Adonai and Allah are generic titles for God. By that alone, you could make the argument we are worshipping the same God.
Now if someone were to say to me, "I believe in God/Allah/Adonai" I wouldn't know if we are believing in the same entity. If he instead said, "I believe in Yahweh" then I would know we believe in the same entity. See my blog post here for more information on the name of God.
Dispensationalism and replacement theology is a lie invented by 4th & 5th century Catholics as a means to glorify the Catholic Church and condemn the Jews and force their conversion to the Catholic faith. See my blog for more information.
That said, I want to address the points you made.
I agree with you on the Judaism point. Judaism (modern day yes, but even during Jesus' time) definitely is not the original faith in Yahweh. The faith in Yahweh was perverted by corrupt Rabbanites who polluted the faith with an abundance of rites and rituals.
Yes, modern-day Pharisees (a sect of Judaism) believe that rabbinic writings (the 3 volumes of Talmud) are Scripture. As I mentioned in my previous point, this is a preversion of the original faith in Yahweh and is definitely false. I tend more to agree with Karaite views of Judaism than Rabbanite views.
Your point about genetic heritage, I can only hope you realize how important it was from a spiritual and prophetic standpoint that Jesus was born out of the tribe of Judah. Over 700 prophecies in the Tenach that the Messiah will come "from the rod of Jesse, root of Judah, from the line of David", in particular, it was very significant that the Messiah come from the scepter tribe, Judah, whom according to Yahweh, the kings of Israel must be born from.
I agree with your point that those who follow Jesus are God's people. As I cited Paul, we are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel by our faith in the Messiah, thereby inheriting the blessings and promises given to Abraham. That said, Jews are still blind to the Messiah and therefore lost, but they are still our brothers in faith.
When rabbis asked Jesus why he came, he said "I came for none but the lost sheep of Israel".
Who is the true Israel? Simple, the people of Israel. God didn't change, nor did Jesus come to invent a new religion. God is the same, his people is Israel for all eternity (mentioned numerous times in the Tenach) and by the Scriptural Messiah, we are grafted into God's people, Israel.
Please visit my blog, I speak much about Israel, Judaism, and Christianity, and I'd love to hear your input on some of these topics. http://judahgabriel.blogspot.com
I would argue that anyone who follows God becomes a child of God.
As Paul says in the New Testament, those who believe in Christ are grafted into Israel, thereby inheriting all the blessings and promises God gave to Abraham and his descendants.
No, Islam denounces the Tenach (Old Testament) as a lie, changed by Jews. Because of this they are not our spiritual brothers in faith as the Jews are.
Quickie lesson:
Abraham in the Bible had 2 sons: Isaac, who is the father of modern day Jews, and Ishmael, who is the father of modern day Arabs. Jewish & Christian Scripture agree that God annointed Isaac, and therefore his descendants (the Jews) are God's people.
Islam tells us that the conniving Jews lied and changed the Bible so that Isaac got annointed, when it was supposedly Ishmael that was annointed by God, and therefore his descendants (the Arabs) are God's people.
Additionally, the Qu'uran commands Muslims not to associate with Jews and Christians because they are bound together in their common faiths.
Being a Jew myself who believes in the Messiah, Jesus, I can tell you that almost every Jew and Gentile I meet who visits a church or a synagogue believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God. So I contend with your first point, but it's a moot point regardless.
It's definitely not a matter of Christians vs. heathens, although some polticians and religionists want to make it like that. After all, we who call ourselves followers of Jesus are often just as evil and sinful as those who don't.
One quicky: not to be a spelling Nazi, but it's "Israel", not "Isreal".
To address what you mentioned about radical Christians supporting Israel: you are wrong in that it is only radical Christians; almost all Protestant churches now openly proclaim support for Israel. Also, this support is not contigent on Christian end-time beliefs, as some progressives would have you believe.
We support Israel because Jews are brothers in faith.
Jews worship the same God as Christians. Christians happen to believe Jesus was the Biblical Messiah, whereas Jews are still searching for the Messiah.
Christians agree with Jews that the Tenach (Jewish Scriptures) is inspired by God, is absolute truth, and is part of Christian Scripture.
Christians believe that the spirit of radical Islam around the world is conspiring against Jews and Christians, so we have a common defense against it as well as sympathy for Israel under the constant bombardment of radical Islamic terror.
Jesus himself was a Jew, born in Israel of a mother and father descended from the tribe of Judah (through which a majority of Jews today trace their descendence).
Jesus mentioned that he loved his people and he longed to gather them together in Jerusalem.
In the New Testament, a Jew named Paul writes that anyone who believes in the Messiah (Jesus) is grafted into Israel. In a sense, we are spiritual brothers with the Jews.
Scripture says that the people of Israel are God's people for eternity, not the Church nor Christians.
We believe that the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel.
Finally, in Scripture, David wrote in the Psalms that God will bless those that bless Israel.
Hope that gives you a better knowledge of why we support Israel and the Jewish people.
My post wasn't meant as a bash (excuse the pun) on Linux app naming conventions as much as it was pointing out a problem with bringing Linux to the common user's desktop.
That's a decent way to do it, and is pretty much what Windows XP does. However, I would argue that common home users know nothing of wildcard characters. An improved way would be to give them a familiar web-like interface for searching their documents and files. And instead of wildcard characters, give some GUI options for specifying the type of file ("program? document? etc.")
what's the point of a search engine built into the filesystem?... keeping files in a logical directory structure along with copious use of find and grep commands seems to be good enough.
Here is a fundamental basic of what's wrong with Linux:
Developer: "I use grope, pully, xtract, gunit, and other nonsensical named 3rd party tools AND I organize my files in a logical directory structure, which gives me everything I need!
An all-managed primary developer API called WinFX, which is to eventually supplant the aging Win32 API.
A new user experience, where the entire shell will be an Avalon 3d-based web-like UI.
NGSCB (like it or hate it, it does come with solid security enhancements to the OS).
Parental controls on things like amount of time a user can play a particular game, use an application, or browse the web (while this may seem pointless to most geeks, as a parent I know this will be useful).
A new set of rights and restrictions for different users. Currently, limited users can do basicallly nothing (can't even run many software titles), while user-as-administrators can do everything (including running malicious software). Longhorn will introduce new types of users with varying levels of rights and restrictions to solve this.
While what you say mostly sounds good, let's see all of them in practice:
The registry: hundred of applications forget to rmeove registry settings upon uninstall. Try running Norton System Works and running the registry cleanup editor; hundreds if not thousands of entries are reported as dead, and should've been cleaned up when the app was uninstalled.
Temporary files: go into your temporary files directory and see the hundreds, if not thousands, of files and directories that are no longer in use, but eating hard disk space.
Async file I/O: with a standard file system, we have to worry about file locking. With WinFS, there are no files to lock.
Making sure directories exist: developers have to worry about creating directories, with WinFS, there is no need for directories.
Clean up temp files: see my second argument.
Config files: no, users and other applications cannot touch your application's local allotment in WinFS, meaning your configurations and settings are safe.
It may be 'fine' as you see it; then again, searching my Windows box using the standard Windows search was also 'fine' until I started using tools like Google Desktop Search.
As a developer, WinFS's usefulness is obvious: storing desktop application settings, configuration, temporary files, even serialized runtime objects, is a royal pain when having to worry about actual files on disk. You have to worry about asynchronous file I/O, duplicate files, making sure directories exist, making sure you clean up your temporary files, making sure the user or some other program hasn't royally screwed you configuration files, just to name a few. With a database-backed file system, the developer only has to deal with data, not the underlying file system.
For users, storing and finding data becomes easier, at least theoretically. I guess it all depends on how dependant users become on metadata.
Yes, there is a hard deadline for Longhorn, and that is a good thing.
That said, WinFS will not make it into the hard deadline for Longhorn. That said, it will be available freely as a download, and possible as part of Windows Update, for Longhorn and other operating systems including XP and, yes, Win2003, some time after the Longhorn deadline.
Because of the way evolution works you won't ever find a completely smooth transition from one form to another...
One would think that if evolution is true, and species evolved from one specie to another, it's only logical we would find a lot of fossil evidence of these hybrid species, not to mention hybrid species living today.
If someone has forced our beliefs on you then that person is in the wrong. Jesus taught forgiveness; despite people calling themselves Christians, a lot of people don't actually follow Christ.
That doesn't mean that abortion is magically righteous or that sexual immorality is now suddenly acceptable to God. It means that people doing wrong (i.e. everyone) can receive forgiveness, for free. You don't have to talk to a priest or any other person. God gives forgiveness to those who want it.
And man, it's great to be forgiven: no more guilty conscience about the bad things I've done (and I've done plenty worse than most), I'm free from my addictions and my sins, I am free in Jesus and it feels great.:-)
Anyway, I'm glad you replied to my post so you could hear all that. All I can say is, keep an open mind about Jesus, give him a try and be free from your sins and addictions.
If you're writing software for Windows, Microsoft has the best development tools. Especially for.NET. I know this as my company (a Windows softare shop) has tried various free, Borland, other 3rd party tools...Visual Studio is by far top notch.
Unless you're trying to develop software for alternative operating systems, you're not 'limited' by any means; MS wants developers writing software for their platform, and they offer the finest tools to get the job done.
I would tend to disagree. I have found that the atheists have been putting out that image of religious people and trying to paint every religious person with the same broad stroke.
You're right, and what you say does not conflict with my previous statement that it is partially our fault. I say this because we go out with zero humility ("you unethical atheist! You should be doing this and that..."), condemn people ("you're going to hell for that!"); generally, we have been very un-Christ-like. That has added some reality to what ungodly people have painted us as.
Yes, we should stand up for right, yes we should condemn wrong (not the people, but the act). Yet this should be done out of humility and mercy, not out of condemnation and pride.
There exists people in the world that want our downfall, sure, they don't want us voicing our views, and want to shut us up when we talk about God. There has always been people like this, from those who mocked Abraham's faith in Yahweh to the who persecuted followers of the Messiah. Throughout history, it's never been popular to be a believer in God. Kings, countries, churches, politicians, human ideas; sadly the world is only interested in humanism and not the God that made them.
However, it has seemed lately that anytime anyone uses anything even remotely religious they get bashed.
True, and that's sad. It's partially our fault though; we have put an image out there that religious people are intolerant bigots that supress technology, medicine, science, and so on.
That said, it has never been popular to believe in God, there's always the scorners and the mockers, of which Slashdot has been a haven for.
For the less code-literate among us, what exactly do these files do?
In layman's terms, it's a collection of pieces of code (Application Programming Interface) for building a user interface. This aides developers in writing applications that have user interfaces (i.e. most desktop applications).
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Adonai and Allah are generic titles for God. By that alone, you could make the argument we are worshipping the same God.
Now if someone were to say to me, "I believe in God/Allah/Adonai" I wouldn't know if we are believing in the same entity. If he instead said, "I believe in Yahweh" then I would know we believe in the same entity. See my blog post here for more information on the name of God.
Dispensationalism and replacement theology is a lie invented by 4th & 5th century Catholics as a means to glorify the Catholic Church and condemn the Jews and force their conversion to the Catholic faith. See my blog for more information.
That said, I want to address the points you made.
I agree with you on the Judaism point. Judaism (modern day yes, but even during Jesus' time) definitely is not the original faith in Yahweh. The faith in Yahweh was perverted by corrupt Rabbanites who polluted the faith with an abundance of rites and rituals.
Yes, modern-day Pharisees (a sect of Judaism) believe that rabbinic writings (the 3 volumes of Talmud) are Scripture. As I mentioned in my previous point, this is a preversion of the original faith in Yahweh and is definitely false. I tend more to agree with Karaite views of Judaism than Rabbanite views.
Your point about genetic heritage, I can only hope you realize how important it was from a spiritual and prophetic standpoint that Jesus was born out of the tribe of Judah. Over 700 prophecies in the Tenach that the Messiah will come "from the rod of Jesse, root of Judah, from the line of David", in particular, it was very significant that the Messiah come from the scepter tribe, Judah, whom according to Yahweh, the kings of Israel must be born from.
I agree with your point that those who follow Jesus are God's people. As I cited Paul, we are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel by our faith in the Messiah, thereby inheriting the blessings and promises given to Abraham. That said, Jews are still blind to the Messiah and therefore lost, but they are still our brothers in faith.
When rabbis asked Jesus why he came, he said "I came for none but the lost sheep of Israel".
Who is the true Israel? Simple, the people of Israel. God didn't change, nor did Jesus come to invent a new religion. God is the same, his people is Israel for all eternity (mentioned numerous times in the Tenach) and by the Scriptural Messiah, we are grafted into God's people, Israel.
Please visit my blog, I speak much about Israel, Judaism, and Christianity, and I'd love to hear your input on some of these topics. http://judahgabriel.blogspot.com
I would argue that anyone who follows God becomes a child of God.
As Paul says in the New Testament, those who believe in Christ are grafted into Israel, thereby inheriting all the blessings and promises God gave to Abraham and his descendants.
No, Islam denounces the Tenach (Old Testament) as a lie, changed by Jews. Because of this they are not our spiritual brothers in faith as the Jews are.
Quickie lesson:
Abraham in the Bible had 2 sons: Isaac, who is the father of modern day Jews, and Ishmael, who is the father of modern day Arabs. Jewish & Christian Scripture agree that God annointed Isaac, and therefore his descendants (the Jews) are God's people.
Islam tells us that the conniving Jews lied and changed the Bible so that Isaac got annointed, when it was supposedly Ishmael that was annointed by God, and therefore his descendants (the Arabs) are God's people.
Additionally, the Qu'uran commands Muslims not to associate with Jews and Christians because they are bound together in their common faiths.
Very well said. Good to hear some spiritual truth in the midst of all the atheism and worldy humanism posted on this site.
Being a Jew myself who believes in the Messiah, Jesus, I can tell you that almost every Jew and Gentile I meet who visits a church or a synagogue believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God. So I contend with your first point, but it's a moot point regardless.
It's definitely not a matter of Christians vs. heathens, although some polticians and religionists want to make it like that. After all, we who call ourselves followers of Jesus are often just as evil and sinful as those who don't.
To address what you mentioned about radical Christians supporting Israel: you are wrong in that it is only radical Christians; almost all Protestant churches now openly proclaim support for Israel. Also, this support is not contigent on Christian end-time beliefs, as some progressives would have you believe.
Hope that gives you a better knowledge of why we support Israel and the Jewish people.
No, in Windows it goes something like:
User: "Where is my Word document?"
Windows: "Here is a little doggy to help you find it!"
My original point on Linux wasn't meant as a slam; no need to get defensive about it.
My post wasn't meant as a bash (excuse the pun) on Linux app naming conventions as much as it was pointing out a problem with bringing Linux to the common user's desktop.
That's a decent way to do it, and is pretty much what Windows XP does. However, I would argue that common home users know nothing of wildcard characters. An improved way would be to give them a familiar web-like interface for searching their documents and files. And instead of wildcard characters, give some GUI options for specifying the type of file ("program? document? etc.")
what's the point of a search engine built into the filesystem? ... keeping files in a logical directory structure along with copious use of find and grep commands seems to be good enough.
Here is a fundamental basic of what's wrong with Linux:
Developer: "I use grope, pully, xtract, gunit, and other nonsensical named 3rd party tools AND I organize my files in a logical directory structure, which gives me everything I need!
User: "Where is my Word Document?"
What's going to be new in Longhorn?
From what I hear:
An all-managed primary developer API called WinFX, which is to eventually supplant the aging Win32 API.
A new user experience, where the entire shell will be an Avalon 3d-based web-like UI.
NGSCB (like it or hate it, it does come with solid security enhancements to the OS).
Parental controls on things like amount of time a user can play a particular game, use an application, or browse the web (while this may seem pointless to most geeks, as a parent I know this will be useful).
A new set of rights and restrictions for different users. Currently, limited users can do basicallly nothing (can't even run many software titles), while user-as-administrators can do everything (including running malicious software). Longhorn will introduce new types of users with varying levels of rights and restrictions to solve this.
Antivirus and antimalware software built in.
Just to name a few off the top of my head.
While what you say mostly sounds good, let's see all of them in practice:
The registry: hundred of applications forget to rmeove registry settings upon uninstall. Try running Norton System Works and running the registry cleanup editor; hundreds if not thousands of entries are reported as dead, and should've been cleaned up when the app was uninstalled.
Temporary files: go into your temporary files directory and see the hundreds, if not thousands, of files and directories that are no longer in use, but eating hard disk space.
Async file I/O: with a standard file system, we have to worry about file locking. With WinFS, there are no files to lock.
Making sure directories exist: developers have to worry about creating directories, with WinFS, there is no need for directories.
Clean up temp files: see my second argument.
Config files: no, users and other applications cannot touch your application's local allotment in WinFS, meaning your configurations and settings are safe.
It may be 'fine' as you see it; then again, searching my Windows box using the standard Windows search was also 'fine' until I started using tools like Google Desktop Search.
As a developer, WinFS's usefulness is obvious: storing desktop application settings, configuration, temporary files, even serialized runtime objects, is a royal pain when having to worry about actual files on disk. You have to worry about asynchronous file I/O, duplicate files, making sure directories exist, making sure you clean up your temporary files, making sure the user or some other program hasn't royally screwed you configuration files, just to name a few. With a database-backed file system, the developer only has to deal with data, not the underlying file system.
For users, storing and finding data becomes easier, at least theoretically. I guess it all depends on how dependant users become on metadata.
Yes, there is a hard deadline for Longhorn, and that is a good thing.
That said, WinFS will not make it into the hard deadline for Longhorn. That said, it will be available freely as a download, and possible as part of Windows Update, for Longhorn and other operating systems including XP and, yes, Win2003, some time after the Longhorn deadline.
Apples and oranges. Netscape Navigator was/is a browser. .NET runtime is an applications framework akin to J2EE.
FYI, the new .NET runtime, beta 2, which will be released March 31st, will be 16MB rather than the current 24MB.
Because of the way evolution works you won't ever find a completely smooth transition from one form to another...
One would think that if evolution is true, and species evolved from one specie to another, it's only logical we would find a lot of fossil evidence of these hybrid species, not to mention hybrid species living today.
Or maybe Google is conforming into it's own version of the Borg...
If someone has forced our beliefs on you then that person is in the wrong. Jesus taught forgiveness; despite people calling themselves Christians, a lot of people don't actually follow Christ.
:-)
That doesn't mean that abortion is magically righteous or that sexual immorality is now suddenly acceptable to God. It means that people doing wrong (i.e. everyone) can receive forgiveness, for free. You don't have to talk to a priest or any other person. God gives forgiveness to those who want it.
And man, it's great to be forgiven: no more guilty conscience about the bad things I've done (and I've done plenty worse than most), I'm free from my addictions and my sins, I am free in Jesus and it feels great.
Anyway, I'm glad you replied to my post so you could hear all that. All I can say is, keep an open mind about Jesus, give him a try and be free from your sins and addictions.
If you're writing software for Windows, Microsoft has the best development tools. Especially for .NET. I know this as my company (a Windows softare shop) has tried various free, Borland, other 3rd party tools...Visual Studio is by far top notch.
Unless you're trying to develop software for alternative operating systems, you're not 'limited' by any means; MS wants developers writing software for their platform, and they offer the finest tools to get the job done.
Hahaha :-) Commendations for that one.
I would tend to disagree. I have found that the atheists have been putting out that image of religious people and trying to paint every religious person with the same broad stroke.
You're right, and what you say does not conflict with my previous statement that it is partially our fault. I say this because we go out with zero humility ("you unethical atheist! You should be doing this and that..."), condemn people ("you're going to hell for that!"); generally, we have been very un-Christ-like. That has added some reality to what ungodly people have painted us as.
Yes, we should stand up for right, yes we should condemn wrong (not the people, but the act). Yet this should be done out of humility and mercy, not out of condemnation and pride.
There exists people in the world that want our downfall, sure, they don't want us voicing our views, and want to shut us up when we talk about God. There has always been people like this, from those who mocked Abraham's faith in Yahweh to the who persecuted followers of the Messiah. Throughout history, it's never been popular to be a believer in God. Kings, countries, churches, politicians, human ideas; sadly the world is only interested in humanism and not the God that made them.
However, it has seemed lately that anytime anyone uses anything even remotely religious they get bashed.
True, and that's sad. It's partially our fault though; we have put an image out there that religious people are intolerant bigots that supress technology, medicine, science, and so on.
That said, it has never been popular to believe in God, there's always the scorners and the mockers, of which Slashdot has been a haven for.
For the less code-literate among us, what exactly do these files do?
In layman's terms, it's a collection of pieces of code (Application Programming Interface) for building a user interface. This aides developers in writing applications that have user interfaces (i.e. most desktop applications).