[af_vet_1981]

Do not see what?

I was certain it was you who wrote "I see no reason why one should consider it being hostile to Jews to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them."

You further hitched yourself to the wagon with:

"ANY ONE OF THE ABOVE, as long as they sincerely believe that the Bible is the word of God. As long as they to the historic creeds of the Christian faith."

Thus are you left in communion with the original German author and architect of the Holocaust, and you do see no reason why one should consider it being hostile to Jews to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.

First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly ­ and I myself was unaware of it ­ will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know.

Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.

Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them. (remainder omitted)

Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb. For they have justly forfeited the right to such an office by holding the poor Jews captive with the saying of Moses (Deuteronomy 17 [:10 ff.]) in which he commands them to obey their teachers on penalty of death, although Moses clearly adds: "what they teach you in accord with the law of the Lord." Those villains ignore that. They wantonly employ the poor people's obedience contrary to the law of the Lord and infuse them with this poison, cursing, and blasphemy. In the same way the pope also held us captive with the declaration in Matthew 16 {:18], "You are Peter," etc, inducing us to believe all the lies and deceptions that issued from his devilish mind. He did not teach in accord with the word of God, and therefore he forfeited the right to teach.

Fifth, I advise that safe­conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let they stay at home. (...remainder omitted).

Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping. The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other means of earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed from us all they possess. Such money should now be used in no other way than the following: Whenever a Jew is sincerely converted, he should be handed one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred florins, as personal circumstances may suggest. With this he could set himself up in some occupation for the support of his poor wife and children, and the maintenance of the old or feeble. For such evil gains are cursed if they are not put to use with God's blessing in a good and worthy cause.

Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.

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But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews' synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

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Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is:

First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward.

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I wish and I ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people, as suggested above, to see whether this might not help (though it is doubtful). They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did in the wilderness, slaying three thousand lest the whole people perish. They surely do not know what they are doing; moreover, as people possessed, they do not wish to know it, hear it, or learn it. There it would be wrong to be merciful and confirm them in their conduct. If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them. I have done my duty. Now let everyone see to his. I am exonerated. "

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My essay, I hope, will furnish a Christian (who in any case has no desire to become a Jew) with enough material not only to defend himself against the blind, venomous Jews, but also to become the foe of the Jews' malice, lying, and cursing, and to understand not only that their belief is false but that they are surely possessed by all devils. May Christ, our dear Lord, convert them mercifully and preserve us steadfastly and immovably in the knowledge of him, which is eternal life. Amen.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I was certain it was you who wrote “I see no reason why one should consider it being hostile to Jews to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.”

Yes it was me, what’s wrong with what I wrote?

RE: Thus are you left in communion with the original German author and architect of the Holocaust, and you do see no reason why one should consider it being hostile to Jews to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.

Oh I see, you are unable to distinguish between having fellowship with Christians TODAY BASED ON THE BELIEFS and the CREEDS THEY ADHERE TO and someone who did wrong things 600 years ago.

I guess with that line of reasoning, I have to say that you are left with the communion with Popes who were involved in adultery, fornication, rape and murder.

RE: and you do see no reason why one should consider it being hostile to Jews to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.

Explain to me what’s wrong with the above?

Jesus Christ Himself told his disciples to make disciples of ALL NATIONS ( don’t tell me Jews are not included here ).

And most of His first disciples who obeyed His commandments were JEWS.

Here is what St. Paul himself wrote:

“For I see no reason to be ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s power for the salvation of everyone who has faith — Jews first, but Greeks as well” ( Romans 1:16 - Catholic Bible ).

So, if St. Paul, who by the way, in his past life, instigated the crowd to stone Stephen to death, teaches Christians to do this, why should we not listen?

As for all the atrocities done by Protestants in the past ( and then by insinuation, implying that those who agree to a set of beliefs they share are in communion or in agreement with what they did ), if I were to follow your logic, I guess I would have to conclude that you agree with the following:

1205: Pope Innocent III wrote to the archbishops of Sens and Paris that “the Jews, by their own guilt, are consigned to perpetual servitude because they crucified the Lord...As slaves rejected by God, in whose death they wickedly conspire, they shall by the effect of this very action, recognize themselves as the slaves of those whom Christ’s death set free...” i.e. they would be slaves of Christians.

1227: The Synod of Narbonne required Jews to wear an oval badge — reminiscent of the Star of David that the Nazis required Jews to wear.

1478: The Spanish Inquisition was organized by the Church in order to detect insincere conversions of Jews to Christianity. Many tortured into submission.

1516: Catholic Venice forced Jews to live only in one parish, called the “Ghetto Novo.”

1555: A Roman Catholic Papal bull, “Cum nimis absurdum,” required Jews in Vatican controlled lands to wear badges, and be confined to ghettos. Over 3,000 people were crammed into about 8 acres of land. The public health problems were horrendous.

1648-9: Massacres of Jews occurred in Nemirov, Polonnoye, Tulchin, Volhynia, Bar, Lvov, and other cities in Ukraine. About 100,000 Jews were murdered and 300 communities destroyed.

During these centuries, there were a few attempts by various popes to reduce the impact of the church’s policies against the Jews. They were largely ignored.

The above reasoning is of course, a FALLACY -— implying just because you share a set of beliefs of someone, means that you agree with everything else they do.

Hey, Adolf Hitler believes that the sun rises in the east, he believes that the sun sets in the west. I’m sure you do too... therefore, what follows from these common things you agree with?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Are those all Martin Luther’s anti-semitic quotes?