Tuesday, April 12, 2011

“All law was fullfilled in Christ”? REALLY...



Achem's (Occam's) razor?
All law was fulfilled in Christ”?
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‎"When YahShua said "what you eat, doesn't make you unclean", was this him changing the Kosher Law?"


“The Messiah turned water into wine. Why?? Was it as a gift? Possibly, but the reason is deeper. Kefa had a vision of a sheet being lowered from Heaven with unclean animals in it and was told to slaughter and eat. Does this mean all animals are clean now? When YahShua said "what you eat, doesn't make you unclean”, was this him changing the Kosher Law?”
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  • Dale Christian Fellow all law was fullfilled in Christ
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    @Dale I too believed the same for years, until I searched the scriptures and found Yahshua and Jesus are NOT the same: Yahshua said..."Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah -- not until everything that must happen has happened. 19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven." Yahshua's words!

    "Biblical truth, Yahshua and Jesus are not the same people, Yahshua lived Torah and Jesus contradicted Moche and Torah in the Xtian Church" The Roman anti-semtic gov/church twist scripture to their own destruction. Search the roots of your faith in ALL the scripture and you'll see too...[we] have inherited lies and falsehoods. Shabbat Shalom
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  • Dale a Christian Fellow
    sorry Yechezkel, but wrong....I'm not gonna get into a legalism discussion with you. Christ came and fulfilled all the O.T. law, there were way to many of them for anyone to safely say "they didn't commit sin"...Through Christ's sacrifice on the cross, all law was fulfilled, so that we, as Christians, have a simple way to God. Through the cross by Christ's shed blood..period. easy. not hard, not complicated, like man likes to always make things...otherwise, Jesus died for nothing...Would you rather try do obey ALL the law man's way, or believe that Christ came and died for your sins, and ALL the sins of mankind, past, present,    and future...in mathm, there's a principle, called Achem's (Occam's) razor, which states that the The simplest expression of scientific truth; where 2 theories exist to explain a similar phenomenon, the one making the fewest assumptions should prevail—i.e., it should be no more complicated than necessary...
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  • Brother # 1
    Fulfilled? Based on what. Is that found in the Book of Opinions?
    Well, why don't we see what He said, shall we?

    Think not that I have come to destroy the law and the Prophets. I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill. Matt 5:17

    Uhhh, the word "fulfill" was translated from the Greek word "Pleroo". The definition of pleroo is "to confirm something. Look it up.

    If you think he nailed the Torah to the cross, then you have to say that he contradicted Himself in the next two verses when He clearly said that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until the heavens and the earth pass away. And that whoever teaches to break even the least of the commands will be called the least.

    Clue: The heavens and the earth are still here.

    Okay, there's one opinion for Achem's Razor. Let's look at the scriptures for a second one before we choose, shall we?

    Let's see what ADONAI says. His opinion should probably count since He authored the Torah that Moses scribed.

    Deuteronomy 12:32
    What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

    Does HE mean what HE said?

    ...Deuteronomy 4:2
    Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of ADONAI your EL which I command you.

    HE said it again! Is HE serious? HE really just said not to diminish from HIS Commands? Hmmmm......

    Maybe HE will change HIS mind? Let's see......

    Malachi 3:6
    For I am ADONAI, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

    Well, I guess HE means forever when HE says forever. I'm convinced!

    Well, we can't use Achem's Razor. We have 2 opinions from The Father and The Son, but they are of the same opinion. Let's find two more.....

    1 Peter 1:25 But the word of ADONAI endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

    1 John 2

    3And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

    4He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him.

    That didn't work. Peter and John also agree. I guess maybe we should take their word for it? Four opinions from ADONAI, Messiah and two chief Apostles all say the same thing. The Torah stands.

    Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

    The message is consistent throughout the Tanakh, AND the Witness Writings (NT)......Keep HIS Commands. All it takes is humbleness to gain eyes to see.
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  • Brother #1
    Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

    "Every (kol — the entire) Word (‘imrah — saying, communication, utterance, instruction, command, and promise) of God (‘elowah) is pure,    tested, and true (tsaraph — refined, precious, flawless, and worthy), a shield for (magen — an enclosure which surrounds, defends, and saves) those who put their trust in (chacah — those who take refuge in, who seek safety, salvation, protection, and rest through reliance upon) Him." (Proverbs 30:5)

    HE says: "Listen carefully to Me. Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen so that you may live, and so that I will be able to establish an everlasting Covenant Relationship with you."Yashayahu / Isaiah 55:3)

    " establish an everlasting Covenant Relationship with you".......everlasting means forever.

    If ignorance of ADONAI’s Way was acceptable, ADONAI would not have revealed: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priests for Me; because you have forgotten the Torah of your EL, I also will forget your children." (Hosea 4:6)

    Deuteronomy 11:1
    Therefore thou shalt love ADONAI thy Elohim, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commandments, always.

    Matt 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to (Pleroo) CONFIRM.

    1 Peter 1:25 But the word of ADONAI endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

    Isaiah 48:18
    O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

    Psalm 81:13
    Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

    Psalm 78:7
    That they might set their hope in ADONAI, and not forget the works of ADONAI, but keep his commandments:

    Deuteronomy 11:1
    Therefore thou shalt love ADONAI thy Elohim, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commandments, always.

    Deuteronomy 5:33
    Ye shall walk in all the ways which ADONAI your Elohim hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

    Deuteronomy 4:40
    Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which ADONAI thy Elohim giveth thee, for ever.

    Deuteronomy 5:29
    O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments ALWAYS, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

    1 John 2

    3And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

    4He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him.

    Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

    Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandme
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  • Dale a Christian Fellow and again, I say, the commandments are found all over in the NT as well. all OT was fulfilled....but, you do your legalism thing all you want, if you don't have Christ, you know where you're going...period. now, continue arguing all you want. i did my part. told the truth. "and the truth shall set you free." Jesus is the Way, The Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the father but by me."
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  • Brother #1
    Let's see......

    He gave us His word, so we have a measuring stick to gauge right from wrong, clean from unclean, what He wants from us, and what He considers an abomination.

    Messiah said:

    "And behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every one according to his work." Revelation 22:12

    What are these "works"? Oh, yeah, works of the "Law"!!!

    Hmmm, Messiah is going to judge our works??? But, if the law was nailed to the cross, He can't have a way to judge our works. Guess He was lying to us. No chance of that, is there?
  • Brother #1
    It is so obvious, yet most don't see it. NO OTHER group fits the description in the following verses....just christians.

    The verses say:
    22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

    23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,    ye that work iniquity.

    First, we should notice that He doesn't refute their claims. Why? They told the truth. They did all of things in the name of "lord jesus christ." Now consider this:

    Will the Jews claim they did good things in His name? NO!
    Nor do they call Him Lord.

    Will the muslims claim they did good things in His name? NO!
    They don't call Him Lord, either.

    Hindus? NO!
    Buddhists? NO!
    Atheists? NO!
    In fact, there is ONLY ONE SINGLE GROUP on the planet that can make that claim. They call Him Lord, and prophesy, and cast out demons, and do works IN HIS NAME.
    IT'S THE CHRISTIANS!!!!

    This is a clear warning to the christians. HE said He will send them away for their "anomia" (negation of the law) [Torah].

    Sadly, they have been so indoctrinated (deceived) into believing they are "In like Flynn" for simply believing, that they seemingly don't bother    to read what He is warning them of here. Either that, or they just plain don't have eyes to see.

    If you take Paulos' confusion out of the equation, anyone that actually studies the Scriptures can easily see the theme mentioned HUNDREDS OF TIMES in both the Tanakh, and the NT....KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE. REJECT THE TRUTH, AND HEAR THE WORDS "DEPART FROM ME".

    Sadly, the masses of christians accept the work done on the Upright Pole, yet they categorically reject the teachings of the Upright One, which was Torah. HE said that man would not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of the Father. He told us to keep the Father's Commands. The fourth Commandment was the only one that ADONAI specifically told us to remember, and they reject it! He said it would be a sign between HIM and us for ALL GENERATIONS. That means forever! It's the mark that shows we are HIS Family. Here's more proof of it:

    "Children from foreign nations who form a relationship with ADONAI, serving Him and loving Yahuwah’s personal and proper name , who carefully observe and revere the Sabbath and do not treat it with contempt , those who are passionate about and are empowered by My Familial Covenant Relationship , these I will bring to My set-apart mountain , rejoicing in My home and tabernacle of prayer . Their offerings will rise up and be accepted, because My household shall be called a house of intercession for all people" (Yashayahu / Isaiah 56:6-7)

    It is heartbreaking to witness the needless destruction.

    Hosea 4:6
    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law (Torah) of thy EL, I will also forget thy children.

    Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination.

    Come out of her my people, lest ye suffer her plagues.

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  • Brother #1 But according to John, the Messiah is the living embodiment of the Torah. So when He said that no man comes to the Father but through me, doesn't that mean that no man comes to the Father except through Torah?
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  • Brother #1
    Do you believe the prophets? They said the Feasts, Passover, sukkot, etc, will still be practiced in the millennial Kingdom. Wow! So let me get this straight, everything was practiced before the Messiah. The Messiah spent His entire life, and career teaching Torah because He was going to nail it to the cross? Then we get a break in that action between the crucifixion and His second coming, but then go back to keeping the Torah once He returns? Brilliant!
    How about some verses that say it was nailed to the cross? And some verses that say "don't keep my Fathers feasts or Sabbaths anymore?

    Clue: They don't exist.

    Jeremiah 16:19
    O ADONAI, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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  • Brother #1
    And the truth shall set you free????

    Gee, did you forget something? In context might help. You left off the way to get that truth, didn't you?

    It is conditional. It's an IF-Then contract.

    John 8:31-32 (King James Version)

    31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,[ If ] ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

    32And (THEN) ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

    IF you continue in My word. What Word did He teach? Torah!
    See it?
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  • Brother #1
    Sop it boils down to Dale's opinion vs Scripture. I think I'll go with Messiah's words rather than Dale's opinion that has no scriptural basis. Thanks anyway, Dale. But as for me and my house, we shall serve ADONAI. HalleluYAH!

    Jeremiah 16:19
    O ADONAI, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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  • Brother #1
    Here's why I bothered:

    Ezekiel 3:17-21 (King James Version)

    17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

    18When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

    19Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

    20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

    21Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
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  • Brother #1 If you believe the Messiah at His Word, then you better pay attention to Matt 5:19. He warned all of us. Selah.
  • Brother #2According to Matthew until the universe is remade the Torah   stands!
  • Brother #2Yahowah never established any religion much less authorized a book named after a sun goddess ( biblia) . The very concept of NT came from Marcion the son of a bishop that declared "the   Jewish god dead' threww his scripture aside calling it out of vogue or "Old Testament" . He then loaded up his new cannon with Sha'uwl's letters and called it "New Testament . Yahowah never invented any religion we is restoring a covenant that He established with Abraham .
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  • Brother #2In not as much as one verse does Yahowah support any religious institution nor the clerics that live off of them !
  • Brother #1
    Matthew 4:4
    But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of ADONAI.

    Last time I checked, the Torah and the prophets are words that proceeded out of the mouth of ADONAI.

    Maybe Matthew recorded it all wrong? Maybe Dale can show us the verse that quotes the Messiah saying "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of ADONAI, except for the entire Torah, that is. It's all dead now, except for 9 out of the 10 Commandments. The rest is trash, and I wasted my whole life and my whole ministry teaching this stuff."
    "Oh, and by the way, don't pay any attention to Revelation, cause I'm gonna lie and say that everyone will be judged by the Word. Just ignore all of that nonsense, okay?"

    Show me those verses, Dale. Thanks!
  • Brother #2 It's as though men corrupted the very letters that they used in order to invent a new religion based on the "life and times of the Messiah " !!~
  • Brother #1 The oldest copies we have were pretty much all written after the apostles were dead, so they are all scribed by other people which signed the apostles names to them. I'm not saying they weren't mostly accurate copies of something older that didn't survive, but Look at 2 Peter. I mean, he spelled his own name wrong in the first verse. Of course he got it right later in the letter, but gee whiz, isn't that a red flag of sorts?
  • Brother #2 It was Marcion that had his prolific copy editors flood the market with Paul's letters just before he decided what would go into his new book and thus be the foundation for his new religion .
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  • Yechezkel Amein my brothers! "How about some verses that say it was nailed to the cross? And some verses that say "don't keep my Fathers feasts or Sabbaths anymore?""Clue: They don't exist."

    Jeremiah 16:19
    O ADONAI, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Priceless Cary ;)
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  • Yechezkel 2 Kephas (peter)15 And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance, just as our dear brother Sha'ul also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him. 16 Indeed, he speaks about these things in all   his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

    Cor 8 Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah.

    Philosophy: "In math, there's a principle, called Achem's (Occam's) razor, which states that the The simplest expression of scientific truth; where 2 theories exist to explain a similar phenomenon, the one making the fewest assumptions should prevail—i.e., it should be no more complicated than necessary."

    "If a prophet or someone who gets messages while dreaming arises among you and he gives you a sign or wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder comes about as he predicted when he said, 'Let's follow other gods, which you have not known; and let us serve them,' 3 you are not to listen to what that prophet or dreamer says. For ADONAI your God is testing you, in order to find out whether you really do love ADONAI your God with all your heart and being. 4 You are to follow ADONAI your God, fear him, obey his mitzvot, listen to what he says, serve him and cling to him; 5 and that prophet or dreamer is to be put to death; because he urged rebellion against ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from a life of slavery; in order to seduce you away from the path ADONAI your God ordered you to follow. This is how you are to rid your community of this wickedness.

    Deu 13:1 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder,
    Deu 13:2 and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’
    Deu 13:3 do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for
    יהוה your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
    Deu 13:4 “Walk after 
    יהוה your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him.
    Deu 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against 
    יהוה your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.

    Deu 13:1 (13:2) 
    כי־יקום בקרבך נביא או חלם חלום ונתן אליך אות או מופת׃ 
    Deu 13:2 (13:3) 
    ובא האות והמופת אשׁר־דבר אליך לאמר נלכה אחרי אלהים אחרים אשׁר לא־ידעתם ונעבדם׃ 
    Deu 13:3 (13:4) 
    לא תשׁמע אל־דברי הנביא ההוא או אל־חולם החלום ההוא כי מנסה יהוה אלהיכם אתכם לדעת הישׁכם אהבים את־יהוה אלהיכם בכל־לבבכם ובכל־נפשׁכם׃ 
    Deu 13:4 (13:5) 
    אחרי יהוה אלהיכם תלכו ואתו תיראו ואת־מצותיו תשׁמרו ובקלו תשׁמעו ואתו תעבדו ובו תדבקון׃ 
    והנביא ההוא או חלם החלום ההוא יומת כי Deu 13:5 (13:6) (I don't think the hebrew copies well :/ ) However, it's the same for the past 3324 years!
  • Yechezkel If we don't obey ADONAI, then we are catering to Satan. There is no in between; no "tolerance" which seems to be today's buzzword...."
    ADONAI gave us His Torah to keep us safe and on His path as long as we are "inside the fence" of Torah and playing by the rules.

    Proverbs 16:25: There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

    "Torah has given us tremendous freedom - Freedom to know our Creator and His awesome Messiah through whom we are able to gain eternal life merely by "believing" in Him, and allowing the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) to help us change from the inside-out to become the "new creatures" we were always meant to be."
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Jeannie Xtian Christ DID fulfill the law--He did not break one commandment--the law was to show us how sinful we are-we all say 'little white lies'- we all have broken one of the commandments-to -break one is like breaking them all-God does not hold one command higher then another--the thief on the cross did nothing to deserve Grace-but the Lord told him that that very same day he would be in paradise (heaven)-
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Brother #1 The thief on the cross did nothing to deserve Grace? Is that an opinion? Does your bible say he didn't keep the sabbaths? NO! You are only assuming. Your bible says he rebuked the other thief for mocking Messiah. It says he feared "God". It says he claimed he deserved punishment....sounds like repentance to me. He did nothing to deserve grace? Your opinion is not in the scriptures. Shalom.
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Jeannie Xtian the law was to show us that we need a Savior-we can't do it on our own--He paid the price and all He asks is faith--like the o.t. people like david.samuel etc--they are saved by their faith ion the promise of the Messiah-not by what they do--and how do you explain the harlot rahab??she is in Jesus' line-she is saved by faith-not by lae
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Jan Wordly kosher law - manmade
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Brother #2 The only law that Yahoshu'ah knocked was the Oral Law of the religious class. He never accepted a religion and didn't replace rabbinic Judaism with yet another religion of Christianity :)
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Brother #2 Yahowah established an "everlasting" Covenant with Abraham that he is currently restoring visa vi the Mowed Miqra. He fulfilled the first 4 spring Miqra and will fulfill the last three fall miqra'ey designed to coincide with the fall of man ...
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Brother #2 He acted as the passover lamb , decended intpo Sheol for unleavened bread , rose for First Fruits and 50 days later the Qodesh Ruach decended on the followers of theway at the Miqra if Shabua or as you know it in Greek Pentacost or 50 .
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Brother #2 IOf the Torah was done away with why were the followers meeting on the Miqra od Shabu'a ?
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Brother #2‎ ????? Why did Constantine change the Shabbat to Sunday under penalty of death 300 years later ?
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Brother #2 The Kosher law was man made it was and is part of the oral law of rabbinic Judaism .
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Brother #2 Faith never saved anyone and that is a pagan idea besides the very word faith comes from the Roman goddess of loyalty . Knowledge trumps faith in the unknown .
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Jan Worldly is this really relative to what is going on in reality right now... while all of you are, once again, dissecting what has been/will be until eternity our country is in HELL.. our economy is about to collapse, etc... what a distraction...
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Brother #2 The word is a distraction ? Exposing political and religious lies is what I do all day .That is the Family business.
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Jan Worldly no all yhis DISCUSSION is a distraction... PAY ATTENTION to what's going on around you
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Brother #2 What is bringing this country to it's knees are the religious and political lies . Jan you better check out what is happening . Islam and the left are one force now .
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Brother #1 Whats going on around you is the distraction. It fills your mind with this world, thus not leaving time to notice what is important. ADONAI and His Word. The world will devolve exactly as written. No one can change that. It will be destroyed by the hands of men, then rebuilt by the word of HaShem. The Word is the distraction?
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William No. He was not changing any law. No law was changed or annulled by the appearance of The Messiah. Not a jot or a tittle.
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Brother #1 William has eyes to see. The Family is standing up and being separated. HalleluYah!
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Brother #2 William that is only if you believe the word ....
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William What is 'the word'? Are we talking The Word, as in Scripture?
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Brother #2 I was ribbing you :) Of course the Word over tradition !!
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Brother #1 Shabbat Shalom, Family!
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Brother #2 Have a great Shabbos Brother #1!!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Earth Day, Easter falls on Good Friday ?




"Check the roots of your faith
Search ALL the scriptures"

The Episcopal Church’s office of Economic and Environmental Affairs issued the following statement:

This year Earth Day falls within Holy Week, specifically on Good Friday, a profound coincidence…To fully honor Earth Day, we need to reclaim the theology that knows Earth is ‘very good,’ is holy. When we fully recognize that, our actions just may begin to create a more sustainable, compassionate economy and way of life….

“a profound coincidence?” What do Earth Day and Easter have in common?

Earth Day...Mother Earth... "Mother Gaia," the bare breasted goddess worshiped by Romans, a favored divinity of Roman legionaries, and her worship spread from Roman military encampments and military colonies.




Easter Day...Ishtar...The goddess Easter (Ishtar) the bare breasted Babylonian goddess who 3 month old babies were sacrificed to once a year in the spring. (Eggs would be dipped into the blood e.g. Easter eggs.)


Babylonian scriptures called her the "Light of the World, Leader of Hosts, Opener of the Womb, Righteous Judge, Lawgiver, Goddess of Goddesses, Bestower of Strength, Framer of All decrees, Lady of Victory, Forgiver of Sins, Torch of Heaven and Earth.
Many are her sacred titles - "Exalted Light of Heaven", "She Who Begets All", "Guardian of the Law" and "Shepherdess of the Lands"

Two sides of the same coin, whether it's the goddess Gaia or Ishtar (Easter)

What does HaShem say: “And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.” No where in scripture are we told to celebrate a holiday named after the pagan goddess Ishtar. (Easter)


Faith Episcopal Church: You Know What Global Warming is Kind of Like? It‘s Kind of Like Christ’s Crucifixion


As Easter approaches, and Christians around the world contemplate the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, the Episcopal Church has offered up some of its own wisdom on the issue this Lenten season.

The Daily Caller reports:

While Christians worldwide meditate upon the crucifixion of their savior this Good Friday, the Episcopal Church has suggested that the faithful also reflect upon whether they’re doing their part to reduce C02 emissions.

Two of the world’s holiest religious holidays are set to fall on April 22 this year — Good Friday for Christians and Earth Day for environmentalists — and some religious leaders are preparing their flocks to celebrate both.

Apropos of that, the Episcopal Church’s office of Economic and Environmental Affairs issued the following statement:

This year Earth Day falls within Holy Week, specifically on Good Friday, a profound coincidence…To fully honor Earth Day, we need to reclaim the theology that knows Earth is ‘very good,’ is holy. When we fully recognize that, our actions just may begin to create a more sustainable, compassionate economy and way of life….

On Good Friday, the day we mark the crucifixion of Christ, God in the flesh, might we suggest that when Earth is degraded, when species go extinct, that another part of God’s body experiences yet another sort of crucifixion — that another way of seeing and experiencing God is diminished?
SOURCE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/episcopal-church-you-know-what-global-warming-is-kind-of-like-its-kind-of-like-christs-crucifixion/





Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Constantine Creed


The Constantine Creed

The Constantine Creed

“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
(Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)

Furthermore, any follower who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:

“I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath “So! dei” (day of the Sun, ), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.”

Additionally, in approximately 365 AD, the Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons:
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day. Rather, honoring the Lord’s Day. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema (against) from Christ”.

Note: Protestants are included as they still observe the holidays and sabbath of Rome, as in “are you going to church this coming Lord’s day”.

Concerning Antiochus Epiphanes…

He set up an image of Zeus in the Temple which was the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel 11. For 3 years, he continued to desecrate the Temple.

 

These were the new laws that Antiochus set up:

Thou shall profane the Sabbath

Thou shall change the set times (festivals) and laws

Thou shall set up idols

Thou shall eat unclean animals

Thou shall not circumcise

Thou shall forget Torah

3 years and 2 months later, the Temple was taken back and rededicated. This is known as the Feast of Dedication, or Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah.


What’s really is ironic…..these laws were created by an antichrist Antiochus, and are the same things Constantine would later repeat and this is what people want to live by today. Totally going against God’s Word. People today are living under laws created by Antiochus and Constantine; an antichrist.

 

SOURCE: http://tjcoop3.wordpress.com/the-constantine-creed/

The Council of Laodicea of around 365 decreed 59 laws, #29:

Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ. (Percival Translation).

Martin Luther's anti-Jewishness

Martin Luther's dirty little book:
On the Jews and their lies
A precursor to Nazism

"Unfortunately few popular books on Luther go into detail about Luther's anti-Jewishness, or even mention that he had a hatred for Jews at all. This has resulted in a biased outlook towards Martin Luther and Christianity. This unawareness of Luther's sinister side, while honoring his "righteousness" leads to a ratcheting promotion of Luther which supports a "good" public image while also transporting his Jewish beliefs to those who carry the seeds of anti-Semitism. This will present an unwanted dilemma for many Christians because Luther represents the birth of Protestant Christianity as well as the genesis of the special brand of Jewish hatred that flourished only in Germany."

"Although Luther did not invent anti-Jewishness, he promoted it to a level never before seen in Europe. Luther bore the influence of his upbringing and from anti-Jewish theologians such as Lyra, Burgensis, (and John Chrysostom, before them). But Luther's 1543 book, "On the Jews and their lies" took Jewish hatred to a new level when he proposed to set fire to their synagogues and schools, to take away their homes, forbad them to pray or teach, or even to utter God's name. Luther wanted to "be rid of them" and requested that the government and ministers deal with the problem. He requested pastors and preachers to follow his example of issuing warnings against the Jews. He goes so far as to claim that "We are at fault in not slaying them" for avenging the death of Jesus Christ. Hitler's Nazi government in the 1930s and 40s fit Luther's desires to a tee."

"So vehemently did Luther speak against the Jews, and the fact that Luther represented an honorable and admired Christian to Protestants, that his written words carried the "memetic" seeds of anti-Jewishness up until the 20th century and into the Third Reich. Luther's Jewish eliminationist rhetoric virtually matches the beliefs held by Hitler and much of the German populace in the 1930s."

"Luther unconsciously set the stage for the future of German nationalistic fanaticism. William L. Shirer in his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," puts it succinctly:"

"Through his sermons and his magnificent translations of the Bible, Luther created the modern German language, aroused in the people not only a new Protestant vision by a fervent German nationalism and taught them, at least in religion, the supremacy of the individual conscience. But tragically for them, Luther's siding with the princes in the peasant rising, which he had largely inspired, and his passion for political autocracy ensured a mindless and provincial political absolutism which reduced the vast majority of the German people to poverty, to a horrible torpor and a demeaning subservience. Even worse perhaps, it helped to perpetuate and indeed to sharpen the hopeless divisions not only between classes but also between the various dynastic and political groupings of the German people. It doomed for centuries the possibility of the unification of Germany."



Jewish Persecution | Timeline of Judaism | History of AntiSemitism

Lesser Known Highlights of Jewish International
Relations In The Common Era (an Abbreviated sampling)

DATEPLACEEVENT
250 C.E.CarthageExpulsion
224 C.E.ItalyForced Conversion
325 C.E.JerusalemExpulsion
351 C.EPersiaBook Burning
357 C.E.ItalyProperty Confiscation
379 C.E.MilanSynagogue Burning
415 C.E.AlexandriaExpulsion
418 C.E.MinorcaForced Conversion
469 C.E.IpahanHolocaust
489 C.E.AntiochSynagogue Burning
506 C.E.DaphneSynagogue Burning
519 C.E.RavennaSynagogue Burning
554 C.E.Diocese of Clement (France)Expulsion
561 C.E.Diocese of Uzes (France)Expulsion
582 C.EMerovingiaForced Conversion
612 C.E.Visigoth SpainExpulsion
628 C.E.ByzantiumForced Conversion
629 C.E.MerovingiaForced Conversion
633 C.E.ToledoForced Conversion
638 C.E.ToledoStake Burnings
642 C.E.Visigothic EmpireExpulsion
653 C.E.ToledoExpulsion
681 C.E.SpainForced Conversion
693 C.E.ToledoJews Enslaved
722 C.E.ByzantiumJudaism Outlawed
855 C.E.ItalyExpulsion
876 C.E.SensExpulsion
897 C.E.NarbonneLand Confiscation
945 C.E.VeniceBan on Sea Travel
1009 C.E.OrleansMassacre
1012 C.E.Rouen, Limoges & RomeMassacre
1012 C.E.MayenceExpulsion
1021 C.E.RomeJews Burned Alive
1063 C.E.SpainMassacre
1095 C.E.LorraineMassacre
1096 C.E.Northern France & Germany1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred
1096 C.E.HungaryMassacre
1096 C.E.RalisbonMassacre
1099 C.E.JerusalemJews Burned Alive
1100 C.E.KievPogrom
1140 C.E.GermanyMassacres
1146 C.E.Rhine ValleyMassacre
1147 C.E.WurzburgMassacre
1147 C.E.Belitz (Germany)Jews Burned Alive
1147 C.E.Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France)Massacres
1171 C.E.BloisStake Burnings
1181 C.E.FranceExpulsion
1181 C.E.EnglandProperty Confiscation
1188 C.E.London & YorkMob Attacks
1190 C.E.NorfolkJews Burned Alive
1191 C.E.Bray (France)Jews Burned Alive
1195 C.E.FranceProperty Confiscation
1209 C.E.BeziersMassacre
1212 C.E.SpainRioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo.
1215 C.E.RomeLateran Council of Rome decrees that Jews must wear the "badge of shame" in all Christian countries. Jews are denied all public sector employment, and are burdened with extra taxes.
1215 C.E.Toulouse (France)Mass Arrests
1218 C.E.EnglandJews Forced to Wear Badges
1231 C.E.RomeInquisition Established
1236 C.E.FranceForced Conversion/Massacre
1239 C.E.LondonMassacre & Property Confiscation
1240 C.E.AustriaProperty confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned.
1240 C.E.FranceTalmud Confiscated
1240 C.E.EnglandBook Burning
1240 C.E.SpainForced Conversion
1242 C.E.ParisTalmud Burned
1244 C.E.OxfordMob Attacks
1255 C.E.EnglandBlood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings.
1261 C.E.CanterburyMob Attacks
1262 C.E.LondonMob Attacks
1264 C.E.LondonMob Attacks
1264 C.E.GermanyCouncil of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a "pointed dunce cap." Thousands murdered.
1267 C.E.ViennaJews Forced to Wear Horned Hats
1270 C.E.Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and ErfurtJews Burned Alive
1270 C.E.EnglandThe libel of the "counterfeit coins" - all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung.
1276 C.E.BavariaExpulsion
1278 C.E.Genoa (Spain)Mob Attacks
1279 C.E.Hungary & PolandThe Council of Offon denies Jews the right to all civic positions. The Jews of Hungary & Poland are forced to wear the "red badge of shame."
1283 C.E.Mayence & BacharachMob Attacks
1285 C.E.MunichJews Burned Alive
1290 C.E.EnglandKing Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. Many drowned.
1291 C.E.FranceThe Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France.
1292 C.E.ItalyForced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community.
1298 C.E.GermanyThe libel of the "Desecrated Host" is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion.
1298 C.E.Franconia, Bavaria & AustriaReindfel's Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period.
1306 C.E.FranceExpulsion
1308 C.E.StrasbourgJews Burned Alive
1320 C.E.Toulouse & Perpigon120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned
1321 C.E.TeruelPublic Executions
1328 C.E.Estella5,000 Jews Slaughtered
1348 C.E.France & SpainJews Burned Alive
1348 C.E.SwitzerlandExpulsion
1349 C.E.Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & SwabiaJews Burned Alive
1349 C.E.Heilbronn (Germany)Expulsion
1349 C.E.HungaryExpulsion
1354 C.E.Castile (Spain)12,000 Jews Slaughtered
1368 C.E.Toledo8,000 Jews Slaughtered
1370 C.E.Majorca., Penignon & BarcelonaMob Attack
1377 C.E.Huesca (Spain)Jews Burned Alive
1380 C.E.ParisMob Attack
1384 C.E.NordlingenMass Murder
1388 C.E.StrasbourgExpulsion
1389 C.E.PragueMass Slaughter & Book Burning
1391 C.E.Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & BarcelonaForced Conversions & Mass Murder
1394 C.E.GermanyExpulsion
1394 C.E.FranceExpulsion
1399 C.E.Posen (Poland)Jews Burned Alive
1400 C.E.PragueStake Burnings
1407 C.E.CracowMob Attack
1415 C.E.RomeTalmud Confiscated
1422 C.E.AustriaJews Burned Alive
1422 C.E.AustriaExpulsion
1424 C.E.Fribourg & ZurichExpulsion
1426 C.E.CologneExpulsion
1431 C.E.Southern GermanyJews Burned Alive
1432 C.E.SavoryExpulsion
1438 C.E.MainzExpulsion
1439 C.E.AugsburgExpulsion
1449 C.E.ToledoPublic Torture &. Burnings
1456 C.E.BavariaExpulsion
1453 C.E.FranconiaExpulsion
1453 C.E.BreslauExpulsion
1454 C.E.WurzburgExpulsion
1463 C.E.CracowMob Attack
1473 C.E.AndalusiaMob Attack
1480 C.E.VeniceJews Burned Alive
1481 C.E.SevilleStake Burnings
1484 C.E.Cuidad Real, Guadalupe, Saragossa & TeruelJews Burned Alive
1485 C.E.Vincenza (Italy)Expulsion
1486 C.E.ToledoJews Burned Alive
1488 C.E.ToledoStake Burnings
1490 C.E.ToledoPublic Executions
1491 C.E.AstorgaPublic Torture & Execution
1492 C.E.SpainExpulsion
1495 C.E.LithuaniaExpulsion
1497 C.E.PortugalExpulsion
1499 C.E.GermanyExpulsion
1506 C.E.LisbonMob Attack
1510 C.E.BerlinPublic Torture & Execution
1514 C.E.StrasbourgExpulsion
1519 C.E.RegensburgExpulsion
1539 C.E.Cracow & PortugalStake Burnings
1540 C.E.NaplesExpulsion
1542 C.E.BohemiaExpulsion
1550 C.E.GenoaExpulsion
1551 C.E.BavariaExpulsion
1555 C.E.PesaroExpulsion
1556 C.E.Sokhachev (Poland)Public Torture & Execution
1559 C.E.AustriaExpulsion
1561 C.E.PragueExpulsion
1567 C.E.WurzburgExpulsion
1569 C.E.Papal StatesExpulsion
1571 C.E.BrandenburgExpulsion
1582 C.E.NetherlandsExpulsion
1593 C.E.BrunswickExpulsion
1597 C.E.Cremona, Pavia & LodiExpulsion
1614 C.E.FrankfortExpulsion
1615 C.E.WormsExpulsion
1619 C.E.KievExpulsion
1635 C.E.VilnaMob Attack
1637 C.E.CracowPublic Torture & Execution
1647 C.E.LisbonJews Burned Alive
1648 C.E.Poland1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered
1649 C.E.UkraineExpulsion
1649 C.E.HamburgExpulsion
1652 C.E.LisbonStake Burnings
1654 C.E.Little RussiaExpulsion
1656 C.E.LithuaniaExpulsion
1660 C.E.SevilleJews Burned Alive
1663 C.ECracowPublic Torture &. Execution
1664 C.E.LembergMob Attack
1669 C.E.Oran (North Africa)Expulsion
1670 C.E.ViennaExpulsion
1671 C.E.MinskMob Attacks
1681 C.E.VilnaMob Attacks
1682 C.E.CracowMob Attacks
1687 C.E.PosenMob Attacks
1712 C.E.SandomirExpulsion
1727 C.E.RussiaExpulsion
1738 C.E.WurtemburgExpulsion
1740 C.E.Liule RussiaExpulsion
1744 C.EBohemiaExpulsion
1744 C.E.LivoniaExpulsion
1745 C.E.MoraviaExpulsion
1753 C.E.Kovad (Lithuania)Expulsion
1757 C.E.KamenetzTalmud Burning
1761 C.E.BordeauxExpulsion
1768 C.E.Kiev3,000 Jews Slaughtered
1772 C.E.RussiaExpulsion
1775 C.E.WarsawExpulsion
1789 C.E.AlsaceExpulsion
1801 C.E.BucharestMob Attack
1804 C.E.Russian VillagesExpulsion
1808 C.E.Russian CountrysideExpulsion
1815 C.E.Lubeck & BremenExpulsion
1820 C.E.BremesExpulsion
1843 C.E.Austria & PrussiaExpulsion
1850 C.E.New York City500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue
1862 C.E.Area under General Grant's Jurisdiction in the United StatesExpulsion
1866 C.EGalatz (Romania)Expulsion
1871 C.E.OdenaMob Attack
1887 C.E.SlovakiaMob Attacks
1897 C.E.Kantakuzenka (Russia)Mob Attacks
1898 C.E.Rennes (France)Mob Attack
1899 C.E.NicholayevMob Attack
1900 C.E.Konitz (Prussia)Mob Attack
1902 C.E.PolandWidespread Pogroms
1904 C.E.Manchuria, Kiev & VolhyniaWidespread Pogroms
1905 C.E.Zhitomir (Yolhynia)Mob Attacks
1919 C.EBavariaExpulsion
1915 C.E.Georgia (U.S.A.)Leo Frank Lynched
1919 C.E.PragueWide Spread Pogroms
1920 C.E.Munich & BreslauMob Attacks
1922 C.E.Boston, MALawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission
1926 C.E.UzbekistanPogrom
1928 C.E.HungaryWidespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses
1929 C.E.Lemberg (Poland)Mob Attacks
1930 C.E.BerlinMob Attack
1933 C.E.BucharestMob Attacks
1938-45 C.E.EuropeHolocaust

Jewish persecution source:

P.E. Grosser & E.G. Halperin, Anti-Semitism: Causes and Effects, New York: Philosophical Library, 1978
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/luther-jews.htm

CONSTANTINE MONSTER (song)





Introduction

I wish to make clear that the purpose of these selections from Martin Luther aims at providing a historical and scholarly source for study of anti-Semitism, religious thought, and how it has influenced the German population and their outlook on Jews.

There will always exist a potential for misuse of any information. However, it has come from observation that hiding such information from view can lead (and has led) to unconscious support of underground movements of anti-Semitism that use these texts for their various nefarious purposes. Bringing this information to light will allow critical analyses by not only scholars, but also by everyday people to help dispel the myths founded by unsupported beliefs and to help fight the tools used by anti-Semitic cults.

A little about Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Luther, a German theologian and religious reformer, initiated the Protestant Reformation and forever split Christianity from Catholicism. His influence extends beyond religion to politics, economics, education and language. In 1505, after receiving a bachelor's and master's degree, he suddenly abandoned his studies, entered the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt and became a monk. He became a controversial figure when he published his Ninety-Five Theses, opposing the indulgences (release from the penalties for sin through the payment of money by the Catholic Church). This resulted in his split from the Roman Catholic Church where he established unique Christian interpretations about the Bible and theology. His influence resulted in the major Protestant denomination of Lutheranism where their churches today use Luther's name.

Protestant Christians so admire Martin Luther that he stands as a respected "Patron Saint" to their beliefs and morals. Christians often quote him, theologians write books on him, and many name their children after him (Martin Luther King Jr., for example).

Luther's anti-Jewishness

Unfortunately few popular books on Luther go into detail about Luther's anti-Jewishness, or even mention that he had a hatred for Jews at all. This has resulted in a biased outlook towards Martin Luther and Christianity. This unawareness of Luther's sinister side, while honoring his "righteousness" leads to a ratcheting promotion of Luther which supports a "good" public image while also transporting his Jewish beliefs to those who carry the seeds of anti-Semitism. This will present an unwanted dilemma for many Christians because Luther represents the birth of Protestant Christianity as well as the genesis of the special brand of Jewish hatred that flourished only in Germany.

Although Luther did not invent anti-Jewishness, he promoted it to a level never before seen in Europe. Luther bore the influence of his upbringing and from anti-Jewish theologians such as Lyra, Burgensis, (and John Chrysostom, before them). But Luther's 1543 book, "On the Jews and their lies" took Jewish hatred to a new level when he proposed to set fire to their synagogues and schools, to take away their homes, forbad them to pray or teach, or even to utter God's name. Luther wanted to "be rid of them" and requested that the government and ministers deal with the problem. He requested pastors and preachers to follow his example of issuing warnings against the Jews. He goes so far as to claim that "We are at fault in not slaying them" for avenging the death of Jesus Christ. Hitler's Nazi government in the 1930s and 40s fit Luther's desires to a tee.

So vehemently did Luther speak against the Jews, and the fact that Luther represented an honorable and admired Christian to Protestants, that his written words carried the "memetic" seeds of anti-Jewishness up until the 20th century and into the Third Reich. Luther's Jewish eliminationist rhetoric virtually matches the beliefs held by Hitler and much of the German populace in the 1930s.

Luther unconsciously set the stage for the future of German nationalistic fanaticism. William L. Shirer in his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," puts it succinctly:

"Through his sermons and his magnificent translations of the Bible, Luther created the modern German language, aroused in the people not only a new Protestant vision of Christianity by a fervent German nationalism and taught them, at least in religion, the supremacy of the individual conscience. But tragically for them, Luther's siding with the princes in the peasant rising, which he had largely inspired, and his passion for political autocracy ensured a mindless and provincial political absolutism which reduced the vast majority of the German people to poverty, to a horrible torpor and a demeaning subservience. Even worse perhaps, it helped to perpetuate and indeed to sharpen the hopeless divisions not only between classes but also between the various dynastic and political groupings of the German people. It doomed for centuries the possibility of the unification of Germany."

In Mein Kampf, Hitler listed Martin Luther as one of the greatest reformers. And similar to Luther in the 1500s, Hitler spoke against the Jews. The Nazi plan to create a German Reich Church laid its bases on the "Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther." The first physical violence against the Jews came on November 9-10 on Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) where the Nazis killed Jews, shattered glass windows, and destroyed hundreds of synagogues, just as Luther had proposed. In Daniel Johah Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, he writes:

"One leading Protestant churchman, Bishop Martin Sasse published a compendium of Martin Luther's antisemitic vitriol shortly after Kristallnacht's orgy of anti-Jewish violence. In the foreword to the volume, he applauded the burning of the synagogues and the coincidence of the day: 'On November 10, 1938, on Luther's birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany.' The German people, he urged, ought to heed these words 'of the greatest antisemite of his time, the warner of his people against the Jews.'"

No apologist can claim that Martin Luther bore his anti-Jewishness out of youthful naivete', uneducation, or out of unfounded Christianity. On the contrary, Luther in his youth expressed a great optimism about Jewish conversion to Christianity. But in his later years, Luther began to realize that the Jews would not convert to his wishes. His anti-Jewishness grew slowly over time. His logic came not from science or reason, but rather from Scripture and his Faith. His "On the Jews and Their Lies" shows remarkable study into the Bible and fanatical biblical reasoning. Luther, at age 60 wrote this dangerous "little" book at the prime of his maturity, and in full knowledge in support of his beliefs and Christianity.
Few people today realize that Luther wrote 'On the Jews and Their Lies.' (He also wrote such works like "Against the Sabbatarians.") Freethinkers should become aware of the anti-Semitic influence that Luther has brought on the world. His vehement attack on Jews and his powerful influence on the believers of the Germans has brought a new hypothesis to mind: that the Jewish holocaust, and indeed, the eliminationist form of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany may not have occurred without the influence from Luther's book "On the Jews and Their Lies."

Walter Buch, the head of the Nazi Party court, admitted Luther's influence on Nazi Germany:

"When Luther turned his attention to the Jews, after he completed his translation of the Bible, he left behind 'on the Jews and their Lies' for posterity".

-cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

"Many people confess their amazement that Hitler preaches ideas which they have always held.... From the Middle Ages we can look to the same example in Martin Luther. What stirred in the soul and spirit of the German people of that time, finally found expression in his person, in his words and deeds."

-"Geist und Kampf" (speech), Bundesarchiv Berlin-Zehlendorf, [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

Hans Hinkel, a Nazi who worked in Goebbels' Reich Chamber of Culture said:

"Through his acts and his spiritual attitude he began the fight which we still wage today; with Luther the revolution of German blood and feeling against alien elements of the Volk was begun."

-cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich

Erich Koch, the Reich Commissioner for Ukraine and President of the East Prussian Protestant Church Synod wrote:

"Only we can enter into Luther's spirit.... Human cults do not set us free from all sin, but faith alone. With us the church shall become a serving member of the state.... There is a deep sense that our celebration is not attended by superficiality, but rather by thanks to a man who saved German cultural values."

-Konigsberg-Hartungsche Zeitung, 20 Nov. 1933, [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

Bernhard Rust served as Minister of Education in Nazi Germany. He wrote:

"Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp" [Schrot und Korn].

-Volkischer Beobachter, 25 Aug. 1933, [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

Hans Schemm became Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture. Throughout the Reich, Germans particularly knew Schemm for his slogan, "Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!" He writes:

"His engagement against the decomposing Jewish spirit is clearly evident not only from his writing against the Jews; his life too was idealistically, philosophically antisemitic. Now we Germans of today have the duty to recognize and acknowledge this."

-"Luther und das Deutschtum," Bundesarchiv Berlin-Zehlendorf (19 Nov. 1933: Berlin), [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

"Our confession to God is a confession of a doctrine of totality.... To give ultimate significance to the totalities of race, resistance and personality there is added the supreme totalitarian slogan of our Volk: 'Religion and God.' God is the greatest totality and extends over all else".

M. Skobtsova, a martyr at a Nazi concentration camp
-(Gertrud Kahl-Furthmann (ed.), Hans Schemm spricht: Seine Reden und sein Werk (Bayreuth, 1935), [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's The Holy Reich]

Julius Streicher (one of Hitler's top henchmen and publisher of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer) was asked during the Nuremberg trials if there were any other publications in Germany which treated the Jewish question in an anti-Semitic way., Streicher put it well:

"Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In the book 'The Jews and Their Lies,' Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them..."

Indeed, no historian has yet to put Martin Luther on trial for his incitement of crimes against humanity.

"Today, white-supremacists and Neo-Nazis continue to spread Luther's Jewish hatred and use quotes from this book as "proof" of their convictions. I trust that readers will see the horror and danger of Luther's book and will realize the potential threat that might come from belief in".

The following gives a few quotations from Luther's dirty little book:

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Quotes from Martin Luther's "On the Jews and their lies," 1543

Luther's Introduction:

"I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen."

Martin Luther (On the Jews and Their Lies):
"He did not call them Abraham's children, but a "brood of vipers" [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, "He has a demon' [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore in John 8 [:39,44] he states: "If you were Abraham's children ye would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today."

"Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools..."

"Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people."

"...their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain."

"Learn from this, dear Christian, what you are doing if you permit the blind Jews to mislead you. Then the saying will truly apply, "When a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into the pit" [cf. Luke 6:39]. You cannot learn anything from them except how to misunderstand the divine commandments..."

"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them."

"Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security."

"However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it."

"But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath."

"If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies-- that is, longer than two thousand years."

"...Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith."

"Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?"

"Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God's wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie."

"No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants."

"...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"

"Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they such the marrow from our bones."
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"In brief, dear princes and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule-- if my counsel does not please your, find better advice, so that you and we all can be rid of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before God in the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, this dear mother, all Christians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us. . . . With this faithful counsel and warning I wish to cleanse and exonerate my conscience."

"Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew."

"However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter, or by other neighborly acts..."

"Therefore, we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy"

"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 sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire..."

"Second, that all their books-- their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible-- be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted..."

"Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country..."

"Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing. For we cannot with a good conscience listen to this or tolerate it..."

"He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away."

"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."

"If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews' blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country."

"...they remain our daily murderers and bloodthirsty foes in their hearts. Their prayers and curses furnish evidence of that, as do the many stories which relate their torturing of children and all sorts of crimes for which they have often been burned at the stake or banished."

"...that everyone would gladly be rid of them."

"Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover."

"If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth."

"They [rulers] 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..."

"If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs."

"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."

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Addendum: a note to critics

Because of my pointed aim at revealing the anti-Jewishness of Martin Luther, I have received accusations that I've unfairly painted Luther in a bad light over the alleged "good" he's done in the name of Christianity. I want to briefly make clear my position on this.

Although I can certainly understand, from a perspective of a Protestant, Luther appears to have freed believers from the dependency of an orthodox hierarchy of God-Church-Man, and promoted the vaunted ideals of Christianity, I cannot imagine a more circular argument based entirely on superstitious beliefs. Nor has Luther's Protestantism shown a freeing effect on the lives of its believers when you take account of the paranoid-like protection of its tenets, the theologically based justification of war, cruelty against enemies, and the reliance on faith in place of scientific reasoning.

However, I fully grant that Luther, in his Ninety-Five Theses, may have called for the ending of indulgences and this, I think, could put him in some regard. (Note that although people generally believed that Luther nailed these theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, some scholars have questioned this story, which does not occur in any of his own writings). But on the evidence from his voluminous tomes, I can find little else to admire the works of this man.

Luther not only wrote 'On the Jews and their lies,' but also dubious and intolerant works such as 'Against the Sabbatarians', 'Against the Antinoman,' and 'Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants.' In the latter, Luther called for the stabbing and slaying of peasant rebels which triggered the death of an estimated 100,000 human beings. These rebels were not only Christians but were mostly slaughtered after their surrender to the German princes. Nor did Luther apologize for his treatise even after world criticism. In his response to his critics in "An Open Letter on the Harsh Book," Luther reiterated his venom: "Therefore, as I wrote then so I write now; Let no one have mercy on the obstinate, hardened, blinded peasants who refuse to listen to reason; but let everyone, as he is able, strike, hew, stab, and slay, as though among mad dogs, put to flight, and led astray by these peasants, so that peace and safety may be maintained." In all these harsh treatises, Luther provided an abundance of Biblical passages to justify his attack on his enemies. And, or course (sarcastically speaking), his actions were always through Christian "love" of his enemies, as he audaciously wrote: "The merciless punishment of the wicked is not being carried out just to punish the wicked and make them atone for the evil desires that are in their blood, but to protect the righteous and to maintain peace and safety. And beyond all doubt, these are precious works of mercy, love, and kindness. . ." [Bold characters, mine].

Most Christians staunchly defend their ideas of "true" Christianity (never seemingly to realize that other Christians have their own ideas, or if so, they get labeled as false Christians), but Luther had power and influence, and he vehemently opposed anyone who went against his version of True Christianity. One cannot deny Luther lived as a Christian, and an influential one at that. So to oppose him for practicing his brand of religion cannot serve to justify Christianity anymore than Oskar Schindler can be used to justify "true" Nazism, or neo-communists to justify Communism, or war to justify murder.

But perhaps the most lasting damage of all came from Luther openly advocating the abandonment of using natural reason (Luther considered his use of theological reasoning different from natural reason, i.e., scientific reasoning) . His theological message to live by faith and to abstain from listening to reason has mentally enslaved the lives of millions of Christians to this day. Throughout his literary life he wrote statements such as, "Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason," "We must give reason a vacation and enter a different school. We must refrain from consulting reason. We must bid reason hold its peace; we must order it to be dead. We must gouge out its eyes and pluck its feathers...," "You must kill the other thoughts and the ways of reason or of the flesh, for God detests them." I can find no other influential writer who has spent as much ink, ad nauseum, against the very investigative tool which has kept the human species alive-- reason.

Therefore, I not only hold against Luther's Jewish hatred and his merciless attacks against his enemies, including Catholics, Protestant peasants, Turks, atheists, and infidels, but also because of his extraordinary intolerance, adherence to faith and superstition, unworkable morality, and his rejection of reason and science. I cannot imagine a man who has spread more dangerous beliefs than Martin Luther.

And no one should ever forget that his justification for these atrocious works came entirely from Christian Protestant beliefs fueled by the Bible. I don't know how Protestant Christians will react when faced with the realization of Luther's mad intolerance, but they will have to deal with the fact that this man stands as the Inventor and Creator of their Christian denomination.

The history of Luther provides just one example of why religion (not just Christianity), and ideology, whether it comes in the form of Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, communism, Nazism, or any other belief system, creates the intolerant play against life and nature.
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Sources:

Goldhagen, Daniel Johah, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Alfred A. Knoph, NY, 1996

Luther, Martin, On the Jews and Their Lies, translated by Martin H. Bertram, Fortress Press, 1955

Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1960

Steigmann-Gall, Richard "The Holy Reich: Nazi conception of Christianity, 1919-1945," Cambridge University Press, 2003

Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-- 1 October 1946, Vol. 12, p.318

Other reading:

You might also find the article by Norma E. Cunningham interesting, in that it comes out of her Lutheran upbringing, "What They Never Told Us About Martin Luther": http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf/fttoday/jan_feb98/cunningham.html

Also:

The influence of Martin Luther on Nazism: http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust4.html