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Posted on 04/03/2005 11:49:19 AM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
A special team of rabbis from Israel will soon be sent to the Indian-Myanmar (Burma) border in order to convert thousands of members of a local tribe who have been recognized as Jews by Israel's chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar, The Times of London has reported.
According to the report, the tribesmen have been defined as members of the lost tribe of Menashe. Once converted, they would be able to immigrate to Israel based on the Law of Return. The mission is reportedly funded by a group of Christian Evangelicals.
About 800 members of the 'Bnei Menashe' have been brought to Israel from northeast India over the last decade by a group called "Shavei Israel."
According to "Shavei Israel," there is ample evidence to show that the Bnei Menashe are of Jewish descent. Their customs, including mourning rites, hygiene and the use of a lunar calendar, closely mirror Jewish traditions.
According to scripture, during the reign of King Solomon, the tribes of Israel split into two kingdoms, Israel in the north and Judea in south. In 723 B.C. the Assyrians conquered the kingdom of Israel and took 10 of the 12 biblical tribes into exile, where they dispersed among the nations.
The return of the "lost tribes" to their ancient homeland is viewed by some as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and a herald of the Messiah.
The Bnei Menashe were animists when they were converted to Christianity by British missionaries in the 19th century. In 1953, a tribal leader named Mlanchala had a dream in which his people would return to Israel. The tribe then adopted or perhaps readopted Jewish traditions.
However, their links to the Jewish people could not be proved, so they were not deemed eligible to immigrate to Israel under Israeli law, which gives Jews the right to automatic citizenship.
operative word is and
and who is not a member of another religion."
Crazy is right!
That's a fallacy.
The Church knows that the issue of morality is one which deeply touches every person; it involves all people, even those who do not know Christ and his Gospel or God himself. She knows that it is precisely on the path of the moral life that the way of salvation is open to all.
;-)
Can a Christian become "unsaved" by converting to a non-Christian religion (such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.)
If so, these Evangelicals are doing their (Christian) Bnei Menasha brothers and sisters a disservice by helping them convert to Judaism.
A lot of mainstream Baptist dispensationalists call Hagee extreme, but in reality, the false gospel Hagee preaches is nothing but the logical conclusion of the dispensational system whereby there are two distinct bodies, Israel and the Church, with two distinct medthods of salvation. Paul's Epistle to the Romans has to be explained by them in such twisted ways that it renders it nonsense.
Jesus and the Apostles warned us to be on the lookout for those who preach "another gospel" than the one they preached.
/just my belief
Now that does not mean that Jews were not scattered around the world. During the Assyrian conquest of Israel they were scattered all over the empire and never returned. Only Judah returned after the Babylonian conquest.
"Everyone is 'saved', 'Christian' or not, as long as they are good people."
that's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says a lot of things, and most of them I do not believe. I respect others faith though.
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