To: aruanan
The Gentile believers are grafts into the Jewish rootstock. Agreed.
I, however, was raised from earliest childhood to be an ardent Zionist.
Would you please define "Zionist" for me? I see/hear that word and confess I'm not sure what it means.
660 posted on
04/04/2003 12:46:22 PM PST by
k2blader
("Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful." - C. S. Lewis)
To: k2blader
Zionism-the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
Zionist - Someone who believes in Zionism.
Hope this helps.
663 posted on
04/04/2003 12:51:53 PM PST by
carton253
(You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
To: k2blader
Would you please define "Zionist" for me? I see/hear that word and confess I'm not sure what it means.
Well, Zionism Plus. Not only did we believe that the Jews maintain a right to their homeland (after all, they had been continuously living there since Rome, Persia, the Black Death, and the Muslim hordes screwed them over throughout the first 8 centuries AD), we believed that the re-establishment of the modern state of Israel was a fulfillment of prophecy. Some folks said that the re-establishment of an official Israeli government and nation wouldn't be legitimate by secular means but would have to be done by the Messiah. We figured that the same G-d who used secular means to chastise Israel according to covenant and to return her to the land after the Babylonian captivity could use secular means to re-establish the modern state.
691 posted on
04/04/2003 1:29:04 PM PST by
aruanan
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