To: Stock moghul who wrote (9675 ) 12/3/1997 10:30:00 PM From: Jane Hafker Respond to of 39621
I think you're taking this a little personally, which gives me insight to you. Let's analyze the word anti-christ before we get silly about the whole thing. It comes from a Greek word: antichristos. Which means according to my handy Greek concordance in my hand, from 473 and 5547: AN OPPONENT OF THE MESSIAH. what is 473: opposite. used to denote contrast, requital, etc. So, it is someone who is an opponent of the Messiah, who is in contrast to the Messiah or opposite of the Messiah. Now, in all truth I ask you: do you consider yourself to be like the Messiah, as you know from all written knowledge of 2,000 years, and do you seem to be opposite of what we know he was? And do you think this might be the position of most traditional Jews who have been raised to believe the worst thing on earth was to believe Jesus might be the son of God, or to try to find out? That in fact they tend to OPPOSE the idea of the Messiah, and logically therefore become an opponent of the Messiah, as the Greek word means? And do you agree or disagree that there are almost millions of people in this "Christian" country, not being a Muslim country, not being a Jewish country, and not being a Hindu country, who also are opponents of the Messiah? And could many Jews also, as do several million at least Americans born into Christ-believing families, seem to be the opposite of Jesus Christ? Even to despising talk about Him? Pragmatic questions. Also emperical and logical. When we establish one truth it is easier to move to the next. I think the whole Jewish- Christian division is insane. It is purely and utterly insane that it exists at all.