http://1stcovenant.org/blog The Universal Covenant Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please help uncan [1stCovenantFoundation]. Please help us get out of your spam file. Here is the issue. Not to get dramatic, we have enemies. Besides the usual suspects - Nazis, "Aryans," the "Palestinians" and their enablers, the Klan, etc. - we have extreme "secular humanists" and former Christians who call themselves "hasidic gentiles" who definitely dislike us. Some ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=20 Islam and the Seven Laws It isn't just Christians and Jews who worry where Islam is heading. Many Muslims have doubts themselves. Where do Noah's Laws - the Seven Universal Laws that define what it is to be civilized - fit into Islam? Islam has an official approach to free will - the ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=18 Before this goes into the newsletter, I'd like to run it here. It concerns our different attempts to tell the world about Noah's Laws. I was reading the beginning of Leviticus, next week's regularly scheduled Torah portion. This thought popped up: All our efforts to reach others need to: 1) begin with ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=16 © 2007 Hiram Rosa and the First Covenant Foundation I have been hearing this question from others who have come to where I am today: what is expected of truly monotheistic Gentiles or non-Jewish people, people whom we associate with the title B’nai Noach?   The Torah has many teachings for us. One ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=15 We got intense feedback on the last article, about appreciating Christians like Rev. John Hagee. Unfortunately, I managed to accidently delete the posts from the writers who liked the piece, and the writers who hated the piece wrote personal e-mails which I don't feel at liberty to put up on ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=13 This topic came up in the January 2007 Covenant Connection. We appreciate Pastor John Hagee. He loves Israel and he hates Israel's enemies. He recognizes that Israel's enemies, like Hamas and the Nazis, for instance, are the enemies of all mankind. He says so, often, and millions of people listen to ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=11 Links: 1) to the latest edition of our thought-provoking, information-rich monthly newsletter: Covenant Connection http://1stcovenant.org/pages/newsletter.htm 2) to the links page on the website - with many new external links. http://1stcovenant.com/pages/links.htm 3) to our latest voice (radio) and video - the Orthodox Union interviews Rev. Jack Saunders and Michael Dallen, in a show titled "The Jew, the Minister, and ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=8 In the Bible, Amalek is the anti-Israel.        Starting in Genesis, Amalek comes into the world as the grandson of Esau - Esau, Abraham's grandson, Isaac's son, and Jacob's dangerous brother, Esau. Esau is the man who thought so little of God's blessing that he traded it for a pot of soup! His illegitimate but ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=10 Hiram wants to get into Isaiah 53 and the true identity of G'd's suffering servant. We had an article here on the subject, but, as I went through it, trying to correct a huge number of misformatted punctuation marks, I decided that I just didn't like the article that much. It wasn't that it was strident or offensive to ... http://1stcovenant.org/blog/?p=6