My favorite part is how the troons movement, the one world government and the creation of an intermixed mongrel race is all based on the Kabbalistic idea of transcending the opposites and restoring the primal oneness of everything (dissolution of borders and distinctions), exemplified in Adam Kadmon. The entire agenda follows their Tikkun Olam idea of creating an utopian socially engineered society ruled by the Antichrist. It's international corporate socialism or simply put - Lennon's Imagine.
Question: Assuming you're saying that the Orthodox Church is the way to make America truly Christian, do you think the Church has the capacity to incorporate massive conversions given its 1-3 years of catechizing without facing the dilemma it (the Church) faced in the 4th century with parts of it being accused of loosening its conversion standards too laxly?
That is, it seems the solution requires more than just the Orthodox Church has to offer in the earthly sense. In the heavenly sense, clearly whatever God is doing invisibly is to the benefit of the Orthodox Church and will suffice, but it doesn't look to me like he will solely work through Orthodox auspices without some kind of big deal-signing with other nominal Christians. Thanks as always.
"Many are called but few are chosen" (Mat 22:14). Numbers don't matter. The Church has always applied oikonomia.
That is, it seems the solution requires more than just the Orthodox Church has to offer in the earthly sense. In the heavenly sense, clearly whatever God is doing invisibly is to the benefit of the Orthodox Church and will suffice, but it doesn't look to me like he will solely work through Orthodox auspices without some kind of big deal-signing with other nominal Christians. Thanks as always.
All people are called to the Church but the Body of Christ is just one. There are no Christians outside the Church because the fullness of God's grace and the sacraments are only in His Church. This is like saying it's unlikely that God would choose only the person of Jesus Christ's auspices and not a group of messiahs to do the work of preaching the gospel. No it's not. Christ is one and His Church is one. Always has been and always will be.
Well, if it's not physically feasible then either it won't happen that way or it'll be a miracle (spectacle), and either way it'll be good. I won't be absent from the catechumens when the Revolution comes.
Your premise is incorrect. Christians allover the world were received in large numbers historically and Christianity didn't suffer from it neither the doctrines or canons changed because of it.
Interesting take! Pulling some good historical quotes, and some less inspired ones.
"The Jewish financed Hussite revolution led by Jan Hus, gained cooperation with the Jews in Bohemia due to their shared affinity with Judaism and undermining the authority of the Catholic Church." Ah, but Luther turned against the Jews, so if they infiltrated anything then we are free to exfiltrate it. For instance, even as a moderate Sola Scriptura guy I've also recovered the place of Christian Tradition that would be, in this theory, what the Jewish force is allegedly trying to get me to lose.
"By 1517, the Jews who controlled the spice trade began reinvesting their profits into the printing industry .... secret trafficking of unauthorized and heretical biblical translations." Sure, they likely also made Luther the first grassroots meme. More important, the Fugger bank caused the whole indulgence controversy in the first place with its loan to Albrecht.
"Kabbalistic manipulation ... in the following two ways. First, in the internal emphasis on salvation as an alchemical process of self-enlightenment through the transmutation of a new man. Second, as external actions to hasten eschatological events by replacing the old Christian order with a new messianic Jewish kingdom on earth." Hmm, the new creation is actually Pauline and alchemy is the counterfeit; and millennial eschatology seems to be the original majority view, after which being nice to the amillennials led to the present watery stance. So I'd agree Jewish kabbalism resonated with this but didn't create them.
"Studying Jewish texts and rabbinical traditions as part of an eschatological mission to convert Jews to Christianity." Yes, it has its validities and dangers, like all evangelism only more so.
"It’s safe to say Yates is correct in stating that this remolding of Christianity is nothing more than a new manifestation of the ancient judaizing heresy." No, because neither of these are clearly defined. Judaizing is forcing laws on others involuntarily. Christian evangelistic sifting of kabbalah was not done by force.
Catholics did force Protestants and Protestants replied in kind for awhile, but that's a different case. For conspiracy's sake, it's interesting to note that the first blood shed in the Reformation was the Knights' War led by Franz von Sickingen and Ulrich von Hutten, influenced by Johann Reuchlin (uncle of Melanchthon), who is painted by OP as the kabbalist. They seized upon action against Luther to try to overthrow Catholic polity, acting against archbishop and emperor, attacking Richard of Trier but getting attacked back, which killed Sickingen. The knights' objections were then reflected in the larger Peasants' War, which has unclear causes but was clearly the result of "community organization" starting in Stuhlingen. So the religious wars were started by landowners who weren't Protestant or Lutheran (though they were friendly with Luther) and then by organized peasants, both of which attacked the Catholic structure with the clear assistance of the printing press and coordinated philosophy but without direct reference to Luther other than using his case as a banner to wave. So in terms of a demonic network setting up a major attack on church unity, yeah the fingerprints are there; similarly, the Catholic structure failing to give Luther a fair hearing could also have been the result of calculated manipulation. So I will agree with bookmarking Johann Reuchlin (a student of David Kimchi) as possibly used as an anti-Church provocateur and foil of converso Johannes Pfefferkorn.
Luther is quoted on Sola Fide as "These are those adorable mysteries of Scripture and vera cabala, which even Moses in some places indistinctly indicated, which the prophets and apostles knew." To me this supports the idea that he sought the apostolic original and used "cabala" in the same sense as Paul used the word "received" (H6901, Greek in 1 Cor. 15). Tabletalk 805 refers positively to alchymy as herbal and metallurgic and symbolic of resurrection, which again indicates the same desire to sift the work of others. Father Seraphim Rose adds, Luther "consulted rabbis to construct his text, and that text was, therefore, skewed in favor of judaizing". The similarity between the Lutheran and Rosicrucian seals is also noted.
Funny: "The Calvinists justified their violent iconoclastic crusades of 1566 with Calvin’s doctrines and were never explicitly condemned by the reformer" (yeah, because he died in 1564). And: "Perhaps for Zwingli and Calvin, the clarity of Scriptures came not from a clear reading of Exodus 20:4, which does not detail what constitutes a graven image, but from the Babylonian Talmud" (wholly speculative). And: "Cotton Mather even went on to develop the teaching that Native Americans were of Jewish ancestry, an idea so influential it later became a core doctrine of Mormon theology" (guilt by association).
"Increase Mather .... interest in Jewish mysticism was particularly sparked by the Sabbatean movement led by Sabbatai Zevi in the 1660s." Sounds more rational than the prior paragraph, but is also inconsequential. Quaker George Keith writes favorablly on kabbalah to counteract Jacob Bohme's favor of kabbalah, sounds more like the sifting mechanism than the infiltration mechanism.
"H[ie]romonk Job Gumerov reminds us: 'This occult numerical and alphabetic magic has nothing to do with the meaning of Scripture. Biblical texts do not continue any code or cipher.'" Not true, Matthew used 14 as code for David, John used 666 as code, Jeremiah used atbash subsitution cipher twice for Babylon, acrostics and anagrams are pervasive, etc. The question is the right use of gematria as opposed to the rampant abuse.
"These esoteric symbols we carry with us on our currency to this day should serve as a reminder that the American ethos was not established upon anything that resembles apostolic Christianity, but a form of Christian Humanism synthesized with revolutionary Kabbalistic doctrines." I think they represent the warfare over America using ambiguous symbols that testify of multiple strands of domination claims over it.
Davening is sexual? Noted.
"The first Noahide law contains an explicit prohibition of idolatry punishable by death, which incriminates Christians for their worship of Christ." Not true, because Noahide courts over Gentiles are run by Gentiles, not Jews, so Gentiles get to decide if Christianity is idolatry or not. "On March 26, 1991 the U.S. Congress, under the presidency of George H.W. Bush, established the Seven Noachide Laws as Public Law 102-14 in honor of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch." Good, a test. Full text below, and it does not establish the Noahide Laws but proclaims an Education Day and mentions "these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws" (not as interpreted by Jews but by the earliest civilizations).
"One might argue that regardless of the Hebrew word not appearing in the Bible, the doctrine of Shekinah as a manifestation of God’s glory is biblically sound; yet the mere usage of this exclusively rabbinical term begs the question: How did it end up in Protestant theology?" "Shekinah" is from the common Biblical word "shakan" for dwelling, and the dwelling of God is a common Biblical theme without specifying that particular inflection of the word. Using a Hebrew inflection to describe a Hebrew thought is perfectly acceptable, that's where we get words like "Abba", which I don't believe is in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Conclusion: "This goes to show that throughout the centuries, Protestant theologians have maintained their own type of oral and written transmission of rabbinical thought, whether knowingly or unknowingly." Well, the issue is what is truth because it would be expected that the rabbis would retain a little truth that can be sifted as background for Christians. We can't blacklist a doctrine solely because rabbis have said it, since everything rabbis say is supposedly from our own Hebrew Scriptures, so there must be a reason for them saying it. Even if a rabbi speaks a blatant falsehood (as they do), the issue is not that it's rabbinical but that it's clearly false.
Therefore it's still disappointing. Yes, kabbalah influences Protestants and founding fathers as it did many of the Church's original fathers, who rely on gematric and rabbinical reasoning. What I'd have looked for with such a title would have been a distinction between truths that Christianity has in common with kabbalah and falsehoods of kabbalah not found in Christianity (or Orthodoxy if you prefer). Instead I got "kabbalah bad" without any recognition that the first Christian creed in 1 Cor. 15:3-4, when translated into the Hebrew thought that pervaded it, states that it is literally kabbalah (formally received).
Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical
values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and
upon which our great Nation was founded;
Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock
of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as
the Seven Noahide Laws;
Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of
civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos;
Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening
of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and
threaten the fabric of civilized society;
Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let
the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to
transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished
past to the generations of the future;
Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these
ethical values and principles throughout the world;
Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the
Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his
eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26,1991;
Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, "the rebbe", this,
his ninetieth year will be seen as one of "education and giving",
the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the
world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven
Noahide Laws; and
Whereas this will be reflected in an international scroll of honor
signed by the President of the United States and other heads of
state: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That March 26,
1991, the start of the ninetieth year of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson,
leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, is designated as
"Education Day, U.S.A.". The President is requested to issue a
proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe
such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Approved March 20, 1991
You can't downvote the truth away. Here's the uncomfortable truth:
Protestants, your subverted form of Christianity is revolutionary occult judaism.
Americans, your country was created not by Christians, but by judaizers, freemasons and occultists.
Both are integral parts of the NWO we live in.
The good news is you can accept this truth and look forward to making your country truly Christian. Only the Truth (JC) will set you free.
Go on.
My favorite part is how the troons movement, the one world government and the creation of an intermixed mongrel race is all based on the Kabbalistic idea of transcending the opposites and restoring the primal oneness of everything (dissolution of borders and distinctions), exemplified in Adam Kadmon. The entire agenda follows their Tikkun Olam idea of creating an utopian socially engineered society ruled by the Antichrist. It's international corporate socialism or simply put - Lennon's Imagine.
Question: Assuming you're saying that the Orthodox Church is the way to make America truly Christian, do you think the Church has the capacity to incorporate massive conversions given its 1-3 years of catechizing without facing the dilemma it (the Church) faced in the 4th century with parts of it being accused of loosening its conversion standards too laxly?
That is, it seems the solution requires more than just the Orthodox Church has to offer in the earthly sense. In the heavenly sense, clearly whatever God is doing invisibly is to the benefit of the Orthodox Church and will suffice, but it doesn't look to me like he will solely work through Orthodox auspices without some kind of big deal-signing with other nominal Christians. Thanks as always.
"Many are called but few are chosen" (Mat 22:14). Numbers don't matter. The Church has always applied oikonomia.
All people are called to the Church but the Body of Christ is just one. There are no Christians outside the Church because the fullness of God's grace and the sacraments are only in His Church. This is like saying it's unlikely that God would choose only the person of Jesus Christ's auspices and not a group of messiahs to do the work of preaching the gospel. No it's not. Christ is one and His Church is one. Always has been and always will be.
Well, if it's not physically feasible then either it won't happen that way or it'll be a miracle (spectacle), and either way it'll be good. I won't be absent from the catechumens when the Revolution comes.
Your premise is incorrect. Christians allover the world were received in large numbers historically and Christianity didn't suffer from it neither the doctrines or canons changed because of it.
Interesting take! Pulling some good historical quotes, and some less inspired ones.
"The Jewish financed Hussite revolution led by Jan Hus, gained cooperation with the Jews in Bohemia due to their shared affinity with Judaism and undermining the authority of the Catholic Church." Ah, but Luther turned against the Jews, so if they infiltrated anything then we are free to exfiltrate it. For instance, even as a moderate Sola Scriptura guy I've also recovered the place of Christian Tradition that would be, in this theory, what the Jewish force is allegedly trying to get me to lose.
"By 1517, the Jews who controlled the spice trade began reinvesting their profits into the printing industry .... secret trafficking of unauthorized and heretical biblical translations." Sure, they likely also made Luther the first grassroots meme. More important, the Fugger bank caused the whole indulgence controversy in the first place with its loan to Albrecht.
"Kabbalistic manipulation ... in the following two ways. First, in the internal emphasis on salvation as an alchemical process of self-enlightenment through the transmutation of a new man. Second, as external actions to hasten eschatological events by replacing the old Christian order with a new messianic Jewish kingdom on earth." Hmm, the new creation is actually Pauline and alchemy is the counterfeit; and millennial eschatology seems to be the original majority view, after which being nice to the amillennials led to the present watery stance. So I'd agree Jewish kabbalism resonated with this but didn't create them.
"Studying Jewish texts and rabbinical traditions as part of an eschatological mission to convert Jews to Christianity." Yes, it has its validities and dangers, like all evangelism only more so.
"It’s safe to say Yates is correct in stating that this remolding of Christianity is nothing more than a new manifestation of the ancient judaizing heresy." No, because neither of these are clearly defined. Judaizing is forcing laws on others involuntarily. Christian evangelistic sifting of kabbalah was not done by force.
Catholics did force Protestants and Protestants replied in kind for awhile, but that's a different case. For conspiracy's sake, it's interesting to note that the first blood shed in the Reformation was the Knights' War led by Franz von Sickingen and Ulrich von Hutten, influenced by Johann Reuchlin (uncle of Melanchthon), who is painted by OP as the kabbalist. They seized upon action against Luther to try to overthrow Catholic polity, acting against archbishop and emperor, attacking Richard of Trier but getting attacked back, which killed Sickingen. The knights' objections were then reflected in the larger Peasants' War, which has unclear causes but was clearly the result of "community organization" starting in Stuhlingen. So the religious wars were started by landowners who weren't Protestant or Lutheran (though they were friendly with Luther) and then by organized peasants, both of which attacked the Catholic structure with the clear assistance of the printing press and coordinated philosophy but without direct reference to Luther other than using his case as a banner to wave. So in terms of a demonic network setting up a major attack on church unity, yeah the fingerprints are there; similarly, the Catholic structure failing to give Luther a fair hearing could also have been the result of calculated manipulation. So I will agree with bookmarking Johann Reuchlin (a student of David Kimchi) as possibly used as an anti-Church provocateur and foil of converso Johannes Pfefferkorn.
Luther is quoted on Sola Fide as "These are those adorable mysteries of Scripture and vera cabala, which even Moses in some places indistinctly indicated, which the prophets and apostles knew." To me this supports the idea that he sought the apostolic original and used "cabala" in the same sense as Paul used the word "received" (H6901, Greek in 1 Cor. 15). Tabletalk 805 refers positively to alchymy as herbal and metallurgic and symbolic of resurrection, which again indicates the same desire to sift the work of others. Father Seraphim Rose adds, Luther "consulted rabbis to construct his text, and that text was, therefore, skewed in favor of judaizing". The similarity between the Lutheran and Rosicrucian seals is also noted.
Funny: "The Calvinists justified their violent iconoclastic crusades of 1566 with Calvin’s doctrines and were never explicitly condemned by the reformer" (yeah, because he died in 1564). And: "Perhaps for Zwingli and Calvin, the clarity of Scriptures came not from a clear reading of Exodus 20:4, which does not detail what constitutes a graven image, but from the Babylonian Talmud" (wholly speculative). And: "Cotton Mather even went on to develop the teaching that Native Americans were of Jewish ancestry, an idea so influential it later became a core doctrine of Mormon theology" (guilt by association).
"Increase Mather .... interest in Jewish mysticism was particularly sparked by the Sabbatean movement led by Sabbatai Zevi in the 1660s." Sounds more rational than the prior paragraph, but is also inconsequential. Quaker George Keith writes favorablly on kabbalah to counteract Jacob Bohme's favor of kabbalah, sounds more like the sifting mechanism than the infiltration mechanism.
"H[ie]romonk Job Gumerov reminds us: 'This occult numerical and alphabetic magic has nothing to do with the meaning of Scripture. Biblical texts do not continue any code or cipher.'" Not true, Matthew used 14 as code for David, John used 666 as code, Jeremiah used atbash subsitution cipher twice for Babylon, acrostics and anagrams are pervasive, etc. The question is the right use of gematria as opposed to the rampant abuse.
"These esoteric symbols we carry with us on our currency to this day should serve as a reminder that the American ethos was not established upon anything that resembles apostolic Christianity, but a form of Christian Humanism synthesized with revolutionary Kabbalistic doctrines." I think they represent the warfare over America using ambiguous symbols that testify of multiple strands of domination claims over it.
Davening is sexual? Noted.
"The first Noahide law contains an explicit prohibition of idolatry punishable by death, which incriminates Christians for their worship of Christ." Not true, because Noahide courts over Gentiles are run by Gentiles, not Jews, so Gentiles get to decide if Christianity is idolatry or not. "On March 26, 1991 the U.S. Congress, under the presidency of George H.W. Bush, established the Seven Noachide Laws as Public Law 102-14 in honor of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch." Good, a test. Full text below, and it does not establish the Noahide Laws but proclaims an Education Day and mentions "these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws" (not as interpreted by Jews but by the earliest civilizations).
"One might argue that regardless of the Hebrew word not appearing in the Bible, the doctrine of Shekinah as a manifestation of God’s glory is biblically sound; yet the mere usage of this exclusively rabbinical term begs the question: How did it end up in Protestant theology?" "Shekinah" is from the common Biblical word "shakan" for dwelling, and the dwelling of God is a common Biblical theme without specifying that particular inflection of the word. Using a Hebrew inflection to describe a Hebrew thought is perfectly acceptable, that's where we get words like "Abba", which I don't believe is in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Conclusion: "This goes to show that throughout the centuries, Protestant theologians have maintained their own type of oral and written transmission of rabbinical thought, whether knowingly or unknowingly." Well, the issue is what is truth because it would be expected that the rabbis would retain a little truth that can be sifted as background for Christians. We can't blacklist a doctrine solely because rabbis have said it, since everything rabbis say is supposedly from our own Hebrew Scriptures, so there must be a reason for them saying it. Even if a rabbi speaks a blatant falsehood (as they do), the issue is not that it's rabbinical but that it's clearly false.
Therefore it's still disappointing. Yes, kabbalah influences Protestants and founding fathers as it did many of the Church's original fathers, who rely on gematric and rabbinical reasoning. What I'd have looked for with such a title would have been a distinction between truths that Christianity has in common with kabbalah and falsehoods of kabbalah not found in Christianity (or Orthodoxy if you prefer). Instead I got "kabbalah bad" without any recognition that the first Christian creed in 1 Cor. 15:3-4, when translated into the Hebrew thought that pervaded it, states that it is literally kabbalah (formally received).
Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded; Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws; Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos; Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society; Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished past to the generations of the future; Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these ethical values and principles throughout the world; Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26,1991; Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, "the rebbe", this, his ninetieth year will be seen as one of "education and giving", the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws; and Whereas this will be reflected in an international scroll of honor signed by the President of the United States and other heads of state: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That March 26, 1991, the start of the ninetieth year of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, is designated as "Education Day, U.S.A.". The President is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. Approved March 20, 1991