Jan wrote on Jan 31
st, 2011 at 9:04pm:
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Oh geez Yadda I'm sorry if I have offended thee I knew not that you were a jew.
Jan,
As you say, you know not.
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Jan wrote on Jan 31
st, 2011 at 9:04pm:
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Quote:Leviticus 20:24
...I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
The God of Israel is separating his people, from mankind.
Mankind, are choosing.
Their own choice, will determine which side of that 'line in the sand', that they stand upon.
Yep the SELF appointed 'chosen ones' so they can unleash their abominations on the rest of the world with no recriminations.... bloody anti-semites "We'll show them a thing or two". "...the SELF appointed 'chosen ones' " ???
That is an interesting interpretation Jan, but in fact the O.T. bible is not, and never was, an endorsement or declaration of the [self] importance of the nation and people of ancient Israel.
NOR, is it an endorsement of the 'worth' of the modern Jewish people.
Deuteronomy 9:4
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying,
For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness;
for thou art a stiffnecked people.Jan, you seem to [
want to] believe that the the O.T. bible reads, as a Zionist text [i.e. a moral endorsement of the Jewish people].
It does not.
Throughout its pages, the O.T. bible reveals, essentially a condemnation of the nation of Israel and her people.
The accounts recorded within the O.T. bible reveals that the nation of Israel and her people
comprehensively failed to adhere to their covenant, with their God.Throughout its pages, the O.T. reveals that the nation of Israel and her people,
were just as corrupt, and just as corruptible, as all other men.
Psalms 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
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34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
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And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.And Jan, in relation to your own expressed opinions in this forum;
My opinion, is that, the [false] opinions we hold, and the [false] opinions we broadcast, reveal much about ourselves, and about the 'worth' of our own 'worldview'.
I am not Jewish, but i would stand beside a Jewish person any day, rather than stand beside a person who is [imo] so utterly mistaken and deluded, as yourself.The Jewish people are far from perfect, BUT, their forefathers are the people to whom our God, chose to reveal himself.
I know that is true.
There is a reason that God chose to reveal himself to the forefathers of the Jewish people.
I understand that reason, you obviously, still, do not.
Read the first book of the O.T. bible, that is where the 'reveal' is.
"Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;"