Why has this site seen a huge turn towards Christian shit? It smells waaay off. Like, Russel Brand and all these other influencers turn Christian and this forum becomes overrun with worshippers of the Lord God of Israel via the Jesus psy op.
Why have TPTB decided to shove Christianity down everyones throats and flood boards with Christian bots etc?
Are they trying to strengthen their grip over us spiritually by reinforcing their original deception or what?
I will look into this and thank you for the challenge. I'll search by the key words you provided since you didn't link relevant scripture, the only words that matter are God's words on the matter.
If I may ask you, do you know who are all the Israelites in our present time? It's something I'm trying to figure out also.
The challenge, as you put it, is deep. While it certainly is an opportunity to grow, it's not the easiest step to take, and neither is it a small one. I urge you to pray, to see if God even wants you addressing this in your own walk at this time.
I suggest that exploring what SS is into is an essential prerequisite to this topic, broadly. Also that Jewish teaching on this includes many perspectives, none of which deserve to be ignored. I seriously doubt that OP has the patience for any of this, if he has even a drop of sincerity. Hopefully I'm proven wrong about that, but it's not a light matter.
I very much appreciate your thoughts. I am praying but could also be praying better, so thanks. I think this conversation is a long time coming between me and Jacobin and I'm willing to proceed.
Good!
Personally, I'd like him to pick ONE instance of "genocide," a completely anachronistic term, and to discuss that one reasonably from every angle until it's exhausted.
The basic issues include the teaching tool of moral dilemma, which appears countless times throughout the OT. It's designed to cultivate critical thinking. This idea completely clashes with the bias he inherently brings to the topic. It will help him to discover the source of that bias; he mentioned a prior gf and I imagine she DID influence him, but I bet he'll discover earlier influences in his life. That will be key.
My interest here is solely to help him understand the literature in question, which is in fact difficult. It's also richly rewarding! Just at the level of literature.
Try searching Sephardi, Mizrahi, marranos. They love being called white colonizers. ;)
He has a point. Following Jesus can seem subversive to ones country, govt (which used to include the respective religious cult as a means of social peace through appeasement to one's deities) and ethne if one does not have a high view of the truthfulness of scripture or see it's narrative being reflected in reality.
I will look into those because I don't understand right now.
God's law supercedes human law or other, as far as I understand things. This has not gone well previously and I know it will not go well in the future, but I do know it will be well with my soul to follow God, even if that means breaking human laws and facing the consequences. Thinking about Matthew 10:28
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Following Jesus is EXACTLY why the US was founded!
I don't think anyone knows really. They're apparently 'lost'. Some circles claim that Europeans are made up of Israelite tribes and that the Danes, for example, are named for the tribe of Dan.
Other still might suggest that the Ethiopians are definitely in there.
Others still that black people in general but particularly those in America are part of the lost tribes (Black Hebrew Israelites).
They've probably been diluted out of existence through mixing. Perhaps the entire story is mythical. Perhaps there is just jews.
You cannot be diluted out of existence, God holds dear His creation.