The refutation of Christianity Part 4 | Rabbi Zamir Cohen English CC

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We've already explained earlier how the Christian writings were written by numerous authors, and they don't try to claim that their writings are divine as is the Tanakh, but rather like a history book that anyone can write, texts that are full of errors and contradictions. They primarily focused on writing about the supernatural miracles that Jesus supposedly performed, and even till this day there are people that get excited by the idea of miracle workers. Jesus himself had told his disciples that miracles aren't proof of divinity and shouldn't be relied on as such, since there are different forces that allow a person to perform miracles, and this doesn't contract his own words when he said that if he performs miracles then he has supernatural powers. Let's be realistic, what really happened there? Jesus was a Jew, we know his history. Let's take a look at a section of the Talmud that was censored by the Christian censorship. There are sections of the Talmud that speak of this section having been removed, where part of it is missing. But we also have parts of the Talmud that were written before the Christian censorship and nowadays they are reprinted with the original section there. Let's see what the Talmud says -- "Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachiya - what is he?" In other words, what was his story that caused the Sages said that one should be cautious not to distance one's students too much,

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1. 0:00We've already explained earlier how the Christian writings were written by numerous authors, and they don't…
2. 1:03Let's be realistic, what really happened there? Jesus was a Jew, we know his history. Let's…
3. 2:07and in contrast there are yeshiva students who fool around -- thus, it's incorrect to refer…
4. 3:15where as his student (Jesus), whose head was ensnared by the evil inclination, thought that the…
5. 4:15and he gestured to Jesus with his hand, as in to say that he's in the…
6. 5:16repetitious miracles that stemmed from a certain type of witchcraft that he would practice. In order…
7. 6:18The Rashbetz continues: Jesus asked Shimon, "What would you say about me?" He answered him, "I…
8. 7:26In other words, it looked like he was performing miracles, whereas Israel said that he would…
9. 8:28where as his followers said that he did it by divine power. As such, he was…
10. 9:35"Anyone who would want to attest in his favor, should come and do so. No one…

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