How so?  You have G-D the Father (HaShem), you have the Spirit (Ruach Elohim aka Ruach ha Kodesh) from the Torah, the 'son' is the prophesied Messiah that Christians believe already came and the same (IMO) as the Messiahs that will come again for the olam haba.  This messiah is mentioned in the Tanakh as the 'right arm' of G-D the father (HaShem). 

These are just different facets of the same G-D.

Agreed.

Misunderstood out of ignorance and translation. 

I am sure you know that haShem simply means "the name". It is true that Judaism refers to G-d as a father, but it always refers to Him as "aveynu" ("our father"). A "son" isn't mentioned in the Tanakh (and neither is a virgin birth).

The Messiah is indeed prophecied but it is also prophecied that he will rebuild the Temple and bring the Jews back into their homeland as well as other details. The person who came closest yet and whom the Tanakh refers to as a messiah is Cyrus the Great, King of Iran. Jesus didn't do any of these things.

The Tanakh does not claim that the Messiah will be a divine figure. Instead it claims that he will be a man of this world.

Different facets are fine, but having a physical person who is G-d or a facet of G-d is idolatry. I have no problems with a "holy spirit". But a god walking on two legs is a graven image no matter how you put it. And it doesn't help that pictures of statues of him can be found all over the world.

If you had told a Levite (Jewish priest) 2500 years ago that today there are pictures of G-d (on a cross) in places of worship all over the world, do you think he would agree that this is what was prophecied and how it should be done?

LW POSTS:

Ah ah, let's not attribute something to God that He did not do, namely make or create Satan. God did not create the devil, but a pure angelic spirit, Lucifer.

God created all of the angels good by nature, but they became evil and bad through their own fault.  

If G-d created angels with the ability to choose evil (and He did not), the fact that beings with supernatural powers can be evil is G-d's creation.

I am convinced G-d gave the power to choose only to humanity. He loves us. The angels are just His messengers.

The Hebrew word for "angel" is "malaak", which is the object noun of a root Lamed Aleph Kaf. The word form describes the object of the verb "to send". The "malaak" is not an agent (i.e. someone who acts) but an object (i.e. someone to whom things are done, in this case someone who is sent). I am convinced that angels, if they had free will, would be described by a word that is an agent, not an object.

Thank you, but I have already made my position pretty clear in several articles before this. G-Ds way is not religions way.

Far as I can tell the whole Lucifer thing came about due to jealousy, when G-D granted Humans the ability for his forgiveness just by asking for it, Humans became the only creature able to have this boon, Some angels did not like this  and became outraged and Lucifer led the rebellion and was cast out.

This is a serious contradiction in my opinion. If God created a pure angelic spirit, where did the choice to enact evil come from?  Moreover, if they did choose to do evil, it points then to a clear design flaw on the part of God the creator.

The potential to do evil, I am sure God saw in advance, is as necessary to understanding and doing good as is night to understanding day. 

Be well.

Of course God created evil.  God created everything. 

Yes, used as the replacement for the tetragramaton (Adonai is another).

Daniel 3:25 references the 4th person in the furnace as Bar-Eloheem?

Exactly.  Anything that we put in place of God that takes us away from him is an idol or a god with a small g.  Money would fit.  Power would fit.  Celebrity status would fit.  Drugs, alcohol, sports, any material possessions, etc. etc. 

I have no problem with this LW.  Where I disagreed is when you said all the gods are one God.  That's not the same as you said above.  Two different statements.  Obviously God knew that other things would take his place in our lives that would be in effect a "god" to us. That's why he warned us against other gods and why Joshua said to choose between other gods or serve the living and ONLY God.   We would turn to these false gods to placate, comfort and give us peace instead of Him who is willing to do all these things if we would just be willing.  Jesus wept over Jerusalem before he died expressing this same thought. 

what do you think of Joshua 5:13?  Who was Joshua speaking to? 

Exactly.  There is no other way but God's way.  So we either get in his boat or sink. 

Daniel 3:25 is in Aramaic, not Hebrew. The word "Elohim" doesn't appear in it. Instead the words used are

l'bar elohin

(Note the -in plural ending.)

A Lamed prefixed usually means "to" or "for" in Hebrew. I don't know what it means in Aramaic. "Bar" is the Aramaic word for "son" (the Hebrew word is "ben").

"Elohin" is Aramaic for "gods".

I don't know what "son of gods" means. The Aramaic for "G-d" is "eloha". You can find the word in 3:26 in

di eloha alia

(literally "of god most high")

Hebrew doesn't form Genitives with prepositions. "Eloha alia" is the Aramaic equivalent of the name "Elohim".

Note that Hebrew "god" is "eloah" and the plural is "elohim". Aramaic "god" is "eloha" (which noun case I do not know) and the plural is "elohin". In the Tora "Elohim" as a name is used to mean G-d (and it is used with verbs in the singular). This is not the case here.

(I didn't know this before, only just looked at the text and saw that it looked Aramaic. I cannot easily translate text in classical Aramaic.)

I don't know. The text is pretty straight forward except we are simply not told who the captain is.

You may interpret it in whichever way you like. Fact is it simply doesn't give us any information to build on.

I believe the rabbis said it was an angel.

This is true, I quickly overlooked the final nun.

Hmmm, I guess I didn't realize that Bar Mitzvah was a compilation of Aramaic and Hebrew words?