2007-11-07 22:51:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
this is just like love, they say love is blind, but in reality, love is not blind, but refused to see.
2007-11-08 03:13:41 · answer #1 · answered by 36 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can anyone consider anything to be distorted if that something, Torah or otherwise, was created thousands of years prior to the concept of Christianity? The Torah is pretty much set in "stone" (get it? Torah? Ten Commandments? in "stone"? oh, never mind!). ;)
There's a reason the Torah is referred to as the OLD Testament!!! It's the NEW one that's suspect! ;)
2007-11-08 12:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by skaizun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think the Torah was distorted, but I do think its often misunderstood. As a christian I think christians do think something really obvious has been missed (like seeing the fulfilment of prophecy and the coming of the messiah).
From my studies I think many things in the Torah and the Christian Bible including the New Testament are beautiful.
Personally as a christian I see a natural progression from one to the other.
2007-11-08 07:09:15 · answer #3 · answered by maggiem 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians have definitely distorted the Torah. For example, they insist that Jesus is mentioned in the Torah - but he isn't He's not mentioned by name, nor is his arrival predicted. Those that believe it is base their assertion on mistranslated Hebrew.
The Torah was written way before Jesus was even born.
2007-11-08 07:01:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do. The story of Abraham and his sons (Ishmael and Isaac) makes no sense. How can Isaac be the Abrahams only son? Ishmael was born first. Plus, some people throw barbs at Ismael and his mother Hagar. But, Bible says Ishmael's mom was a wife of Abraham, it also says that the first son is the first son no matter how a man feels about that son's mother.
2007-11-08 07:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe? I'm sure a few of them -know- that the Torah was distorted. "Like a lion, they were at my hands and feet." "They pierced his hands and feet." Come on. You have to know that was deliberately mistranslated in order to create a foreshadowing of Jesus' coming.
2007-11-08 06:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, never thought about it. Why, do you think it was?
2007-11-08 06:56:45 · answer #7 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-11-08 06:54:23 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋