{"id":40742,"date":"2018-11-14T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40742"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:38:16","slug":"some-thoughts-on-brown-vs-singer-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/some-thoughts-on-brown-vs-singer-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"some thoughts on Brown vs. Singer (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40743\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brown-vs.-Singer-450x329.png\" alt=\"Brown vs. Singer\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brown-vs.-Singer-450x329.png 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brown-vs.-Singer-768x561.png 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brown-vs.-Singer-1024x748.png 1024w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brown-vs.-Singer.png 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>I enjoyed listening to this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z0XQmbeGEZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1992 radio dialogue<\/a> between Jewish Christian Dr. Michael Brown and Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and counter-missionary Tovia Singer. I appreciate that Dr. Brown <strong>stuck to the actual New Testament claims<\/strong>, focusing on the disputed question of whether or not Jesus truly is the <strong>Messiah<\/strong>; he did not muddy the waters by arguing for the &#8220;deity of Christ&#8221; or for the Trinity. He makes some good points, and the dialogue is friendly and revealing. They focus in particular on Isaiah 53.<\/p>\n<p>Listen past the call-ins for the following discussion, where Dr. Brown explains <strong>some basic facts about Christian-era Judaism that probably most Christians don&#8217;t understand,<\/strong> specifically, the centrality of the Rabbis&#8217; idea of the &#8220;oral law.&#8221; I discuss some of these facts about the Jewish Bible, the Mishnah, and the Talmud <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oIV9zbtU8VE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Brown shows himself here to be sincere<\/strong>,<strong> knowledgeable, faithful, and genuinely concerned about his fellow Jews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting him, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/upcoming-tuggy-brown-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>debating him<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it seems that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U5-TJPz6Y94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these two have had a falling out since<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two learned Jews disagree about Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,54,87,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-debates","category-judaism","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40745,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40742\/revisions\/40745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}