Now though, you can only read the beginning of the essay you wrote.
As I explained to lelandt above, I wasn't referring to that type of ongoing "revelation", but to the initial giving of the Law. Furthermore, the law itself explains how to test the validity of a so called "prophet", and limits the type of thing that a prophet can tell us. For starters, a prophet is strictly forbidden as such to rule on the Law (they can rule as a learned Rabbi, if they are such). This means that the Law once brought to earth, by Moses, is now under "jurisdiction" of the Rabbis - "For this commandment which I command thee this day, ... It is not in heaven," (Deuteronomy 30:11-12). So indeed we have "some kind of criterion to judge whether something is divine or not". As far as WE are concerned, this means the problem is solved.
For the record, Jewish Tradition is such, that the power/ability to prophesy passed from the world, with the last Bible prophet Malachi (this would obviously preclude Jesus and Mohamed), and is now in the gradual process of returning as we enter the pre-dawn twilight of the Messianic Era. And before you ask, yes we do believe in gentile prophets (Bilaam for example).
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LOL on the Gopi Goodness!
Date: 2005-06-08 10:04 pm (UTC)As I explained to
For the record, Jewish Tradition is such, that the power/ability to prophesy passed from the world, with the last Bible prophet Malachi (this would obviously preclude Jesus and Mohamed), and is now in the gradual process of returning as we enter the pre-dawn twilight of the Messianic Era. And before you ask, yes we do believe in gentile prophets (Bilaam for example).