The Tanakh describes Messiah as Divine

"None of the verses used by Con indicate that Messiah will not be divine."The point is to highlight that none of these verses indicate that the Messiah will be divine. The resolution states: "The Tanakh describes Messiah as divine", so the purpose of inclusion of Messianic verse was to show that the Messiah is indeed not "described" as being divine. Further Arguments In order to expand on the argument against divinity of the Messiah or G-d being incarnate within the Messiah, G-d explictly forbids the worship of any form--most specificaly human form. And example of this is found in Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 4. Beginning with verse 4:9:"But beware and watch yourself very well, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart from your heart, all your days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children and to your children's children."Here we see that G-d is directly commanding Israel to teach these things throughout the generations. To present the full context, I'll include further verse:Devarim 4:10 further states: "The day you stood before the L-rd your G-d at Horeb, when the L-rd said to me: "Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me in all the days that they live in earth , and that they may teach their children."Devarim 4:11: "And you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain urned with fire up to the midst of the heavens, with darkness, a cloud, and opaque darkness."Devarim 4:12: "The L-rd spoke to you out of the midst of fire; you heard sound of the words, but saw no image, just a voice."Note here how the term "no image" is explicitly stated. Devarim 4:13: "And He told you His covenant, which He commanded to you to, the Ten Commandments, and He inscribed them on two stone talets". Devarim 4:14: "And the L-rd commanded me at the time to teach you statutes and ordinances, so that you should do them in the land to which you are crossing, to possess. The next few verses of Devarim further highlight the importance of these commands and reiterate that G-d is commanding Israel not to acknowledge Him in any (physical) form. Devarim 4:15: "And you shall watch yourselves very well, for you did not see any image on the day that the L-rd spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire."Devarim 4:16: "Lest you become corrupt and make for yourselves a graven image, the representation of any form, the likeness of male or female."Continuing with:Devarim 4:17: "The likeness of any beast that is on this earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in heaven."Devarim 4:18: "'The likeness of anything that crawls on the gorund, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters, beneath the earth.".So, the main message from this particular Chapter is once again that G-d commands his people not to not recognise him in any visible form. Now alluding further to the Messiah, verses such as Hoshe'a 3:5 (Hosea) states this:"Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the L-rd their G-d and David their King, and they shall come trembling to the L-rd and His goodness at the end of days."In this verse, David (the Messiah) is clearly spoken in a seperate sense to G-d and there is no suggestion of any divinity being applied to the Messiah. Rather than stating "David their G-d" it readily states "David their King", and once more he is referenced seperately. Concerning further arguements made by Con, he states that: "I spent time emphasizing that this debate is within the context of Judaism and is not at all a debate on any claim made by Christianity, especially Yeshua (Jesus)". However, I have not referenced the name of Jesus within this debate. The example of the building of the third Temple (as a requirement) was to demonstrate that the Messiah does not have to be divine and moreover--that he is not expected to be divine. Rather it apppears that Con has used sources clearly supporting the Messiah as Jesus--therefore naturally favouring divinity of the Messiah. As for Yesha'yahu 53, this Chapter in particular that has been subject to a number of mistranslations; so in order to fully establish what the prophecy is and what the verses are referencing one has to examine the full conntext, and in the correct Hebrew translation. Verses such as Yesha'yahu 53:3 show: "He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquanted with disease, and as one from whom man hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Yesha'yahu 53:10 "Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of the L-rd might prosper by his hand". The full Chapter is in fact covering the sufferings of the Jewish people themselves. Note that even prior to the formation of Christianity, the Messiah was never believed to be a man of sufference. As previously highlighted in round two of my arguement, the Messiah was--and still is--believed to fight for Israel and reign over the country for a prolonged period of time; defeating its enemies, introducing peace to the nation (and the surrounding world) and bringing the land of Israel more prosper. Therefore, the verses of Yesha'yahu 53 make Messianic prophecy even more unlikely. Concerning Daniyyel 9:26 (Daniel), again the context has to be considered. The correct translation is actually "an" annointed one "shall be cut off" and prior to that in 9:25 the verse states: "Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto one anointed, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and for threescore and two weeks, it shall be built again, with broad place and moat, but in troublous times." Sources:(1.) http://www.chabad.org...(2.) http://jewsforjudaism.org... (3.) http://www.mechon-mamre.org...(4.) http://jewsforjudaism.org...(5.) http://jewsforjudaism.org...(6.) http://www.mechon-mamre.org...