Posted on 12/08/2015 7:19:59 AM PST by marktwain
I listen to his sermons on the radio here in southern DE. I used the gist of one of his sermons in our prison ministry a few weeks ago--gave him credit, of course.
I love listening to him.
Yes he was just doing recon for the attack
That is why I always found it ironic that the fall of the WTC came to be known as Ground Zero. But I mentioned that here on FR once and the general consensus was that the concept “zero” wasn’t actually arabic.
Well, according to that logic, Michelle Obama can consider herself to be beautiful...it ain't necessarily so. Any Jew who accepts Jesus as the Messiah is no longer Jewish. They may be a kind, decent and generous person, but they aren't Jewish.
According to Obama’s church of 20 years, Jesus was a poor black man oppressed by rich white Jews. I take it there were not a lot of Bible readings.
All the questions about when Syed Farook and his wife were radicalized are just ignoring reality. It began at birth and continued thru out their life.
If Jewishness is all about religious belief, a great many Jews are not Jews. I’ve met a lot of Jews who are atheists. Much of Israel would be filled with non-Jewish Jews.
I think he attended a Chicken Coop.
I may be way off base here, but when I heard talk radio hosts all talking about how Trump had said ‘no Muslims’ and how all the Republican pundits were distancing themselves from him, I thought ‘Trump has just won the election.’
What is Mad Mo’s birfday?
He’s very ‘real people.’ His testimony is on the church website if to would like to hear it. Mcleanbible.org
No, he was not born a Jew, nor was he raised Jewish. And accepting Jesus makes you a Christian, by definition. That’s the difference between the two faiths.
They no longer adhere to the Jewish religion as far as it means favor with God is keeping the law, but genetically they are and will always be Jewish,as is Jesus.
But remember, Linda Stasi thinks he’s as guilty as his murderer.
>> a Christian dressed up as a Jew, not actually a Jew
That’s putting an awfully sharp point on it. Being
“dressed up as a Jew” is, IMHO, one helluva lot more respectful of Christian tradition than priests on Sunday dressing up like Roman senators. The Roman empire was nothing more than a slave and plunder-based economy. “Take the front row of spectators and throw ‘em to all to the lions.” Some tradition, huh?
Look at the positive side: The Messianics have great respect for the Tanakh, and have an understanding that Yeshua (Jesus) did not just spring from some unlearned sh!tpile of inbred ignoramuses in the sandy wilderness.
OK, OK - say Mishnah, Midrash, or Maimonides and the “deer in the headlights” look often appears. You should be happy that they are great supporters of Israel, and, for that matter, Jews in general.
Islam is a scissors to the fabric
Of American life.
I've met many like that; I'm even related to a bunch. But not practicing one's faith is a very different thing from taking on a different faith, one that has some pretty stark differences from that of your fathers. Of course, there are also a lot of similarities, for obvious reasons, but these are 2 very different faiths. Taking on a new faith necessarily means rejecting the one you grew up with.
None of this, btw, is to take ANYTHING away from this man - he appears to have been a truly decent person and, had I met him, I think that I'd have gotten along with him. Certainly, on ANY level, he was many levels above the despicable murderers who ended his life.
Without trying to be incredibly presumptuous, I think that G-d cares less about your genetics and more about the choices that you make throughout your life. Good works are good works, regardless of what your family history or DNA may be...and the converse is also true.
This man, for all of his (readily apparent) good qualities, was not a Jew - not by birth or choice. That he was pro-Israel is very clear (and may well have been the "last straw" for his murderous co-worker), as was his fondness and decency toward Jewish people...but he wasn't Jewish.
Those born Jewish who choose to believe that Jesus was/is the Messiah may also be perfectly fine, decent and morally upstanding people in every way that matters...but by such belief they have given up their Jewish heritage by choice. Clearly, that choice doesn't change their genetic heritage...but that just deals with the physical, not the moral.
Just my $0.02.
That would be threats from peacful, moderate, American muzlims...There's millions of them here in the U.S...
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