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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (11767)	7/24/2006 12:30:39 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

"Imagine good Christ could have done...had he lived!" He does live, and does great good for the world, his creation, on a daily basis. Even you are a beneficiary of some of this good simply by being a creature of his. He gives you breath, food, water and the protection of a society created founded on Christian values. The greater goods and gifts that Jesus the creator offers, such as forgiveness of your sins and the grace to enjoy his love and peace, you lack. You prefer the toxic fables and myths of the modern Pharisees--the Jewish rabbis--to the simple reality and dynamic truths of the living and resurrected Christ. In essence, the battle in Palestine/Israel today is an effort by these anti-Christ rabbis to impose these toxic fables upon the world.

To: Machaon who wrote (11767)	2/22/2007 1:55:12 AM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 22250

I cannot believe that an all powerful, compassionate God would so willingly accept His only son as a sacrifice, especially as a sacrifice to the undeserving. Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. The entire Old Testament is a majestic witness to God's inventive and loving preparation for the Jews to accept the only-begotten Son and Word of the Father. Why do you think the Jews were enjoined by God to offer a spotless and harmless little lamb as an expiation for their sins? Why should a meek lamb have to die for the sins of the Jews? The lamb didn't do anything to deserve death. Neither did Christ. But as the lamb went willingly to its death, so Christ the Lamb of God did likewise. Why did a lamb have to be sacrificed and killed to spare the Jews during the passover? Couldn't the all-powerful God just as easily saved Israel without them having to mark the doors with blood from a victim? Did not Abraham offer willingly as a sacrifice his only son, Isaac? Did not Isaac carry the wood on his back to the sacrifice just as Christ the Son of the Father carried the wood of the cross on his back? Did not the ram who served as a substitute sacrifice get its horns caught in the thicket, just as Christ, who deigned to make himself a pleasant sacrifice on our behalf, wore a crown of thistles? Have you never read of Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brethren as Christ was sold by his brethren the Jews? And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Joseph humbly bore his tribulations and forgave his brethren despite their betrayal, by placing his faith and trust in God that all things work together for good to them that love God. So in like manner Christ meekly went as a sheep before the slaughter due to the betrayal of his brethren the Jews, trusting that God would deliver him. Joseph went before his brethren to preserve life, and so did Christ willingly submit to his crucifixion, so that we may have the gift of life. After they cast Joseph their brother into a pit the Scripture says that his brethren sat down to eat bread. (Gen 37.25) After they delivered Christ to the pit (the grave) the Jews sat down to eat the passover, for Christ was crucified at the time of the passover and the days of unleavened bread. All the work that Christ God fulfilled when he bowed the heavens and subjected Himself to being clothed in flesh like we have, which is testified of in the New Testament, is prefigured in the Old, in an obscure way, as in a mystery. If the Jews would simply learn to put away that blasphemous Talmud and diligently study the writings of Moses and the prophets, they would see Christ prefigured in the Old Testament, and then they would see the fulfillment of it all in the New. C.

To: Machaon who wrote (11767)	2/22/2007 2:21:48 AM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 22250

I don't question the great character, compassion and wisdom of Christ. I've often wished that another great Jewish leader, like Christ, would lead much of this world out of chaos and misery it is in now. Here for all to witness is a prime example of the racist attitudes harbored by Jews who reject Christ. Notice how Mr. Barry doesn't claim to seek any sort of leader to lead the world out of chaos; he specifically qualified that he wishes a "great Jewish" leader to do it. In other words, only a "Jewish" leader would suffice. Be careful what you wish for... Jesus Christ of Nazareth has already come and led many in this world out of chaos and misery. But not those who willfully reject him. Those who reject the true Christ will necessarily accept the false. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. (John 5:42-43) This other who comes in his own name is the Antichrist whom you seek. He will come in a time of great turmoil and tribulation, when everyone is crying out for any kind of saviour. And he will promise you all your desires, if you will only fall down and worship him. All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. C.

To: Machaon who wrote (11767)	2/22/2007 2:32:25 AM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 22250

Only a Christ-killing Jew would characterize the greatest act of love in history as "committing suicide". Christ does live. He was resurrected the third day, never to taste death again. You have to read a little farther in the book. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:12-13) Does this sound like one who is dead? Notice the word of God says that the Lamb was slain, not that the Lamb committed suicide.