Hey Charles, I am Dee, a woman, and I look at many things through a philosophical view finder. The other guys/gals? are much more technical in ancient Hebrew than I and I don't compete with their knowledge base. Just wanted you to know out front.
My focus of research for the last, nearly 8 years now, is to separate the wheat (what the words of the Scripture say) from the tares (the deeds and traditions of men not caring about what they call themselves.) Which is to say I see Judaism and Christianity two rails (Islam being a third rail) of the same track chugging away from the Scriptures' intent and purpose. I jumped off and am running back to the place where I belong, to borrow a phrase, and am looking through the ancient text in CONTEXT to find what we missed that we were commanded to do and what blessings we missed on our way out of town. The only anti-missionary group I know are the Jewish religious and secular men who attempt to keep fellow "Jews" from converting to Christianity or becoming Messanics. I have spoken with an anti-missionary for about a year exchanging, er, ideas shall we say. I have not been able to exchange ideas with any other Middle Eastern peoples - so far they have convinced me that the girl thing with religious views doesn't go down well with them. Well, I also spent time studying with an Orthodox Christian view for several years and that could be called an anti-missionary experience also but that is all Greek to me. I don't know if your questions could be answered here but you might as well ask an easy one to start with and see what we can bring to the table. There are many opinions and much knowledge here. Dee
