An open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Mr. Prime Minister: We stand with you.
I woke up this morning thinking about how alone you must feel. Please know that the current administration does not represent the views of Americans any more than Notre Dame's president, "Father" Jenkins, represents the Catholic faith.
You are not alone. Christians in America stand with you and your right to exist.
We apologize for the undue pressure that has been put upon you to jeopardize your vital interests to carve up yet more land for promises of peace from people who want to obliterate you. We also acknowledge that this pressure did not begin with the current administration.
-Janet Porter at WND
That, I'm afraid, is the mentality of the New Spirit residing in the hearts and minds (the Temple) of Christians today.
(Be sure to read the end of her article to see how disturbing this new theology is!)
They LITERALLY have made a golden calf out of Israel. Even though Judaism is the only religion/culture that (collectively) openly and pointedly reviles Jesus Christ.
Indeed, the texts discussed in the best book of the recent crop, Peter Schafer’s “Jesus in the Talmud,” were once considered so outrageous that they were self-censored from European editions of the Talmud. Not that the attempt succeeded: Christian authorities burned the Talmud anyway, and antisemitism continued unabated. But the censorship did succeed somewhat; these texts are practically unknown even today.
The image of Jesus that one gets from the Talmud is that of an illicit, sex-crazed black magician who uses trickery to lead Israel astray. In BT Sanhedrin 103a, Jesus is depicted as a poor disciple who “spoiled his food,” which Schafer speculates may be a euphemism for sexual misconduct: “to eat the dish” being a recognized Talmudic euphemism known for the sex act itself. A later emendation adds that he “practiced magic and led Israel astray.” And the virgin birth is ridiculed as a cover-up of Jesus’ true parentage: His mother was an “illicit woman” (another Talmudic locution), perhaps even a prostitute.
Strong stuff — no wonder they don’t teach it in Sunday school. But fascinating, as well, as long as, of course, we don’t take it too seriously (which, doubtless, some Jews do). The texts Schafer adduces — all of them relatively late, dating to the third- or fourth-century C.E., suggesting a conscious effort to fight the upstart sect — show that the Talmudic rabbis did not reject Jesus for the noble reasons that Klinghoffer and his ilk suggest. At least according to these texts, they rejected him because they thought he was evil, or saw him as a threat.
Shockingly, however, the Talmud does not shirk responsibility for Jesus’ death. On the contrary, it says that he deserved it and that the Jews did it themselves. Jesus was, the text relates, a sorcerer, an idolater and a heretic who led Israel to idolatry. His conviction was entirely just, and his execution — stoning and then hanging — was carried out in strict accordance with rabbinic law.
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Now let me write again what was written above.
They (modern Christians) LITERALLY have made a golden calf out of Israel. Even though Judaism is the only religion/culture that (collectively) openly and pointedly reviles Jesus Christ and the values of Christendom.
According to the Gospel narrative, Christ was the sacrifice/offering to God on behalf of man for their sins. Jesus then rose from the dead and will rule over the world as King of Kings from Jerusalem.
In our modern narrative, the word Holocaust means 'burnt offering'. And after the Holocaust the Jewish nation was resurrected with the aim of establishing a world government, with Jerusalem as the new international capital.
Interestingly enough the phrase anti-Christ is best translated, not as Against-Christ but as 'In Place of Christ'.
Just saying...
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