To: richard surckla who wrote (33783 ) 10/27/2002 10:27:24 PM From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621 Richard, I didn't know it...but I am not surprised by it! I remember something recently they were trying to outlaw Christians from even sharing their faith with others throughout Israel. If my memory serves me right, it was OK to be Christian, just not to share it! I know very little of Israeli rights and laws, and why should I. I was a conservative Jew in America. That's what I know! I have studied Judaism, not Israelism! And to be quite honest, I could give a crap what Israel thinks about me and my rights there! All I know is I believe in God and God's one and only true Word. Everything else is meaningless, especially how a Israeli court views me or that I could not own land there! That stuff is Israeli/Jewish legalism at its best, and a serious flaw in the religion! I pray they learn about the one true God and they are saved! And more importantly, I pray they learn what a real Jew is, by God's definition, not their own. Hey, ever think when they read out of their own scriptures why they can't truly open their eyes and see its meaning? Isaiah 53 1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken. 9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand. 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. I guess blocking me from land ownership and rights is much more important! Again, you see the problem? God Bless, IGIT