Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Welcome to Mount and Mountain

This blog features a conversation between Rabbi Rami Shapiro and Dr. Mike Smith, a Christian pastor. Please feel free to add your comments to our conversation. However, it is our goal to turn this blog into a book, and to incorporate some of your posted comments as sidebars. By posting on this blog you are giving us explicit permission to use your comments in any form this book may take. Our goal is to post new material each Tuesday.

3 comments:

T-Lance said...

I would like to thank you both for this refreshing dialogue. I have always found it difficult to put thought to "pen and paper" and find this blog helpful in many ways. Not the least of which is knowing that there can be a positive perspective in today's "I own the truth" society----I am but an egg.

Thanksgiving First said...

Hi..I posted this under two other topics for discussion...I hope this can be contributed to your research and work. I do not know why your topic welcome to Mount and mountain has a date of 2010 for the posting but hopefully it is for 2009 first:

Just saw your blog for first time tonight...regarding a discussion question of 'why did Jesus have to die'...didn't know if you could review my answer on the blog of that ..so I will post here for you.
God is pleased with obedience more than sacrifice that is why he wanted and did finish sacrificial offerings for ever by accepting Christ's own death and sacrifice...here is my post answer. Pls accept in kindness...I found your blog because my dog Toto passed away yesterday and I just happened to google when did Toto the dog die? and found your blog ...amazing!

I just read your question...Jesus had to die in order to live. t was necessary for him to pass thru death unto life to overcome satan and receive the authority over death. Two things had to happen to overcome the corruption of the earthly priesthood. A new Temple that would be a forever temple to God and a new priesthood that would never again pass away. Christ being the son of David in the Davidic lineage fulfilled the Kingship role and receiving the mantle of priesthood passed on from John the Baptizer to Christ (as John was in the line of Aaron as High Priest) carried the mantle of priesthood over to Christ Jesus (Yeshua) as being the next High Priest (the washing of the priesthood upon service started with Moses washing Aaron and his sons)..and therefore the prophecy of "thou art a priest forever in the order of Melchisadec" was a result of Melchisadec having both title roles of High Priest and King of Salem....Christ being now both King and Priest could therefore now offer sacrifice to God (being the last sacrifice to offer up and would replace forever the offering of animal sacrifice which God really detested over time)...and Christ could also be the sacrifice at the same time. But most important was that it must be a death that would fulfill prophecy and result in an 'eternal forever priesthood'...therefore it was necessary for Christ to die in order to live and receive the mantle of Heavenly High Priest and as the New Temple that God hath made and not man. It was necessary for Christ's blood to be of the Holy Spirit and not the seed of man so that his blood would be perfect and without blemish. Abel's blood cried out to God for vengeance....Christ's blood cried out to God for forgiveness....the work was finished at the cross at Golgotha....and the prophecy of Daniel 7: 13, 14 had been completely fulfilled on that day when Christ ascended to heaven as reported in Acts, chapter 1 and confirmed by Stephen who saw 'the son of man' seated in power in a vision before he was stoned to death.

hope this helps...took years for me to understand it...and God's Spirit is the Teacher.

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