I'm posting this here so anyone who wishes can defend JTF...
My main two questions are as follows:
- Suppose, for example, that Jesus Christ had His ministry not in Roman-controlled Israel but rather a Kahanist-controlled Israel. Would the Kahanists have persecuted Him?
- And if so, how can Christians fund and support those who are hostile to our Lord and Savior?
Chaim, what do you think should be done with the Goyim who pretend to be Jews to steal Jewish souls, personally I think we need to finish the job Bar Kochba started with the Notsrim.
Chaim agreed. From those who are unaware, "Notsrim" is Hebrew for "Christian". While JTF rightly objects to the Holocausts and pogroms against innocent people, it seems that it has no problem with the persecution of Christians. For as a reader of the New Testament knows, the Sanhedrin, the scribes and the Pharisees persecuted the Christians as heretics for as long as the Second Hebrew Commonwealth existed--and the Bar Kochba Revolt was an attempt to restore that commonwealth.
Now obviously a true Christian should oppose missionaries who deceive and harass people. But it seems that all missionaries are seen in this light. Now as I have said before I am not a missionary myself. But...it seems that this is part of a hostility on the part of certain zealots towards Christianity. Suppose, for example, that Jesus Christ had His ministry not in Roman-controlled Israel but rather a Kahanist-controlled Israel. Would the Kahanists have persecuted Him? And if so, how can Christians fund and support those who are hostile to our Lord and Savior?
And while Allen-T's words have to be taken with a grain of salt due to his bigotry, he may be right when he said that JTF appeals to Christians not for the purposes of a genuine alliance but rather for the purposes of fundraising. I hope I'm wrong but it seems that for tactical purposes JTF is suppressing an underlying hostility toward Christian teaching.
First off, if someone like Yeshu existed at a time of kahanist israel, he would have been as any Jew. I'm not sure how Kahanists about Yeshu. I'm not completely sure what type of Judaism he taught. If he was a halakhic type jew or if he was a reform type Jew. If he was the halakhic torah type Jew, I'm sure Kahanists woud lhave respected him. If he encouraged Jews to not follow the mitzvot, he would have been regarded as a self-hating Jew.
The only thing that I was ever told about Yeshu was that he didn't want Jews fighting against each other since there was a greater enemy amongst their midst-that was the Romans. If this is what he truely believed-to love your fellow Jew and stand strong together, then in my opinion, it was a good thing. I personally support Jews who believe in a One United Israel. I respect Jewish movements who also demand respect and honor. Not sure what Yeshu stood for in that respect.
Now, I'm not one to judge those who believe in Jesus Christ as the lord savior messiah. I respect my rigtheous Christian friends and their theologies and I believe that the stories of Jesus created by the apostoles has done more good in bringing gentiles closer to Gd and morality. Those who have murdered Jews in the name of Christianity, weren't really christians, just as Muslims who murder "infidels"...well, they are being actual muslims.
So Hidden Author, Kahanists would have deplored any Jew who encouraged others to stop practicing mitzvot. In addition, if Kahanists lived at the time of Apostle Paul, I believe they would have labled him as a nut, no offense. And the reason why would have been because he used the Greek language to conclude that Jesus was Gd. Another thing that I think Kahanists would have opposed strongly was the fact that Paul created a precident to convert Roman gentiles into this Christianity and by making a religion similar to a Roman like pagan like religion. This to every Torah abiding Jew, would have been a very unJewish thing to do.
It's been done. A new religion was formed. It's called christianity. It's not Judaism. My love to all the righteous gentiles who are Christian who have come closer to Gd because of Paul. To us, Yeshu is not a legend, but another regular Jew who moved the hearts of some other Jews to revere him as a messiah after he died.
On your second comment about the stealing of souls: There are Christians who pretend to be Jewish and pretend to be practicing Judaism and try to steal lost Jews into their religion making them believe that they are practicing Judaism but are really not. Some will say, "You can be a Jew and still beleive in Jesus and be saved!" I'm sorry, you can't be both and quite frankly, very misleading. We hate those people. They deserve the worst punishment imaginable. You also have those who don't mislead Jews but simply believe that Jews will go to hell for not believing in Jesus. My friend, someone who thinks like this is just another Muslim. YES I SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR. A CHRISTIAN WHO BELIEVES THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A DIRTY MUSLIM WHO BELIEVES IN KILLING ALL INFIDELS. And a Jew who believes the same thing about non Jews, is also JUST AS BAD A DIRTY STINKING MUSLIM!!!
and hidden author, I will repeat...Yeshu was a regular man to us. Paul and the apostles made him to be the legend that he is seen to be today,
(all the power to them).