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this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous
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John 5:2-10, King James Bible).
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But, since the former truth could seriously undermine both Jewish, Christian & Muslim
establishments, they will all vehemently deny it.
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Just as it happens with most things in life (money, sex, power, intelligence, etc), Religion can be used as a
tool: We can choose to use it for evil purposes, or we can choose to use it for godly purposes… Either way,
the Holy One will respect our freedom of choice. But beware! Although we are allowed to ignore goodness,
we are not allowed to ignore the consequences of ignoring goodness”
Who is a Hebrew believer?
To be a practising Hebrew believer is a little bit like being a mathematician: You need to learn a lot about
abstract ideas! In fact, you must be able to deduct (and extrapolate) new truth, starting from already existing
facts. And you must be able to do so in an honest, logical, rational, and coherent fashion.
In other words, a real Hebrew believer never utilizes arbitrary ideas, in order to build up his own ideological
framework; he never tries to make them stand by means of intimidation; by claiming they are “the politically
correct thing to believe”; or that they are backed up by this or that other Hebrew movement (or reputable
personality).
And, most definitely, a real Hebrew believer never tries to make his ideas stand by means of the public
lynching his his opponent’s reputation. Instead, his ideas stand upon the merits of the moral and rational
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arguments that gave them birth. This emphasis on moral and rational thinking is what makes Hebrew believer
a power house in the fields of physics, engineering, and mathematics.
Consider the following example: the main tenet of ancient Hebrew faith was that existence of only one single
God-- the Source and Creator of all other things. The former implies the Creator made light, air, matter,
energy, space, time, emotions, ideas, dimensions, laws of physics... in fact, the whole universe! But, since
God existed before He began to create the Universe, we must conclude that He is “outside” the Universe (in
other words, He is no part of it).
Thus, in a strict literal sense, we can't “see” God; we can't "touch" Him, we can't "hug" Him, "kiss" him, give
him something to eat, nor something to drink. But, if this is so, how can we ever fulfill the greatest command
ever given by Him-- “to love our God with all our minds, hearts and strength” (Deut. 6:5)? Well, logic
dictates that we can't do it directly. But, if we dig a little deeper, we’ll find out we can do it indirectly, as
Scripture teaches man was created in God’s own image (Genesis 1:27).
Thus, we are forced to conclude that, while God doesn’t need to be loved (as He isn't a man, has no need
whatsoever, and isn't even part of the Universe), if He ask us to love Him, it’s only because He's trying to
convey the idea that, rather than being optional behaviour, to love our fellow creatures is actually a moral
obligation (our Divinely appointed task).
Therefore doing good [living the ethical life embodied in loving our fellow human beings] was the original
foundation of the ancient Hebrew faith-- and not the belief on this or that other religious movement or
dogma.
And the fact that doing goodness and justice was the Divinely ordained path set forth for all mankind was
also revealed to our father Avraham, when God told him the following: «For I have known him, so that he
may teach and command his children and the sons of his house after him to keep THE WAY OF THE LORD
and TO DO WHAT IS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has
promised him»- Genesis 18:19.
Thus, whenever we do what is just and righteous (treat others with the same consideration we ourselves
would like to be treated), we thereby walk in the path of the Lord, and thereby affirm our spiritual connection
to Avraham.
And the former all encompassing (or, "results oriented") view of the Hebrew faith is the reason why,
although much older than it’s monotheistic counterparts, Hebrew Faith has only a handful of sects (by way of
comparison, Islam has close to seventy sects, while Christian sects number in the thousands).
In short, from the Scripture's standpoint, a true Hebrew believer is he who can “fix the eyes of his
understanding” upon the “head” of the religious issue (in other words, upon the ethical lifestyle that the
Creator expects him to embrace), while the non-Hebrew beliver fixes his eyes upon “the tail” of the issue-- in
other words, upon the religious “pocket change” of their ethnic, cultural, political, and theological identity
[secondary, non ethical, incidental, and inconsequential minutiae].
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