Emile,
If Rachmiel were here he would not accept your isolation of paragraphs from his book. He describes his loving and warm family and friends as well. Being that he was trained in Talmud I trust him a reliable source compared to yourself. Alan and I have said many times that we do not defend Talmud any more than the Book of Mormon or any religious materials not inspired by the Holy Spirit. He states that many Jewish parents refused offers from Christians to take their children for they did not want them to grow up to hate. They could not separate the Nazis from the religion as you can not separate the Jews from the Talmud.
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Page 147 By Rachmiel Frydland (When being Jewish was a crime)
I believe Christians should be prepared for a time like this. Our Churches stress the obligation to obey the powers that are ordained under God according to Romans 13. Should we not also be taught that there are times when a Christian is obliged to disobey his leaders and the laws of his own country? The pastor and members of the German Baptist Church were probably born again Christians. However their government made these laws and therefore they reasoned they must obey them. When they were ordained to expel all HEBREW CHRISTIANS members from their Churches they obeyed thinking they were thereby fulfilling the Scriptures.In Hitler they saw the only leader who truly resisted Communism. If he said that ALL JEWS WERE BAD AND SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED LIKE VERMIN, THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE TRANSGRESSING GOD'S WORD IF THEY DISOBEYED THE POWER APPOINTED BY GOD.
This was true not only of the German Christians. I can still see in my mind the puzzled face of the deacon in the Polish Evangelical Christian Church as he said, " You come to me to help you, to give you food and shelter, but I will be transgressing the laws of my country which I am commanded in the Word of God to obey. Upon this, he showed me the Scriptures of Jeremiah 29:7 and Romans 13:1-7. At that time I had nowhere to go and so I stayed for the Church service. He spoke on these texts to show that we have to be obedient also to the Nazi authorities. Many Christians had helped me until that time and I knew they were right and he was wrong. I was a young Christian and he was an elder, a deacon and a preacher, and who was I to contradict his teaching?
On the other hand, there were Christians like the brave Mrs. Ivanov. Because of her resistance to government decrees, at least 5 Hebrew Christians survived the massacres. Two of us are in the Lords service. She saved a certain little girl from the burning Warsaw ghetto and found a Christian home for her.
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The Church is vulnerable to the attitudes of Emile and we are vulnerable to hardening our hearts from this doctrine of hate. He can read a whole book and find only what agrees with him and uplifts no one. Emile says people are after his blood but he is not the one that had a rifle pointed at him and his family. The things you say Emile caused that to happen and you still have not said it was wrong. In the past you have said the Holocaust was a result of Deuteronomy 28 God help you if you are wrong for no one can ever say this was the will of God to me. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Jesus did not will it, He allowed it I believe to show how hard our hearts had become and to heal that hardness. But know thanks to people like you the hardness is coming back. The Bible states that they (Israel/Jews) are enemies of the Gospel( against Jesus) on your account so why do you gloat over finding this? I will tell you again the KKK man that tried to kill many people writes the exact same things that you do and we have seen the fruit from him, it is not the fruit of love and is dangerous for all mankind.
Nancy |
