Posted on 04/28/2023 12:52:53 AM PDT by Ezequiel Doiny
The Temple Mount is to Jews as Mecca is to Muslims By Ezequiel Doiny
A Letter to Europe: The Kab'a, in Mecca, is Islam's holiest site. It is the Jews whose holiest site is the Temple Mount. Jews around the world face the Temple Mount when praying, Muslims face Mecca even when they pray on or near the Temple Mount...
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I’m a Christian.
My paternal great grandparents were
Polish Jews.
I do bible study and church every week.
I fail to understand the worship of an
Earthly place.
Without the Temple there is no Jewish path to redemption, and hardly a Jewish religion at all. It would be like trying to claim Christianity without Jesus.
Jesus never went to Mecca
In the time of Jesus, Mecca was just a trading post in the middle of the desert.
This will be labeled by the left as racist hate speech in 3..2..1..
Nobody in either of the two groups will say, "But, but...the buildings!!" or say, "But, but...the holy lands!!". Instead, everybody will say that Jesus is Lord. I suggest we build our faith on Jesus, Who'll be the only One standing.
No, it isn't.
There is abundant archaeological evidence that there has been an Israelite presence in Jerusalem for more than 3000 years.
The Quran says Muhammad was from Bakka, not Mecca, but Quran apologists try to explained this away with claims of differences in provincial spelling. How could Allah have made such a blunder?
The Quran states that the people Muhammad spoke to in Bakka when proselytizing for his new religion were farmers, but in Muhammad's time Mecca was a barren place with no agriculture.
Muslims face in the direction of the "Qiblah" when they pray. The Qiblah is marked in mosques by the position of the apse. In mosques built as late as a century after the death of Muhammad, the apse is always facing to the east, with no regard for the direction to Mecca, but in a fashion reminiscent of the Christians.
Which very much makes it look like they hadn't yet figured out that Bakka was Mecca.
In fact the few historians with the cajones to speak the truth will tell you Mecca was chosen to be the Bakka of the Quran by later Arab rulers who were using Islam as a tool for social control of their people.
Kill for it, as so many others have done. Nope, Jesus told his followers to put their swords down, including one who was protecting Jesus from soldiers, that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Matthew 26:51-52.
Preach your exclusivity! Again, nope. Jesus is the ultimate it inclusivity. In the world He came to 2,000 years ago your race defined everything about you, even your religion. Jesus curb stomped that kind of division into the ground when He told His disciples to take the gospel to all the world. Matthew 28:19.
Now, compare that to Darwin on the other hand, who said in his Origin of Species that nature teaches us that slaves are necessary including his observation that the red ant colony would cease to exist if they didn't have black ant slave labor (pages 220-223) (thus the abolition movement in Darwin's time should be scaled down to keep slaves in their place). Sounds pretty exclusive to me. And if not enslaved, he said it's best to wipe them out. He said that not just about blacks but all the other non-whites (in his sequel book, The Descent of Man). In page 160 of Descent of Man, Darwin stated it like "From the remotest times successful tribes have supplanted other tribes. … At the present day civilised nations are everywhere supplanting barbarous nations”.
Whose teachings should we follow for peace and inclusivity? Jesus' or Darwin's?
The Ten Commandments offer the answers to many of your questions.
I do not worship Darwin, who you mentioned, nor any other mortal or half-mortal, nor do I worship any object or incarnation, however deified.
To this question:
Would a good and kind man, perhaps illiterate or mute, who knew nothing of your demigod or god, who only knew to worship the beauty of a shiny pebble, also have the keys to the kingdom?
I say, unequivocally, yes.
And would a good and kind man, raised to follow the precepts of his Mohammedan faith, also have the keys to the kingdom?
The answer, to me is:
Yes, of course.
That is what I, a Jew, believe. Jesus and his followers did not invent the concept of a spiritual afterlife.
I have seen war, and I have seen much of the world,
It is what I believe. And I do not evangelize.
I read the Quaran after the Sep 11 attacks hoping I'd find that the attackers were fringe and not following Muhammad's teachings. (Kind of like I hope nobody judges Christianity based on the fact that the KKK calls themselves Christian.) I was wrong. Over and over and over and over Muhammad said to fight the non-Muslims. Even rape them (as long as the woman wasn't Muslim, not married to a Muslim, and old enough to have had her first period). There were a few times he toned it down some to the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) and said don't kill us first -- tax us a lot with the jizya tax to try to force us to convert. Then if that doesn't work, kill us. Of course, that's when he was being nice to us. Sometimes his teaching is directly to violence (i.e. make war with those who add persons to Allah -- Christians who believe in the Trinity).
I guess it's possible to be a Muslim and not be violent. But I don't see how one can follow the precepts of Muhammad's teachings and "have the keys to the kingdom" unless one believes you get there through violence or something. It's truly bizarre to relate the precepts of Muhammad to Jesus' precepts of loving others, even our enemies.
So I guess you skip Isaiah chapter 53. The Ten Commandments point us that we cannot attain eternal life on our own accord. The conservative Jews in Israel are trying to get their temple rebuilt to reestablish the sacrifice for their sins. Some day soon a person will come on to the scene that will sign a peace treaty and allow the temple to be rebuilt. Upon completion, that same person will walk into that temple and cause the abomination of abominations. He will want everyone to worship him. Receiving his mark will be a sign that you worship him.
Maybe you should reread your Bible and look up the Temple/Holy House.
One tribe were the priests.
They established Holy sites.
Since I’m a Messianic Jew, a
Christian, I really don’t give a shit about
Jerusalem, in the way Moslems
carry on about Mecca.
Christ, a Jew, died to save us from all that
geography based BS.
We are all Gods children regardless of where we are
and God is with us always, everywhere,
not just in a temple, church building, or city.
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