Posted on 07/01/2002 8:16:10 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
They said it would never happen! (Well, at least I said it would never happen!) But miracle of miracles, I have now started my very own web site where my own idiosyncratic views, not to be seen anywhere else (hey--this is the Internet!) can pollute and defile palaeoconservative western chr*stian civilization (by advocating total Biblical inerrancy and the restoration of animal sacrifices). What is this world coming to???
The site is just in its infancy at present with more to come, and I'm having to learn this editing business step-by-step. Please be patient, and forgive any errors and inconsistencies in spelling/grammar/formatting, at least for the time being.
The new site is called "The Redneck R@st@f@rian" and even includes an e-mail addy to which to send death threats.
I don't really expect to please anyone, but what the hey. Check it out if you're curious.
Thank you!
Why would you want to do that?? Jesus shed HIS blood, once for all. Thereby cancelling the need for animal sacrifices in order to cover our sins. And ... Jesus did one better; HIS blood cancelled out all our sins forever, it didn't just cover them for a year.
Which is why each individual sin has to be confessed to a priest to prevent eternal damnation.
Oh, excuse me. I forgot that "true chr*stianity," which was identical to today's Fundamentalist Protestantism, survived intact until the year "313," when it suddenly and magically morphed into "apostate Roman Catholicism." Too bad G-d didn't see to it that the printing press had been invented much earlier, since it was the Bible in the hands of the people, coupled with "soul competency," that restored the original uncorrupted chr*stianity in each and every way. Yes sir . . . all six thousand plus versions of it!
The only thing is, what are you going to do about all those other ancient forms of chr*stianity that can actually be traced back in a direct line to the pre-Constantinian church--including the ones that took their present Catholic-like liturgical form either before Constantine or outside the Roman Empire? You know, like the Assyrians, whose Church was under Persian, not Roman or Byzantine jurisdiction? Or the "St. Thomas" chr*stians of Kerala state in India whom the outside world discovered in the 16th Century? Why didn't their church seem like a Baptist church? Or the Armenian Church, which became the state religion of Armenia over ten years before Constantine even stopped the persecution in the Roman Empire? Or the Coptic Church of Egypt, whose members were praying to M*ry for protection from persecution in the "Third Century?" Or that strange, unique, insular, syncretistic Ethiopian Church? Did Constantine's hand reach into those remote climes in 313 and corrupt the "pure Bible Protestantism" that had existed there for three hundred years?
All this has been written on the assumption that you are a Protestant who believes that chr*stianity brought man a release from sin and guilt once and for all and that therefore no further sacrifice is necessary. How strange that every form of chr*stianity in existence (prior to the "16th Century restoration") did not share your beliefs. And besides, even Protestants pray for forgiveness. Strange if it is so "unnecessary."
Finally, I am a former Fundamentalist Protestant, so you can't tell me anything I didn't used to believe myself. And I finally and irrevocably rejected all of those false beliefs for the Pure Word of G-d which is the Torah. In other words, you're wasting your breath. I've heard it before and your endlessly repeating your doctrines isn't going to make them seem any less false than they do now. But it's a free country.
If I have been mistaken and you are a representative of one of the Catholic Church or another such liturgical church, then I would point out that you still conduct a sacrifice of your own and perform rites and ceremonies to expiate your sins. The difference between the qorbanot of the Torah and your own rites is that the former are authorized by the Bible . . . and yours are not. The categorization by the liturgical churches of the Torah as "doctrines and commandments of men" and the pagan-originated rites and ceremonies of chr*stianity as bearing the stamp of Divine approval is ridiculous. If rites and ceremonies are required, if there is a Divine Law in existence, then it is the Torah given first and not some alleged successor. After all, if there can be one successor "revelation," why stop there? That's how we wound up with islam and everything else.
Finally, while the qorbanot of non-Jews offered on various private altars is merely a mutar (permitted) rather than a mitzvah (an explicit Biblical commandment) as are Israel's to be offered at the Temple in Jerusalem, I still maintain that such offerings are extremely important for the here and now. The abolition of literal offerings for a "mystical" one (the mass) paved the way for the Protestant concept of sacrifice as being abolished altogether, and this in turn paved the way for the rationalistic/humanistic concept of a succeeding "religion of pure ethics." We live today under the absolute tyranny of rationalist ethics. Animal sacrifices (or cereal or grain sacrifices) would be a mighty antidote to the rationalism of our time that says it doesn't matter which "gxd" you worship (or even in you believe in G-d at all!) as long as you are a "good person" (as rationalists define the term). Since non-Jews are not required to reserve their offerings for the Jerusalem Temple I maintain that "what this country (and world) needs is a good animal sacrifice." But the restoration of which I wrote and to which you refer is the ultimate restoration of the `Avodah in the Third Temple in Jerusalem. I thought even Fundamentalist Protestants wanted that service restored.
Why would you want to do that?? Jesus shed HIS blood, once for all. Thereby cancelling the need for animal sacrifices in order to cover our sins. And ... Jesus did one better; HIS blood cancelled out all our sins forever, it didn't just cover them for a year.
Which is why each individual sin has to be confessed to a priest to prevent eternal damnation.
Oh, excuse me. I forgot that "true chr*stianity," which was identical to today's Fundamentalist Protestantism, survived intact until the year "313," when it suddenly and magically morphed into "apostate Roman Catholicism." Too bad G-d didn't see to it that the printing press had been invented much earlier, since it was the Bible in the hands of the people, coupled with "soul competency," that restored the original uncorrupted chr*stianity in each and every way. Yes sir . . . all six thousand plus versions of it!
The only thing is, what are you going to do about all those other ancient forms of chr*stianity that can actually be traced back in a direct line to the pre-Constantinian church--including the ones that took their present Catholic-like liturgical form either before Constantine or outside the Roman Empire? You know, like the Assyrians, whose Church was under Persian, not Roman or Byzantine jurisdiction? Or the "St. Thomas" chr*stians of Kerala state in India whom the outside world discovered in the 16th Century? Why didn't their church seem like a Baptist church? Or the Armenian Church, which became the state religion of Armenia over ten years before Constantine even stopped the persecution in the Roman Empire? Or the Coptic Church of Egypt, whose members were praying to M*ry for protection from persecution in the "Third Century?" Or that strange, unique, insular, syncretistic Ethiopian Church? Did Constantine's hand reach into those remote climes in 313 and corrupt the "pure Bible Protestantism" that had existed there for three hundred years?
All this has been written on the assumption that you are a Protestant who believes that chr*stianity brought man a release from sin and guilt once and for all and that therefore no further sacrifice is necessary. How strange that every form of chr*stianity in existence (prior to the "16th Century restoration") did not share your beliefs. And besides, even Protestants pray for forgiveness. Strange if it is so "unnecessary."
Finally, I am a former Fundamentalist Protestant, so you can't tell me anything I didn't used to believe myself. And I finally and irrevocably rejected all of those false beliefs for the Pure Word of G-d which is the Torah. In other words, you're wasting your breath. I've heard it before and your endlessly repeating your doctrines isn't going to make them seem any less false than they do now. But it's a free country.
If I have been mistaken and you are a representative of one of the Catholic Church or another such liturgical church, then I would point out that you still conduct a sacrifice of your own and perform rites and ceremonies to expiate your sins. The difference between the qorbanot of the Torah and your own rites is that the former are authorized by the Bible . . . and yours are not. The categorization by the liturgical churches of the Torah as "doctrines and commandments of men" and the pagan-originated rites and ceremonies of chr*stianity as bearing the stamp of Divine approval is ridiculous. If rites and ceremonies are required, if there is a Divine Law in existence, then it is the Torah given first and not some alleged successor. After all, if there can be one successor "revelation," why stop there? That's how we wound up with islam and everything else.
Finally, while the qorbanot of non-Jews offered on various private altars is merely a mutar (permitted) rather than a mitzvah (an explicit Biblical commandment) as are Israel's to be offered at the Temple in Jerusalem, I still maintain that such offerings are extremely important for the here and now. The abolition of literal offerings for a "mystical" one (the mass) paved the way for the Protestant concept of sacrifice as being abolished altogether, and this in turn paved the way for the rationalistic/humanistic concept of a succeeding "religion of pure ethics." We live today under the absolute tyranny of rationalist ethics. Animal sacrifices (or cereal or grain sacrifices) would be a mighty antidote to the rationalism of our time that says it doesn't matter which "gxd" you worship (or even in you believe in G-d at all!) as long as you are a "good person" (as rationalists define the term). Since non-Jews are not required to reserve their offerings for the Jerusalem Temple I maintain that "what this country (and world) needs is a good animal sacrifice." But the restoration of which I wrote and to which you refer is the ultimate restoration of the `Avodah in the Third Temple in Jerusalem. I thought even Fundamentalist Protestants wanted that service restored.
Should we consider this to be your "opus"?
I believe the dissertation I gave you was on chr*stian law. J*sus dying "once for all" doesn't seem to have prevented chr*stians praying for forgiveness almost continually and going through any number of atonement rituals for 2000 years. I merely maintain that the rituals of the Bible trump those of chr*stianity, just as the Bible trumps chr*stianity in truth and authority.
We all know he needs it.
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