tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22251774105479564322024-03-04T20:12:33.502-08:00BENNY'S BLOGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-27996193276871140672018-11-23T17:42:00.000-08:002018-11-23T17:42:25.619-08:00Are the Promoters of the Caravan Willing to Sacrifice Human Life to Prove Donald Trump is a Villain?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I absolutely hope that I'm wrong but this is a prediction based on my axiom that "evil uses people as pawns for establishing its own ends".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I predict that the military will be used to prevent these "Central American Immigrants" from getting past our borders. They will resort to every non-lethal tactic at their disposal: water canons, tear gas, perhaps high pitched sound technology (if there is such a thing).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I see the masterminds behind this march on our borders as wanting t<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">o accomplish at least one of two things: 1. Penetrate the border. 2. Make Trump look bad and thus break down his populist appeal.</span></span></div>
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My prediction is that if they can't penetrate the border, someone's still going to get killed. If Trump isn't already a villain to some people now, he will be by the time this is over. Furthermore, in accomplishing this end, highlighted among the fatalities will be women and children, magnifying Trumps "villainy". As I said "evil uses people as pawns for establishing it's own end."</div>
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PRAY FERVENTLY WITH ME, IF YOU WILL, THAT MY PREDICTION WILL BE WRONG.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-1928347020840854542018-11-18T13:57:00.001-08:002018-11-18T13:57:35.289-08:00Playing A Game Of Chicken With "Imigrants"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Well, boys and girls, it looks like it’s time to play “chicken.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">For those of you who are unfamiliar with the game, more often than not, it’s played by two idiots or teams of idiots driving cars at a billion miles per hour towards each other from opposite directions. The first car to get out of the way of the otherwise inevitable collision loses. Sometimes both drivers win by crashing into each other and, by so doing, killing each other. I suppose one might facetiously say, in that case, both parties lost by winning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I do not speak from expertise, having never played the game myself, but it seems to me that it would be considerably easier to play chicken when the person playing the game has nothing to risk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Seemingly that appears to be the case. A different game of chicken is playing out at the USA southern border with Mexico. However, it seems that the ones who stand most to gain or lose are alleged migrants from Central America. There is no doubt that someone paid for the transportation, food, and shelter for thousands of these people who are supposedly fleeing from hardship in their home countries. This writer also does not doubt that this crisis began as a purposely coordinated effort between planners, organizers, and financiers. This writer also does not doubt that this coordinated effort under discussion promotes a globalist agenda whereby international boundaries between nations can be destroyed and by so doing, establish a one world government.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">And so, a game of chicken has been set up with Globalists on one side of the game and Nationalists on the other side of the “game.” And sadly, the ones most likely to lose are many hapless immigrant pawns at the hands of the Globalists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">EVIL EXPLOITS PEOPLE AS PAWNS BY WHICH IT CAN ACCOMPLISH ITS PURPOSES. To evil (the noun), human life is expendable. Hence, the “immigrants” coming to the USA southern border are pawns. Globalists are betting that the Nationalists will appear as the bad guys in this standoff. Hence, they’re assuming that the Nationalists will be the first to flinch in this game of chicken. In the meantime, many of the immigrants, who, although they might not meet the status of refugees, are nevertheless understandably seeking a better life for themselves. They were persuaded that a new and better life is available to them in the United States. The veracity of the lie they’ve been fed hinges upon whether or not the various elements among the globalists can badger the Nationalists, headed by President Trump into allowing these “immigrants” in.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">As I see it, with perhaps some exceptions, there are three types of Americans engaged in this “game of chicken.” The Globalists are largely politicians and liberals who believe in globalism, have established it as their goal and don’t appreciate the uniqueness of the USA Constitution and history. The Nationalists do believe in the uniqueness of the United States and believe it as a force for good. They also believe that Globalism is dangerous. Those who specifically don’t have an agenda, the third group, will likely express grave concern for the well-being of these poor “immigrant” pawns held in limbo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">The strategy of the Globalists is to distract the populace from the main issue of Globalism vs. Nationalism and place attention on the plight of the “immigrants.” It is elements within their ranks that are responsible for persuading immigrants and paying for their travel. Furthermore, undoubtedly, corruption in their homelands contributed to these people wanting to migrate in the first place.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">With their allies in the media, the Globalists can downplay the corruption in foreign countries and their complicity in facilitating the impetus for migration. They can continue their incessant droning that Trump, who stands at the vanguard of the Nationalist cause, is a “misogynist, homophobe and, above all, a racist who hates Hispanics and Muslims” and doesn’t want them in the country. Also with the help of the media, they can try to persuade their audience into believing that everyone who supports the Trump agenda is, likewise, a “misogynist, homophobe and, above all, racist who hates Hispanics and Muslims.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I would argue that the effort of the Nationalists is to persuade people that Globalism is dangerous and will lead to a world-wide dictatorship will be detrimental to the well-being of everyone world-wide except for the elite dictators at the top of the political pecking order.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">In the end, concerning this “game of chicken,” somebody’s got to flinch eventually, and even after then, evil will continue to exploit people as expendable pawns in its effort to implement Globalism.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-50514577241992210002018-11-16T08:04:00.001-08:002018-11-16T09:17:42.577-08:00The Democrat Party Needs to Change its Name to the Communist Party<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Presumably from that same lazy boy Obama refused reinforcements to help defend or rescue Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other victims in Benghazzi, Lybia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">B<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">oy! It sure is easy to give these kinds of directives from a lazy boy thousands of miles away! Isn't it?</span></span></div>
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In 2008, before the November election, someone very close to me asked "so what do you think of Obama?" I replied "He's a Trojan Horse.".</div>
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That was the end of our discussion. History had to be played out to vindicate me and I doubt that that person is still willing to admit that I was right.</div>
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The Democrat party has morphed. They are very far from the party of JFK who said "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country!"</div>
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They have become the party of the handouts: "What do you want? If elected I'll give it to you."</div>
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They are NOT the Democrat party. They are the Communist Party and they need to be recognized as such.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-32206658549242067672018-11-16T07:53:00.003-08:002018-11-16T09:45:22.770-08:00CNN = PRAVDA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="a2kld-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He went so far as to call much of the "Main Stream Media" (MSM) the "enemy of the people".</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="885t8-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I can't find his tweet (one of a bazillion) per se, but nevertheless, he argues that he has only challenged the veracity of the media and left it up for the people to decide. Furthermore, he pointed out that getting into the business of censorship can be very dangerous.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a1tim-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Allow me, if you will, to suggest that whenever lies are perpetrated by the media, the media is an enemy of the people and whenever truth is presented by the media, the media is a friend of the people.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2r3jg-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At face value, Trumps denunciations of the media as "enemy of the people" appear to be totalitarian in nature. But may I suggest why this is not the case?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7dbcd-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Back in the days when the Soviet Union (a blatantly repressive Communist regime) was in its hey day, it's chief source of information was a periodical called "PRAVDA". Pravda means "the Truth". Was it the truth? Many would say that such was absolutely not the case. I, for one, would say that it was the propaganda wing of the Communist party. In fact, it was indisputedly the case! Pravda reinforced the party line (agenda as it were). If a fact disagreed with the party's agenda, it was kept hidden. If a fact supported the party's agenda, it was placed on the front page.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8lvin-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Communist government of the USSSR and PRAVDA worked hand-in-glove. One DID NOT criticiize the other. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="nlk0-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Might I suggest "Be happy that Trump and the media are at odds". </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9ggo7-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When the government and the media are compliant with one another, that's when you should worry.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="58oun-0-0" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">May I suggest to you that the MSM IS the American version of PRAVDA, </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and when the media agrees with the government and the government agrees with the media, THAT IS WHEN YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I became a grandfather I realized that I was fundamentally a liar. And I lied to my children as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sang sweet lullabys to them with words like:<br />"rock abye baby on the tree tops<br />When the wind blows the cradle will rock.<br />When the bow breaks the cradle will fall<br />and DOWN WILL COME BABY C R A D L E A N D A L L.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing that I wanted my children to learn was that they had come into a world that was safe and secure... where they were surrounded by love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SUCH IS NOT THE CASE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This world is cruel and it leads in only one direction: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">D E A T H.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do I want a world without walls? ABSOLUTELY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the population of this world is not prepared to have a world without walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That day will come. In Zechariah 14, after THE great and devastating battle, it says that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles."</i><br />(Zech. 14:16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let me ask: "How is the Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkoth) celebrated?" WITHOUT WALLS. Former enemies of Jerusalem are to come to the Holy City and camp out in booths made of nothing but sticks, to worship the King of Kings and learn from His Law about how people can live together in peace. Instead of walls, former enemies are left exposed and defenseless before one another and before God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe it or not, I want exactly what Cory Booker wants. But I know that the world is not ready for what we want. I dare say that what Cory Booker wants at this present time will only lead us inevitably to that devastating war that Zechariah predicts. I also know that beyond that war is a glorious future in which the world government will "rest upon the shoulders" of the just, yet compassionate Messiah, <b>Jesus</b>.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5park-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I pondered the immigration problem in light of the present push towards globalism and realized that it could, very well, be a ploy, exploiting human misery as a battering ram for the purpose of destroying national borders. Hence, I came up with the attached "picture." I concede that it does reveal a strong element of synicism but I'm actually encouraged that Trump modified one of my points by, rather than "bombing the crap" out of those who make it difficult for those who seek asylum here, providing economic pressure on them instead. In the meantime, Congress has definitively refused to come up with a solution by law.</span></span></div>
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In 2017 457 white people were shot to death by police.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2017 223 black people were shot to death by police.<sup>1</sup><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2010 the White population in the US was 196,817,552<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2010 the Black Population in the US was 37,685,848.<sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></div>
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Assuming that comparatively little change has taken place
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killed by police amounted to 5.92 per 1 million people in 2017.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5.92 people shot dead is tragic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a perfect world, no one would be shot
dead, but in our fallen world, 5.92 people for every million people is quite
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Nevertheless, put another way, in 2017 if you’re black,
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Colin Kaepernick attributes this statistic to the
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sought to raise awareness of police brutality towards black people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To bolster his assertion of police bias, he points to the
disproportionate rate at which blacks as opposed to whites are arrested for
committing violent crimes.<sup>3<o:p></o:p></sup></div>
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These are unfortunate statistics but they are irrefutably
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Are these statistics true because, indeed, cops hate
black people? As much as Colin Kaepernick would like to hold to this argument,
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Is it because black people are simply a more violent or
inferior race?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I don’t think
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blacks have turned out brilliant
scientists, inventors, statesmen, jurists and people who excel in just about
every other field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Is it because of a high level of poverty that blacks face
in American urban areas?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I don’t
think so. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other ethnic groups have
endured similar levels of poverty without resorting to violence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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consisted of only one parent was 62%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
contrast, the percentage of white homes that consisted of only one parent was
24%.<sup>4 </sup>The ratio of black single parent homes to white single parent
homes is approximately 3 to 1, the same ratio as black to white deaths by
police and not unlikely a similar ratio of black arrests to white arrests.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The problem facing the black community in America is not
police brutality or racism on the part of police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That may have a part in it, but if so, it is
miniscule. The majority of the problem is the scarcity of positive role models,
fathers in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the many
benefits of positive role models, aside from love and acceptance, is respect
for authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Police are, in American
culture, designated to be authority figures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If an authority figure gives an order, he Is to be obeyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A defiant response to a police order is only
going to increase the likelihood that one is going to get himself killed. Furthermore,
evidence supporting my suggestion is that arrest rate, whether black or white
can be correlated to whether or not a child grew up in a home with one or two
parents.<sup>5</sup> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Of late, I’ve been doing considerable studying of history
and historical events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve established
an axiom that whenever a problem arises, if presumptions are made concerning
the root cause of the problem tragedy results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This axiom, I would hold, applies to current events as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2014, as many of us recall, a young man
named Michael Brown, was killed by a police officer by the name of Darren
Wilson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The circumstances that led up to
his shooting were pretty much ignored in the black community and yet, calls
were made to “tar and feather” officer Wilson, who, as it turned out, had acted
in self-defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rioting ensued. Young
Mr. Brown’s death was attributed to a “white, racist cop” and a narrative
generalizing the notion that “cops are racist” was broadcast across the
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, other anecdotal
incidences of cops killing black youth were played up in the media, but,
beginning with the tragic death of Michael Brown, consistent with my proposed
axiom, tragedy ensued. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Another statistic confirms my axiom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the year 2014, there was a sharp increase
in urban violence.<sup>6</sup> This, of course, was the same year that Michael
Brown was killed, Black Lives Matter made its way onto the national scene, and
massive demonization of the police was pushed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are there anecdotal incidences of police misuse of
power?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I write this essay, the death of Botham
Shem Jean, an upstanding citizen who happened to be black, and was murdered by
a white policewoman who apparently had mistaken him for an intruder, is fresh
in the minds of most Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
incident is beyond tragic!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What were the
circumstances that led up to this horrific event?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did the policewoman have an innate hatred or
fear of black men?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why was it that she
mistook the victim’s apartment for her own?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was she on drugs, medication or was she drunk?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time, any assumption is merely
speculation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God willing, the truth will
come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No doubt, such incidences need
to be prevented, and hopefully more can be learned to stop such incidences in
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But Mr. Kaepernick does a disservice to the black
community by, with a broad stroke, transferring blame for its woes upon the
police. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a presumptive approach to
problem solving and only, as I’ve stated, exacerbates the problem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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weakened the black family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would
require further essays and further research to confirm it, but I’m of the
opinion that this legislation dates back to LBJ and the “Great Society.” Such
legislation ought to be reversed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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activities on the part of regular good ole’ fashioned American volunteers
should be encouraged so that these children can have positive role models to
look up to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young men with respect for
authority won’t endanger themselves by defying authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young men who have examples of people who
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out of genuine frustration, but blaming the black communities problems on the
police is a dangerous misdiagnosis of the problem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Prophet, indeed We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have given their due compensation and those your right hand possesses from what Allah has returned to you [of captives] and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who emigrated with you and a believing woman if she gives herself to the Prophet [and] if the Prophet wishes to marry her, [this is] only for you, excluding the [other] believers. We certainly know what We have made obligatory upon them concerning their wives and those their right hands possess, [but this is for you] in order that there will be upon you no discomfort. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: I felt jealous of the women who offered themselves to Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him) and said: Then when Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this:" You may defer any one of them you wish, and take to yourself any you wish;<br />and if you desire any you have set aside (no sin is chargeable to you)" (xxxiii. 51), I ('A'isha.) said: It seems to me that your Lord hastens to satisfy your desire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The martyrdom of Stephen marked a turning point in two respects: (1) It began the persecution that drove witnessing Christians from Jerusalem into all Judea and Samaria and (2) It moved Saul the persecutor towards personal conversion to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The authors of this particular book are reputable scholars yet I was alarmed by this quote on a number of levels. I choose to address only one issue, here, which is what I regard to be the most important one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Book of Acts in the Bible there is an account of a man named Stephen who, while speaking to a multitude of Jewish people, recounts Jewish history as it was recorded in the Tanakch (Old Testament), and uses it to show our (the Jewish people’s) need for an atonement that could only be satisfied through the then recent death and resurrection of the Messiah, Jesus. In essence those Jews listening to Stephen’s message did not like what they heard and stoned him to death. Another repercussion of this particular event was that massive persecution broke out against those who believed in Jesus throughout Judea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I write this essay, I’ve always thought of Stephen, the Apostles, those believers in Jesus who met daily at the Beis HaMikdosh (Temple), and in people’s homes, the 3,000 who’d come to believe in Y’shua on Shavuoth (Pentacost) and those who were “daily added to their number” as Jews. In fact there is absolutely no specific mention of a Gentile coming to believe in Y’shua until late in chapter 10, three chapters later*. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so I was shocked at reading this books description of the recipients of the post-Stephen persecution as “Christians”. This description carries with it unique connotations both to the Jewish mind as well as the Gentile mind: The Jewish mind has been trained to think of the term “Christian” as being decidedly not Jewish. The Gentile mind, likewise, sees those persecuted as one of them… namely Christians and not Jews (or even Jewish Christians).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Gentile perception is unfortunate. For one thing, it denies the reality that those first “Christians” were Jews and for another thing it creates in the minds eye, a “them vs. us” scenario in which the Gentile sees his people, the Christians, as being persecuted by THOSE Jews. This perpetuates the notion that Jews are evil and "not one of us". The resulting perspective is one of dispassionate indifference at best towards the persecutors. The Jewish Christian, on the other hand, sees those who were doing the persecuting as “My Father, brother, my cousins… my family.” His heart throbs with that of the Apostle Paul who said…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">According to Strong's Concordance, epieikes can mean "gentle, mild, forbearing, fair, reasonable, moderate".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Personally I like the terms "reasonableness" or "moderate" which is what the King James Version (KJV) uses. I actually see this as a law of Messiah. The "fruit of the Spirit" as outlined in Galatians 5 includes "Temperance" (according to the KJV) a synonm for self-contro<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">l.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as all of the material universe obeys the laws of nature, so too, the spiritual or moral universe ought to obey the Laws of God but it doesn't because of the rebellious nature of man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What (according to Paul) God requires of the Ekklesia, really is required of mankind in General and when we look around us, man is not inclined towards moderation. The large percentage of women in the West, desirous of abortions to compensate for what can only be termed as licentiousness plus a common proneness towards immodest dress which exists among a large population of women in the West is the very antithesis of moderation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Evidence of man's inability to attain moderation is Islam which demands that women cover themselves because Islam has not, or has inadequately taught Muslim men self-control. Hence, the onus for restraint falls upon the woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the book of Habbakkuk, the Prophet complains to God that Judah is being invaded by the Babylonians... a wicked and cruel people. In essence, God tells Habbakkuk that He'll take care of the Babylonians but He's using them to punish Judah for her own wickedness, and yet this is part of a process to refine and correct Judah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that what went on in the days of habbakkuk is not too dissimilar to what is going on today. Because the women of the West don't understand the importance of modesty, God is and will use Islam to IMPOSE modesty on them.</span></div>
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sites as examples “</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It is </span><b><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">common knowledge</span></b><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> among those familiar with the rabbinic
tradition that Haman was considered a descendant of the Amalekites. ... Yet it
was </span><b><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">common knowledge</span></b><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> that Mrs. Bush was a “moderating”
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example. As far as Mrs. Bush having a
“moderating” influence on President Bush is concerned, I would still hold that
only Mr. Bush, Mrs. Bush, all the “little” Bush’s and God know that for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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knowledge” is necessarily true. In some
cases, I would prefer to call some such assertions as “common assumptions” and
when it comes to assumptions, there’s a well-known cliché that (please pardon
my language) when one “assumes” something, it “makes an ass out of you and me’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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location, I turned on what my father used to affectionately call ‘the idiot
box’ just in time to catch a well-known comedian ending a quip with the words…
“that’s about as likely as a Jew believing in Jesus”. It was apparent, at least to this comedian,
that it was common knowledge that Jews don’t believe in Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having followed the rhetoric of this particular comedian
for the past 30 years, however, and corroborating her statement with my own
in-depth knowledge on the subject, I confidently assert that her statement was
not one of common knowledge but was, in fact, a common assumption. And dare I say that, true to form, this
assumption, makes an ass out of everyone.
‘Membership’ in the “Church” is perceived as limited to non-Jews. Faith in Jesus is perceived by the public as
‘just another religion’ along with Judaism and Islam. And the world, as a whole, has a tainted
understanding of what Christianity and its origins are.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to my one pet peeve! I weary myself standing on this soap box from
which I am unable to extricate myself.
I’m sure that I alienate myself from much of Christendom let alone my
Jewish brethren with my rantings.
However, it is through that grid that I view all ‘Christian’ literature
and rhetoric. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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although there are a lot of people who call themselves “Christians” who are
not. I do believe that much of this
misunderstanding is the fault of the Church, but that’s a matter of discussion
for another day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The contemporary use of the
term “Christian”, in my humble opinion, is an unfortunate one. As some might be aware, that epithet wasn’t
used until Acts 11:26, and was given to the followers of Jesus by
non-believers… outsiders as it were.
Many within the “Church” however, have adopted it for themselves as a convenient
moniker. This self-identification,
though, has yielded a perception that belief and, dare I say, trust in Jesus is
just another religion like Judaism or Islam or Buddhism, etc. On the contrary, genuine belief in Jesus
manifests itself as a personal relationship with the eternal living God of
creation and this relationship transcends ethnicity. In fact, it ought to unite people of various
ethnicities… not by piling everyone into one amalgam called “Christian” but by
celebrating the diversity that the God of the Bible has naturally created and
by which “peoples of every tongue and nation” will come and worship the King of
kings and Lord of lords. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, when one studies the
history of Christianity, by the time of the second century, it’s appearance had
deviated drastically from its original setting.
The first century Church, up until the time Peter met with the Roman
Centurion, Cornelius, in Acts chapter 10, was exclusively Jewish. There wasn’t a Gentile in the lot. Even well after Acts 11, the Apostle Paul
does not shrug off his identity as a Jew. </span></span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2 Corinthians 11 Paul says…</span></div>
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Hebrews? <b>So am I</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Are they
Israelites? <b>So am I</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Are they
Abraham’s descendants? <b>So</b> <b>am I</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Are they
servants of Christ?</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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been through, Paul writes…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from <b>my fellow</b> <b>Jews</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in danger from
Gentiles; in danger in the city,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“those” Jews but “my fellow Jews”</span></span></div>
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that he’d endured from his “fellow Jews” (and please don’t neglect his use of
the term “gentiles” in the above passage as equal participants in his
maltreatment), he’s not bitter towards them.
In fact, in Romans 9, he writes…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I speak the
truth in Christ—I am not lying,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">my conscience confirms</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">it through the Holy Spirit—</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have
great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For I could wish that I myself</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="text"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">were cursed</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="text"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and cut off from Christ for
the sake of my people,</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="text"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">those of my own race,</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="text"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the people of Israel</span></b></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Theirs is the adoption to sonship;</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">theirs the
divine glory,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the covenants,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the receiving of the law,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the temple
worship</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and the promises.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Theirs are the patriarchs,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and from
them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">who is God
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as a Jew and he never stopped loving the very people that hated and persecuted
him. He loved them even to the point of
being willing to relinquish his own salvation if that meant that they might
receive salvation in return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Jewish people were intended to be
the ones who would bring the truth of God to the rest of the world. When God gave the land to the descendants of
Jacob who was later called Israel, it was with the intent that they would be a
light to the nations. The land given to
the Children of Israel, over which they were to rule, was at the cross roads of
all the trade routes of the known world.
They were to be a “peculiar people”… a special prized possession which
is an inadequate definition of the Hebrew word “segula”. As traders would pass through the territory
of Judah, they would go back and tell their families and friends of this
marvelous civilization with a constitution (known as the Torah) that was upheld
because its people had a deep and profound respect for an invisible God whose
forgiveness was symbolized by seven drops of a lambs blood on an altar that no
one except one person was privileged to see and that, only once a year (Lev. 16…
a pre-incarnate picture of the Messiah).
Israel was to be the vehicle that God would use to reveal Himself to all
the peoples of the world. In this
regard, Israel did have somewhat of an impact on the nations. The Queen of Sheba traveled a vast distance
to meet with the king of this marvelous nation, who’s wisdom and wealth
exceeded anything known up until that time.
The only problem with the nation was that it was God Himself who
intended to be the king over this people.
They chose a human king instead.
And so the Jews failed in that respect.</span></span></div>
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more important respect. They were the
metaphorical “woman” in Revelation 12 who gave birth to a Son. And the name of that Son is Jesus. He was to be a “light of revelation to the
Gentiles and a glory to His people, Israel” (Luke 2:32).</span></span></div>
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of the Jew is now over. They are a
vestige of the past. As far as I’m
concerned, the church that takes this view does not really consider the Jew as
a mere “vestige” as much as I would more graphically call it, a “placenta”. Now that the Messiah has come into the world,
God doesn’t need the “placenta” any more.
It can just be discarded now like all placentas. The trouble is that in God’s eyes this is no
placenta. In spite of their unbelief the
Jewish people are still a segula… a ‘prized possession”, and holy. Paul writes…</span></span></div>
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<span class="text" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am talking to you
Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I take pride in my ministry</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="en-NIV-28224" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in the hope that I may
somehow arouse my own people (the Jews) to envy</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and save some of them.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="en-NIV-28225" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For if their rejection
brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life
from the dead?</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="en-NIV-28226" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If the part of the dough offered as first fruits</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the
root is holy, so are the branches.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, Paul doesn’t use
the metaphor of a placenta when he talks about Israel and the church in Romans
11, but he just might as well when he warns the Gentile believers in Rome not
to boast against the natural branches (vs. 18) of the Olive Tree which Paul, in
a more tasteful fashion than I, prefers to use as a metaphor. He reminds the Gentile believer that “He who
grafted you, as a wild branch, into the Olive Tree which is the kingdom of God,
can just as easily prune you out (vs. 21).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I mentioned before, the
word “Christian” is an unfortunate term.
It connotes the notion that in spite of Paul’s own protestations, he is
a Christian and not a Jew. I’ve seen
Christian history text books referring to the first believers in Jerusalem as
Christians and not Jews. I’ve heard
sermons galore speaking of the disciples of Jesus as Christians and not Jews
while Caiphas, and the Jewish hierarchy were the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fact that a majority of
the Jews during the time of the Gospel did not believe in Jesus, eclipses the
reality that it was Jews who first brought the Gospel to the Gentile world to
the average Christian mind. One of my
neighbors actually took offense when I told him that the Gospel of Mark was
written by a Jew. Furthermore, good
churchgoer as he is, he refused to believe me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rightfully do Christians
take the great commission as outlined in Matthew 28 as a call to “preach the
Gospel to all the Nations”. But the
context in which that assignment was given must not be overlooked. In context, Jesus, the God-Man (who happened
to be a Jewish man) was telling his disciples, a small band of Jewish men, to
declare among the goyim (the Gentiles… the various non-Jewish ethnicities),
that the Messiah had come, that He was
both fully God and fully man, that He lived a thoroughly righteous life, that He was murdered unjustly on an execution
stake but was raised from the dead and sits at the right hand of God the Father
to make intercession for anyone who will put their trust in Him. Having
conquered death, this God-Man promises eternal life to whosoever will commit
himself to walk in newness of life through the enablement of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, the Jewish nation, as a
whole, did not come to faith in Christ, but those who heard the “great
commission” and watched the Messiah literally ascend into the clouds did not
shirk their responsibility to obey that great commission. Paul, we know, ‘though not present at the
Mount of Olives from where Jesus ascended, nevertheless knew that his role as a
Jew demanded of him that he take the Gospel to the Gentiles. All the others were martyred preaching the
Gospel. Archeological findings have
confirmed that Thomas carried the Gospel to India. And it is interesting to note that synagogues
erected after the Babylonian diaspora 450 years earlier served as bases for
evangelism in the early days of the spreading of the Gospel not just along the
sojourns of Paul as was recorded in the Book of Acts but for Thomas and the
others who took the Gospel to the ends of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ever since the time of the
Great Commission, Jews have been taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Below is a brief list of Jewish Christians other than Jesus and His immediate
disciples who’ve been involved in evangelizing the uttermost parts of the earth. Note: These are not all merely contemporary individuals<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Richard
Wurmbrand – 1910 - 1991 Founder of Voice of the Martyrs, an organization which
has offices in over 30 countries and is involved in the helping of Christians
undergoing persecution in as many as 80 nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jay
Sekulow – 1956 – Present - Chief counsel for the American Center for Law and
Justice (ACLJ) a team which not only litigates on behalf of Christian causes in
the United States, but which litigates on behalf of persecuted Christians
throughout the world, including victims of Sharia law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph
Wolf - 1795-1862 Became a pioneer missionary to the Jews of Persia Turkistan
and Arabia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alfonzo
de Zalmora – Baptized in 1506 – The chief Hebraist in the translation of the
first polyglot Bible which was financed by Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de
Cisneros to “revive the languishing study of the ancient scriptures”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samuel
Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky 1831-1906 An orthodox Jew from Lithuania, founded
the first Protestant University in China.
Translated the Bible into Mandarin Chinese and then into Wenli (one
dialect of Chinese). In spite of a debilitating onset of Parkinson’s disease,
he completed the Wenli Bible typing one character at a time with his index
finger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A
still incomplete but, nevertheless, more extensive list of prominent Jewish
Christians can be found <a href="http://www.israelinprophecy.org/ENGLISH/live_site/brief_list-most_famous_messianic_jews.html">here </a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">World
evangelism has been instigated in the past and present by Jews. Furthermore, world evangelism in the future
cannot and will not be conducted without Jews.
Revelation chapter 7 tells us that during the time of the great
tribulation 144,000 members of the B’nai Yisrael (Sons of Israel) will evangelize
the entire world with a level of effectiveness such as has never been
known. Some have said that these people
comprise of the tribes of Judah, Levi and Benjamin who’d endured the Babylonian
diaspora as well as other tribes not yet accounted for who are known as the “10
lost tribes of Israel”. Some have said
that these evangelists are the “church” which replaced the Jew (a position to
which I strongly disagree and I see to be hard to defend). I have a theory which I’d like to share with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
speculate that prior to the Assyrian diaspora of the tribes of the northern
kingdom, the more devout among the people from the northern tribes migrated to the
southern kingdom of Judah because the places of sacrifice set up in Samaria and
Dan by Jeraboam, the first king of the north, in order to keep the people in his kingdom were inadequate. Those who migrated southward knew that the
only authentic place for worship was in Jerusalem. Hence, those who were scattered as a result
of the second diaspora… the Babylonian conquest of the southern kingdom, were
from every tribe including those from the north who'd migrated south. That’s why we have Ashkenazi
Jews of today with names like Naftalon or Naftali, or Rubin or Simon or other
names similar to or derived from the names of all the tribes of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish
people have been scattered throughout the world. I’ve found an Interesting phenomenon. Namely, that their culture tends to be a conglomerate
of Biblical/Synagogue tradition and the culture in which they find
themselves. I’m of the opinion that this
is why the 144,000 evangelists of Revelation 7 will be so effective. They’re already a part of the culture they
will be reaching for the Messiah. They
will not be trying to “fit in” to the culture around them. Concerning the unique nature of those
cultures… they already do fit in. Hence, I believe that part of a missions effort should include seeking out of indiginous Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">If
your church does not have a missions program, start one and if it already has
one, DO NOT ignore the Jew.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">God gave Moses 10 Commandments. The seventh commandment said…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Thou Shalt not Commit Adultery”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a list of many in the Bible whom Islam says were prophets and their behavior concerning the question of adultery (Muslims may pronounce the names differently or ascribe different names to them).</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adam had one wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seth had one wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enoch had one wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noah had one wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abraham had 3 wives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He had
a second wife because his first wife couldn’t have children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When
his first wife did miraculously have a child (Isaac), he sent his first wife
away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He had
a third wife only after his first wife died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Isaac had one wife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jacob had four wives only because he’d been tricked by his
father-in-law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David had many wives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And although the New Testament says he was a prophet by virtue of the fact that he gave prophetic utterances, his office was that of a king. He was not above the law of Moses, and therefore, a prophet chastised him for his adultery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Because
of his adultery one of his sons temporarily took the kingdom from him, he was <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> humiliated in front of everyone in his kingdom, and his household
was divided the rest of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Solomon had many wives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But he
also was not a prophet. He was a king
and because of his adultery his kingdom was </span><span style="font-size: large;">divided and all of its wealth was</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad (solely a prophet of Islam) had several wives and the Quran was claimed to
have justified it. In <a href="https://quran.com/33/50">Surah 33:50</a> we read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Prophet, indeed We have made lawful to you your wives
to whom you have given their due compensation and those your right hand
possesses from what Allah has returned to you [of captives] and the daughters
of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the
daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who
emigrated with you and a believing woman if she gives herself to the Prophet
[and] if the Prophet wishes to marry her, [this is] only for you, excluding the
[other] believers. We certainly know what We have made obligatory upon them
concerning their wives and those their right hands possess, [but this is for
you] in order that there will be upon you no discomfort. And ever is Allah
Forgiving and Merciful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surah 33:50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad married the divorced wife of his adopted son. His feelings for her were there before she’d
ever been divorced. Yet somehow, Allah justified this for him and allegedly
gave her to him. If you're Arabic speaking, you can read about it <a href="https://quran.com/33/37">here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/BARRYE~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">And [remember, O Muhammad], when you said to the one on
whom Allah bestowed favor and you bestowed favor, "Keep your wife and fear
Allah ," while you concealed within yourself that which Allah is to
disclose. And you feared the people, while Allah has more right that you fear
Him. So when Zayd had no longer any need for her, We married her to you in
order that there not be upon the believers any discomfort concerning the wives
of their adopted sons when they no longer have need of them. And ever is the
command of Allah accomplished<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surah 33:37<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even Aisha whose marriage to Muhammad was consummated when she was at the age of 9 pondered the reality that Muhammad managed to
get "convenient" revelations from allah justifying his acquisition of a
harem. Of course her testimony doesn’t
count because Islam has declared that the testimony of a woman does not bear
the same weight as a man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can read about this pondering on her part <a href="https://muflihun.com/muslim/8/3453">here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: I felt
jealous of the women who offered themselves to Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon
him) and said: Then when Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this:"
You may defer any one of them you wish, and take to yourself any you wish;<br />
and if you desire any you have set aside (no sin is chargeable to
you)" (xxxiii. 51), I ('A'isha.) said: It seems to me that your Lord
hastens to satisfy your desire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sahih Muslim 8 3453<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">CONCLUSION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Absolutely no individual who both the Bible and
Islam agree were prophets had adulterous relationships which would have
compromised their proclamations concerning the moral demands of God. Furthermore, God never condoned
adultery. This is confirmed by the
consequences resulting from the adulterous practices of kings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad practiced adultery and used the Quran to create the
perception that activities which constituted adultery (e.g. The taking of
multiple wives, the taking of underage children for wives, the marriage to
divorced women) were not, in fact, adultery but, on the contrary, were permitted by God.
By doing so he has led tens of millions of followers astray using the
name of allah to justify a practice that God never permitted. And dare I say, God's standards of morality never have changed and never will change no matter who might declare otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad’s behavior vastly differs from the behavior of any of the prophets of the Bible. By that virtue alone, he
does not qualify as a prophet. Evidence would have it that Muhammad used allah and the Quran to justify his own lusts and in so doing, he redefined God's standard of morality which objectively speaking, will not and cannot change in spite of what Muhammad "legitimized". Rather than leading people towards God which is the role of a prophet, in the name of allah, Muhammad </span><span style="font-size: large;">led people... countless numbers of people, away from God. In light of that alone, Muhammad is neither a prophet, nor is his Quran </span><span style="font-size: large;">a genuine "holy book".</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">IS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">On the one hand, I could say that the answer to this
question is quite simple. Simply compare
Jesus to Muhammad…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jesus never harmed anyone or anything. As Isaiah, describes the Messiah <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bruised<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>He will not
break and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;” Isaiah 42:3.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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conducted war, beheaded captives, raided caravans, and added captured women to
his haram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jesus’ immediate followers, likewise, were harmless. They spread the message of the Gospel through
reasoning and arguments of persuasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"> Muhammad’s successors conducted
war, beheaded captives, raided caravans, and added captured women to their
harams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The answer is pretty straight forward. There is nothing about the life of Muhammad
that would even remotely suggest that he was a man of peace or that the
“religion” that he founded is one of peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">One may also look to the Quran and the
Hadiths to confirm a general call to violence on the part of Islam. This is
countered by verses that serve as calls to peace also found in the Quran. In similar fashion when the Christian argues
on behalf of a peaceful Gospel, the Muslim apologist counters “But look at the
violence when Israel conquered the land of Canaan. That was not peaceful". Furthermore, if Jesus is the Messiah of peace
whom “a bruised reed He will not break” how can that claim be made when in the
end He will vanquish His enemies violently”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Most Christians tend to avoid these
objections. Personally, I’m skeptical
that anyone who would present these objections is really interested in
determining truth and/or is so entrenched in Islam that He would be unwilling
to objectively reevaluate his own faith anyway.
I hope that such is not the case and with that in mind, I present as my
intention, to address these objections and demonstrate that they are
fundamentally unfounded. In this essay I will attempt to address the former objection and in a subsequent essay, I will address the latter objection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Why the call in the Bible to genocide?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The Muslim is correct when he makes
the claim that God told Moses that when the Children of Israel were to enter
the Land of Canaan they were to completely kill all of the people of the
land. Clearly, in Deuteronomy 17:16-18
it says<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cities of these peoples that the</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">your God
is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that
breathes.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">But you
shall</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 7.5pt;">[</span></sup></i></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+20&version=NASB#fen-NASB-5445k" title="See footnote k"><i><sup><span style="color: #b34b2c; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">k</span></sup></i></a><span class="text"><i><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 7.5pt;">]</span></sup></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">utterly destroy
them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite
and the Jebusite, as the</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">your God
has commanded you,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">so that
they may not teach you to do</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">according to all their detestable things which
they have done for their gods, so that you would</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sin against the</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">your God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">This is a reality. This is
a part of the very ugly, down and dirty truth that is found in the Bible. But it is a necessary part of the Bible
narrative. So I rhetorically ask “Why
did God command the Children of Israel to do something as utterly cruel as
annihilating the inhabitants of the land?
I will attempt to answer this, first of all, by addressing the nature of
the people who were in the land, second of all, by addressing the purpose
behind God wanting the Children of Israel to occupy the land and lastly, by the
nature of the warfare that was used in taking the land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The first hint that we get about the nature of the people who were
living in the land is found in Genesis 15.
It tells something about, not only the people, but something very
wonderful about God. In Genesis 15, God makes
a covenant with Abram (whose name would be changed to Abraham). As part of the covenant God says to him <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not theirs,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">where</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">they will be enslaved and oppressed</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">four hundred years.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">But I will also judge the nation whom they will
serve, and afterward they will come out</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">with</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">many possessions.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">As for you,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will
be buried at a good old age.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><b><i><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></sup></i></b></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Then in</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the fourth generation they will return here, <b>for</b></span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></b></span><span class="text"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete</span></i></b></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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descendants would spend 400 hundred years in Egypt. The Amorites who were in the land at the time
of Abraham’s dwelling there were deeply involved in idolatry and all sorts of perverse
behavior. But the sin among them had not
yet reached its peak. They were not
beyond redemption. The 400 years of the
descendants of Abraham dwelling in Egypt was the time necessary for the
Amorites to reach their peak of corruption. Here’s where we see something
wonderful and compassionate about God. Notice His patience. He knew that the Amorites would get worse and
worse. He just didn’t want to utterly
destroy them then and there. Some of the
Amorites at the time of Abraham were redeemable and not deserving of death. The compassion of God also wanted to give
them time to repent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aspects of this covenant. They are very
significant. But they are not presently
germane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Abraham’s grandson’s) invasion of the land, the Amorites had become as corrupt
and irredeemable as they could be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corruption? There is no specific history
of the account of their corruption mentioned in the Bible, however, after much
time had passed, the kingdom of the Children of Israel who had wrenched the
land from the Amorites became divided into two separate kingdoms. In the norther kingdom, there arose a king
who became so evil that he was likened to the evil of the Amorites (1Kings
21:26). To understand the corruption of
the Amorites, therefore, one need only study the activities of that king who’s
name was Ahab. An account of the
activity of Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, can be found between Chapter 16:29 and
Chapter 22:40 of the book of First Kings of the Bible. Among the things they did was to construct
Ashteroth which were poles erected in honor of the goddess Asherah. Mythology had it that she was the consort of
Baal… the weather god who rode the clouds and carried lightning in his
hand. The Ashteroth were constructed all
over the northern kingdom of Israel and orgies were conducted throughout the
land in her honor since she was the pagan “goddess of fertility”. Their idolatry actually led Ahab and Jezebel
to murder the actual prophets of God.
Not too far after Ahabs reign, the northern kingdom of Israel was taken
captive by the Assyrians and sent into exile.
As bad as Ahab was, that’s how bad the Amorites had become by the time
the Children of Israel had left Egypt.
That’s why God wanted to use Israel to wipe them out completely. They’d become a cesspool of sex, idolatry,
lawlessness and murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“make no covenant with them or with their gods. They
shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me;
for if you serve
their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”You shall <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">God wanted the Amorites gone because they were thoroughly unredeemable,
and their idolatry and practices of prostitution would only serve to tempt the
Children of Israel to immorality.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Children of Israel to inhabit the land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rather obviously King Ahab of the northern kingdom was not the way God
desired for the Kingdom of Israel to progress.
God had given a law known as the Torah to the Children of Israel. It was an amazing law which made supernatural
demands upon the people of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall
surely return it to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you
lying helpless under
its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely
release it with him.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">This was a practice that was unheard of and still is unheard of to this
day! Whoever heard of a man acting
charitably towards his enemy? When
Israel, after having been exiled and returned to the land, and under Roman
domination, Jesus told the people of His day just about the very same thing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that were outside of human nature to carry out. Man, in his natural state is not going to
“turn the other cheek”. A unique,
special sort of motivation is needed in order to implement this law on a
personal level. Certainly in the case of
the above law, willful forgiveness is required as well as a renunciation of
pride and the taking on of humility when one has been dishonored. In essence one must be willing to love God so
much that one is willing to obey His law regardless of one’s self interest. One must also know the requirements of
God. Those requirements are spelled out
only in God’s word, the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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person”. And so, God gave the Children
of Israel an opportunity to try to implement His law. Of course this law could never be implemented
to perfection, but imagine that you’ve been told to shoot an arrow at a
target. How are you even going to get
near the target if you don’t even know the direction that the target is
in? The law pointed in the direction,
and the objective was to create a society, which, governed by the perfect Law
of God, consisted of a population of people who were, at least compared to all
the nations around them, compassionate and respectful towards one another. Disputes were settled justly and in an
orderly fashion. Yes, some punishments
were treated with the utmost of severity but the intent was that such
punishments would never even be necessary.”?
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“society” was to be established? In Genesis
15:18, while God is making His afore mentioned covenant with Abraham, He tells
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">[</span></sup></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+15&version=NASB#fen-NASB-379t" title="See footnote t"><sup><span style="color: #b34b2c; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">t</span></sup></a><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">]</span></sup></span><span class="text">descendants I have given
this land,</span><br />
<span class="text">From</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text">the river of Egypt as far as the great
river, the river Euphrates":<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The land was to extend from the eastern most river of the Nile
Delta to the Euphrates River. This
promise is reiterated not to Ishmael but to Abraham’s other son, Isaac in
Genesis 26:2-5. The promise is again,
repeated not to Isaac’s son, Esau, but to Isaac’s son Jacob in Genesis
23:13-15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The descendants of Jacob have never fully acquired all of this
land, but the God of the Bible, who will not lie, promises that one day they
will obtain all of it. In Leviticus
26:40-45 Moses tells us that the descendants of Jacob (who is also called
Israel) will be exiled from the land but would one day return from the four
corners of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">But why this particular parcel of land?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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located right in the middle of the trading routes as caravans took their goods
from East to West and North to South and vice versa, all over the known
world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will… this land, right in the middle of these trading routes is inhabited by a
people who, because they love God, are able to do these extraordinary things
like carrying on acts of kindness towards even their enemies. The traders would marvel and attribute this
amazing relationship between these people to their God. They would go back to their homes and
families after their long journeys and tell their wives and families and children
about this marvelous God. People all
over the world would give up their idols and pursue the knowledge of this
wonderful God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yes, this “experiment”
failed the first time. That’s because
human nature really doesn’t allow it.
You call Adam the first Prophet, but he’d sinned. He had given in to the temptation to be “like
God” and all of us are guilty of that.
Why do we get angry when we’re insulted or dishonored? All of us is prone to hate our enemies. In all of history, only Jesus loved those who
tortured Him, spoke ill of Him, insulted Him and ultimately crucified Him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“Behold, I
am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to
bring you into the place which I have prepared. <b><sup> </sup></b>Be on
your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him,
for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. <b><sup> </sup></b>But
if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, <b>then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries</b>. <b><sup> </sup></b>For My angel will go before you and
bring you in to the land of the
Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the
Jebusites; <b>and I will completely destroy
them</b>, <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b><i><sup> </sup></i></b><i>I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw
into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all
your enemies turn their backs
to you. I will send hornets ahead
of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the
Hittites before you… You shall make no covenant with them or with
their gods.They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin
against Me; for if you
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Put simply, clearly from this text,
God is doing the fighting on behalf of Israel to clear the land of those
nations whose idolatrous practices would pose as a snare to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">How then did this “strategy” of the
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The first city that the Children of Israel came to was Jericho. Jericho was a<span class="text"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> big wall enclosed city. The city was taken because God Himself
knocked down its walls. The people of
Israel rushed in, and killed everyone except a prostitute who had repented of
her prostitution and her family. None of the Children of Israel died.<span style="color: #00b050;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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battle was at the town of Ai. There were
two attempts on the part of the Children of Israel to take the city. The first attempt was unsuccessful and 36 men
were killed. It turned out that this
lack of success was because one man had sinned.
That man and his family were put to death and the second attempt was
successful, again, with not Israelite casualties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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battle was against five Amorite kings.
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is no sin in the Israelite camp, no Israelite dies. Furthermore, it is God Himself, who does most
of the killing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Let’s bring us now to the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. We’ve noted that, at least
according to the Bible, Moses (as well as other prophets) had foretold that the
people of Israel would be scattered, understandably because of their sin. We’re also told that they would eventually return
to the land. We’ve also learned that the
land they presently occupy is only a fraction of the land that had been
initially promised to them by God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We’ve also learned that as cruel as the Biblical call
to genocide of the inhabitants of the land seemed to be, it was justified not
only because of the utter depravity of those people, but evidence for that
justification was manifest by God Himself doing most of the fighting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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no one dies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Today, the people of Israel are back in the land. Is this the time of their return? Maybe yes… maybe no. We do know, however, that when the State of
Israel was first formed, Five Arab armies fought against a rag-tag force of a
few thousand, ill armed holocaust survivors and were rebuffed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">One web-site, <a href="http://necrometrics.com/20c30k.htm">http://necrometrics.com/20c30k.htm</a>,
gives figures for the deaths of Arabs vs. Israelis between the years 1948 and
1973. Just counting the deaths of the
specific wars during those years there were an estimated 6800 to 11,100 Israeli
deaths and 35,800 to 68,600 Arab deaths, every one of which is tragic! Even the wars and intifadas after this time have
led to more Arab deaths than Jewish deaths.
In light of this data, what evidence is there that miracles were
performed by Allah on behalf of the Muslim cause? Where has Allah shown signs that He was
fighting for Islam? In contrast,
anecdotes abound of instances where God has fought in this modern era on behalf
of the Israelis. One need only conduct a
Google search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Of course, Muhammad encouraged fighters to be willing
to “die for the cause of Allah”.
However, the Biblical model that I’ve put forth seems to intimate that
the army that is without sin suffers absolutely no losses. In light of that, it seems that there is plenty
of sin to go around. The sad thing is
that people tend to be too arrogant either to admit their sin or to question
the world view that drives them on to mutual destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of peace’ or is it in fact, a world view, founded by a pseudo prophet, that is
actually fighting against the will of the one and only true God? I would also pose the question, what makes
Muslims so sure that Jesus is merely just a prophet and what makes Jews so sure
that Jesus is not the Messiah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fundamentally at war because they reject the true understanding of whom Jesus
actually is.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-7597282733606541392016-12-29T17:55:00.000-08:002016-12-29T17:55:47.583-08:00A Response to Thomas Friedman's New York Times Op Ed Entitled "Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump his Chump" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thomas Friedman, you’ve covered the middle east your entire
life but it seems that you lack one thing… the realization that the Palestinian
issue is one of theology and not land.
The “land for peace” shtick has already been tried. Two years after the Oslo Accords Yasser
Arafat launched the second intifada.
Rocket and tunnel attacks from Gaza came out of Israel having given up
land for peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You say that Netanyahu is a leader who is “forever dog
paddling in the middle of the Rubicon, never ready to cross it”. I find it interesting that you put the onus
for this intransigence on Netanyahu.
What you don’t seem to understand is that the Muslim world is playing a
game of “chicken” with Israel. Netanyahu
knows it but you don’t seem to. In your
desire for him to do something, whatever it might be, towards anything that
resembles progress towards peace, what you and Obama and Kerry, et al, are
really trying to do, whether you know it or not, is to force Netanyahu to
flinch first. Netanyahu knows that would
be fatal. I believe he knows, as do I,
that the best that we can do is remain in this stalemate condition until either
one side flinches or preferably the Arab world comes to the realization that
Islam is at best, an entirely bankrupt world view. You accuse Netanyahu of wanting to hold on to
power. I would say that Netanyahu’s
primary concern is for the survival of the Jewish people. I guess that’s a judgment call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You complain that Israel can’t win any global support under
Netanyahu. Netanyahu has had his minions
publicizing the good that Israel does in technological advancements, in
benevolence towards Palestinians and wounded Arab Fighters in Syria. He’s worked on making alliances in Africa and
elsewhere. The Palestinians also have a
strong and phony propaganda network and, Thomas, give me a break… do editorial
titles like “Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump his Chump” sound like your helping his
cause? You’re being just a little hypocritical!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes… we are not only in an undesirable situation in the
Middle East but we are, as you said, in a situation that “would keep Israel in
a permanent conflict with Palestinians and the Muslim world as well as many
Western democracies and their college campuses.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You assume that Obama is a friend of Israel. I assure you nothing is further from the
truth. He is reputed as a chronic
liar. He signed a treaty with Iran that
supposedly kicks the nuclear can down the road 10 years. Have you ever heard of the Islamic principle
of Hudaybiyyah? I suggest you read up on
it. Ah but you say that he’s provided military support for Israel. That’s true.
He’s obligated to maintain some political credibility. In the meantime he got rid of Mubarak, a
peace partner with Israel, and fought with congress to make good on US promises
to Egypt in order to sell F-16s to the Muslim Brotherhood. And now that he, apparently, seems to be
leaving office, what you’ve interpreted as an act for good in forcing Netanyahu’s
hand is really nothing more than his letting out all the stops because he doesn’t
have to deal with the political consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The very title of this Op Ed peace of yours not only
undermines Netanyahu but Israel. In the
meantime, since it seems that you don’t understand what this Middle Eastern
stalemate is all about, I suggest that you study up carefully on the doctrines
and history of Islam which has killed over 270,000,000 people during its
history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been sagaciously suggested that one should know ones
enemies. I’ll be honest with you. It is Islam which is your enemy. But your apparent lack of knowledge about
Islam coupled with your potshots at Netanyahu seem to tell me that Islam is not
your enemy but, in fact, Israel is. I
suggest that you start writing about sports or cooking or some other subject
until you’ve well educated yourself on Islam and started acting like a Jew who
loves his people and stopped acting like a shill for the Palestinians.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-84082765043390293472016-12-29T07:56:00.000-08:002016-12-29T08:44:27.594-08:00Good News for Palestinians - Bad News for Jews and Vice -Versa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've got good news and bad news:</div>
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GOOD NEWS for Palestinians BAD NEWS for Jews and Israelis:<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinians preceded the Jews in the land (of what some of the world calls "Israel" today).</span></b></div>
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EXPLANATION: In Exodus 15 after the parting of the Red Sea, Israel took up what is called the Song of Moses. In it they reflect on the fact that what God did at the Red Sea would cause fear and trembling among the inhabitants of the land to which Israel was going. The text reads:<br />
“The peoples have heard, they tremble;<br />
Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia (Palestinians).<br />
15 “Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;<br />
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;<br />
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. (Ex 15:14-15)<br />
The implication here is that the Philistines (Palestinians) had preceded Israel in the land.</div>
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BAD NEWS for Palestinians.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinians can't claim to be who they say they are.</span></b></div>
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EXPLANATION:<br />
They claim to be Semites (Shemites). This is true. Arabs are descendants of Abraham through Ishmael (I believe also Esau and Abraham's other wife Keturah).<br />
But if they claim to be Palestinians (Hamites) That's a completely different bloodline. Here's a reference...<br />
(6 The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.... 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (FROM WHICH CAME THE PHILISTINES) and Caphtorim.) (Emphasis added) Gen 10:67, 13-14.</div>
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CONCLUSIONS:<br />
1. You who live on this planet who call yourselves Palestinians,<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You're either an Arab or a Palestinian... a Shemite (Semite) or a Hamite. It's genetically impossible to be both. So <u>CHOOSE</u>.</b></span><br />
(come to think of it, maybe that's why the rest of the Arab world doesn't like you).</div>
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2. Perhaps if we can find the head, shield, sword and armor of Goliath we can donate it to the Palestinians to put in their presently empty museum.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-14808184887457128692016-09-11T22:10:00.001-07:002016-09-11T22:10:26.358-07:00The History of September 11th and how it Relates to the Presidential Election<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we remember the innocents murdered by Islamic extremists on 9/11. Do you really know the significance of 9/11? It didn't begin in 2001. The article below is by a man I greatly admire as a research journalist, Bill Federer. If truth matters to you, take the time to educate yourself about the true meaning of 9/11.</div>
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THE HISTORY OF SEPTEMBER 11</div>
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On September 11, 1565 Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dominated the Mediterranean, with intentions of not only invading Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain, but Rome itself. The only thing standing in his way was the small rocky Island of Malta just south of Sicily, defended by the Knights of Malta. In March of 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sent Algerian Admiral Dragut to Malta with 200 ships and 40,000 Muslim soldiers, including 6,500 elite Janissary troops. Dragut stated: "Unless you have smoked out this nest of vipers, you can do no good anywhere."<br />Queen Elizabeth I of England is said to have remarked: "If the Turks should prevail against the Isle of Malta, it is uncertain what further peril might follow to the rest of Christendom."</div>
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The Knights of Malta were led by a 70 year old Frenchmen, Jean Parisot de la Valette. Pleas for reinforcements went out across Europe, but defense seemed futile. La Valette addressed his men: "A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ... Today it is a question of the defense of our faith--as to whether the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice."<br />The Turks attacked again and again, even reducing one of their fortresses to rubble, but the Knights kept fighting, resolved to save Western Civilization. Finally, Dragut was killed and the Muslims sailed away on SEPTEMBER 11, 1565.</div>
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July 17, 1683, Sultan Mehmed IV sent over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks to surround Vienna, Austria, led by General Mustafa Pasha. For nearly two months they starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed IV sent the message to Austrian King, Leopold I: "Await us in your residence...so we can decapitate you."</div>
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Polish King Jan Sobieski gathered 81,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops and led a surprise attack on SEPTEMBER 11, 1683. They made one of the largest charges in history, 38,350 cavalry and dragoons. Soldiers had made wings for their backs which made a thunderous noise when they charged, causing the Turks to flee in confusion.<br />Upon entering the abandoned Turkish tents, Sobieski found bags of beans…coffee beans, revealing how Turks could fight day and night. The beans came from Ethiopia, the one African country which stayed Christian, and the Muslims called the Christians infidels or "cafir," from which the word "coffee" was derived. Shortly after the victory of Vienna, Polish General Koltschizky opened Vienna's first coffeehouses and coffee quickly spread across Europe. The Pope and European leaders hailed Jan Sobieski as the "Savior of Western Civilization."<br />The humiliated Muslim army beheaded General Mustafa Pasha and sent his head back to Sultan Mehmed IV in a velvet bag.</div>
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) wrote in The Great Heresies (1938):<br />"Less than 100 years before the American War of Independence a Mohammedan army was threatening to overrun and destroy Christian civilization...Vienna was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the King of Poland on a date that ought to be among the most famous in history - SEPTEMBER 11, 1683."</div>
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SEPTEMBER 11, 1697:<br />Muslim Ottoman Turks dominated Belgrade, Serbia, since 1521. In 1691, Austria helped free Belgrade, but Muslim Ottoman Turks recaptured it and razed the city's buildings to the ground. The Serbian Orthodox Patriarch led thousands to flee to the Austrian Hapsburg Empire in the first "Great Serbian Migration." Habsburg Prince Eugene of Savoy led the Holy League to counter-attack. Losing 500 men, the Holy League killed 30,000 Turks in one of the Ottoman Empire's worst defeats in history - the Battle of Zenta, SEPTEMBER 11, 1697.</div>
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President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his 1916 book, Fear God and Take Your Own Part: "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor."</div>
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:<br />Islamic terrorists hijacked passenger jets. Two were flown into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one crashed in Pennsylvania. President Bush stated: "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."<br />That evening, President Bush stated: "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. Pictures of planes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger…America was targeted...because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world... I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve...I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.'"<br />On September 13, 2001, President Bush stated: "In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'"</div>
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012:<br />The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, Dec. 8, 1948. Without referencing the "Creator" as the source of rights, like the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes articles such as Article 18: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief."<br />This conflicted with Islamic Shariah law which imposes the death penalty for anyone leaving the Islamic religion. Many articles in the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights were rejected by the leaders of 57 Islamic countries, who formed their own group called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC.<br />In 1990, OIC passed the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, affirming Shariah law as supreme, with:<br />-the death penalty for those leaving Islam;<br />-punishing women who are victims of rape;<br />-allowing men to be polygamous;<br />-permitting wife beating; and<br />-censoring speech insulting Islam.</div>
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On Dec. 12, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a 3 day closed door meeting with the OIC, promising to support their Istanbul Process to universally "criminalize" speech insulting Islam, effectively enforcing "dhimmi" status on non-Muslims worldwide. By definition, the Christian Gospel insults Islam. If someone in a Shariah controlled country proclaims Jesus Christ more than a prophet, but also the Son of God who died on the cross to pay for the sins of the world, it would mean the death penalty. In fact, all speech contrary to Islam insults Islam. At the end of the meeting, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stated: "The Istanbul Process initiated with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...must be carried forward."<br />Clinton added: "We now need to move to implementation."</div>
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In the following months, Hillary Clinton's State Department ignored repeated requests for security by Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. He was killed with several others in the Benghazi attack on SEPTEMBER 11, 2012. The night of the attack, Secretary Clinton's State Department blamed a video, and the shortly after sent memos to YouTube and Google recommending they censor speech insulting Islam, consistent with promises made at the OIC Istanbul Process meeting.</div>
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice added to this narrative, as did President Obama when he told the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2012: "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."</div>
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The U.S. supported the Muslim Brotherhood's ousting of Egypt's President Mubarak. Then U.S. weapons were used to oust Libya's President Gaddafi. Requests made by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act revealed emails of weapons being moved from Benghazi in a "Fast and Furious" gun-running style program to arm Muslim fighters in ousting Syria's President Assad. This is part of a larger plan remove current leaders in order to reestablish an Islamic Caliphate. When Russia came to Assad's defense, the Muslims armed and trained by the U.S. attacked into Syria and Iraq, calling themselves ISIS, and proceeded to torture, rape, behead and displace hundreds of thousands.</div>
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The story is not yet over…the election is this November, for whom are you voting? It is the most important election of my lifetime and will possibly determine if there will be an America in the future!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-48263217344673591772016-08-04T11:21:00.000-07:002016-08-04T11:46:54.385-07:00Palestinian Museum - Like the prophets of Baal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I make mention of this on my blog because I want to draw your attention to a reality that is really quite comical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I write this, three months have passed since the opening of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit of the West Bank. The museum was and is intended (according to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/middleeast/palestinian-museum-birzeit-west-bank.html?_r=0">this link</a>) to "celebrate and redefine Palestinian History, Art and Culture"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The only problem was that this $24,000,000 structure opened with no exhibits! Allow me, if you will, to repeat myself. THE <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/middleeast/palestinian-museum-birzeit-west-bank.html?_r=0">PALESTINIAN MUSEUM</a> HAS NO EXHIBITS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In contrast, Israel boasts of having the <a href="http://www.israel21c.org/13-must-see-museums-in-israel/">most museums per capita of anywhere in the world</a>! And it's exhibits range from contemporary art to myriad ancient artifacts which confirm the testimony of the Bible itself which declares that Jews lived thousands of years ago on this piece of real estate called Israel and claimed it as their home back then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bible talks about the Prophet Elijah's confrontation with the prophets of the false god <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+18%3A20-39&version=NASB">Baal</a>. In summary, Elijah had challenged the Prophets of Baal to display the veracity of their claim that Baal was an authentic god. When they couldn't, Elijah mocked them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't help but say that I feel a bit like Elijah. The Palestinians claim that they were in the land of Israel thousands of years ago, and so much as deny that the Jews were their.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I say to the Palestinians "prove it". I'm eager to see how quickly you fill up your displays with your historical artifacts so as to prove your point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, keep building your attack tunnels and using your propaganda machine to garner sympathy from uninformed lemmings for the purpose of perpetuating a lie by which you can make up an excuse for killing Jews. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the consequences of what you're doing to yourselves let alone the Jews, based upon your lies weren't so tragic, they would be laughable. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">A friend challenged me that I was too hard on Obama. I don't listen to political speeches and I paid no attention to the political conventions as they occurred. Everyone tries to put on their best image and for the most part I regard what they have to say as "bovine feces". Nevertheless, I think I've "got my ear pretty close to the ground". For the sake of objectivity, though, I decided to listen to Obama's address to the Muslim world in Egypt back in '09. I started to listen to it a second time, taking notes so as to address certain points he'd made, thinking that I would write a critique. The task was somewhat laborious as I made it about half way through the speech the second time, and taking a bit of a break I ran across an interview which I'd posted on FB and I felt that the guy being interviewed had tremendous insight and had already covered the ground I'd observed in Obama's speech and so I've bought his book and have begun reading it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">There are certain axioms that I go by in life. One is fairly colloquial: "If you're not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you're not conservative by the time you're 30, you have no brains". Another axiom was one which I'd come up with on my own after 9/11. "A chief key to 'fighting the war on terror' is to deny any credibility to Islam as a valid world view". Needless to say, Mr. Obama has been doing the exact opposite, much to my chagrin".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Having now, listened to Mr. Obama's speech in Egypt, if I were to give him the benefit of the doubt, and not go by the assumption that he's trying to be deceptive, I would categorize him as a man who thinks he is a Christian but is most certainly not because a genuine "Christian" at least according to my definition, would know that there is only one way to the Father and that is through Y'shua. Most conservatives would call Obama an "ideologue". That carries a negative connotation, so, again, giving him the benefit of the doubt, I'd call him an idealist. He longs for world peace and hopes that he can be instrumental in bringing that about.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Mr. Obama, however, if he is well intentioned, is naive, which I suppose is to be expected from a so-called "Christian" who does not know Christ. Rather than putting his trust in God, he believes that man is fundamentally good and that we can overcome our differences. He also (in his words) longs for the day when Jew, Muslim and Christian can each share Jerusalem in peace and harmony (my words). I have always held and will always hold that (I suppose another axiom), barring the return of Jesus, the only way that peace can be obtained in this world, is through DISPASSIONATE debate (or more appropriately discussion) over the nature of God, so that a rational consensus can be reached. I say this because I recall the refrains of the Oleynu in the synagogue, taken from Zechariah 14 "In that day (the day when the world is at peace), the LORD shall be one and His Name shall be one". Put another way, the world will be at peace when there is a universal consensus concerning God's identity, nature and His expectations. I concede, that that is not likely to happen prior to the LORD's return simply because such endeavors would be hobbled by the human tendency to suffer from cognitive dissonance. Hence, I relegate the possibility of this consensus occurring until after it is ultimately caused by Messiah's self-revelation in Zech. 12:10.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">At least, from his speech, and again, giving him the benefit of the doubt, Obama assumes that all religions teach the same things... love of fellow man and a whole bunch of other really good stuff. If that's the case, than at best, Mr. Obama lives in a world of fantasy. But his appeal is to those who believe that we humans can create a Utopian world. His faith is in man. In essence, his followers want to get back to the Garden of Eden but without the help of God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">According to the book that I'm reading, "The Kindergarden of Eden" by Evan Sayet, liberals, such as those who would follow Obama, have shunned thought that would result in discernment. Passing judgments upon what the rational person would determine to be good or bad is, in fact, discriminating and, hence, evil in their minds. The conservative would call such liberals who can't distinguish between virtue and vice "idiots". On the other hand, the liberal will accuse the discerning conservative as "racist, homophobe, biggoted, etc." because, now, in their mind, the idea of right and wrong has been nullified (for the exception of the presumption that discernment is evil). The goal is "the return to the garden of Eden where everything was spelled out for Adam and Eve and they didn't have to think.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">I've, again, been reading through Genesis. One particular text that's hit me in the face is that In chapter 3, after Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden, God placed a Charuv at the entrance to the garden with a flaming sword turning every which way to guard any possible reentry into the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Allow that, if you will, to sink in. There is an intelligent, impregnable creature that dwells in a different dimension than the one with which we are familiar, that stands guard with a flaming sword which turns in a manner which is really beyond description, standing guard over the Garden of Eden so that no one can get back in!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">But hey, no problem... These liberals don't believe in God and don't believe the Bible so it makes no difference. In spite of Mr. Obama's apparent altruism, his foreign policy has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Christians Yazids and others in the Middle East and elsewhere and it is likely to result in tens if not hundreds of thousands more. This adds credibility to yet another axiom. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About a month ago I got into a conversation with the Pastor
of a Church which is part of a liberal denomination. I relayed to him my account of what made me
aware of the perils of Islam</span><sup>1</sup> <span style="font-size: large;">and that I’d concluded that anyone who
takes Islam <u>seriously</u> is fundamentally cruel. He begged to differ with me. He held up as his argument that he knows a
lot of very nice Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I agree with him.
There are many nice Muslims.
However, I’m alarmed by his standard for evaluating Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is, at the present time, a campaign to make the Muslim
religion attractive and acceptable to the Western mind. I saw a video in which smiling Muslims, from
school girls, to medical doctors, to “out of the closet” homosexuals, claiming
to be Muslims were happily declaring “we’re just like you”. I do not know what their motivation is but I
do know for a fact that if the “gay Muslim” were in Saudi Arabia, he’d be held
by his ankles and dropped from a 20 story building. The school girl certainly wouldn’t be able to
drive a car and had better not be found without a hajib {head covering). Only an environment where the Muslim
population is comparatively miniscule to the rest of the population would allow
people to make such a video with such claims.
When Muslim populations grow, they become Sharia (Islamic law) compliant
and such people as were shown in that video would not exist. As an attestation to this, when Achmadinajad,
the former President of Iran spoke at Columbia University, he was asked about
homosexuals in Iran. He replied “We have
no homosexuals in Iran”.</span><sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ro Waseem, who writes for the Huffington Post as well as
other publications, describes himself as a “Liberal Muslim”. Having read one article of his</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;">,
he presents a case defending Islam’s reputation, in this case, allegedly misunderstood as a
religion of Jew Hatred. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">President Obama has also acted as a defense attorney on
behalf of Islam. He argues emphatically
that ISIS, Al Qaida and the other terrorist organizations which seem to be
running rampant throughout the globe are not really Islam. Islam, the theologian in the White House
argues, is a “religion of peace”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why is it, however, that Ro Waseem’s interpretations of
Quranic and Hadith texts are contradicted by others who choose either different
texts or different interpretations that seem to encourage violence? If he’s a genuine Muslim and the “terrorists”
are phonies then by that logic, the founder of Islam, Muhammad, was not a
Muslim because MUHMMAD WAS A TERRORIST. To
quote Ali Sina...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“Muhammad
did things that by today’s standard would be seen as acts of terrorism. He
raided towns without any previous warning, killed unarmed men who had gone to
the fields and markets after their daily business, captured their wives and children
and distributed the younger women among his soldiers while always keeping the
prettiest ones for himself and having sex with them in the same day he murdered
their fathers, husbands and loved ones.</span>”</span></i><sup><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">4</span><o:p></o:p></sup></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">These claims of Ali Sina’s are actually common knowledge. He even points out that they are known in
Islamic countries, however anyone who speaks out about them is afraid of losing
his life.</span><sup>5 </sup> <span style="font-size: large;">Hence, I hold emphatically
that Islam survives essentially through violence and the defense of lies and deception.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In light of that, I point out that my dear liberal pastor
friend is being deceived as is the case with most, if not much of America. This also was a practice of the founder of
Islam. I quote another website:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“Though not called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="text-align: start;">Taqiyya</span></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>by
name, Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the
Meccans that allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his
own forces for a takeover. The unsuspecting residents were conquered in easy
fashion after he broke the treaty two years later. Some of the people in the
city who had trusted him at his word were executed.”</span></i><sup>6<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was one of
many actual historical events attributed specifically to Muhammad… not
subsequent Caliphs, but the actual founder of Islam himself. He deceived the Meccans into trusting him and
then conquered them when their guard was down.
This is precisely what is being carried on by his followers 1400 years
later in the Western hemisphere. Sadly, the public education systems in the West have overlooked this aspect of history!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s an old axiom
attributed to George Santayana that just about everyone knows but few people
practice. I tend to whimsically put a
twist on it, rephrasing it by saying that…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Those who know
history are doomed to watch those who don’t know history repeat history.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not
propaganda or imagery that tells the truth.
LOOK TO HISTORY!!! AND LOOK TO
THE SOURCE OF THAT HISTORY. My Pastor
friend seems to have forgotten that axiom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m not telling you
to hate Muslims. They are people, just
like everyone else and they need Jesus who is the only means by which one’s
sins can be forgiven. But I am saying “don’t
judge their religion by the image that they present nor condone it's claim to veracity as a genuine religion”. Go to the source of that religion… Muhammad. Compare him, if you will, to the founder of
the real “religion” of peace… Jesus.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad raped. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jesus
forgave an adulterous woman contingent upon </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">her </span></span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">repentance.</span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad murdered
people. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jesus
died for people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Muhammad is dead </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jesus conquered death and
is alive to this day!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #b6d7a8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Personally I don’t
like the term, “Religion”. Generally it
denotes rules and regulations and traditions that aren’t necessarily ordained
by God. But if I had to use that term, I
would say that it is Jesus who is the true and only source of any “religion” of
peace.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-42070527945042530062016-06-24T13:22:00.001-07:002016-06-24T13:23:17.592-07:00Two Faces of Globalisim - In aftermath of the British Referendum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The British just conducted a referendum which they
affectionately called “Brexit”... should Britain or shouldn’t Britain “exit”
the European Union and subsequently the Common Market?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The impetus to stay in the EU was becoming so
weak that its proponents called for the “big gun” from the West, Barack Hussein
Obama, to urge the people to vote to stay.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The “leader of the free world” had already become the recipient of
much of the ire of the British people after returning their gift of the bust of
Churchill, his weak leadership on Libya and the hopes that he would, unlike his
predecessor, keep his butt out of British politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now Mr. Obama was sticking his smelly butt
deeply into British politics and rather than emphasizing the long and storied
history of British-American friendship and alliance, Mr. Obama proceeded to
threaten the British people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said
that if they voted to get out of the European Union, they would <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">“go to the back of the queue” for a trade deal with
the United States.<span style="color: black;"> </span>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Mr. Obama
is clearly not the friend of the British people any more than he is the friend
of the American people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His rhetoric has
become louder and more distinct that if anyone is his ally it’s purveyors of
Islam for whom he has become the great apologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly he (and his presumptive replacement,
Hillary Rodham Clinton) wants to accomplish for the United States what Angela
Merkel has accomplished for Germany and subsequently the European Union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merkel “opened the German gates” to un-vetted
Syrian refugees and by virtue of the fact that the nations of the European
Union no longer have borders of any consequence, these “welcome” refugees have
flooded all of Europe with their presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What has been skillfully hidden from the American people by the lap dog
media is that these refugees have also flooded Europe with riots and looting
and rapes and all forms of mayhem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Mr. Obama, who is either unaware of this reality or complicit wants to bring
it, with all its glory, to the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
bet is that he’s complicit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">But what
would be his motivation for flooding the United States with these refugees?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some might argue that Mr. Obama is an
Islamist who is interested in establishing a world-wide caliphate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My bet is that he’s a globalist desirous of
establishing a one-world government and that he’s working out a strategy in cahoots
with others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both outlooks are
universalistic. One is essentially religiously based.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is secularly based.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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accomplish the latter, national borders will have to become a thing of the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The EU, rather obviously, has a bit of a head
start on the US and it looks as if Britain has, at least temporarily, thwarted
this agenda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>England also has a more
prominent natural barrier than the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
I find it difficult to believe that this is anything other than the reason
behind the Federal governments’ unwillingness to build a fence or enforce
border control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">On paper
it would seem that this universalism sounds good… one world government with
everyone sharing resources and living happily ever after. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Antagonists to Socialism have rightfully
pointed to its history of failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Socialism has always worked until the government has “run out of other
people’s money”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the most part
socialism has morphed into communism which has resulted in the deaths of 10s of
millions of people… from China to Cambodia to the Soviet Union.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">There may
be any number of reasons for the lemming-like crowds of people falling for this
politically elitist juggernaut which wants to take the world into this
globalist direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it’s lack
of education or naiveté.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Socialism, has
always been introduced incrementally as a solution to societal ills whether it
be inequality between the sexes or the races, or environmental concerns most of
which are trumped up such as is the case with global warming which, if it
really were a problem, could only be solved if it were dealt with globally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, socialism is made to sound good, and
in fact, utopian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, in spite
of socialisms abysmal track record as a “gateway” to freedom, it seems that
these elitists have an explanation… “Socialism has failed because it has never
been implemented universally”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this
time in history, this grand, out-of-the-laboratory experiment can finally be attempted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">There
will be a price to pay for this which has already begun to be evidenced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to implement this grand scheme the “elitists”
have begun a mass migration which has resulted in the attempted mingling of
fundamentally incompatible cultures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
people of the west, especially Europe, have come face-to-face with basic
barbarism which was paved the way by a vanguard made up of a façade of gentility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The evil which the politicians and forerunners
of Islam have left in their wake has been devastating on a personal basis to
the lives of countless people of the west but as Stalin once said, “If one
person dies it’s a tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a million
people die, it’s a statistic”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The purveyors
of this “One World Government” are on the verge of creating a million, if not
millions of tragedies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems that to
these people, the end justifies the means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Utopia or bust people be damned”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I dare say that the similarity between these elitists and Islamists who
would sacrifice the lives of Palestinians for the cause of Allah is striking,
but I digress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">If
indeed, this globalist movement is secular, I predict the following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christians, Muslims and other practitioners
of faiths which would resist this form of human governance will be either
subject to brainwashing techniques or exterminated for the cause of “peace”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A religion or religions which will form a
compromise between the incompatible extremes of religions will be developed
which will require global adherence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
already see elements of this with respect to some of the rhetoric coming out of
the Vatican.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Because
of the intermingling of incompatible cultures, peace will have to be maintained
via a police state whose technology is able to see into the private affairs of
the citizenry and the use force if need be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We already see this taking shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Laws will be written by the capricious whims of those who are “in charge”
without regard for the objectivity of their ethics and without regard to their
constitutionality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We already see this
in the form of Presidential Executive orders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">I wager
that the vision of these political elitists is a global society made up of a
synthesis between an Aldus Huxley and George Orwellian future where people will
be denied the freedom to think for themselves, people will be mere puppets in
the social order, life, for everyone will be without love or meaning and
everyone will be expendable except for whoever might be at the top of the “food
chain”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As is the case with most of the
world throughout history, it will remain without hope because, despite the so
called utopian state of affairs, technology may or may not prolong life but
death will forever remain the fate of everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And at the top of the heap, the old adage “Power corrupts and absolute
power corrupts absolutely” will finally, at least for a short while, be
actualized.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">These
elitists gain their power through lies and deception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton are both legends
in their own time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve lied about “shovel
ready jobs” that didn’t exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve
lied about a video being the cause of a terrorist attack which was evidence
that they were losing the “war on terror” which, it seems, they’d not been
fighting all along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lied that Mr.
Obama had saved Detroit which went bankrupt only AFTER his reelection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lied by telling us that we “could keep
our doctor”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told us that the “affordable
care act” would be affordable and it wasn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hillary told us that she was named after a man who’d not achieved fame
until well after she’d been born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
lied that she’d exited an airplane while under sniper fire.</span></span></div>
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jokingly like to say that “once upon a time I thought that ‘Fantasy Land’ was
limited to an amusement park in California”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fantasy land has become this entire planet where people like the above
mentioned clowns who assume themselves to be leaders have managed to get people
to believe lies as though they were truth and get them to act in response.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">As for
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would hold that if there is such a
thing as a lie there’s also such a thing as truth and it behooves the wise
individual to seek to pursue truth with undaunted vigilance because in the truth
can be found reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">I believe
that there are absolute standards of right and wrong that override capriciously
determined laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that adhering
to those standards in spite of the consequences brings me more closely on the
side of that which is real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
believe that liars have the right to act as elitist and rule over others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a man of unquestionable integrity
deserves that privilege and so I refuse to bow to the whims of these
elitists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pledge my allegiance to a
man who is integritous, just and yet compassionate, who would not use people as
pawns but would, on the contrary, not ask anyone to do anything that He wouldn’t
do Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pledge my allegiance to a
man who stands by His Word, who fulfills absolutely every promise He makes and
who’s concepts of right and wrong and of justice are entirely consistent with
universal natural laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pledge allegiance
to a man who knows everything about me and yet chooses not to pass judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pledge allegiance to Jesus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Although
these elitists seem to be edging closer and closer to their personal goal of
what they regard to be an ideal world-wide government under their corrupt
dominion, I have total confidence that it will be crushed by a new world order which
will be ushered in by Jesus Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
because it will be based on truth and what is truly good as opposed to
subjective opinions, it will last for a thousand years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll be a time when people won’t have to
worry about my grandchildren getting involved with gangs or bad
influences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll be a time when nature
will be more hospitable towards life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll
be a time of globalism but this time of globalism will be one of peace, love
and mutual respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mankind will have its
beautiful and colorful tapestries of various cultures with their respective
arts and cuisines but there will be a unifying force that brings all men together…
the rule of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah of whom it was written “The government
shall be upon His shoulders” (Isaiah 7:14)</span> </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-70807085733114696262016-03-16T12:10:00.001-07:002016-03-16T12:10:58.483-07:00A Quranic vs. Biblical Concept of Utopia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">It seems to me that Muslims want to create Sharia law around the world, in which women go around in clothing designed to keep men from being tempted by them, and people must bow down prostrate at specific hours five times a day while facing Mecca, doing homage to Allah. It seems to be marked by universal peace via universal submission.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">In order to obtain this "utopia", "non-believers" of the present age, need to be obliterated in order to have a "pure" Muslim society, and therefore the concept of Zionism needs to b<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">e obliterated as well.</span></span></div>
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However, the concept of Zionism, is also Utopian, but not man-made in nature. It's designated by universal peace as well but not through submission but through the love of God. As I recall, It will be marked by only one "religious" obligation... the mandated universal appearance of people in Jerusalem during Sukkoth (Zech 14). But this is to be regarded as a time of rejoicing (Lev. 23) not submission. Another feature of this "utopia" is that the things one does and the objects one possesses or uses will be marked as "holy". I take that as an intentional honoring to God through said objects (Zech 14). This "utopia" will also be marked by harmony between man and the various species in the animal kingdom with one another. In other words, the natural enemies of today will be at peace with one another (Isaiah 2, Micah 4). I dare universal implementation of Sharia or any ideology, for that matter, to accomplish that!</div>
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And it seems that in order for the former to succeed, it must attempt to destroy the latter who's vision for the future is infinitely superior and that's a gross understatement.</div>
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P.S. In that day our concerns about the next person to win the next political office will be relegated to the status of "irrelevance".<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"> </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225177410547956432.post-75805430677253411142015-12-31T18:16:00.000-08:002015-12-31T19:05:37.552-08:00An Invitation to a Friendly, Dispassionate Discussion.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am compelled to
write something that may offend a lot of you. I certainly hope not but it is
necessary that it be said. Sometimes it is important that we be told not
necessarily what we want to hear but what we ought to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assume that many of you who frequent this
site have had mothers who’ve told you what you didn’t necessarily want to hear,
like “go to your room” or "wait ‘till your father gets home”, yet as a
consequence, you probably turned out relatively well adjusted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so, it’s in that spirit that I write what
is to follow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Israel has known a
"war on terror" for 68 years now. That war, of course, has waged long
before then. The early pre-Israel
Palestinian Jews were well aware of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The United States just really became conscious of this "war"
since 9/11/2001, ‘though the bombing of the marine barracks in Lebanon and the USS
Cole were not exactly mere unfortunate accidents. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many will say that
this war is driven by economics, education, etc... Such thoughts are an utter
denial of reality. Osama Bin Laden, for instance, was wealthy and
well-educated. Jews endured the Pale in Russia where they were poor, beaten,
endured many pogroms, but never resorted to violence or terrorism. In fact, the
only time that I can recall when we resorted to terrorism within the past 1500
years or so was when we had to fight the British in order obtain a little piece
of earth that we could call our own after facing annihilation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This "war on
terror" highlights a reality that we cannot deny or ignore.. The basis for
this war is not economics or even culture, but religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire world is filled with inhabitants
influenced to varying degrees by religions and/or philosophies by which we
guide our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these world
views are extremely presumptuous, such as is the case with Islam which is so
arrogantly confident in its own veracity that its adherents are willing to take
the lives of others who have a differing opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">One of my favorite
refrains in the synagogue, growing up in Chicago, was found in the Aleynu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The melody which fit the lyrics, like a glove,
is something that I joyfully sing to myself <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>almost daily even to this day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bayom Ha hu, Bayom Ha
hu, yi-hi-yeh Adonai echod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oo-Sh’mo,
oo-Sh’mo, oo-Sh’mo echod.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“On that day (the day
when peace reigns on earth) the L-rd shall be one and His Name shall be one”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The refrain of the
Aleynu tells me, in practical terms, that the day (or age) marked by peace will
be a day when there’s a universal consensus concerning whom G-d is, what He’s
like and what He expects from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would go even further and say that each individual living during that time will
be able to speak to God in the second person (calling Him "You") just as King David did in the
psalms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isaiah, spoke for G-d
when, at the end of the first chapter of his monumental opus, he wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>“Come, let us reason together, says your God.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Though your sins be like scarlet they shall be as white as snow.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Though they should be like crimson, they shall be as wool.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I recall, in my
freshman logics class in college many (many) years ago, violence was one of the
logical fallacies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, truth
cannot be attained via the use of violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hence, if indeed, the god of Islam is an advocate of violence in order
to gain “converts”, he is not the same god as the God of the Bible… the God of
the Jews and of Israel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The God of the
Bible calls us to reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Argue with
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carry on a debate with Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spent a night wrestling with our father
Jacob He’d be delighted in spending a night wrestling (metaphorically or
otherwise) with you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: x-large;"><strong>The God of the Bible calls us to reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Argue with Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carry on a debate with Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t mind.</strong></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></div>
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line”. .. In 1971 I drew the conclusion that Jesus was, in fact, our Messiah…
the Messiah of the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All too often,
when I’ve presented my case, it was met with irrational vitriol marked by
fideism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that we Jews are
better than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is assumed that
faith is simply something that one believes and does not require logic or
rational thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I contest, on the contrary,
that faith ought to be rationally derived and that G-d, as Isaiah affirms, implores you
to come to Him via a rational means.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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simply tacitly rejects Jesus without wrestling with the arguments in favor of
His claim to Messiahship, how can we even start to approach this ideal of
universal consensus spoken of in the Aleynu?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How will we ever begin to approximate pursuit of this direction of
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This 46 year old Saudi Millionaire, wakes up in the middle
of the night (after having sex with the woman in his bedroom), offers to give a
young 18 year old girl sleeping on his couch, a t-shirt to sleep in or provide
a cab for her to get home (he doesn't quite remember which), but in
the process of performing his act of gallantry, stumbles, falls,
and by accident, his erected penis, of all places, lands inside her
vagina!</span> </span></div>
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even more astounding is that he's acquitted in British court. (The
article that I got this story from, a reliable source, which I nevertheless,
don't care to link, says that the Judge, during the trial, went off with the
defendant behind the courtroom and had a private conversation with him. Personally,
I wonder what happened behind closed doors.)</span></div>
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a shame that Sharia law isn't already in place in England. That way no
one would have ever had to go through this bothersome, expensive and
worthless trial. Our Saudi Millionaire never would have had to
endure this embarrassment, because the testimony of the young girl never would
have carried any weight. Nor would his actions have actually
been seen as a crime. The girl had been drinking. She wasn't
wearing a hijab (a Muslim woman’s head covering), or better yet, a burka.
The perpetrator could have been honest and simply said that his victim, by
virtue of her unconcealed beauty, aroused the lust in him, and being a man, he
simply did what men do and raped her. Now, in light of the reality that, the
girl had been doing all the wrong things, she deserves to be stoned to
death. And, of course, a hole in the ground would have been ready and
waiting to place her where only her head would be exposed above
ground so that she could judiciously receive her punishment for having
aroused the lusts of her rapist.</span></div>
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happened behind closed doors between the judge and the defendant? One
could only speculate. But this is truly one instance where one has to
question whether justice has, indeed been served. It is easy, in this
case, to judge the situation. Although I was not there, I'm pretty
confident that the defendant either slipped the judge a couple of Euros or
threatened to have him beheaded if the trial didn't go his way. It's nice
to have power isn't it? And it's not nice if you don't have power.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allow
me, if you will, to contrast the judicial system associated with the true story
I just recounted to you, with a different sort of judicial system... the
Law of Moses, to which, it seems, all forms of Christianity have shown disdain
as, presumably, a refutation of the grace of God which is to be seen solely
through Jesus nowadays.</span></div>
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most Christians don't quite seem to understand is that the Mosaic Law was never
intended as part of a religion, but as a necessary Constitution by which a
group of people, a nation as it were, could peaceably and morally be
governed. This system was intended to ensure that justice would truly be
meted out fairly. The rich Saudi Millionaire would be treated with the
same consideration as the poor (and admittedly foolish) 18 year old
girl. There would be no way that our defendant could "grease the
palms" of the judge.</span></div>
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old adage "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is
not just a clever saying, it's an axiom. Judges have a lot of power and
if there is nothing to keep it in check, they can become corrupted and
pervert justice. One of the goals of the Mosaic Law was to deprive judges
of the perception that they had absolute power.</span></div>
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to the Mosaic Law was a sacrificial system. Animals were burned on an
altar to remind the Children of Israel that there was a God to whom one was
responsible for one's thoughts, attitudes, words and actions. Once a year
the blood of a bull and the blood of a goat were brought into a pitch black,
unlit room called the "Holy of Holies" along with hot, burning coals
of incense the cloud from which permeated every corner of the room. The
blood was sprinkled onto a kapporeth (often translated mercy seat) and seven
drops of the blood were placed in front of the kapporeth. The kapporeth
was made of pure gold and covered a golden casing which contained three
items. The first item was a rod of an almond branch which miraculously
budded in spite of the reality that it had been pruned off of its source, and
testified to the authenticity of the priesthood of only one particular
individual who had been designated to be priest by God... a man by
the name of Aaron. The second item was a golden jar of manna... a
food substance that, miraculously remained fresh and preserved inside the ark
and which had fallen from the sky in order to feed the children of Israel while
they wandered forty years in the wilderness. The third item was the two
stone tablets of the law of God... the Ten Commandments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first three commandments were to reflect
man's relationship to God and the last seven commandments were to reflect men's
relationships to one another.</span></div>
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blood of the animals indicated that something or someone had to die because of
the offenses of the people who invariably failed to keep the law that was
inside that arc. Seated upon the kapporeth sat the invisible, all
knowing, all seeing creator and ultimate judge of the universe who sees
and knows the hearts, thoughts, deeds, and attitudes of all men throughout
time. And of course, this God is not just limited to a little vacant
room, but this room of which we speak, is really a replication of a "room"
that exists in some other “spiritual” dimension outside the vast universe as we
know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This room exists infinitely
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the blood of those two animals assuaged the wrath of this God who's law, as was
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was constantly and invariably broken by men.</span></div>
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applying the "nuts and bolts" to maintaining law and order in a
society, judges were assigned to decide matters between disputing
parties. Moses gave these judges strict orders... </span></div>
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not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your
neighbor fairly."</strong></span></span></span></div>
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forward but the Judge who was assigned to his post was not simply assigned to a
position of honor. He was assigned a sacred task... to dispense justice
knowing that there was a God who was aware of how he was performing his task
and that he would be held accountable eventually at one time or another, in
this life or in the next, for how he'd performed his duties. He was to be
reminded that he did not hold absolute power but that the God, his creator, was
the one with the absolute power.</span></span></div>
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that there is no God, we shall see a continued deterioration of
society. As long as people believe in the wrong God,
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will fall into such a level of depravity, lawlessness and evil, where justice
is virtually non-existent, that the blood in front of that arc, which really
was a foreshadowing of the blood of Jesus who died on a cross, will no longer
restrain the rage of the invisible God who knows all, sees all and is the final
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 2008, the mantra of the political left was “if you do not vote for Barak Obama for President you are a racist”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d venture that many Americans didn’t want to be called racist so they voted for Barak Obama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course history has it that Mr. Obama was elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America had proved, at least in a superficial fashion, that it wasn’t racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had elected a black President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">However it seems that Americans are still racist”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man whom they’d elected is calling them racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In spite of the fact that you’d voted for me, if you don’t receive refugees from Syria you’re still racist” he declares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr. Obama’s appeal to the guilt ridden “racist” left, as farfetched as this may sound, is, in my humble opinion, prelude to the greatest holocaust in human history and here’s why I say so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First of all, allow me to examine the rationale behind the receiving of Syrian refugees:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At face value it seems like the compassionate thing to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People who are destitute… whose lives are in danger, are being rescued.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That sounds good, altruistic and loving but it is the very antithesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">a.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It seems that the people who are willing to bring the refugees in are willing to risk the associated dangers which is fine, but they neglect the reality that they’re willing to risk the danger of fellow Americans in the process. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">b.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It seems that they also have a sense of justification for this risk because those who don’t want to risk this danger can be labeled as “cowards”, “Islamophobes”, and “racists”, and therefore, are deserving of the consequences of their “heartless,” fearful” and “hateful” attitudes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, in reality, it is they who are passing judgment on others.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">c.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">They risk the lives and safety of their own sons and daughters and replace that for the alleged well-being of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a decision causes one to doubt whether they really love their own sons and daughters at all. This will become more evident as I continue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Secondly, bringing Syrian refugees onto American soil is irrational.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not solve the problem as to why there are Syrian refugees in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Syrian refugees, like any other refugee, are refugees fleeing to the West and the United States in particular because in one way or another, life is better in the West and in the United States than it is in Syria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a previous essay, I outlined four ways for solving a refugee problem.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">a.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first was to not let anyone in, and build border fences so as to prevent people from coming in who’ve not been thoroughly vetted particularly through the naturalization process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lacks desirability simply because it returns the refugees back to the allegedly horrid circumstances from which they’re fleeing.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">b.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The second remedy for this problem is the most desirable and gets to the heart of the reason for the refugee problem in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I confess, however that there’s a major problem with the remedy that I propose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It’s not going to happen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In essence, this remedy is built upon the rather obvious premise that the refugee problem exists because there’s some evil which makes life miserable for those refugees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that in the situation at hand, Syria is dominated by a dictator by the name of Bashar Al Asad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s trying to hold onto his power and has therefore, resorted to violence so as to repel anyone or any entity that would seek his overthrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resulting civil war has turned into a blood bath which is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As evil as Mr. Asad is, it seems that his opposition is even more evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ISIS is already known far and wide for its cruelty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it seems that not too many parties within the boundaries of Syria are particularly nice people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The most desirable remedy to our problem, however, is that Mr. Asad put down his arms, sing cumbaya with his enemies, all parties involved, including ISIS, shake hands with one another, make peace, set up mutually agreeable boundaries and have the refugees return to Syria which would then be called “Happy Land” (in Arabic of course).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think you see why this will not happen.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">c.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The third remedy would be to obliterate those belligerents who won’t make peace with one another in accordance with the above remedy, and b y so doing, get rid of those who are making life unbearable for the immigrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Safe places can be established for the immigrants within their homeland, buttressed by international “Peace Keepers” while the belligerents are blown to smithereens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once that’s accomplished the refugees can live in peace in the land of their birth (assuming that there aren’t clandestine belligerents already in the midst of the refugees).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">d.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The fourth remedy is to bring the refugees in and hold out the welcome mat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, it seems, is the tact that the Obama Administration has taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The refugees come in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They introduce the actualization of multiculturalism to the American and Western way of life and because of the resulting clash of incompatible cultures, a sort of homeostasis takes place in which life in the United States become as intolerable as life in Syria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, refugees will no longer want to come in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That will most certainly end the influx of further immigration!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence, terrorist instigated violence will erupt, and law enforcement and domestic related military intervention becomes necessary to diminish the violence which will, nevertheless become greater in frequency because of the inadequacy of law enforcement to cover all eventualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only possible outcomes will either be civil war temporarily delayed by peace keeping militia” or a police state with loss of liberties accompanied by occasional or perhaps even frequent acts of violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems likely that the former will morph into the latter. This is destined to become the natural universal outcome everywhere on our planet which all of us allegedly call home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence, it will grow to be a less and less comfortable home in which to live with time except for those who reside at the top of the political spectrum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Thirdly – How do I know that the fourth remedy will be as disastrous as I predict?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">a.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is already documented that a vast plurality of Syrian refugees are men of combat age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently they’d left the women and children behind to fight ISIS which, it seems, at least to me, is not exactly the manly thing to do. Besides, it’s already been shown that women have served as terrorists as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, there is absolutely no way that these “refugees” can be adequately vetted because there’s no way that customs officials are sufficiently trained (let alone psychiatrists) to read people’s minds.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">b.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The incidences in Europe, of refugee instigated terror attacks, including beheadings, mass murders rapes, especially of young, virgin girls as well as their enslavement, and other atrocities has risen exponentially since the influx of these refugees has begun.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">c.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Muslims do not have a history of assimilating into western culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To a very high degree, Muslims have displayed a disdain for western law and particularly secularization.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">d.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">And how can I assume that almost every refugee which has shown up on Western shores is a Muslim?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been documented that boats of refugees that have arrived on the north side of the Mediterranean had thrown Christians overboard prior to their arrival onto Western shores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No such behavior has been documented to have occurred at the hands of Christians.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">e.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In light of the reality that the vast majority (if not all) of this influx of refugees is Muslim, and in light of the reality that a large plurality of these refugees are men, it’s easy to presume that a many of these refugees do not have a benevolent attitudw towards their well meaning western hosts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Islam is a world view bent on world domination and the establishment of Sharia law all around the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is naïve to think that Muslims think like western folk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Islam offers no rights for women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Islam allows for polygamy, and the most radical/religious/orthodox among them provide loopholes in their interpretation of Sharia law which allow for homosexuality and bestiality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women are covered up, not because it is an indication of piety and modesty, but because the men don’t have the self-control to reign in their lusts and passions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, the incidences of rape in Europe are skyrocketing because the life-style of young Western women and girls does not require the sort of attire demanded by Sharia law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore the one doing the raping blames the victim for wearing her comparatively skimpy attire.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">f.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But this is not the only way that Muslims think differently than people in the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “Islam” means “submission”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the Muslim mind, Muslims are expendable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing that counts is the expansion of Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out of servitude, therefore, the truly devout Muslim will offer up his life for the cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why else is there this enormous prevalence of suicide bombings?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like ants that sacrifice themselves to make bridges by which armies of ants can cross a stream, Muslims are sacrificing themselves to cross the Mediterranean to get into Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already many have died, but that’s OK as far as Islam is concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve died as martyrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their deaths prick the conscience of the compassionate but misguided West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tact is also useful in garnering anti-Israel sympathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No life means anything to Islam and so Palestinians, whether willingly, or otherwise, are placed in harm’s way so that they’re either maimed or killed by an Israeli ordinate and by so doing serve as nice photo-ops for appearing on CNN or some tabloid, thus garnering sympathy for the cause.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">g.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ultimately Jihad requires either the subjugation of non-Muslims or preferably their deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What ISIS does to the Christians and Yazids in Iraq and Syria it will surely do to the people of the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Armies won’t stop them because they will be among the people of Europe and America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will each have a face.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">h.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Islam in its fundamental, unbridled form, appeals to the most base of human instincts… sex, self-indulgence, power and sadism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The accompanying behaviors associated with these instincts are hidden in the West only because such behaviors would give Islam a bad name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Islamic countries, however, these behaviors run rampant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A book authored by William Golding in 1954, entitled “Lord of the Flies” depicts the gradual moral and behavioral decay of a group of boys stranded on a desert island who are unbridled by Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They begin to indulge in cultic practices until finally they kill the most likeable among them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is really nothing more than a depiction of what is common in the gang community where gang members join as a result of deprivation particularly of paternal love and instruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have their own set of laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gangs are a microcosm of Islam… which may just as well be likened to a giant gang filled with initiation rites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initiation into the gang requires some sort of evidence of loyalty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As gang members get initiated by killing some other gang member or robbing some old lady on the street, so,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muslims will be required to kill some Muslim of a different (wrong believing) sect, or some unbeliever as proof of his or her loyalty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why else, do you see evidence in the news of ISIS killing other Muslims for not being “real” Muslims?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like in the case with gangs, leaving the gang can mean death, so, in Islam, leaving Islam is literally punishable by death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">To him whom we would call the “radical Muslim”, Islam makes perfect sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeals to the most basic of human instincts!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is assumed that man was made that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This way of thinking will not be stopped with armies and, in light of the “end game” resulting from the homeostasis approach to the immigration problem mentioned above, the “bad guys” in Syria will win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They allegedly get rid of the people that they don’t want and foist those individuals on the people of the unsuspecting West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evil wins because the West is confronted with lawlessness, anarchy and an unconfined “gang-like”/self-indulgent and sadistic mentality in its midst under the guise of “religion”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So what is the true solution to the immigration problem?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only genuine solution to the immigration problem is the 2<sup>nd</sup> remedy mentioned above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that remedy runs counter to human nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than giving in to the self-preservation and sadistic instincts found in Asad and ISIS and others, these instincts need to be replaced by selflessness, compassion, humility and benevolence…traits that run counter to human nature and yet embody nobility and strength of character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are traits that are only to be found in their fullness and perfection in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our politicians have done a great disservice to the one’s they allegedly serve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They attribute credibility to a world view that is thoroughly sadistic and destructive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its only rationales for credibility are that it has the moniker of “religion”, it expands its domain not through reason but through violence, and a façade of religiosity covers the reality that it is unloving and lawless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And what feeds into this “creeping Jihad” that would vote a politician into office who would open the flood gates for the entrance of this cancer into the midst of the West?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply put, it’s moral relativism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The people of the West have determined that it is better for a woman to be lascivious, and kill a baby because nurturing that baby is too big of a responsibility and denies her of her freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The people of the West have determined that it is better for a man to “be free” rather than assume the responsibility of protecting and nurturing the woman he’s “screwed”, and the child he’d created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The people of the West have determined that ”freedom” is synonymous with the term, “license”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abandoning a spouse contrary to the vows of fidelity which one has taken is OK because it means “freedom”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indulging in sexual behaviors contrary to the way in which one was designed by his Creator, which, by the way, do coincide with the laws of nature (as opposed to the laws of human nature) is not only acceptable but rewarded as “brave”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The people of the West have determined that cheating (whether it is in sports, tests in school, finances or any other field) is OK because they’ve determined that success, wealth and reputation are more important than honesty, transparency, humility and a clear conscience before a God whom they prefer not to exist because their lifestyle could not endure His scrutiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The moral relativism of the Western mind can no longer discern between good and evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can only see the “color of one’s skin”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not see the “content of one’s character”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The American people have replaced the morally pure, righteous and, dare I say holy, Jesus, with the morally relativistic self-indulgent and arrogant Barak Obama who is in the process of opening the floodgates of the West to people who own a world view that is fundamentally cruel and sadistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The liberal of the West attempts to assuage his guilt of self-indulgence and lawlessness by offering asylum to those whom he assumes to be in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he lets the bad guys win and ultimately offers asylum to those who will execute his own demise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And so I hold that this immigration policy promulgated by Barak Husein Obama, if enacted, will bring the world to the edge of the greatest bloodbath it has ever known.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stephen Sizer, et al, I Think You May be in Trouble<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Everyone in the whole world needs a place of refuge… where they can feel safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Children of Israel left the slavery of Egypt, God intended to take them to the Promised Land which was a place they could call their own, but, admittedly because of their sin, it took them 40 years to arrive there in what would have ordinarily taken only 17 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, they did finally arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the way, however, they ran into Amalekites and Moabites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Amalekites went to war against Israel, and the Moabites wouldn’t provide them with hospitality and allow them to pass through their land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you may recall, God declared permanent war on the Amalekites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, God cursed the Moabites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were neither willing to allow the children of Israel a place of refuge nor were they willing to show common courtesy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of the Amalekites, it was the very antithesis of common courtesy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was war!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The modern Children of Israel have just returned from a metaphorical Egypt… the four corners of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Spain and the northern Mediterranean region, they had to endure the Spanish Inquisition in which Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism or be tortured and burned at the stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One might say that the Jews of that time and place genuinely were introduced to a form of Christianity which Jesus never would have endorsed or tolerated because, in your own words, Jesus is, indeed, the God of Love and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Russia and northeastern Europe, the Jews there endured pogroms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nice Christian” people would come out from attending passion plays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worked up into a frenzy, having been taught “Jew hatred”, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they would seek out Jews to kill and Jewish houses to destroy and burn to the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only until the time of Moses Mendelsohn were the Jews of Europe allowed to ascend to any status within European society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mendelsohn, of course was German, but it only took a century to dispel any notion that the German people were benevolent towards Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hitler began his “Reich” with an effort to take over the world and, in the process, kill every last Jew on the planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">South of the Mediterranean, of course, the Jews were dhimmis… subject to the whims of Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to pay the Jiizhad (tax) and if they weren’t victims of capriciously executed Arab-style pogroms, they nevertheless, were relegated to second class citizenship for the exception of a brief period during the reign of Rahman, Caliph of Cordova, in, interestingly enough, Spain (north of the Mediterranean) of all places. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Islam’s inception it began the active destruction of the Christian world south of the Mediterranean either by killing Christians or forcing conversions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an aside, I would argue that it was the genuine Christians who would not convert but suffer death instead, because only the false ones would deny Jesus in the face of persecution, and, as you may recall, both Jesus and Paul said some pretty harsh things about people who wouldn’t confess Jesus until the very end, but would deny Him instead when things got “tough”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Even as the Crusaders fought back the expansion of Islam into Europe, all along their route into the “Holy Land” they slaughtered Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they reached Jerusalem, they herded all the Jews they could find into the great synagogue and burnt it to the ground with the Jews inside while singing “Christ we adore thee”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And so, like the Jewish slaves of Egypt, the Jews of the world, for 1800 years, had no place that they could call their own… where they could govern themselves and not have to worry about when their host country would turn on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yes, Theodore Herzl, around the turn of the 19<sup>th</sup> Century became a spokesman for the Jewish people to return to ”the land” in light of this history of persecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was only in the aftermath of World War II, in which the Jewish population of the world, which had been targeted for annihilation, that the United Nations finally declared the Palestinian Mandate west of the Jordan River to be a Jewish homeland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me reiterate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In no other place were Jews safe!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jews who returned to their alleged homeland in Poland after the war were slaughtered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>England and the United States did not welcome them as refugees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jews who fled to the Palestinian Territory were herded into deplorable detention camps which best resembled filth riddled tent cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Immediately upon Israel’s declaration of statehood, she was attacked by the trained armies of five established Arab nations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their survival of that conflagration alone was a miracle! Those Jews living in Arab lands were either slaughtered or expelled and their belongings were confiscated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fled to the fledgling Jewish state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a side note, it is worth mentioning that today, Jews comprise less than 0.1% of the population of Islamic countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In contrast Arabs (mostly Muslim but some Christian) comprise 20% of the population of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel absorbed the fleeing Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the Arab countries in the comparatively vast and under-populated Muslim territories was willing to absorb those Arabs who fled the 1948 war for Israel’s survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so today, we see a densely populated Israel rivaled only by a yet more densely populated Gazan territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Like the Moabites and the Amalekites of old, the Arabs refused to grant the Jews a place of solace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would hold that it is because the false ideology known as Islam refuses to allow any non-Muslim political entity to exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the Third Reich, Islam wants to take over the entire world and the tiny spec of land called Israel is like a sliver in the finger of Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as tiny as that sliver is, it is irritating, even painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what do you do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do whatever you can to remove it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would hold that the Islamic ideology is even such that it’s willing to throw the Palestinian people under the proverbial bus in order to accomplish that goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allow me to say that another way: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In order to remove Israel from the Middle East, and dare I say, the world, the ideology known as Islam will resort to the callus use of Palestinians as pawns which are disposable and can be thrown under the proverbial bus in complete disregard for their welfare.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr. Sizer… Do you believe that Islam is a false ideology?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus said “No one comes to the Father except by Me”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In light of that, do you believe that Islam is a false ideology and if so, why do you not denounce it with the same passion that you do Judaism or the Jewish people?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hopefully you are aware that true faith in Jesus is not religion but a relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact Jesus denounced people who were given to religiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming to Christ is an introduction into a family which has adopted you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If, indeed, you are a Christian, you have become part of a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is the head of that family, but I dare say, the Jewish people are the prodigal son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve rejected the head of their family but the head of that family, Jesus, loves them, still and will always want them back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the Jewish people for whom the Apostle Paul was willing to go so far as to relinquish his own salvation for their sake (Rom. 9), and over whom Paul warned the Gentiles of the Church at Rome not to boast against the “natural branches”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If indeed you are a genuine Christian, then you would be pursuing after the heart of the Father… praying for the salvation of the Jewish people and seeking their well-being a safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you really were a man of peace and a Christian as you claim to be, you would want what is best for both the Jews and the Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would be shouting from the mountain tops that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">there is no name under heaven by which we might be saved, save the name of Jesus.</b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, like the brother in the story of the prodigal son who stayed at home with his father, you’ve been condemning the prodigal son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, you’ve given ascent and credibility to a false ideology that has been responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Christians throughout history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I, like you, am grieved by the plight of the Palestinian people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they are not so much victims of the Jews as they are victims of the false ideology which, like the Amalekites and Moabites of old, will not allow Jews a place where they can find solace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What have you done or said to cause the Palestinian people to question the veracity of this demonic ideology?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When you love someone, you seek to learn their likes and dislikes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you love Jesus you need to recognize that Jesus loves the Jewish people and desires their return to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t condemn them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You seek their salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I cannot, nor am I in any place to judge you, but I do question the authenticity of the faith of much of Christianity throughout history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy to claim to believe in Jesus when life is easy or it benefits your status within a culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would also argue that it’s easy to proclaim a false Jesus by denial of the cultural and religious context into which He made His appearance as a man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Joseph, son of Jacob, Jesus is willing to forgive His wayward brothers who abused Him because they were his brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are the Jewish people like family to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m of the opinion that the Jewish people are family… wayward perhaps, but family nevertheless, to the authentic Christian because that is a reflection of the heart of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, I’m of the opinion that someone who professes Jesus without that sense of family is a false Christian and God knows the heart of men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I can go into greater depths of scriptural proof texts to support my position, but for us to venture along that path would only take us down a rabbit trail of endless polemics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s worthwhile, however, to end by quoting Jesus who said “… many will come to me on that day and say to me ‘Lord, Lord, did we not do this in Your Name and did we not do that in Your Name?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will say to them ‘Depart from Me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never knew you’”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for that reason, I think you may be in trouble… with God.</span></div>
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