To: ambrose
Jewish conservatives, many of whom now feel alienated from their Christian colleagues and are wondering who are their authentic allies. The alienation has always been there, only not recognised. The Christian Zionist interest in the dialogue has been almost entirely religious, driven by a late and spurious eschatological mythology, while the Jewish interest has been a political one. To a considerable extent the two sides have been in symbiosis, exploiting one another while never once engaged in the same enterprise. It's just as well that these pretences have been unmasked.
156 posted on
03/10/2004 8:50:47 PM PST by
Romulus
("Behold, I make all things new")
To: Romulus
While not an expert on either religion,I have always thought I grasped the general concepts.
Is not the entire point of the apocropal second coming of Christ not meant to "save" the souls of God's beloved Jews?
I thought that Jesus Christ, Himself, said that the Jews would not know the messiah had come,and that he would have to come again to save them.
I very much doubt that I am spiritually naieve.
It does appear that Christians await the second coming to prove to observant Jews that the phrophesis have been fullfilled.
159 posted on
03/10/2004 9:30:36 PM PST by
sarasmom
("I'm a redneck and Charles Bronson was a sissy".(Permission to use as tag granted by The Toll)
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