Bachmann: Convert As Many Jews As Possible Because Christ Is 'Coming Soon'

Right Wing Watch ^ | 11/6/2015 | Miranda Blue

[SJackson]

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins has been broadcasting his “Washington Watch” radio program from Israel this week, where he is helping to lead an FRC tour group. Also on the tour is former Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who joined Perkins on the program on Wednesday to share her view that biblical prophecy is being fulfilled all around her and that it was more urgent than ever to convert as many people as possible — including Jews — to Christianity to prepare for the imminent return of Christ.

“Almost every article in the paper” has to do with conflicts in Israel, Bachmann said, “and it ties with so much biblical prophecy. This week really was about biblical prophecy in many ways. And we’re seeing as events are speeding up, events are speeding up so quickly right now, and we see how relevant the Bible is, and we’re reading our newspaper, at the same time we’re learning about these biblical events, and it’s literally day by day by day, we’re seeing the fulfillment of scripture right in front of our eyes, even while we’re on the ground.”

“We recognize the shortness of the hour,” she said, “and that’s why we as a remnant want to be faithful in these days and do what it is that the Holy Spirit is speaking to each one of us, to be faithful in the Kingdom and to help bring in as many as we can — even among the Jews — share Jesus Christ with everyone that we possibly can because, again, He’s coming soon.”

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"How does that differ from the Mooslimes believing we all have to be converted to their religion?"

Because we aren't going to saw your head off with a rusty scimitar if you refuse? Just a thought.

[quadrant]

No one converts someone else; people convert themselves.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"How does that differ from the Mooslimes believing we all have to be converted to their religion?

Here's how it differs:

The Muslims explicitly hold, on the basis of both their Koran and in the Hadith (the accounts of Muhammad's words and example) that non-Muslims are to be converted by the sword.

In contrast, the Christians hold, on the basis of their Scriptures and the accounts of Jesus' words and example, that the use of "the sword" should have nothing to do with religious conversion.

When I first moved to East Tennessee, I experienced something of what it's like to be on the receiving end of Christian evangelical zeal. As soon as my new acquaintences saw that I was a Catholic (which some of them interpreted as "not Christian") --- whoa, it was "Come to our Ladies' Fellowship!" "Come to our Bible study!" "Church Supper Sunday night!" I was in imminent danger of being smiled, hugged, fried-chickened and banana-puddinged to death.

That is the true nature of the Christian existential threat.

:o)

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone. Nobody goes to the Father except through the Son. If anybody, be it a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, whatever, does not know or believe in Jesus, then I'm going to tell them about Him. Is that a crime?

[Talisker]

But included in this is the requirement for every Hindu and Buddhist to change their beliefs...

Hindus have no problem believing Jesus was/is God. They just also believe He - the exact same He - came here more than once. That's a problem?

[Phinneous]

Some have a low sugar tolerance. ;)

[captain_dave]

The differences between Judaism and Christianity are significant and go right to the fundamentals of each faith. For example, Christians believe in original sin, a Hell, and seek to be saved by belief in Christ. Jews do not believe in original sin, nor in a Hell, nor that a soul can be damned there. Jews do not believe in sacrificing one man to absolve the sins of another. The soul is eternal, the body is a vessel for the soul and the soul reincarnates.

[Talisker]

What gives Christians the right to decide that another person's peacefully observed religion is no good and has to be changed to theirs?

What takes away anyone's right to decide what God wants? You? As long as there's no coercion or violence, what someone else thinks of your relationship with God is none of your business.

[dragonblustar]

We (Christians) want to share that with everybody. What, do you hate the Jews so much that you would deny them the Gospel?

Exactly.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

Romans 1:16

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,[e] as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

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John 14:6

6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, yeah. And then there’s those blessed saturated fats!!

[BobL]

If conservatives want to know why most Jews STILL VOTE LIBERAL (and fund Democrats), this article is an EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. To people who are Jewish, who already have a huge problem with intermarriage (thanks to their women suing virtually every guy they marry), articles like this tend to make them feel more and more ISOLATED.

Michelle didn’t do our cause ANY FAVORS with this garbage.

[Phinneous]

Did you read the rest? We believe a trinity is wrong as well. I’m potentially more offensive.

If you’re a Hindu or Buddhist, the Jewish belief is that those religions are blatantly polytheistic hence idil-worship, a denial of the sovereignty of the one G-d.

[NorthMountain]

Yes, I know. Judaism and Christianity are not the same thing. As a Christian, I am commanded by my Lord and God to preach His Gospel to the whole world. That includes Jews. And mohammedans, and Buddhists, and Hindoos, pagans of all sorts ... even atheists.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"The soul is eternal, the body is a vessel for the soul and the soul reincarnates."

Seriously? You as a Jew believe in reincarnation?

Hey, FReeper Jews, let me ask a friendly shiksa question: y'all believe in reincarnation?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bachmann reader the Turner Diaries and is in Overdrive.

[Phinneous]

100% for Jews. The soul reincarnates unti it fulfils all of the commandments it can.

Though I’m not sure what we say about gentiles though (vis a vis reincarnation.)

[chasio649]

Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone. Nobody goes to the Father except through the Son. If anybody, be it a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, whatever, does not know or believe in Jesus, then I’m going to tell them about Him. Is that a crime?

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No...That’s all i will say.

[Nextrush]

If Jewish people saw people who claim to follow Christianity acting like Jesus they might want to switch sides.

Jews believe in loving God and loving your neighbor and seeing that kind of living when I am around Jewish people might cause me to consider becoming a Jew like the late Sammy Davis Jr. did many years ago.

Some Jewish folk decide to follow Jesus and some Christian born people decide to become Jewish.

I can handle both.

[Talisker]

If you're a Hindu or Buddhist, the Jewish belief is that those religions are blatantly polytheistic...

They are not polytheistic. If that is the Jewish belief, then it is mistaken.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I appreciate your response. I learned something new today. I had no idea there were Jews who believed in reincarnation.

I see from some brief Googling that historically, the big proponent of reincarnation in Judaism was Rabbi Yitzchak Luria and his 16th-17th century Kabbalistic rabbinical school in Safed (in the Holy Land.) Apparently what he and they taught is not exactly Jewish "dogma," required to be accepted by everyone, but is considered well within the accepted range of Jewish speculation about the world to come. Like the ideas of Resurrection, living in Heaven, etc. the idea of Reinacarnation is within the approved limits of different end-of-life mystical beliefs or theories.

Again thanks for the heads-up.