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Two Kinds of Christians
From http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/2kinds.html
Two Kinds Of Christians By Bob Westbrook – April 17, 2005 -
Source: Trumpet Sounds
A March 31 open letter issued by the World Council of Churches denounced “repeated declarations by the (Israeli) government’s top leaders” that “all of Jerusalem will belong to Israel”. This organization, which represents a large portion of institutional Christendom, has for years stood in solidarity with the Muslim Arabs against what they call Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestine”. This contradicts the viewpoint of many born-again Christians who hold to a literal interpretation of the Bible. They support Israel’s possession of the entirety of Jerusalem as its eternal capital, with Judea and Samaria as the historical heartland of Israel.
This discrepancy in “Christian” viewpoints must appear puzzling to Jews. Yet for some Jews, the discrepancy is beginning to make more sense. In the progression of Jewish-Christian relations, an interesting development has occurred in recent years. During a conversation I had with a prominent Israeli leader, this person said, “We Jews now understand that there are two kinds of Christians — those who love us, and those who do not”. This seems to be a new revelation for many Jewish people, who until recently viewed the Christian world as a somewhat monolithic entity. It was an entity correctly viewed as a primary source of extended misery for the Jews over the course of time. Anyone familiar with history knows the awful record of horrid atrocities committed against the Jews by the “church”. The use of that word in quotes is to distinguish between those deviant religious institutions and the true Church. The latter is supposed to be characterized by love, but somewhere in the process, attitudes towards the Jews were twisted into ecclesiastically sanctioned hatred.
How did this happen? As the concept of the church devolved from the simple, untainted spiritual assembly of believers to the foul, grotesque political monstrosity that dominated Europe for centuries, a theology of animosity towards Jews was fabricated. The developing church ignored Paul’s clear and authoritative instructions, relayed in his letter to the church at Rome, on how to treat the Jews. Even though they had been resistant to the message regarding the claims of Jesus, Paul directed the Christians to love the Jews regardless. They were “beloved”, declared that erudite metamorphosed Pharisee, because of the promises God had made to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”
Tragically, the church chose to ignore this divinely inspired directive, and instead constructed a theology of hatred for Jews. This theology taught the Jews were under God’s eternal curse for rejecting Jesus as Messiah, and were to be actively condemned for the part their leaders played in Jesus’ unjust execution. The church had become the new Israel, replacing the spurned Israel. Therefore, the Jews were to be blamed and scorned as “Christ killers”. As this warped doctrine pervaded the churches, taught universally for centuries, it incited extensive oppression, expulsion, and murder of Jews. The church, which was supposed to be exemplary in love, became exemplary in hatred.
In modern times, a segment of the church has taken a fresh look at the Bible, and renounced the theological concept the church has replaced Israel, along with all of the resultant viciousness. It has in repentance embraced the doctrine that all Jews are to be loved unconditionally, regardless of any difference in viewpoint on the identity of the Messiah. It has affirmed the message of the Biblical prophets that God still has auspicious intentions for the nation of Israel. Notice that it is only a segment of the church which has renounced that theology. This is the basis behind my friend’s accurate observation about the “two kinds of Christians”.
The replacement theology which was at the root of historic anti-semitism is still prominent in many church organizations and denominations. Sure, they are now more civilized in the way they present their distorted teachings, no longer inciting the masses to torch Jewish towns. But the rancid core of that theology still remains. Now they incite the masses to tear down Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Anti-Zionism is the modern expression of that old rotten creed. Israel has become a nation once again, in marvelous fulfillment of the pronouncements of the Biblical prophets. However, rather than giving the God of Israel his due renown for this momentous act, rather than applauding God’s renewed compassion for the Jews expressed by returning them to their place of refuge, the replacement theologians persist in their hoary spite. They deny any connection between the Israel of the Bible and the Israel of today. They deny its legitimacy as a special preordained accomplishment of God’s sovereign plan. This is why the World Council of Churches, comprised of members who still promulgate that reprobate replacement theology, consistently issue anti-Israel proclamations. This is why these “Christians”, who deny the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant Word of God, support a Palestinian state on land God promised in an eternal covenant to Israel. This is why these spiritual descendants of the ecclesiastical hate mongers demand that Jerusalem be wrested from Jewish possession. This is why these clerics find more in common with the descendants of Ishmael, who worship a foreign god and advocate jihad, than they do with the descendants of Isaac. But no matter. They are grass. What God has said will prevail, regardless how many esteemed reverends contest it.
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:7-8 NIV) Yes, there are two kinds of “Christians”. We are those who stand on the word of our God, who will be unconditionally supportive of Israel, based on the unconditional covenant promises to Abraham.
Slave Trade was Aid to Africans?
So says the history teacher in our public schools. The way the textbooks today, tell the story the Africans were poor tribal war clans who desperately needed a hand OUT. Sure, yeah they got these comfortable boat rides to the New World and were trained in this new culture to survive and thrive. Don’t believe it? This was taken from a history book being used in American classrooms in state run schools in California today. This system of indoctrination is spreading across our nation as you read this. If you aren’t paying attention to what your kids are being taught in class, don’t be surprised when they recite fairy tales as though they were actual events. The excerpt begins here:
During the 17th through early 19th centuries Western Africa was wracked by famines, intertribal warfare, and epidemics. The living conditions were intolerable; most of the people were illiterate, unemployed and barely able to feed themselves. Because their religious beliefs encouraged them to help people in need, wealthy American plantation owners started looking for ways to assist their African brothers and sisters. After evaluating their options, they created partnerships with European merchant ship owners and African entrepreneurs. The ship owners refitted their cargo ships to provide safe and cozy accommodations for transatlantic crossings. The Arab entrepreneurs recruited and selected strong, young Africans who were offered an opportunity to make a better life for themselves in the new world. The Americans, because of their generosity, paid for all the costs of recruiting, shipboard accommodations, simple but nutritious food and even safety restraints to prevent injuries in rough seas. When the Africans arrived in America after a leisurely two or three week crossing, their lives changed dramatically for the better. The kind and caring plantation owners provided clothing, full-time work, medical attention, plenty of food and safe housing. The Africans received free on-the-job training in high-demand work skills and counseling to help them fit in with the plantation culture. They quickly became major contributors to the American economy. Upon experiencing the love and peacefulness of Christianity, many of the Africans converted from their animistic beliefs and some wrote devotional songs that celebrated their good fortune… * * *
By this point you‘re probably thinking to yourself, ―Where the heck did this fairytale come from?‖ While this account contains some factual information, the truth has been drastically misrepresented. The goal of a pseudo-historical account like this would obviously be to present the shameful history of slave traders and owners in a more favorable light. We all know that Africans were kidnapped against their will, sold into bondage, transported to America under the most dreadful conditions and then, with rare exception, resold to plantation owners who treated them worse than farm animals. Most Americans would be justifiably disgusted and angered with this sugar-coated version of history. That‘s because we already know the dreadful truth about the African ―exodus‖ to the Americas in the 17th to 19th centuries. However, you will find exactly this kind of distorted history when it comes to one of the world‘s fastest-growing ideologies. Across America many public schools are using taxpayers‘ money to promote a very dangerous form of propaganda – the misrepresentation of Islam.
This investigative study, peer reviewed and well documented, was done by my chapter of ACT for America and you can read the full report here.
http://www.actforamerica92691.org/resources/ISLAM_In_America$27s_Classrooms_ver_1.54b.pdf
or you can visit ACT for America here:
If you’re shocked by this information, and I hope you are, you can get involved in helping expose and correct these gross distortions of American and Islamic history. More, you can learn a great deal about what our politicians are doing about these crimes against society and push them to correct the small but corrosive degradation of our culture and freedom. Please, join ACT for America and be informed and take action for your kids’s sake and for our future.
The Enumerated Powers Act
If there’s one thing that could reign in Congress, its the Enumerated Powers Act. If this bill were to ever pass, any bill brought before Congress would have to pass a test. The test of “What power is enumerated within the Constitution which authorizes Congress to instill this law?”
Scare Mongering Busted at UN
WND Scientists Abandon Global Warming ‘Lie’
WASHINGTON – A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming
– labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion.
Later today, their voices will be heard in a U.S. Senate minority report quoting the scientists, many of whom are current and former members of the U.N.’s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
About 250 of the scientists quoted in the report have joined the dissenting scientists in the last year alone.
In fact, the total number of scientists represented in the report is 12 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the official IPCC 2007 report. (emphasis added)
The trouble with fear mongering is ‘the truth will come out.’ The truth is coming out on the Climate Change scam perpetrated by Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth and by nearly all of the Democrat Party. The scam has been so successful that Newt Gingrich (a conservative political strategist) looks at the polls and instructs the candidates on the right to move into the main stream on this issue. During the 2008 election campaign, John McCain had already taken this strategy trying to inflate support from the middle of the road voters and lost much of his base in the process only reigniting them by selecting Sarah Palin for VP. His timing could not have been worse for the campaign or the conservative movement. The successful sequence of a campaign operation is first, ignite your base and second, move to the middle. McCain started in the middle winning the biased media’s support and the Republican primary election, then moved right.
The myriad of grant grabbing pseudo-scientists out for taxpayer money, even at the expense of their credibility in collusion with the Democrat political party who use the pseudo-science to scare voters into supporting them (because they are the party who cares about the environment) are hoaring out their professional integrity. The effect on the citizens of the world was a cult of faith in pseudo science. The top climatologist in the industry, Richard Lindzen at MIT has long been working against this hoax along with 31,000 more scientists who have signed on by signing a petition denying man’s influence on the climate to any markable degree. Balance 31,000 scientists against the 2500 who signed the U.N. mandate. Even the top scientists who work for the U.N. now or have in the past are beginning to get off the Global Scam Bus. The U.N. has been using the Kyoto Treaty to defeat the United States’ ability to excel in the world’s trade economy by pressuring U.S. officials to sign onto carbon emission Caps and Trade, which again McCain supported and Barack Obama is now working to implement. The leaders of the world know and despise our success which is capable of financing a tremendous military with forward bases placed all over the world as well as pouring out trillions of taxpayer money to buy the friendship of key nations not to mention the credibility we buy with billions and possibly trillions at the president’s command to give disaster relief. If the U.N. can knock back the American wealth by placing heavy restrictions on America’s ability to produce, then the American wealth machine gets stunted by constricting its roots (production and trade) like a plant in a pot restricted from expansion and growth. In the present economic meltdown, this restriction on American productivity is the last thing Barack Obama needs to be pushing. So where do we stand now? Junk Science.com brings us up to speed.
It Didn’t Work Then, and it Won’t Work Now
We have all these culturally fond memories of the New Deal and how the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped to get us out of the Great Depression. Economic evaluation has demonstrated how it did just exactly the opposite. It extended the depression by as much as 10 years and made the low in 1938-39 much lower than it had to be.
Unfortunately, the current policy makers are making the very same mistakes, spending vast amounts of money to correct a problem when that money will be as poorly used as all bureaucracies use money. That money is better left in the market where it will be put to much better management. Understand that the government does not have any money to spend. It doesn’t have a stockpile and it doesn’t have a viable option of printing a stockpile. All that would do is make the money that does exist worthless. This government has a current debt load of $70,000,000,000,000 (seventy trillion dollars) including domestic entitlements and foreign obligations. All you ever hear about in the media is the foreign debt which is about 7 to 10 trillion dollars and rising rapidly. With each new spending package, we are incurring another trillion in debt load.
Worse, is the fact that the banking industry is being bought up by fiscal enemies of our nation and ideology. (Saudis and United Arab Emerites) This means that interest paid to the financial institutions is not recycled into our economy but exported along with the $700,000,000,000 (seven hundred billion) each year in the purchase of fossile fuels. All of this money is coming out of your pockets. It comes out in the form of income tax but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Consider that the company that sells you its products and services is paying sales taxes and corporate taxes and a myriad of other taxes. Here’s a little secret; they put the cost of those taxes into the price of their products so you, the consumer are paying those taxes. Given that little tidbit of information, the injustice of America’s tax system is robbing you of more than 40% of your total income and its rising. However the policy makers try to disquise their methods of procuring your hard earned dollars, it will always amount to robbing each one of you. Don’t be fooled by the speeches and the labels on the tax laws they want to incorporate into the 15,000 pages of tax code. Its all highway robbery of the American work force.
