Subject: Re: _Ioudaios_ in the New Testament

Dear Athol,

I'm on the same mushrooms.

> Jesus is not just a reformer of Judaism he is
a transformer that goes outside the boundaries of Judaism into the
Universal and Eternal dimension and then without abolishing anything
he creates a new reality of the union of Jews and Gentiles as his
Mystical Body. He affirms all that is truth and good but goes to a
level beyond what Judaism has attained before and which it cannot
attain while it remains veiled…<

Judaism anticipates what you describe, a Messiah who will reveal a
new dimension of Torah and therefore a new dimension of life, a
transformation, and that the Gentile nations will be caught up into
it, but that it cannot be comprehended in anticipation because
comprehension of that level only comes with him.

It does only come with Him. True. They are right.

sarah

It could be said, then that both share the same whatness, as it were. The fifth sense of Torah is all that is revealed, and it does everything that it's supposed to do. It just also does some things that are, shall we say, unanticipated.