‘This Book Galvanized the Murder of Millions’: Israeli Lawmaker Blasted After Tearing Up Copy of the New Testament
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The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called on the Israeli Parliament to censure one of its lawmakers for tearing up a copy of the New Testament in his office, and then distributing photos of himself doing it, according to reports.
Ironically coinciding with the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) convention in Washington, D.C., Michael Ben-Ari of the ultranationalist National Union Party was reportedly mailed a copy of the book (along with all of the other MKs) by Christian missionaries.
“This despicable book galvanized the murder of millions of Jews during the Inquisition and during auto-da-fe instances,” he was quoted as saying.
He reportedly continued: “This is an ugly missionary provocation by the church; this book and its senders should be in history’s trash can.”
(Related: 5 Killed in Violent Riots Over Koran Burning on U.S. Air Base in Afghanistan)
According to the AJC, Ben-Ari has a long record of open hostility towards Israel’s Arab citizens, and has even been prevented from visiting the U.S. because of his association with the extremist Kach movement, which is banned in Israel.
According to U.S. consular officials, the State Department claimed it had a responsibility to keep terrorists from entering the country.
Israeli officials have quickly and overwhelmingly condemned the desecration.
Government spokesman Mark Regev said: “We totally deplore this behavior and condemn it outright. This action stands in complete contrast to our values and our traditions. Israel is a tolerant society, but we have zero tolerance for this despicable and hateful act.”
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin even denied the man’s request to explain himself on Wednesday, telling him to “stop giving the Knesset a bad name.”
And MK Masud Gnaim, who is Muslim, slammed the action, adding: “As a Muslim, I respect all religions’ holy books.”
According to the Israeli site Haaretz, members of CUFI don’t seem to be too fazed by Ben-Ari’s behavior.
Joshua Ahrens, a student from Portland State University, said: “My support of Jews is unconditional. I was astonished how quickly Jewish people opened their hearts and minds to me, and [the] responsibility is on me to explain my motivations. So one person (Ben-Ari) doesn’t trouble me at all.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (329)
paperpushermj
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:21pmSir your analysis of cause and effect is wrong. If anything the not following the teachings found in the good Book led to the deaths of Millions.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:20pm@Bob_R_OathKeeper
Report Post »Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:52pm
‘I’d love to step on your head and smash it ‘
************
Spoken like a true Blazer!
LoneStarGigger
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:17pmI don’t care what a Jew does, they stopped be relevant when my Savior died on that tree. They no longer are the chosen people. They had their chance. And blew it. They know the only way to the Father is through the Son.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:24pmNot the chosen people anymore? Gosh I must have missed that memo
Report Post »jman-6
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:25pmI pray you recieve understanding that Israel n the Jew are GODs chosen people regardless of the cross! Remember he said “forgive them father for they know not what they do”. He went back to heaven and turned his attention to saving the Gentile after Israel rejected their messiah but he shall return to save Israel in Daniels 70th week. I’ll pray for you that you recieve forgiveness for your pride an the err of your ways!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:29pmChrist said the curtain in the temple would be torn in two. That’s what happened…Jews seperated from other Jews and become Chrstians who later accepted Gentiles into the faith which became Christianity. But the bible also tells us to bless Israel. I will always bless Israel to my dying breath. Oh..and I’m orthodox christian..not even an evangelical.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:09pm@LoneStarGigger
Replacement theology is not Biblical. You need to find yourself a new church.
Report Post »Rohawk
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:16pmGod has promised the jews 10 times the land area that it currently has. Since all His promises come true, why would he disown his people BEFORE fullfilling His promise?
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:16pmThanks God…..I get it now:
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Report Post »“I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”
-Revelation 2:9
The_Jerk
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:14pmHad the Jews of Judea not killed Christ, this would not even be an issue.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:21pmYou must be loving this thread. This is your moment in the sun, right? Lol.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:24pm“No man taketh my life from me. I have power to lay it down, I have power to take it again. This command have I received from my father.”
“The Good Shephard lay down his life for sheep. I am the Good Shephard…”
Seems to me that Jesus died willingly. And to be fair, only a small sect of Jews called for His execution. His Apostles and followers were all most all Jews so let’s not hang the “killing Jesus” tag on the Jews.
For the gospel came “to the Jew first, and then also to the Greek.”
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:25pmOh so you’re saying the new testament tells Christians to kill jews? Please show me where it says that.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:30pmchrist never existed.
AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:35pmreally INDIVIDUALISM? Tell that to historians, Josephus, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus. All hostile witnesses against Christ with nothing to gain by acknowledging his existence.
Report Post »Nice try champ.
AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:36pmWhat are you doing hiding up here BAIKIE? Too humiliated to answer you own idioces below?
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:06pm@indy
How do you know?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:14pmIt is a shame that he feels the way he does and his temper tantrum is noted. Jesus Christ is the essence of love. He taught love, He taught peace but He knew not all would believe.
Christians will continue to stand with Israel. This man and his opinion means less than nothing in the grand scheme of things but he will one day meet the Christ and know the truth.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:11pmHe must be a severely disturbed and mis-informed man. Unfortunately, I fear he is not alone.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:27pmYou mean their might be Two of them
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:21pmMillions or more dumb@ss.
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:10pmInstead of tearing up the New Testament, this Jew and all other Jews should be reading and believing it. No Jew can be saved without accepting Jesus as the Christ.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:14pmIt has nothing to do with Jews. Applies to all.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:13pm@Robert
“No Jew can be saved without accepting Jesus as the Christ.”
Jesus doesn’t need our acceptance, we need His. You have got to change your language to match the Bible, not to match worldly modern language.
Report Post »Thordomr
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:02pmStuff like this is what makes my head explode. Yea it was the book that at no point does it say kill ANYONE who doesn‘t believe and not the insane people who did it contrary to it’s teachings. Unlike the Koran that actually says kill infidels. As we all know Jesus was a jew killing machine! There only saving grace was he slipped and fell on that cross. 0.o
The only time blame can be attributed to a cause and not the people is when the tenants of that cause encourage or outright condones violence. And even then it‘s only partial blame because without evil people the cause can’t kill in and of itself.
Report Post »TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:33pmLuke 19:27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me
Sounds like killing for Jesus to me.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85MNzeAQn8
I‘m never bored when I’m killing for the lord.
Treaty
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:12pmIn Luke 19:27, is that Jesus saying that? Nah, didn’t think so. Typical liberal – distort a story to benefit your cause. More proof that the left has no bottom.
Report Post »TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:16pmOk Treaty since you are the bible scholar here, educate me. What does it mean?
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:47pmLuckily I have the text in front of me.
“I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my prescence.” (Luke 19:26-27)
The fallacy here is that these are the words of a king in a parable, not Jesus’ instructions to his followers. But I mean hey, it’s easy to miss in the modern communication age.
Moreover, on this site, a similar charge has been made about this particular passage by Bruce P.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/prominent-atheist-reportedly-vows-to-whip-the-koran-over-year-of-religious-diversity-resolution/
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DLV
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:53pm
Bruce- if you had done your research before drawing conclusions you might find out more about this parable. This parable is widly considered to be an end of times judgment parable. People’s rejection of Jesus as King is death or seperation from God. We all fall short. We are all sinners and do not deserve heaven but yet God gives us mercy. When we spit in God‘s face about his gift when he didn’t even need to do it is well… not good to say the least. This parable is not a command to people to go kill others who do not believe rather it is about the rejection of Jesus at the end times. Do your homework please. Who else would the King be in this story if not God? It‘s pretty obvious it’s a referen
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:48pmDLV said it better than I could have
http://www.theblaze.com/users/dlv/
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:54pmsorry for the triple post, I’m anal about proper citation (I’m glad there is a 1500 character limit. on most other sites, like Newgrounds, the users ramble on and on and on and on and on and on and on
here’s the full quote without the cutoff
“Bruce- if you had done your research before drawing conclusions you might find out more about this parable. This parable is widly considered to be an end of times judgment parable. People’s rejection of Jesus as King is death or seperation from God. We all fall short. We are all sinners and do not deserve heaven but yet God gives us mercy. When we spit in God‘s face about his gift when he didn’t even need to do it is well… not good to say the least. This parable is not a command to people to go kill others who do not believe rather it is about the rejection of Jesus at the end times. Do your homework please. Who else would the King be in this story if not God? It‘s pretty obvious it’s a reference to the final judgment.”
Report Post »Thordomr
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:45pmSo I suppose you should do this before you kill them right? Matthew 5:44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
“Hey, I just want you to know I love you before you die. Enjoy the rest of your life.” That’s how it works right?
Report Post »DLV
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:30pmThe Cabrito Goat- thanks I appreciate that. I also noticed Sleazys amazing intelligence the other day. He is quite brilliant. Good defender of the faith! Again thanks for posting for me :)
@ Thordomr- Maybe I’m just being stupid but I honestly, don’t know what you believe in. It seems you argued both sides in two posts….
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:02pmConsidering the Old Testament (The Bible to Jews) predicts this exact kind of behavior from Jews, I find this very funny. He is actually disproving his own point by trying to prove his point!!
I also find it funny when one religion bashes another. As a Jew, I assume he believes Moses went up the mountain, spoke to God, and came down with The Ten Commandments. Is that more believable than God sending his Son in human form? Or God sending mana down from heaven to sustain them 40 years in the desert?
If he had any BALLS, he would be tearing up the Koran… Seriously, how difficult is it to rave about Christians when you know they won’t strike back? Kind of like a 6′4″ 250 lb hoodlim mugging an unarmed 85 year old lady. It is not courageous, it is cowardly…
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:18pmOne of the best aspects of Israel is that it tolerates the ultra-right and the ultra-left. It allows them to voice themselvs without serious reprisals. I respect his right to tear up the bible as an Israeli citizen. It saddens me that he did it however.
Report Post »You know as well as I do that Israel’s firmest allies in America are the evangelical Christians, not the liberal jews. Christians know today that the to bless Israel is to be blessed by God. Ben Ari knows this too but his resentment of medieval injustices on Jews prevents him from acknowledging the world today. God will open his eyes sooner or later. His enemy isn’t Christianity, it’s Islam and Marxism.
The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:51pmThe thing about Israel is that they have communists in their parliament, libertarians in their parliament, but the two opposing groups have one thing in common: their love of Israel.
Can we say the same?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:59pmAuto de fey? What’s the auto de fey? It‘s what you ought’nt to do, but you do anyway!
Report Post »JosephsMyth
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:51pmFirstly, there were thousands, not millions killed in the Inquisition. Secondly, I wish American Evangelicals would focus more on the Jewish Messiah and less on supporting all things Isreal. I sometimes wonder if the John Hagee types worship Jews and their state more than Jesus.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:59pmNope, we worship God and stand by Israel.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:11pmI didn’t want to be perceived as petty..but that’s correct. It was in the thousands..not millions. Jews of course were persecuted throughout Europe and Russia at various times in the middle ages. During the first and second Crusades, some fuedal leaders took it upon themselves to begin killing Jews in Europe using the bible as their justification claiming “Christ killers”..etc. Jews in synagogues were burned alive.
Report Post »The Latin Church actively opposed the attacks on jews, and local clergy often came to the defense of Jews in their communities. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, told the crusaders, “The Jews are not to be persecuted, killed, or even put to flight.” When a fellow monk began demanding for Germans to destroy the Jews before heading for war on the Muslims, St. Bernard went personally to address it and stop it.
AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:13pmGod told us to bless Israel and he will bless us. I’m not going to argue with God.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:15pm“I sometimes wonder if the John Hagee types worship Jews and their state more than Jesus.”
Well, you sometimes wonder wrong. Supporting Israel is something we choose to do becaause we believe the Jews are still God’s chosen people. And we believe that we will be blessed for being a blessing to the Jews (See Genesis Chp. 12) That’s does not mean we support everything every Isarali does anymore than we support everything an American does.
If you don’t want to support Israel, fine. Don‘t worry about what we’re doing. Accusing us of idolotry because of a political disagreement is real classy.
Report Post »JosephsMyth
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:16pm@MOMRULES,
I’m guessing the Palestinian Christians wished that American Evangelicals would choose to stand by them. You would think with the millions raised to “Stand with Israel”, the American church could find some money for their brothers and sisters in Christ being persecuted in the Holy Land.
Report Post »rt elms
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:16pmMom – Amen!!!
Report Post »jman-6
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:19pmWe do as commanded in the Bible by standing with Israel and praying for peace in Jerusalem. He plainly states the consequences for willfully disobeying this! This is not idolatry like u incinuate. Take a look at your own closet before u make idiotic statements!!
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:27pm@AvengerK
Report Post »Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:11pm
‘… The Latin Church actively opposed the attacks on jews, and local clergy often came to the defense of Jews in their communities.’
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You are so right. It was neither the church nor the feudal lords that carried out attacks on Jews in Western Europe–it was the peasant mobs. The Catholic Church tried to protect the jews in most cases. In Eastern Europe, the story is different. The Orthodox Church is dark and ignorant. There is no scholastic, academic tradition like in the Catholic Church, no patronage of arts and sciences and education. There is mysticism only, and vulgar power struggles, and blind ritual.
SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:28pm“I’m guessing the Palestinian Christians wished that American Evangelicals would choose to stand by them.”
Are you suggesting that Palestenian christians are against the Jews? Do you know any? I have arab christians in my church form Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Guess what, they’re pro-Israel. Try again.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:30pm@ Jo…it is the enemies of Israel who are persecuting Christians. Standing with Israel is also standing against her enemies. It would be Palestinian islamists who are persecuting all Christians and all Jews and even fellow Palestinians of any faith. So what is it you are trying to say?
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:42pmYo Josephsmyth:
You sound like a man looking just to argue which scripture tells us not to do. If you see a need to reach out and help the Palistinian christians why don’t you see to it, instead of being critical of those who stand with Israel and harbor NO ill will toward the group of people you speak of.
See a need, fill a need … looks like you got work to do
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:43pmSQUID…Israel welcomes Christian Palestinians. Ony a third of Iraqi christians remain in Iraq. Egypt’s fundamentalists have been burning down Christian churches there. Throughout the muslim world, Christians are being targeted for persecution. What does Israel do? It has the Dome of the Rock for Muslims, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians as well as the Garden of Gethsemane and numerous other Christian sites..while it has to accept a portion of the Western wall from it’s holiest site (the great temple) because Islam won’t allow Jews to excavate any further than the boundary of the wall which leads into the dome of the rock.
Report Post »I’d say Israel is pretty d@mn tolerant of all faiths to the point of settling for a portion of a destroyed wall for it’s faith.
JosephsMyth
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:46pm“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:28
God does not have two distinct people. He has one people — “for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” There is nothing mystical or special about Jewish DNA. They are in need of a savior just like anyone else and their state is not perfect. Christian Zionists seem to think that the Jewish people are some how better than the Arab and that their state can do no wrong.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:54pmBAIKIE…did you believe that being shrill was going to hide your idiocy? You mislead yourself.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:11pmActually BAIKIE…feudal lords and leaders did indeed carry out persecutions of Jews in Europe. Why do you deny open, accepted and recorded history?
Report Post »Example?
In 612 Sisebut, the Visigothic ruler of Spain, ordered the Jews in his kingdom to release their slaves and accept baptism or be expelled.
King Dagobert of the Franks ordered the expulsion of the Jews in his lands in 629.
Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124) reported that the Crusaders of Rouen said: “we desire to combat the enemies of God in the East; but we have under our eyes the Jews, a race more inimical to God than all the others… The crusaders, egged on by preachers like Peter the Hermit and others, began to murder and pillage throughout the Rhine valley.
694: The 17th Church Council of Toledo, Spain defined Jews as the serfs of the prince
722: Leo III outlawed Judaism. Jews were baptized against their will.
1096: The First Crusade. Although the prime goal of the crusades was to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, Jews were a second target. As the soldiers passed through Europe on the way to the Holy Land, large numbers of Jews were killed.
1099: The Crusaders forced all of the Jews of Jerusalem into a central synagogue and set it on fire. Those who tried to escape were forced back into the burning building.
1121: Jews were exiled from Flanders
1180: The French King of France, Philip Augustus, arbitrarily seized all Jewish property and expelled Jews.
2012: BAIKONUR is an idiot.
GoodStuff
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:17pm@JosephSmyth
—”I wish American Evangelicals would focus more on the Jewish Messiah and less on supporting all things Isreal.”
I wish American Mormons would focus more on the Bible and less on a cult founded by a guy who claims he found extra “gospels” written on tablets and buried in woods in New York.
Dumb…dumb…dumb….dumb….dumb….
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:19pmBAIKIE..perhaps you forget the Byzantines? Icons, Structures like Hagia Sophia. Constantinople ring a bell champ? Oh yeah that’s right…the greatest city in Christendom of the time..hub of commerce and the Christian church. Seat of Constantine’s Kingdom the first Christian King.
Report Post »Do you recall that the orthodox church kept the Greek language alive with secret schools because the Ottoman Turks (read: Muslims) outlawed the teaching of the Greek language? Yes champ..Greeks speak Greek today because the Orthodox church saved their language and culture.
Idiot…
JosephsMyth
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:27pm@GOODSTUFF
“I wish American Mormons would focus more on the Bible and less on a cult founded by a guy who claims he found extra “gospels” written on tablets and buried in woods in New York.
Dumb…dumb…dumb….dumb….dumb….”
we completely agree on the above..and get my name right please.
Report Post »– Joseph’s Myth
judeslice
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:38pm@avengerk &@Kaydeebeau
Report Post »The idea that “Latin” church did not harbor, partake in and foster hate towards the Jewish people is not correct. The hated and the movement away from the Jews is record in the history books. The church fathers, many of the synods and councils, popes, martin Luther, Calvin, things like replacement theology, all harbor Ill-will for the Jews. Some of this was out of hate, some of it was out of survival, but to say the church had no hand in blood libel, burring, rapping, killing of the Jews is not true. Here is the problem we must always seek the truth, and the truth is that the church forested hatred against the Jewish people, and so many still do. And it goes beyond the middle ages all the way up to the Holocaust, and to today. There are plenty of examples of churchmen doing the wrong things, like the majority of Catholics and Protestants who did nothing during the holocaust, nothing. Did some do good things through the ages yes, but to act like the church was not involved with the killing, burning, and rapping of Jews is wrong. It happened.
cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:46pmthe spirit of that man has moved about for the last 2000 yrs …only now its growing stronger and stronger….lol but what he doesnt understand is that as christians we have JESUS CHRIST and as it is written…we can do all things through christ who strenghtens us…….i wouldnt cast my pearls at that swine…lol and that goes for progressives too…
Report Post »john vincent
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:44pmAs much as I may not approve, he has every right to do that; as do I have the right to burn a koran, or read a bible. He has used an object and made his point. Maybe one day, he will read what he just tore up, and take note that the very opening of that book reads: Abraham, Issaac, and Jacob; knitting together what was once ‘old.‘ Be careful not to judge a mans’ life by one moment of weakness.
Report Post »DangerMike
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:43pmDEATH! Cut off his Head! Murder his children! Abuse and Kill thousands of completely unrelated innocents! Errr… No, wait; Thats Islam.
Report Post »Never mind.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:43pmI think he has the New Testament mixed up with the OTHER book that caused millions of deaths “Everybody Poops”.
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:08pmNow that is a sj1t way to go…
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:43pmThe book “New Testament” had nothing to do with the murder of anyone! It is always the work of bigots such as he is. The New Testament is the most peace and love oriented writing in history, so I won’t mention the prohibitive laws in Israel the are imposed on property ownership for Christians.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:43pmYou mean with that handful of Christian haters? Then yeah, he would fit right in with those trolls.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:41pmI’m not surprised many Jews will be critical of Christianity and missionary attempts in converting them to Christianity. With anti-missionary groups like Jews for Judaism, Outreach Judaism; there are many more out there. A lot of Jews don’t want missionaries converting Jews because of their strong beliefs in Judaism.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:20pmTheir beliefs are so strong that they warn people of leaving messianic posts on their websites because they are afraid of being converted. I find this hiliarious. I’m a born – again christian. You could lock me up in a buddhist temple for 10 years and when I come out, I will still be a born-again christian! If their faith is so strong, what are they worried about?
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:28pmA lot of Jews are easy to convert and to Jews will no longer be consider Jewish because they will become Christians. Jews do not believe in Jesus in any shape or form. They do not see him as a God, or a prophet, or the promised Messiah, or even a real figure. I do not believe in Jesus but it is interesting to learn about Judaism and Christianity.
Report Post »BOSSMASTER
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:49pmJews do too look at jesus as a real figure. The talmud, the jews holy of holy’s far surpassing the old testament. Go see that the talmud speaks in depth about jesus, mary, his father, his brohter, his jobs, his life and much much more. Are you saying the jews wrote tons about him by name and they don’t even acknowledge him as a figure. What? What a joke. Did you know that the zodiacs weren’t divided and named until 1000 years after jesus day. How could his disciples represent the 12 constellations. Jesus, hahah, is not allegory. Go youtube what the talmud says about jesus. Sorry to educate you but you are waaaaaay off base with this, jesus never existed bologna. The bankers must have jesus out of your minds. The masons started all the new age churches and paid, yes, your preacher to send you to the masons religion of so called light. They are con men, their light leads you into debt slavery. Nesta webster wrote that the rothschilds said that the masons will be their useful idiots. Well, look around. Hahahhahaha the judeo masonics, which include, scientology, mormons. Mormons have degrees just like masons. It’s basically little mafia working together for the benefit of themselves. It’s the taboo. And little facts like, abe lincoln was really a.A. Springs son, real name a.A. Springstein. From the house of rothschild. A.A. Financed the carpet baggers, judeo masonic rats stealing the south by design. Lincoln never saw a log cabin or split a rail,a cou
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:41pmIf he had lived a couple thousand years ago, Ben-Ari would have been in the croud shouting “crucify him, crucify him”.
Report Post »namron019
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:51pmThe said thing is that we all would have been chanting that before we got saved. Acknowledgement of one true hostility to God is the major step in conversion. We were all once rebels against Gods throne. We refuse to give up the throne of our own heart. In God’s mercy and grace he reveled the truth to us and gave us the opportunity to repent.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:13pmI don’t disagree with the heart of what you said, but I don’t believe I would have waved palm branches and shouted Hosanna one week and crucify him the next. I know I wouldn’t have.
Report Post »TomSawyer
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:21pmnamron019, John didn’t. He stood at the foot of the cross with his mom Mary.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:40pmBaikonur – crawl back in your worm hole.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:39pmAccording to U.S. consular officials, the State Department claimed it had a responsibility to keep terrorists from entering the country.
^Now that is funny^.
Tearing up the NT is not funny.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:38pmYeah..BAIKIE..that’s why a pro-Israel, pro-Christian, pro-conservative website posted a story on an Israeli condemning christians.
Report Post »You’re an idiot.
amerbur
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:36pmHe deserves no attention.
Report Post »M13
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:44pmI agree with you, he’s not dampening my faith one little bit.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:34pmThis is at the same time… one of the ugly aspects and one of the beautiful aspects of Israel. Israel has one of the most tolerant societies in the world..allowing both the ultra-left and ultra-right a voice in their society. Unlike their Farsi and Arab neighbours who silence opposition and dissent to the point of death.
Report Post »It saddens me to see a Jewish cousin tear up the New Testament…but I respect his freedom as an Israeli to do it..he also now has to deal with the consquences of his uncalled for behaviour.