Post by SciFive on Dec 22, 2020 9:49:46 GMT
A friend of mine was a very, very atheist Jew who wanted nothing to do with religion until he realized that he knew lots of Jews who felt this way.
He worried about Jewish culture surviving so he started learning and going to synagogues, etc.
He was fluent in Hebrew from having spent some years in Israel, so he read the Jewish Bible in Hebrew the first time.
The same Bible wording was found in Israel in ruins that were 2500 years old. So he knew he was reading the real narrative of thousands of years ago.
The wording in Hebrew plays on things like puns and interesting turns of phrase that can’t be reproduced in English.
He believed in his heart that people couldn’t have written this on their own thousands of years ago.
He started believing in God. His graduate level degrees made no difference. He was a smart, welk-educated New York Jew who believed in God.
Not irrational.
He worried about Jewish culture surviving so he started learning and going to synagogues, etc.
He was fluent in Hebrew from having spent some years in Israel, so he read the Jewish Bible in Hebrew the first time.
The same Bible wording was found in Israel in ruins that were 2500 years old. So he knew he was reading the real narrative of thousands of years ago.
The wording in Hebrew plays on things like puns and interesting turns of phrase that can’t be reproduced in English.
He believed in his heart that people couldn’t have written this on their own thousands of years ago.
He started believing in God. His graduate level degrees made no difference. He was a smart, welk-educated New York Jew who believed in God.
Not irrational.