lead away from this understanding. Did god not harden pharaoh's heart? Did the firstborn children of Egypt get a chance at redemption? Indeed, the very idea of a chosen people implies that there are those who were not. It grieves me to be forced to conclude that Calvinism, for all its repugnance, unfortunately does not seem to diverge from these fundamental understandings. Help me. Thank you.
I don't know if this little key will help ? The " chosen" is a Christendom interpretation - and wrong - G.d offered the Holy Torah to all the peoples, but only the Jewish people accepted to take on the task to observe these instructions from the Most High- somehow the xtian church has turned that into "the chosen" which is a misnomer, I guess ' choosers ' would be more accurate. G.d loves all of his creation, and all of humanity was given the 7 Noachide Motzvot to observe ( before the Torah revealed at Sinai to the b'nei Ysrael and b'nei Noach ). Welcome home, friend.
@@avalerie4467 Thank you for replying! It might. If we operate under the assumption that I have a lot of post-Christian ideology that's coloring my understanding of scripture. Perhaps you can help with that. When I read Deuteronomy 7: 1-7 (as it appears in the Christian Bible - I looked for a Jewish source on this and couldn't find anything), I read an account of divine selection that is in perfect accord with the ideas in Calvanism - to the point of genocide. Again, however, I'm bringing a lot of personal history to the reading, and I'm reading a passage that has come to me through the filter of translation and of Christian theology (they have been known to change Tenakh to suit their ends.) Could you expound on that passage, and perhaps help me to arrive at a different interpretation of what I'm reading?
Thank you for this video. I have a relative who is involved in this cult. Completely crazy and disgusting. Hey, Rabbi, I was also born in 1960 and loved playing with my GI Joes. Remember the ones with life-like hair? The good old days.
Yet another perfect answer to Christian lunacy. I did not even know they thought this way. Thank you, by the way, ouch!, what happened to your finger, sir?
@@ToviaSinger1 Oh ok, recover well sir. And yes, I will pray for you, you are always in my prayers. I also email you often but I know you're busy. God bless you rabbi.
It also seems to me when Catholics began the process of confessing to a priest the ritual of atonement was undermined. Is this why the Catholic Church has always been so brutal to children?
Excellent explanation of "Unconditional election" while emphasizing the depravity of "Limited atonement". The Gospel is sheker and Xtians need to learn this! Thank you Rabbi !!! B''H
@Iyas kelu I see what you are saying, but Calvinist Xtians (Baptists, Lutherans, etc), would likely answer it means whoever "is elected" believes... This, of course, is based on the premise that man cannot do ANYTHING to merit salvation, not even choose to believe. The problem with Xtianity in general is a fundamental misunderstanding of concepts such as salvation, belief, grace, atonement, chosen-ness etc. So much of your NT is absolute innovation that is utterly inconsistent with the eternal Torah and the authoritative teachings of the Jewish sages.
@Iyas kelu Regrettably, a significant number of "secular" Jews are being lost to Xtianity, while fortunately a significant number of Xtians have developed reasonable doubts concerning the authenticity and reliability of NT teachings. So, Rabbi Singer is doing not only what is appropriate, but also what is heroic, in the way he points these individuals, in particular, to the Truth more effectively than any other rabbi I've ever heard. (Truth, of course, is what every person ought to embrace, but most put their faith, instead, in what THEY DESIRE to be true, and yet in reality it is merely a fairytale.)
There are MANY, MANY of us in these comment sections who have left various denominations of Christianity after decades of being part of them (even Evangelical and "Messianic" Christianity). So, you're never alone - there are those of us who have converted to Orthodox Judaism, and those who have chosen not to convert, and have remained Noahides. So, keep learning from the Rabbis as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11, and if you haven't already, please buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover) so you can see for yourself what God actually said to us at Mt. Sinai, and Rabbi Singer's 2-vol. set of books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?", which will answer any questions you may have. May Hashem continue to bless and guide you, as you learn about Him!!
Funny Christian say no one can be righteous but even in there own writings say in Luke 1:5-6 it says there was a priest named Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. Also in Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Paul himself said 3 times.. once in acts 25:8 8 Paul argued in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense Seems all Christians over look these bothersome verse from their own writings... I would love to see how a Christian can defend that no one can be righteous with out jc and also ignore everything the TaNaKh says..
This reminds me a little of the patrician disciples of Shammai and the problem they had with accepting Noachides, Gerim Toshav, and the doubts they had about the self-loathing Gentiles they converted having a share in the World to Come. It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Eliezer says: It is written: “The wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld (sheol, lit. the grave), all the nations that forget God” (Psalms 9:18). “The wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld”; these are the sinners of the Jewish people, as only the sinners are sentenced to the netherworld. “All the gentiles that forget God”; these are the sinners of the gentiles. From the fact that it is written: “All the gentiles,” it is apparent that none of the gentiles have a share in the World-to-Come. This is the statement of Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi Yehoshua said to him: But is it stated in the verse that the sinners of the Jewish people will be like all of the gentiles? It is stated only: “All the gentiles that forget God.” Rather, the wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld, and who are they? They are all the gentiles that forget God. Gentiles who fear God do have a share in the World-to-Come. Sanhedrin 105a. R. Eliezer was a follower of the School of Shammai, and his rulings were always in accordance with their views (Jerusalem Talmud, Betsah 1:4, Shabbat 130b and Tosafists ad loc.).
@@kingsolomon7553 - So, you'd rather someone stand upright with the aid of a crutch? In Judaism all ritual immersion is self-immersion for a reason. No one is allowed to hold you. Jews don't dunk others backwards into the water like Protestant Christians do and Jewish children aren't sprinkled or baptized for a reason. A person must choose to immerse themselves and a person must choose to walk upright. In the end, our hearts will either accuse us or excuse us, but we should all strive to be moral agents in the universe and become the best possible person that we can be. HaShem asks nothing more of us than we do our best to serve Him joyfully. If you want to call that being self-righteous, then ...so be it.
King Solomon Ezekiel this is what G-d says 18:21-22 But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live. Deu 6:25 And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’ Deu 4:7-8 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 8 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? G-d also says Deu 30:11For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. G-d also says Deu 30:14 But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. Proof text that it can be done is in Luke 1:66 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. Also says in your writings that Simeon was righteous Even your Paul claimed to keep the law in his own defense and in acts he had to go to the temple and sacrifice as proof he is in complete observance to the law... So were the people that were called righteous by obeying the law in your writing just filthy rags.. are they destined for hell even though your writing say they were righteous what about Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 1 John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. Matt 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Matt 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, Your own writing betray you.. repent from your idolatry and turn to the true G-d...
King Solomon see Christians can never give an answer when it comes to Old Testament scriptures.. so Enoch, Noah and king David were all self righteous... but I am sure you won’t answer but quote Paul and all his lies and idolatry..
@@kingsolomon7553 - Context is everything. Go back to Isaiah 63:1 and read the whole thing in its historical, linguistic, and cultural context. Christians love to cherry pick a single verse and take it literally and universally apply it to everyone from Adam to future generations and beyond. If extraterrestrial beings from another planet arrived on earth I have no doubt that Christians would quote this verse to them and call them to accept the Christian version of "Jesus" as their God and Saviour.
I was a Christian years ago and had a pastor who was a Heroin addict found Jesus .turned his life around and helped people then he died in his 40,s because Hepititis finally killed him. He had a good heart so Jewish teaching says I think a good person can have after life. Is this wrong? Is he in hell?
One of the problems with Christianity is that most Christian Sunday sermons are either solely about the New Testament or are Joel Osteen style sermons that have very little to do with either the New or Old Testament. Most of Joel Osteen’s sermons resemble improved motivational speaker Tony Robbins type lectures on how to be successful in life. Deuteronomy 4:2 basically says not to substitute other Joel Osteen type material for the Old Testament that supports Christianity’s adulterous, idolatrous worship of idols, money & financial success. The reason the Old Testament is so important is that the Old Testament is more or less a history book of the human race. And if you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat the same mistakes you have made in the past. The main problem with the New Testament is that in terms of a history book, it only goes back to the time of JC. The New Testament just doesn’t cover a very long time period. The Old Testament goes back to creation of the universe and covers a much larger time frame. -
7 Laws that's ALL G-d wants from you, UNLESS you are born of the Jewish Nation ✡. 7 Y'ALL That's IT!!!!! Why would I not thank G-d, and run to His Love and kindness!?!? You must fulfill them recognizing your doing it because the one true blessed G-d says to.
Don Broadhead If you’re not Jewish then why would you want to take on all the Torah commandments when you don’t benefit anymore than you would if you stuck to the 7?
I never cared for John Calvin. TRUTH BE TOLD IT IS A HUGE HUGE WEIGHT OFF OF ME TO BE ON THIS NEW JOURNEY!!! GETTING RID OF ALL OF THIS UNNECESSARY WEIGHT. THAT TOTALLY HAD ME SCREWED FOR AGES!!!! CONSTANT PRAYER MY ONLY HOPE !!!! TONS OF PRAYER TO GET TO THIS POINT!!!! Your explanation really opens my eyes to the TRUTH OF THAT nasty subject predestination. I had that in my face. The UNTRUTH I have been fed. Again born into this religion!! Have tons of unlearning to do!!! At 35!!!! But better late then never!!
I have a question, why do people take Jesus's name in vain? Why don't you take the name of Muhammad in vain, or Hitler, or Mussolini, Stalin, etc, why? Why is it a good person like Jesus?
@Paula Wallace Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. It says that the Messiah comes BEFORE the destruction of the city. Jesus came before the destruction of Jerusalem and her Temple. If Jesus is NOT the Messiah will this man coming up be killed and Jerusalem be destroyed?
Kvod haRav, you are amazing. Truly fulfilling your shlichus in every way. 🙌💙🔯 I grew up with a similar traditional Jewish education, Tanach/Mishna/Gemara etc, and I didnt even read the NT until I was in my early 20s. Since then I've watched many debates and am much more familiar with Christian theology, but I have to say you are just incredible in your understanding of the nuance and bring "mekoros" (just kidding)... But you are amazing. May Hashem bless you and yours for all you do and have a Shana Tova umtuka! 🙌🔯💙🙏
I enjoy these, as a reformed baptist, I watch many of your videos to get a better understand of our roots; I’m 22 and fairly new to reformed theology so I apologize if I do not represent it as fully, election stands as follows: Romans 9:9-13 displays the argument of election as the method God has chosen, not according to works and it’s according to God’s foreknowledge, Paul demonstrates this by quoting Malachi 1:1-4 (Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated) when it is written “is not Esau, Jacob’s brother?” before they had done any good or bad work, God in his foreknowledge had already elected Jacob Those who repent/faith in Christ are elected are therefore chosen by God before birth in His foreknowledge and omniscience; Paul writes that the wages of sin is death, separation from God, therefore, is not election and the fact that some are saved and not cast unto death already infinitely more merciful? that there are those who are elect that accept the blood of the Lamb and be saved?
OMG, I knew people that believed in Calvinism! I used to rent a guesthouse from them in California in my early twenties. Their belief was that since G-d is all-knowing, he knew before we were even born whether or not we would “accept” Jesus and go to heaven. So why would he let anyone be born that he knew would go directly to hell after they die? 🙄 Oh, and you should hear what they would say to me, as well as other people, who did not accept Jesus as mashiach!
God creates evil people that he may burn them. You cannot manifest justice without having evil and without subjecting that evil to an unendurable punishment. He does it because that is what he likes. Being that he likes it, that makes it good by definition. Those who do not like it also are necessarily evil and are purposed as fire food. It's really that simple. If God likes it, it is good. If you hate what God likes, you are the lowest kind of evil. You will scream forever, and it will delight all good people.
Although I have no religious affiliation, I have been exposed to the way Christianity borrows, changes, and bastardizes the Torah. Your explanations are always crystal clear and exposes their agenda at every turn ! It is Jewish scripture and should only be discussed by those both knowledgeable as to its true meaning and competent enough in Hebrew to know what it really says. Enjoy all your presentations. - Rich
Before I bought my New Tanakh and still in my old Hebrew Roots Bible .....the last almost 2 years I had NO INTEREST in the new testament but was devouring the Old Testament!!!!
thanks tovia singer for all your messages i have recently turned from calvinism which i have believed in for 15 yrs in fact it was this week that i was lead to the jewish verses via your channel and a cpl others about the oneness of God. had my eyes opened so i prayed that i would be forgiven for the idolatry of the trinity. i was sooo convinced that calvinism was right compared to the arminian view which i also was brought up in..i have experienced the 'peace that passes all understanding' and the 'deep assurance' yet even christains say do not go by ur feelings. feelings come and feelings go but i 'really had a internal to me confirmation that it was true. i even had the feeling heighten when the minister came to my house after my conversion - 'when 2 or more are gathered in my name i am there' almost mystical...was this a test from God or satanic deception?? but here i am now probably the only noahide gentile in n.ireland lol the one thing i need to know about this compared to arminian theology which says that you can lose your salvation while calvinists say 'i will never leave you or forsake you' ie once saved always saved.. basically i have not a clue where to go from here!!! i will keep listening but it seems flimsy we all sin in the mind millions of times what do we need do not to fall out of favour? seems like the calvinist term a 'works ' religion but here i am . thanks anyway
I'm evangelical Christian and the Rabbi is so right on this issue; Reformed Theology (or Calvinism) is awful, and most Christians reject it. I enjoyed his explanation based on Torah
😮 oh no you said that you were an evangelical Christian & Ellenfrancis67 hasn't been on the attack with your comment?? Funny thing...it just proves my point about this troll calling herself a jew...always attacking me yet no one else who claims christianity...but yes this brother tovia has great points to be able to go back & dissect the scriptures 😇💜📜
The vast majority of Christians are not Deterministic as the Calvins. This falls under the heading Reformed Theology, but not all of the Reformation would fall under the heading of Determinism.
One of the main sources of Calvin's theology is Paul's quoting of Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated, which was said before either Esau or Jacob had been born and therefore before either had done anything good or bad. However, Paul also said that if Esau had not sold his birthright Esau would have inherited the blessing. Unlike Calvin, Paul attributed election to God's foreknowledge of what was going to happen. Foreknowledge also explains why why God was content that Philistines remain in the land of Israel, that Canaanites be driven out of the land and that the remembrance of Amalek be blotted out. God foresaw Haman and every other Agagite that would try to destroy Israel. Peter also says God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Also, Luke who is closely associated with Paul as a travel companion and most faithful to Paul during Paul's second more severe imprisonment, said of the parents of John the Baptist that they were righteous before the Lord, walking in all the commandments. Jesus also said he had not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, which presupposes that there were some righteous people he had not come to call to repentance. Calvin seems to have treated the scriptures as if they are given for making mathematical equations and that you can take a few words skipping here and there and put them together according to a preconceived framework and not come up with something that says more about the man Frankensteining the equations than about God. The things Paul said about the Gentiles in Romans chapter 1 and 2 are not about the Church, but about people who do what is righteous without knowledge of the Scriptures. Paul consistently speaks of three distinct entities, Jews, Gentiles and the Church and warns Christians not to give offense to any of the three. The reason the Paul speaks about election in Romans is primarily to inform Gentiles that Jews are elected because of God's promises to the Patriarchs concerning their nature seed, that God would be their God. Paul says God counted all the Jewish people, with the obvious exception of those like Paul who believe in Jesus, in unbelieve that he might have mercy on all Israel at the resurrection. Paul goes on in the 11 the chapter of Romans to warn those who were formally Gentiles not to boast against the branches, i.e., the Jewish people, who had stumbled, but not for the purpose that they would fall but for the sake of the Gentiles to be saved, though unlike the Jewish people, there is no promise to the Patriarchs to save all Gentiles, but the Gentiles stand only as long as they believe and that shall be counted to them for righteousness, where God will be merciful to the Jews unrighteousness when he opens their graves. There is another problem with total depravity which is that Jesus says that as it was in the days of Noah so will it be in the coming of the son of man. In the days of Noah, every thought of the heart of man was continually evil all the time. If we have gone two thousand years with the Son of man returning then we have not yet come to the point of total depravity of man. I have heard preachers say you have to depend on Paul not Jesus for theology. That is nonsense. Paul distinguishes where he says something he thinks is right concerning marriage from what is said by Jesus, which Paul holds to be superior to his own ideas, even if based on biblical principles rather than by revelation.
the christian quote Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated is a verse in Malachi. he was one of the last if not the last of the prophets. why do you think it was said prior to them being born?
@@proudpharisee5303 To show that some of God's decisions are based on election due to foreknowledge rather than what can be seen by humans at the moment. God pointed out explicitly that if the Israelites did not drive out the Canaanites, the Canaanites would tempt the Israelites into idol worship. The Canaanites had not done it yet, and the measures to prevent the Canaanite from leading Israel astray we're severe. Even more severe was the pronouncement against Amalek. By not completely eliminating Amalek but leaving Agag alive, even for a little while, gave Agag to time to reproduce and thus Haman was born many years later, an Agagite who almost succeeded in killing all of the Jews in the Persian Empire.
I got sucked into reformed theology back in high school, and for me and others, the religious rationalism and the logic of the system holds great appeal, which is how some people get sucked into it. Later I came to realize how twisted it is. In that system, most people are essentially created for the purpose of going to hell, without any hope of redemption. Really sick indeed.
Ezekiel 18 closes the book on the claims of reformed theology. Romans 9 - 11 closes the book on Rabbi Singer spat against Paul. The entire OT dismisses his optimism on Jewish righteousness.
@16:07 how do people choose in that theology? God has to be the one to “draw” them as John says. It’s a total work of God the father to believe in the Son. In that teaching
Jesus considered those that followed the Torah (most of the apostles ) and knew he was the Messiah as predicted in the Torah(Danial,Isaiah )as righteous
@Paula Wallace Mary was a virgin , the great Holy spirit conceived the Great Jesus ... read Danial 9 also to get a better prediction of Jesus and his arriving
Thank you for the video. I have a question? So after you said in the beginning that Christianity have rejected Calvinism...do you believe that Christianity was different before or after Calvinism? Also why do you think God chose Jesus to be a Jew? Thank you if you reply.
@Ellen Francis 67 I appreciate your response. It's good to know of varying perspectives. I was not aware there were 45,000+ denominations and now I am very interested in finding out about them. I do believe that there is strong evidence has many historians, most of them secular/atheists, that points otherwise to Jesus existing and that he was a Jewish man. I was hoping if you can help me understand who is this messiah that the Jews are waiting on. Apparently there are prophecies in the old testament pointing out of a savior for the Jews. I find Jewish people to be most fascinating and I envy them for various reasons. But mostly that there God has a direct connection to them in the past and arguably still does to this day. Do you suppose that the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament will soon arrive for the Jew or am I misinterpreting scriptures? Thank you
Roman Catholic the original church, Eastern Orthodox split off in 1054, they don't have apostolic succession (melchizedek priesthood) and universal (catholic) unifying tradition. Like Protestants, they are split among themselves. Protestantism/Reformation happened in mid-1500s, starting with Luther a failed Catholic monk. Many denominations followed after that, Luther himself regretted it. Calvinism is one brand of Protestantism.
"God chose Jesus to be a Jew" God chose to be a Jew, incarnating as Jesus 😊 In fulfillment of His promise to Abraham, and reciprocating Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac. Judaism was meant to prepare His people for His arrival as the Messiah 😊
Great talk, Rabbi! I'm an atheist ( raised Catholic), but I gravitate where my thirst for a lifetime of continuing education takes me, and you are a great teacher and expositor. In fact, you're better at Christianity than most Christians I've known in my 40 years. Frankly, Paul lost all luster for me after I studied Nietzsche's estimations of him in my early twenties - "...Paul nailed Jesus to HIS cross...". Jesus was a Jew; Paul (along with John, I suppose) made him into a Christian. If the "belated testament" consisted solely of Mark and the Epistle of James, I might still be able to live with being a Christian. But 2000 years of utter confusion and theological rubbish proves too much a horror to even spend a moment of my limited life trying to unravel and make sense of...as my wonderful grandma used to say, "...like trying to pick the peas out of the stew..." Peace and Love to All!
Even what you call biblical text has Jesus saying I am not here to change a single letter in the law. But later on your biblical text has no problem changing the letter of the law. How do you deal with this conundrum?
@@phatvegan1691 What Jesus meant by "I have not come to destroy, but to fulfil" was not 'so I might as well have never came, and you may keep observing the law as you do already,' obviously, but rather to bring about the end or purpose of the Law: that's what fulfil always means in the Bible. Also, just as Muslims quote, "Not all who say to be, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven" and miss "not all," thinking it means "no one," you have omitted, "until all be accomplished" from "not a jot or tittle shall pass from the law." Clearly "all being accomplished" refers to the cross, on which, by the way, His last words were "It is accomplished."
👎 NO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, take some time and read the Stone Torah. I is a proper translation to English so you will not get confused. Once you're done reading the five books of Moses you can clearly see that there was never a time. Never a time that someone could mistake Hashem for multiple bodies or different personalities. Hashem can choose to manifest himself in different ways, and sometimes an angel that is at a very high level can be referred to in a word that means G-d but is not. I was distorted by the Jesus religion as well. So I do not blame you for misunderstanding the truth.
@@kailemarie6021 Never take anyone seriously who can't even pronounce the word "Jesus" and thinks Romans invented Jesus. Notice also the two-tongued nature of this whole 'Jesus was made up' tripe. One minute he didn't exist and was made up, and in the next breath, he was killed for being a threat to the Romans, and in the next, he was condemned to death for blasphemy (i.e. by Jews, who are the ones concerned with blasphemy, not Romans). What a mess.
As a Christian, I do recognize a lot of what you say as true. I also agree for the most part about your interpretation of Calvinism. Also with how controversial it can be, but I would like to add, that the L in TULIP, might not necessarily mean they were elected for (Heaven) and the unelected are damned to hell. For illustration purposes, The people who were (let's say) not elected, might be the ones who are left behind in the rapture according to Pauls's epistles. If that is the case, then they will still have an opportunity to be saved (elected ). My understanding of the L isn't fully concrete I do recognize that, but I'm just playing a little devil's advocate. Because I don't think at the time of reformation they would believe something so obviously absurd.
As a Christian who denies Calvinist theology, I think this is a pretty good description of the lunacy of Calvinism. The one exception is with the “T” of tulip. While I would agree with what you described, it does not cover the extent of Calvinist belief. They believe that not only can’t you do anything to earn your salvation. The “T” of tulip means that you could never even want to turn to God unless you are one of the elect.
Im a Christian? ....and I agree with the Rabbi. Election is a crazy town idea. In the writings of the prophets, God is constantly saying (paraphrase ' turn around, comeback to me , change your ways.' Shuv. It's pretty explicit that God is already the sovereign of all nations and all of creation and that he is grieved when he has to punish.
God help us ....cause we think instead of just trusting God....and yes...I believe I pray I worship God only...I also do believe that Jesus was and is the lamb ...as it is written in book of Isaiah....the suffering servent...by his stripes we are healed...and yes I love my fellow humans..we are all children of God...
I have a question. My mother who is Israeli says that Judaism is a dead religion without the sacrificial system and no temple. How would you respond to her?
she doesnt know anything about judaism. what does being Israeli have to do with anything? the founders of Israel were mostly irreligious at best. Israeli education is militantly secular.
@@proudpharisee5303 she knew enough to realize that a large portion of the 663 laws could no longer be observed because there is no priesthood and there is no Temple so Judaism had to evolve and for her that was unacceptable.
I would ask your mother how come Judaism didn't come to an end when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple. She should also see Hosea 3:4-5, where he prophesied there would be no sacrifice for many years up until the last days. Then she will see Judaism is still very much relevant today.
@Paula Wallace yeah that is a fact and I admit that. Respect your viewpoint... But Can your chosen or modifying word express your creator?? Anyway... Shalom
I believed in calvinism when I was still a christian. Main reason is of course teachings of Paul, but secondly it was consoling to think that I cannot fuck it up. If I go to hell forever, it was because I was not chosen to be forgiven - If I was chosen, I could not mess up and go to hell as a result of my own actions. Having been afraid for a decade of not making it as a christian, calvinism was a message of true hope. Later I finally understond, partially thanks to Rabbi Singer, that christianity is not true. Am an agnostic now...
He seems to have forgotten this verse in the New Testament that states: The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. *He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.* Also this Rabbi said Abraham and some others kept the law properly, can he provide a biblical reference for that? From how I understand it, Moses was the one who brought the Law not Abraham.
When I was a christian I absolutely hated your teachings Rabbi, but now that I've seen the light, I absolutely love them 😂
Welcome home
How do you convert if you want to? Do you go to a synagogue?
@@kles44: I'm surprised nobody has answered you after a year! You would need to speak with an Orthodox Rabbi and discuss conversion with him. Only conversions by Orthodox Rabbis are accepted by the Rabbinical authorities of Israel. .
@@kles44 and they specifically will push ypu away a few times. They want to see you returning and push and push. Male sure you are sincere and realise what 613 laws are as it is irreversible.
@@saul2491 Or, just become a Noachide.
Having come out of reformed theology, I have to say your explanation of it is spot on.
Todah Rabah. Brilliant and informative.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! Rabbi Singer and Team!!!!
Shalom
@@ToviaSinger1 Assalam alaikum Alhamdulillah I am indian muslim ..please expose the unscientific verse from bible new testament...because the pagans Christian feels proud to be a Christianity ..
@@indianbharti6800 Then islam in India is growing, as hinduism isn't going to help poor indians in any way.
@@frankvissen1186 because the indian peoples find peace only in Islam every day numbers of indian read holy Quran and they do research about Islam they read holy scriptures and holy quran and then they converted into islam because they find peace only in islam and islam is only the truth religion from Almighty God and the holy Quran is the last revealed book from Almighty God and the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him last and final messenger of Almighty God .I invite you came to islam here you will find peace
@@indianbharti6800 For understanding the christian new testament better I looked first at the islam websites, and asked about jesus. I don't believe that Jesus can be god, or in a trinity with two other gods.
BUt I am not a christian anymore since I learned from Tovia Singer. I like the repentance surah number 9 in the quran very much.
Wow,this was great.
Worshiping man as God is totally wrong. As simple as it. Case close.
Proverbs 30 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal:
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven or hath descended? Who hath gathered the wind in His fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, if thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him.
6 Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee and thou be found a liar.
as you can see the Tanah tell us that GOD has a SON
Psalm 2 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people devise a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds asunder, and cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure:
6 “Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto Me, ‘Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee.
8 Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.
@@harveywabbit9541 bring me a Proof from the actual old testament for this
@@harveywabbit9541 BS. He was born of a human mother and father like everyone else, and his mother was called Amaslaah and his father was teach, and his mother nursed him like everyone else s mother
Thanks so much for posting this; outstanding.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@kenneth dinning merely self-serving speculation on your part. Though I don't know or represent Rabbi Singer. In fact he has presented Jewish responses to Christianity with incredible clarity and force, and I really appreciate it. For so many years, I had no idea how compelling the Jewish response really was.
@kenneth dinning Again I have no business speaking for him, but I think he spreads powerful argument against Christianity. I think attributing "demonic" forces is not warranted and there is no evidence for this.
@kenneth dinning I think a lot of people resort to accusing people they disagree with of being demonic, with no evidence. Saying "intellectualism" is demonic sounds like the evasion of someone on the losing side of an argument.
What is it that makes me immediately think of zombie and voodoo when I listen to the thought processes of some folks expressing their particular Christian beliefs, they for reason I will never understand suddenly seem to be transported to some alien universe where logic and reason simply has no existence and simply does not exist.
@Your Cell Phone Yes, until they start discussing their religious beliefs, which of course they are perfectly entitled to do.Reformed Myth is Myth reformed.
@Your Cell Phone did they profess their Zombie? cause the ones on here sure do.
these one don't care about truth just defend idolatry. if so why?
@Your Cell Phone
I find that hard to believe but meh 🤷♂️
I am a follower of Jesus
(I don't even like the tern christian), and what is called reformed theology, or calvinism is just incoherent, nonsensical and contadictional
Even if the Rabbi misrepresents some Christian beliefs and mixes up some doctrines, he still debunks
Calvinism as the nonsense it actually is.
I appreciate the kindness that you show to those of us (“sweethearts”!☺️) who are new to any of these understandings of the Hebrew Scriptures! You speak with authority and knowledge but also with kindness and grace. Thank you!
Calvin was so popular in Geneva that they ended up running him out of town. Pity they ever invited him to run the city in the first place.
Calvin's father was quite the control freak himself. No wonder his theology is so messed up.
I believe that God endows all people with a basic sense of worth and value.
just what i needed :))))))))))
@kenneth dinning Jews believe in only 1 G-d, not three. We reject the demi-god model, since it contradicts what our Father spoke to us in His word, saying that besides Him there is no other, he is one. We reject the Greek book because it is riddled with errors, just as we reject the book of mormon and Ron Hubbard's scientology.
I no longer consider myself Christian for some time...I don't claim any religion...but I try to do accordingly 😇💜📜
You must learn how to seek, don't just be a believer, is a risk to be like that.
People of this generation are so educated, they're very intelligent, they can forge a lie to become like a truth just like what the lawyer who stand for the trial of the guilty person does, he can win the case yet he's wrong.
Seek you shall find it.
@@samueljali9446 oh this I know forsure....I was seeking back in 2011/2012 & found...I never hold things closely until I can get in the word & read for myself...but the problem is that our book was given to us from the "king James" interpreted from greek language...I all I know is that the pages of Yeremiyah 10 were alive...since then I have been seeing that christianity which is a man made religion just like all the others....I am starting from the beginning & will study Tanahk...I have before this known paul wrote 13 of the 27 books in the NT...but I truly believe for me is to start on the Tanahk...😇💜📜
@Strava 89 I will have to look into the noahide commandments but I think it should translate to instructions but either way I don't believe in luck but I definitely will look into this....I will not do the oral "laws" of the talmudic laws 🤔🤔 I believe those are what are given by the pharisees and scribes of early days...I have much to learn😇💜📜
@@samueljali9446 thank you brother...I agree with this....I must seek...oh I listen with reserved ears lol but I must admit it sounds good & possible but I need the very spirit that opened my spiritual eyes back in 2012 via Jeremiah 10...it came to life...😇💜📜
@@kingsolomon7553 yes I believe Yahusha was observant & find that even in NT 😇💜📜
Shalom Thank You Sir 🖖💜
Rabbi Singer makes the best Calvinism burns on the internet. I love it.
Thank you Rabbi Singer for this awesome lecture! Baruch HaShem
Thanks for listening
@kenneth dinning I recommend watching Tovia Singer's UA-cam videos. He is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism. Full of information! B'H
@kenneth dinning I don't know where you got your information but I disagree with you, and Rabbi Tovia Singer has been studying the Tanak and new testament for MANY years!! I worship the One and ONLY G-d whom spoke to Moshe on Mount sinai in front of thousands of witnesses. I will NEVER worship any other God.
Isaiah 44:6 I Am the FIRST, and I Am the LAST, and there is NO God besides Me.
@kenneth dinning It is not nice to talk about a very respected Rabbi. If you don't like or agree with Rabbi Singer stay away from watching his lectures and go listen to your Christian pastors.
@Kenneth's - God & Nature It's an oxymoron. You cannot be both w/o losing both. Calvary is the final sacrifice per the XT. What are you doing?
As an ex-Christian, I always want to cry when listen to your words. I finally find a Ture path, the right way to love the G-d. Please keep doing this, I truly believe that you people are the priests for our non-jews.
@Strava 89 I already did, since the lockdown for this terrible virus. At that time, I have much free time to read my bible and found out so many differences between new and old testaments. And Rabbi Tovia organized these differences systemically. Between the direct enlightenment of the G-d and the statement of some human, I decided to choose the first one.
Thanks for sharing!!
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Can you tell me your story how you became an ex-Xtian? It will help me to divert Pagan Xtians to the monotheism.
@@fanrichard6967
Please tell me your story..
@kenneth dinning Don't simply accuse someone is worry, please provide which part is worry and provide the related evidence. So tell me specific, where is the mistake in Rabbi's statement. Based on my view, he just simply shows what really writein the Torah.
Holy Smokes.... This was beautiful
Such a nice explanation..just wonderful .
I live in NW Iowa (United states) and the biggest denominations here are Dutch reformed. TULIP is a big thing around here. Calvinism is a stain on Christian theology.
This is awesome Rabbi, I cannot thank you enough. This time it’s really beyond words for me again. Thank you for your precious message.
on Monday august 24th right after midnight God spoke to us and said Listen for the call we are going home soon. listen to god.
AMEN I BELIEVE THE SAME WE'RE GOING HOME VERY SOON AND YES I AM READY
How do I call into the Show? I have a question that I havent heard any rabbi answer.
On sunday at around 10 am cst the show is held. You can call the number on the screen. It's a bit of a weird system but u have to keep calling and hanging up until u can hear the show thru the phone and wait till they cue u in.
Thank you dear rabbi!!
You are so welcome
YOU,RABBI, "OUR "BRILLIANT!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!
Such an amazing point to raise. The gospels do not have theology. How many Christians know or understand this. They don’t even think they have a theology, just a “relationship”. Never mind that the entire relationship is defined by Pauline theology.
doesnt even the tanakh say Abraham sinned? just cause he was righteous, doesnt mean he was sinless
yet judaism says you have to be sinless (spotless, no criminal record) to be saved
Cant see even one crazy calvinist coming here to try and defend their outrageous dogma. Congratulations rabbi Singer.
always learn something new here!
More to come!
@Paula Wallace
You got the point. Many Hindus definitely believe Jesus is their Lord Krishna. Christian missionaries properly use this opportunity and divert them to the Christianity. Similar technique Hindu missionaries apply on Christians. Both are hilarious.
Favian - that’s difficult because...
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” (George Santayana 1863-1952)
But I like what the Rabbi has to say and it clears up key items of my personal faith.
@Paula Wallace
Krishna and Jesus both are son of God and born from a virgin.
Basically Christianity is a branch of Hinduism. According to Hinduism, 2 billion gods, goddesses all are branches of one God Brahma. And both are one but not separated. Base on the core formula they claim they worship only one God. Similarly Christians believe there are 3 gods: Father, Son, Holy Spirit all are branches of one God. And they altogether one God but not separated nature. No difference between two. Just one difference is Hindus believe 2 billion in One God. And Xtians believe 3 in one God. Almost same. But the Krishna playing a vital role. Roman stolen the concept of Shiva and begotten the Christianity. Both worship idols and graven images of Krishna=Jesus and his Mother.
Thanks
Please make Indonesian subtitles,Mr Rabbi.I Subscribe to your channel,but I don't understand English🙏🙏🙏
I had one of those conversions that William James wrote about in his "Varieties of Religious Experience", similar to that experienced by Marie- Alphonse Ratisbonne. This being said, I do appreciate the shows/lectures that you put on such as this one. It is disturbing that Christians threw stones at you when you were a kid in Brooklyn. There is no symmetry on that. In other words, I have never heard of a Christian complaining that Jews threw stones at him and chased him around.
Rabbi, pls talk about The *Circumcision Controversy* _by Paul_ and the *Council of Jerusalem™*
From what I got is that it is eternal & all Males should have it done as a covenant for all generations...I think somewhere it says the heart needs to be circumcised as well but in Torah it is clear cut 😇💜📜
harry camper Buddha is not worshipped among most sects of Buddhism
harry camper there are one or two sects who worship Buddha or, at least, seem like it. Catholics have statues of saints, they’re not worshipped either.
harry camper , it is not the only thing people get wrong here. Hindus have Brahman as a singular god. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Trimurti, are one way of presenting Brahman. Now they are actually worshipped.
harry camper , wow, you sound like a Christian bigot. By this kind of reasoning, Jews worship angels. Just don’t build statues cause their laws prohibit it.
Hey y’all I believed this stuff at some point. It is very difficult and requires a massive dose of self denial regarding any compassion that I had toward so called non- believers. So happy I gave it up and can look at everyone with love knowing they are in Ha Shem’s good hands only just like me. Now I can embrace them without this lingering thought that they are destined to be fuel for G-d’s fire without any hope of redemption. Nonetheless the logic of Christian theology requires either Calvinism or Universalism. Thankfully many Christian’s have chosen the latter route.
@Kenneth's - God & Nature: Your comment indicates that you speak from ignorance about Judaism. FYI, once a Jew converts to ANY OTHER religion, he is NO LONGER considered by the Jewish Community, to be a Jew - he has become a pagan. He is, however, welcome at any time, to renounce the false, pagan religion he has attached himself to, confess that sin, repent of that sin (called "teshuva" - return), ask God for His forgiveness, and start observing the Torah as God commanded us. He will then be welcomed back into the Jewish Community with open arms!
PLEASE do some honest research on this subject, and learn from the Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. PLEASE buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover), so you can see for yourself what God actually said to us at Mt. Sinai. Also extremely helpful to you would be Rabbi Singer's 2-vol. set of books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?" that shows us the vast differences between Judaism and Christianity, and the multitude of ways in which Christianity has raped and bastardized God's original words to us, and "Christianized" them, to make it 'appear' as though the "Jesus" character is prophesied on ever page, which, of course, is blasphemous, and it NOT what God said to us.
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I cannot speak to the other poster's entire comment, but to be fair, the position of Christian theology is to present Christ as the culmination of Jewish writing not because we think Jews agree with it, but because we (as Christians) accept Messianic prophecies from the book of Daniel that Judaism rejects.
My point is that Christians understand the repudiation of Daniel by Jews for the same reason we understand the repudiation of Christ by Jews, which according to the most famed Jewish scholar in all of history, the Apostle Paul, was ordained by Hashem until the end of time.
@@PETERJOHN101: HUH??!! I see nothing "hot-tempered" about anything I said above - I was merely stating God's Truth! If a few CAPS offend you (which I use for emphasis, and I assume is why you're offended), you have a problem. I would encourage you to re-read what I said to "Kenneth", above, and buy yourself a Hebrew Bible and Rabbi Singer's books, so you can see for yourself what God ACTUALLY said to us at Mt. Sinai, and WHY Jews absolutely will NOT accept the Christian 'Messiah'.
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I had removed reference to your being hot headed before you even replied, but you were so eager to respond that you preempted my almost immediate edit to demonstrate my original point. In any event, you will either accept Christ as Messiah or you will be without a Messiah.
@@PETERJOHN101: OK, thanks - I replied at whatever point I saw your reply. Replies appear in the drop-down menu under Notifications on YT, and they also appear in my gmail - so I'm not sure which one I saw first, and I have no way of knowing what time your reply appeared.
PLEASE, as I mentioned above, buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover) - PLEASE, I'm begging you! Nowhere in the original Hebrew scriptures given to us by God at Mt. Sinai, did God ever mention anyone named "Jesus" or "Christ", and nowhere did He ever tell us that we need to be "saved", or that He requires HUMAN blood (a purely pagan ritual that God ABHORS!) as atonement for our sins. We have been outright LIED to by "Christianity" for thousands of years (which resulted in the religion of "Christianity" that did NOT come from God!) and you need to thoroughly research this subject, and learn from the Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. In the absence of the Temple, and since God didn't leave us with no spiritual guidance, the Rabbis stand in for the Judge and the Priests mentioned in those verses.
Hello, pardon me. Would you please clarify who/what the Angel of the Lord is, I'm asking about the one with the sword and the donkey? The adversary?
@@harveywabbit9541 Numbers 22:23 spells it out clearly to the reader. "When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road."
It's strange that Paul would say people cannot keep the law, when he seems to say he did keep the law. "In righteousness based on the law I was blameless." Phil 3:6. He also praises the law. "So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good." Rom 7:12. Is this another case of church dogma overriding scripture.
@Ken Brownsher Paul says he kept the law. It makes no sense for him to tell others they can't keep the law. Maybe it's Calvin and the church telling people they can't keep the law, not Paul.
This is a really powerful discussion of truth. I greatly respect Rebbe Singer for not shying away from a controversial topic. Thank you for the work you do.
Back at my time in Bible college, I was a reformed Christian. Listened to all the popular reformed theologians of the day. Matt Chandler, David Platt, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, James White, Jeff Durbin, etc.
Jacob Arminius believed in a partial depravity, whereas the followers of Calvin believed in a complete depravity. As well, Pelagianism rejects depravity all together and said Adam's sin had no effect on man. I would argue that the Reformed position on Total Depravity is just a little bit different than what you had presented. All Christians agree that no righteous deed can earn salvation, but total depravity takes it a step further and says that man is not capable of repenting or even believing the gospel. Meaning, that an un-regenerated man left to his own doing would never ever choose to worship or follow God. They are "slaves to sin." and that "no one in the flesh can please God."
Arminius believed that mankind is partially depraved. They are unable to choose God on their own, until God "draws" the person to them. Most Christians who don't believe in reformed theology but still hold to a partial idea of depravity says that it is through the power of the gospel that enables unbelievers to repent or have faith. But to the Calvinist, faith itself is a gift. If the Holy Spirit did not regenerate your heart and give you the gift of faith, you would be forever stuck in your sins and never repent even if you heard the gospel day after day.
So I would argue that Total depravity is controversial. At least to the Calvinist. Without total depravity, there is no need for irresistible grace, unconditional election, limited atonement, or perseverance. (Which is why I always joked with people who called themselves, "3 point calvinist.")
I've been watching your videos a lot lately and have found them to be very eye opening. To find out, after so many years of Christianity, that I might not have ever had any good idea of who exactly hashem is has been a tectonic realization for me. I'm still wrestling with what to do with this knowledge.
I present the following in all respect and earnest, mainly because I believe you can give a good answer. These matters are important, and they are questions for which I need answers as I consider the course of what remains of my life.
Firstly, let me point out that I share every bit of the revulsion and disgust that you have toward Calvinist theology. It seems, however, that the problem you've identified here is fundamentally the problem of evil, and is a consequence of the idea of an all-powerful god who created all of us, of whom not all will find our way to him. In short, if god is all powerful, and if he created us all, and if not all of us find our way from damnation, then he is ultimately responsible for those who will be damned. I'm afraid I find very little in what I understand to be Tanakh that can lead away from this understanding. Did god not harden pharaoh's heart? Did the firstborn children of Egypt get a chance at redemption? Indeed, the very idea of a chosen people implies that there are those who were not. It grieves me to be forced to conclude that Calvinism, for all its repugnance, unfortunately does not seem to diverge from these fundamental understandings.
Help me.
Thank you.
I don't know if this little key will help ?
The " chosen" is a Christendom interpretation - and wrong -
G.d offered the Holy Torah to all the peoples, but only the Jewish people accepted to take on the task to observe these instructions from the Most High- somehow the xtian church has turned that into "the chosen" which is a misnomer, I guess ' choosers ' would be more accurate.
G.d loves all of his creation, and all of humanity was given the 7 Noachide Motzvot to observe ( before the Torah revealed at Sinai to the b'nei Ysrael and b'nei Noach ).
Welcome home, friend.
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Thank you for replying!
It might. If we operate under the assumption that I have a lot of post-Christian ideology that's coloring my understanding of scripture. Perhaps you can help with that. When I read Deuteronomy 7: 1-7 (as it appears in the Christian Bible - I looked for a Jewish source on this and couldn't find anything), I read an account of divine selection that is in perfect accord with the ideas in Calvanism - to the point of genocide. Again, however, I'm bringing a lot of personal history to the reading, and I'm reading a passage that has come to me through the filter of translation and of Christian theology (they have been known to change Tenakh to suit their ends.)
Could you expound on that passage, and perhaps help me to arrive at a different interpretation of what I'm reading?
Thank you for this video. I have a relative who is involved in this cult. Completely crazy and disgusting. Hey, Rabbi, I was also born in 1960 and loved playing with my GI Joes. Remember the ones with life-like hair? The good old days.
Yet another perfect answer to Christian lunacy. I did not even know they thought this way. Thank you, by the way, ouch!, what happened to your finger, sir?
I am recovering from a little surgery on my finger. Keep me in your prayers.
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Oh ok, recover well sir. And yes, I will pray for you, you are always in my prayers. I also email you often but I know you're busy. God bless you rabbi.
Tovia Singer hope you recover quickly.. I love listening to your teachings have been a true eye opener...
@@ToviaSinger1; Refuah Sheleimah beKarov.!
kenneth dinning ; keep your 🤮 vomit idol worship to yourself.!
Well said Rabbi
I've never been so confused until I actually started studying the Torah and Tanakh. Christianity is ridiculous lawless, pagan, confusion
It also seems to me when Catholics began the process of confessing to a priest the ritual of atonement was undermined.
Is this why the Catholic Church has always been so brutal to children?
Excellent explanation of "Unconditional election" while emphasizing the depravity of "Limited atonement". The Gospel is sheker and Xtians need to learn this! Thank you Rabbi !!! B''H
@Iyas kelu I see what you are saying, but Calvinist Xtians (Baptists, Lutherans, etc), would likely answer it means whoever "is elected" believes... This, of course, is based on the premise that man cannot do ANYTHING to merit salvation, not even choose to believe. The problem with Xtianity in general is a fundamental misunderstanding of concepts such as salvation, belief, grace, atonement, chosen-ness etc. So much of your NT is absolute innovation that is utterly inconsistent with the eternal Torah and the authoritative teachings of the Jewish sages.
@Iyas kelu Regrettably, a significant number of "secular" Jews are being lost to Xtianity, while fortunately a significant number of Xtians have developed reasonable doubts concerning the authenticity and reliability of NT teachings. So, Rabbi Singer is doing not only what is appropriate, but also what is heroic, in the way he points these individuals, in particular, to the Truth more effectively than any other rabbi I've ever heard.
(Truth, of course, is what every person ought to embrace, but most put their faith, instead, in what THEY DESIRE to be true, and yet in reality it is merely a fairytale.)
Thank you Rabbi for the freedom and truth. I have been mistaught, mislead, mislabeled all my life. TY
Me, too 🙏 coming out of Christianity myself.
There are MANY, MANY of us in these comment sections who have left various denominations of Christianity after decades of being part of them (even Evangelical and "Messianic" Christianity). So, you're never alone - there are those of us who have converted to Orthodox Judaism, and those who have chosen not to convert, and have remained Noahides. So, keep learning from the Rabbis as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11, and if you haven't already, please buy yourself a Hebrew Bible (says "TANACH" on the cover) so you can see for yourself what God actually said to us at Mt. Sinai, and Rabbi Singer's 2-vol. set of books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?", which will answer any questions you may have. May Hashem continue to bless and guide you, as you learn about Him!!
What’s going on in Exodus? (Romans 9)
18:18 ...brutal is a smile on my face and wrath is music on my chest...
Good talk Rabbi. Shalom
Funny Christian say no one can be righteous but even in there own writings say in Luke 1:5-6 it says there was a priest named Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Also in Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Paul himself said 3 times.. once in acts 25:8 8 Paul argued in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense
Seems all Christians over look these bothersome verse from their own writings...
I would love to see how a Christian can defend that no one can be righteous with out jc and also ignore everything the TaNaKh says..
This reminds me a little of the patrician disciples of Shammai and the problem they had with accepting Noachides, Gerim Toshav, and the doubts they had about the self-loathing Gentiles they converted having a share in the World to Come.
It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Eliezer says: It is written: “The wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld (sheol, lit. the grave), all the nations that forget God” (Psalms 9:18). “The wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld”; these are the sinners of the Jewish people, as only the sinners are sentenced to the netherworld. “All the gentiles that forget God”; these are the sinners of the gentiles. From the fact that it is written: “All the gentiles,” it is apparent that none of the gentiles have a share in the World-to-Come. This is the statement of Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi Yehoshua said to him: But is it stated in the verse that the sinners of the Jewish people will be like all of the gentiles? It is stated only: “All the gentiles that forget God.” Rather, the wicked shall be turned back to the netherworld, and who are they? They are all the gentiles that forget God. Gentiles who fear God do have a share in the World-to-Come. Sanhedrin 105a.
R. Eliezer was a follower of the School of Shammai, and his rulings were always in accordance with their views (Jerusalem Talmud, Betsah 1:4, Shabbat 130b and Tosafists ad loc.).
@@kingsolomon7553 - So, you'd rather someone stand upright with the aid of a crutch? In Judaism all ritual immersion is self-immersion for a reason. No one is allowed to hold you. Jews don't dunk others backwards into the water like Protestant Christians do and Jewish children aren't sprinkled or baptized for a reason. A person must choose to immerse themselves and a person must choose to walk upright. In the end, our hearts will either accuse us or excuse us, but we should all strive to be moral agents in the universe and become the best possible person that we can be. HaShem asks nothing more of us than we do our best to serve Him joyfully. If you want to call that being self-righteous, then ...so be it.
King Solomon Ezekiel this is what G-d says 18:21-22 But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.
Deu 6:25 And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’
Deu 4:7-8 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 8 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
G-d also says Deu 30:11For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
G-d also says Deu 30:14 But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
Proof text that it can be done is in Luke 1:66 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. Also says in your writings that Simeon was righteous
Even your Paul claimed to keep the law in his own defense and in acts he had to go to the temple and sacrifice as proof he is in complete observance to the law...
So were the people that were called righteous by obeying the law in your writing just filthy rags.. are they destined for hell even though your writing say they were righteous
what about Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Matt 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matt 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
Your own writing betray you.. repent from your idolatry and turn to the true G-d...
King Solomon see Christians can never give an answer when it comes to Old Testament scriptures.. so Enoch, Noah and king David were all self righteous... but I am sure you won’t answer but quote Paul and all his lies and idolatry..
@@kingsolomon7553 - Context is everything. Go back to Isaiah 63:1 and read the whole thing in its historical, linguistic, and cultural context. Christians love to cherry pick a single verse and take it literally and universally apply it to everyone from Adam to future generations and beyond. If extraterrestrial beings from another planet arrived on earth I have no doubt that Christians would quote this verse to them and call them to accept the Christian version of "Jesus" as their God and Saviour.
I was a Christian years ago and had a pastor who was a Heroin addict found Jesus .turned his life around and helped people then he died in his 40,s because Hepititis finally killed him. He had a good heart so Jewish teaching says I think a good person can have after life. Is this wrong? Is he in hell?
One of the problems with Christianity is that most Christian Sunday sermons are either solely about the New Testament or are Joel Osteen style sermons that have very little to do with either the New or Old Testament. Most of Joel Osteen’s sermons resemble improved motivational speaker Tony Robbins type lectures on how to be successful in life.
Deuteronomy 4:2 basically says not to substitute other Joel Osteen type material for the Old Testament that supports Christianity’s adulterous, idolatrous worship of idols, money & financial success.
The reason the Old Testament is so important is that the Old Testament is more or less a history book of the human race. And if you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat the same mistakes you have made in the past. The main problem with the New Testament is that in terms of a history book, it only goes back to the time of JC. The New Testament just doesn’t cover a very long time period. The Old Testament goes back to creation of the universe and covers a much larger time frame. -
‘This is like...Christianity on acid’ lmao
7 Laws that's ALL G-d wants from you, UNLESS you are born of the Jewish Nation ✡. 7 Y'ALL That's IT!!!!! Why would I not thank G-d, and run to His Love and kindness!?!?
You must fulfill them recognizing your doing it because the one true blessed G-d says to.
@Strava 89 thank you! YES Sir.
Phat Vegan; absolutely true. good for you.!
Blessed & so beloved by Hashem are the righteous gentiles. Keep shining!
Don Broadhead
If you’re not Jewish then why would you want to take on all the Torah commandments when you don’t benefit anymore than you would if you stuck to the 7?
What are the 7?
Do you have knowledge of readers of Gospels and Paul's letters in a way that diverges from your very Reformed presentation of both of these genres?
I never cared for John Calvin. TRUTH BE TOLD IT IS A HUGE HUGE WEIGHT OFF OF ME TO BE ON THIS NEW JOURNEY!!! GETTING RID OF ALL OF THIS UNNECESSARY WEIGHT. THAT TOTALLY HAD ME SCREWED FOR AGES!!!! CONSTANT PRAYER MY ONLY HOPE !!!! TONS OF PRAYER TO GET TO THIS POINT!!!! Your explanation really opens my eyes to the TRUTH OF THAT nasty subject predestination. I had that in my face. The UNTRUTH I have been fed. Again born into this religion!! Have tons of unlearning to do!!! At 35!!!! But better late then never!!
This is what happens when you try to modify the Torah of the Almighty G-d, all sorts of heresy arise from such things
@@harveywabbit9541: The only word that comes to mind about the verbal diarrhea you just spewed is: "moronic"!!
Gerald McFarlin you’re on the wrong channel cus
I have a question, why do people take Jesus's name in vain? Why don't you take the name of Muhammad in vain, or Hitler, or Mussolini, Stalin, etc, why? Why is it a good person like Jesus?
@Strava 89 IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN HIM, DON'T TAKE HIS NAME IN VAIN!!!
@Strava 89 He rose from the dead. He isn't dead he is alive forevermore!!! Get used to it. Get ready to accept you Messiah! If you are a Jew.
@@wavestbird2461 ; we are used he being dead for over 2000 yrs already.!
@Paula Wallace Jesus is God. He fulfilled Isaiah 53, Daniel 9 24-26 , Zechariah 13:7, etc. You can't understand this because you are not saved.
@Paula Wallace Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
It says that the Messiah comes BEFORE the destruction of the city. Jesus came before the destruction of Jerusalem and her Temple. If Jesus is NOT the Messiah will this man coming up be killed and Jerusalem be destroyed?
What's the song at the end of the video?
Not every denomination believes in total depravity! Only Calvinists believe that!
Kvod haRav, you are amazing. Truly fulfilling your shlichus in every way. 🙌💙🔯
I grew up with a similar traditional Jewish education, Tanach/Mishna/Gemara etc, and I didnt even read the NT until I was in my early 20s. Since then I've watched many debates and am much more familiar with Christian theology, but I have to say you are just incredible in your understanding of the nuance and bring "mekoros" (just kidding)... But you are amazing. May Hashem bless you and yours for all you do and have a Shana Tova umtuka! 🙌🔯💙🙏
Thank you Rabbi
Always welcome
I enjoy these, as a reformed baptist, I watch many of your videos to get a better understand of our roots; I’m 22 and fairly new to reformed theology so I apologize if I do not represent it as fully, election stands as follows:
Romans 9:9-13 displays the argument of election as the method God has chosen, not according to works and it’s according to God’s foreknowledge, Paul demonstrates this by quoting Malachi 1:1-4 (Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated) when it is written “is not Esau, Jacob’s brother?” before they had done any good or bad work, God in his foreknowledge had already elected Jacob
Those who repent/faith in Christ are elected are therefore chosen by God before birth in His foreknowledge and omniscience; Paul writes that the wages of sin is death, separation from God, therefore, is not election and the fact that some are saved and not cast unto death already infinitely more merciful? that there are those who are elect that accept the blood of the Lamb and be saved?
OMG, I knew people that believed in Calvinism! I used to rent a guesthouse from them in California in my early twenties. Their belief was that since G-d is all-knowing, he knew before we were even born whether or not we would “accept” Jesus and go to heaven. So why would he let anyone be born that he knew would go directly to hell after they die? 🙄 Oh, and you should hear what they would say to me, as well as other people, who did not accept Jesus as mashiach!
God creates evil people that he may burn them. You cannot manifest justice without having evil and without subjecting that evil to an unendurable punishment. He does it because that is what he likes. Being that he likes it, that makes it good by definition. Those who do not like it also are necessarily evil and are purposed as fire food.
It's really that simple. If God likes it, it is good. If you hate what God likes, you are the lowest kind of evil. You will scream forever, and it will delight all good people.
Thank you Rabbi, your explanations are outstanding. You are so thorough...
Although I have no religious affiliation, I have been exposed to the way Christianity borrows, changes, and bastardizes the Torah. Your explanations are always crystal clear and exposes their agenda at every turn ! It is Jewish scripture and should only be discussed by those both knowledgeable as to its true meaning and competent enough in Hebrew to know what it really says. Enjoy all your presentations. - Rich
Rabbi said that Abraham kept the Law but since Abraham lived before Moses and the Torah how was that possible?
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Before I bought my New Tanakh and still in my old Hebrew Roots Bible .....the last almost 2 years I had NO INTEREST in the new testament but was devouring the Old Testament!!!!
thanks tovia singer for all your messages i have recently turned from calvinism which i have believed in for 15 yrs in fact it was this week that i was lead to the jewish verses via your channel and a cpl others about the oneness of God. had my eyes opened so i prayed that i would be forgiven for the idolatry of the trinity. i was sooo convinced that calvinism was right compared to the arminian view which i also was brought up in..i have experienced the 'peace that passes all understanding' and the 'deep assurance' yet even christains say do not go by ur feelings. feelings come and feelings go but i 'really had a internal to me confirmation that it was true. i even had the feeling heighten when the minister came to my house after my conversion - 'when 2 or more are gathered in my name i am there' almost mystical...was this a test from God or satanic deception?? but here i am now probably the only noahide gentile in n.ireland lol the one thing i need to know about this compared to arminian theology which says that you can lose your salvation while calvinists say 'i will never leave you or forsake you' ie once saved always saved.. basically i have not a clue where to go from here!!! i will keep listening but it seems flimsy we all sin in the mind millions of times what do we need do not to fall out of favour? seems like the calvinist term a 'works ' religion but here i am . thanks anyway
I'm evangelical Christian and the Rabbi is so right on this issue; Reformed Theology (or Calvinism) is awful, and most Christians reject it.
I enjoyed his explanation based on Torah
😮 oh no you said that you were an evangelical Christian & Ellenfrancis67 hasn't been on the attack with your comment?? Funny thing...it just proves my point about this troll calling herself a jew...always attacking me yet no one else who claims christianity...but yes this brother tovia has great points to be able to go back & dissect the scriptures 😇💜📜
Have you read Romans 9? If your answer is yes, I urge you to read it again. If no, please read it.
The vast majority of Christians are not Deterministic as the Calvins. This falls under the heading Reformed Theology, but not all of the Reformation would fall under the heading of Determinism.
One of the main sources of Calvin's theology is Paul's quoting of Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated, which was said before either Esau or Jacob had been born and therefore before either had done anything good or bad. However, Paul also said that if Esau had not sold his birthright Esau would have inherited the blessing. Unlike Calvin, Paul attributed election to God's foreknowledge of what was going to happen. Foreknowledge also explains why why God was content that Philistines remain in the land of Israel, that Canaanites be driven out of the land and that the remembrance of Amalek be blotted out. God foresaw Haman and every other Agagite that would try to destroy Israel. Peter also says God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Also, Luke who is closely associated with Paul as a travel companion and most faithful to Paul during Paul's second more severe imprisonment, said of the parents of John the Baptist that they were righteous before the Lord, walking in all the commandments. Jesus also said he had not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, which presupposes that there were some righteous people he had not come to call to repentance. Calvin seems to have treated the scriptures as if they are given for making mathematical equations and that you can take a few words skipping here and there and put them together according to a preconceived framework and not come up with something that says more about the man Frankensteining the equations than about God. The things Paul said about the Gentiles in Romans chapter 1 and 2 are not about the Church, but about people who do what is righteous without knowledge of the Scriptures. Paul consistently speaks of three distinct entities, Jews, Gentiles and the Church and warns Christians not to give offense to any of the three. The reason the Paul speaks about election in Romans is primarily to inform Gentiles that Jews are elected because of God's promises to the Patriarchs concerning their nature seed, that God would be their God. Paul says God counted all the Jewish people, with the obvious exception of those like Paul who believe in Jesus, in unbelieve that he might have mercy on all Israel at the resurrection. Paul goes on in the 11 the chapter of Romans to warn those who were formally Gentiles not to boast against the branches, i.e., the Jewish people, who had stumbled, but not for the purpose that they would fall but for the sake of the Gentiles to be saved, though unlike the Jewish people, there is no promise to the Patriarchs to save all Gentiles, but the Gentiles stand only as long as they believe and that shall be counted to them for righteousness, where God will be merciful to the Jews unrighteousness when he opens their graves. There is another problem with total depravity which is that Jesus says that as it was in the days of Noah so will it be in the coming of the son of man. In the days of Noah, every thought of the heart of man was continually evil all the time. If we have gone two thousand years with the Son of man returning then we have not yet come to the point of total depravity of man. I have heard preachers say you have to depend on Paul not Jesus for theology. That is nonsense. Paul distinguishes where he says something he thinks is right concerning marriage from what is said by Jesus, which Paul holds to be superior to his own ideas, even if based on biblical principles rather than by revelation.
the christian quote Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated is a verse in Malachi. he was one of the last if not the last of the prophets. why do you think it was said prior to them being born?
@@proudpharisee5303 To show that some of God's decisions are based on election due to foreknowledge rather than what can be seen by humans at the moment.
God pointed out explicitly that if the Israelites did not drive out the Canaanites, the Canaanites would tempt the Israelites into idol worship. The Canaanites had not done it yet, and the measures to prevent the Canaanite from leading Israel astray we're severe. Even more severe was the pronouncement against Amalek. By not completely eliminating Amalek but leaving Agag alive, even for a little while, gave Agag to time to reproduce and thus Haman was born many years later, an Agagite who almost succeeded in killing all of the Jews in the Persian Empire.
I got sucked into reformed theology back in high school, and for me and others, the religious rationalism and the logic of the system holds great appeal, which is how some people get sucked into it. Later I came to realize how twisted it is. In that system, most people are essentially created for the purpose of going to hell, without any hope of redemption. Really sick indeed.
Thank you Rabbi- I learn a lot from your teachings.
Ezekiel 18 closes the book on the claims of reformed theology.
Romans 9 - 11 closes the book on Rabbi Singer spat against Paul.
The entire OT dismisses his optimism on Jewish righteousness.
@16:07 how do people choose in that theology? God has to be the one to “draw” them as John says.
It’s a total work of God the father to believe in the Son.
In that teaching
Tovia does NOT beleive the Prophets... He fails to see the messiah in them....
Jesus considered those that followed the Torah (most of the apostles ) and knew he was the Messiah as predicted in the Torah(Danial,Isaiah )as righteous
@Paula Wallace Mary was a virgin , the great Holy spirit conceived the Great Jesus ... read Danial 9 also to get a better prediction of Jesus and his arriving
Thank you for the video. I have a question? So after you said in the beginning that Christianity have rejected Calvinism...do you believe that Christianity was different before or after Calvinism? Also why do you think God chose Jesus to be a Jew? Thank you if you reply.
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I appreciate your response. It's good to know of varying perspectives. I was not aware there were 45,000+ denominations and now I am very interested in finding out about them. I do believe that there is strong evidence has many historians, most of them secular/atheists, that points otherwise to Jesus existing and that he was a Jewish man. I was hoping if you can help me understand who is this messiah that the Jews are waiting on. Apparently there are prophecies in the old testament pointing out of a savior for the Jews. I find Jewish people to be most fascinating and I envy them for various reasons. But mostly that there God has a direct connection to them in the past and arguably still does to this day. Do you suppose that the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament will soon arrive for the Jew or am I misinterpreting scriptures? Thank you
Roman Catholic the original church,
Eastern Orthodox split off in 1054, they don't have apostolic succession (melchizedek priesthood) and universal (catholic) unifying tradition. Like Protestants, they are split among themselves.
Protestantism/Reformation happened in mid-1500s, starting with Luther a failed Catholic monk. Many denominations followed after that, Luther himself regretted it. Calvinism is one brand of Protestantism.
"God chose Jesus to be a Jew"
God chose to be a Jew, incarnating as Jesus 😊
In fulfillment of His promise to Abraham, and reciprocating Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac.
Judaism was meant to prepare His people for His arrival as the Messiah 😊
6:35 lol
Great talk, Rabbi! I'm an atheist ( raised Catholic), but I gravitate where my thirst for a lifetime of continuing education takes me, and you are a great teacher and expositor. In fact, you're better at Christianity than most Christians I've known in my 40 years. Frankly, Paul lost all luster for me after I studied Nietzsche's estimations of him in my early twenties - "...Paul nailed Jesus to HIS cross...". Jesus was a Jew; Paul (along with John, I suppose) made him into a Christian. If the "belated testament" consisted solely of Mark and the Epistle of James, I might still be able to live with being a Christian. But 2000 years of utter confusion and theological rubbish proves too much a horror to even spend a moment of my limited life trying to unravel and make sense of...as my wonderful grandma used to say, "...like trying to pick the peas out of the stew..." Peace and Love to All!
The Enemy is keeping this man from CHRIST..
I pray for you.
@@thebloodsaves1219 his name is Cheeses Crap.!
But he MUST NOT get to the Fake jesus Which you people are into.
TULIP sounds like Templar-Axion Seal
God did not preselectcertain people to be saved.The bible says God wishes all to repent and be saved.
First dislike already, amazing.
@@kingsolomon7553 Go for it!
Reconnect to some Esau energy for the rest of the day.
Sad y'all don't read 😢 😪 😞 😔 😕
Even what you call biblical text has Jesus saying I am not here to change a single letter in the law. But later on your biblical text has no problem changing the letter of the law. How do you deal with this conundrum?
@@phatvegan1691 What Jesus meant by "I have not come to destroy, but to fulfil" was not 'so I might as well have never came, and you may keep observing the law as you do already,' obviously, but rather to bring about the end or purpose of the Law: that's what fulfil always means in the Bible. Also, just as Muslims quote, "Not all who say to be, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven" and miss "not all," thinking it means "no one," you have omitted, "until all be accomplished" from "not a jot or tittle shall pass from the law." Clearly "all being accomplished" refers to the cross, on which, by the way, His last words were "It is accomplished."
@@kingsolomon7553 yes you dislike hearing truth.
JESUS didn’t die For our sins he died BECAUSE of sin.
would it offend me if you think he’s a hoax? Nope
exactly, because of his sin of blasphemy ; therefore he was sentenced and died a criminal.
👎 NO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, take some time and read the Stone Torah. I is a proper translation to English so you will not get confused. Once you're done reading the five books of Moses you can clearly see that there was never a time. Never a time that someone could mistake Hashem for multiple bodies or different personalities. Hashem can choose to manifest himself in different ways, and sometimes an angel that is at a very high level can be referred to in a word that means G-d but is not. I was distorted by the Jesus religion as well. So I do not blame you for misunderstanding the truth.
If you Google The stone Edition Torah you will find what I'm talking about
@@kailemarie6021 Never take anyone seriously who can't even pronounce the word "Jesus" and thinks Romans invented Jesus. Notice also the two-tongued nature of this whole 'Jesus was made up' tripe. One minute he didn't exist and was made up, and in the next breath, he was killed for being a threat to the Romans, and in the next, he was condemned to death for blasphemy (i.e. by Jews, who are the ones concerned with blasphemy, not Romans). What a mess.
As a Christian, I do recognize a lot of what you say as true. I also agree for the most part about your interpretation of Calvinism. Also with how controversial it can be, but I would like to add, that the L in TULIP, might not necessarily mean they were elected for (Heaven) and the unelected are damned to hell. For illustration purposes, The people who were (let's say) not elected, might be the ones who are left behind in the rapture according to Pauls's epistles. If that is the case, then they will still have an opportunity to be saved (elected ). My understanding of the L isn't fully concrete I do recognize that, but I'm just playing a little devil's advocate. Because I don't think at the time of reformation they would believe something so obviously absurd.
What do u think about the "wicked bible" and G-d's great asse
Rabbi... With All Respect, We Need To Have ALL of your Videos Translated to Spanish, at least with Subtitles...
As a Christian who denies Calvinist theology, I think this is a pretty good description of the lunacy of Calvinism. The one exception is with the “T” of tulip. While I would agree with what you described, it does not cover the extent of Calvinist belief. They believe that not only can’t you do anything to earn your salvation. The “T” of tulip means that you could never even want to turn to God unless you are one of the elect.
You can't earn grace. It's by your faith you find grace.
@@joseg.solano1891 I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment
@@mjsabie8517 "...not only can't you do anything to earn your salvation."
May our Creator have mercy on them...
Im a Christian? ....and I agree with the Rabbi. Election is a crazy town idea. In the writings of the prophets, God is constantly saying (paraphrase ' turn around, comeback to me , change your ways.' Shuv. It's pretty explicit that God is already the sovereign of all nations and all of creation and that he is grieved when he has to punish.
God help us ....cause we think instead of just trusting God....and yes...I believe I pray I worship God only...I also do believe that Jesus was and is the lamb ...as it is written in book of Isaiah....the suffering servent...by his stripes we are healed...and yes I love my fellow humans..we are all children of God...
A point . To look at this that and the other thing . All have a part of there own point .
So if You beleive in the Torah, Genesis and the first sin of man Adam, how do reconcile to God?
Judaism doesn't believe in original sin.
Directly, no need for a middle man. Also not born a sinner, it is what we choose with free will that determines our life as sinner or not.
I have a question. My mother who is Israeli says that Judaism is a dead religion without the sacrificial system and no temple. How would you respond to her?
she doesnt know anything about judaism. what does being Israeli have to do with anything? the founders of Israel were mostly irreligious at best. Israeli education is militantly secular.
@@proudpharisee5303 she knew enough to realize that a large portion of the 663 laws could no longer be observed because there is no priesthood and there is no Temple so Judaism had to evolve and for her that was unacceptable.
I would ask your mother how come Judaism didn't come to an end when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple. She should also see Hosea 3:4-5, where he prophesied there would be no sacrifice for many years up until the last days. Then she will see Judaism is still very much relevant today.
The good Rabbi takes a shot at Mormons here but in fact LDS theology is remarkably "liberal" in terms of salvation.
but the whole story is a joke
Can anybody suggest me how to ask Rabbi??
@Paula Wallace thank you. God bless
@Paula Wallace Don't u use the word God?
@Paula Wallace yeah that is a fact and I admit that. Respect your viewpoint... But Can your chosen or modifying word express your creator??
Anyway... Shalom
@kenneth dinning What do u want to say
I believed in calvinism when I was still a christian. Main reason is of course teachings of Paul, but secondly it was consoling to think that I cannot fuck it up. If I go to hell forever, it was because I was not chosen to be forgiven - If I was chosen, I could not mess up and go to hell as a result of my own actions. Having been afraid for a decade of not making it as a christian, calvinism was a message of true hope. Later I finally understond, partially thanks to Rabbi Singer, that christianity is not true. Am an agnostic now...
He seems to have forgotten this verse in the New Testament that states: The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. *He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.*
Also this Rabbi said Abraham and some others kept the law properly, can he provide a biblical reference for that? From how I understand it, Moses was the one who brought the Law not Abraham.