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Insight to Jewish Customs - Mikveh

This post is not specific to any Church or community or organisation and so there opinion are my own based on independent study conducted. I was recently studying on Jewish Customs and marriages although i have no intention to marry a Jew at present or have any idea of conversion to Judaism. There is a lot of  similar ideas in Jesus return to Jewish marriages and this is going to be in the next post. So what is this post about? As i told earlier its slightly controversial. In Jewish marriages and community customs there are some regulations that should be followed by a non Jew in entering into Judaism.  One was the most obvious - circumcision. But there were other things of which one was this  ritual washing. This is mentioned a million times or so in the book of Leviticus. Now those who have read through the book you guys are really brave and I don't know how many coffees took you to get there. modern mikveh – schematic illustration : Wikipedia The...

Rhema

    The New Testament was written in Greek. Yup, not Arabic like I once though. I was pretty sure it was not English, as you see living in Dubai, I was able to interact with many people from Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Syria. So, I expected  some thing of Arabic nature to be the language. Well Hebrew looks a lot like Greek letters written backward. And FYI Hebrew is written from Right to Left like Arabic.       Now many have written blogs and church write ups and essays and a lot of stuff on the topic Rhema. In Wikipedia, Rhema has a session  in theology too. So, what is this post about? Nothing too dramatic, but some thoughts of the mind. You see people who translated the original Bible especially the new testament, found it difficult to express the meaning of some sentences from Greek roots to English as there were no substitutes for many word and if there were a really passiona...