PALESTINIANS & ISRAELIS

For people who are not Israeli, Zionist Christians etc., living in peace with the Palestinian Arabs is not an option, but rather a principle.

Biblical principles, beliefs, Zion, return to the land, fulfilling the promises, fulfillment of Bible prophecies etc., that’s all fine, and welcome, but when it comes to living in Israel side by side; these principles don’t always work.

Partially things work in Haifa and generally in Galilee.

When push comes to shove and war breaks out the Christians leave and go into the Christian spin. They get on Christian Prophetic or Eschatological TV networks and talk, making important faces and are so smart, because they have been there... under bombs I suppose. Self promotion.

We, Israelis, have to face the reality, there is no spin there, no talking, but bombing and shooting.

I made yeridah. Why? Because the extreme right pushes for something I am against. I see things in a prophetic timeline and this is not the way to go.

1. It is premature.
2. Orthodox (Jewish settlers) extremists spoil things for us.

Am I “Shalom Ahshav”? No. I was for Peres and Rabin when they showed peace initiatives with Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barack, but obviously there is the PLO/Fatah Charter which calls for the total destruction of Israel. So no peace deals can be made until this clause from their charter is removed, to put it childishly. But, by the same token, Israel does not have an official constitution to be guided by.

Read this:
1. An uncodified constitution is a type of constitution where the fundamental rules of government take the form of customs, usage, precedent and a variety of statutes and legal instruments. An understanding of the constitution is obtained through reading commentary by the judiciary, government committees or legal experts. In such a constitutional system, all these elements may be recognized by courts, legislators and the bureaucracy as binding upon government and limiting its powers.

So, courts rule.

2. An uncodified constitution has the advantages of elasticity, adaptability and resilience. A new condition or situation of government may be resolved by precedent or passing legislation. Unlike a codified constitution, there are no special procedures for making a constitutional law and it will not be inherently superior to other legislation. A country with an uncodified constitution lacks a specific moment where the principles of its government were deliberately decided. Instead, these are allowed to evolve according to the political and social forces arising throughout its history.

So, things change with time.

Based on this, Israel has the right to act the way it deems to be the right way of action, and who can stop that?

1. If the Bible is the guide then first we would have to take all discrepancies out.
2. Second, logical errors would have to eliminated.
3. Thirdly, the claim to the modern state of Israel based on the Bible would have to be ratified, but that would talk much more time.

Now. You Zionist marionette Christians: when strings are pulled you talk and act, but what do you know about the bigger picture?

According to the Zionist principle West Bank is Judea and Samaria, but Samaria was not Jewish was it? (in the time of Jesus).

Arabs claim to be the Canaanites and they have the Canaanite Center to prove it. I guess…

“Yassir Arafat [the chairman of the Palestinian Authority] first said he was a descendant of the Canaanites, but he now says he's a Jebusite. However, if you tried to do a DNA test on Arafat, you would be hard pressed to prove that he has any Jebusite blood running through his veins.

Most of the Arabs in that area came in from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and other places after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 638 A.D. Many modern Palestinians say they are descendants of the Canaanites.”

Go figure.

What did God say about it?

[Deuteronomy 20:17] But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Did they? - No. Today we have a problem, but this problem started rather after Judah’s rerun from the Babylonian exile.

[Nehemiah 2:19] But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Arabs moved in already then. The land was desolate for 70 years. That’s how quickly they move in.

Then came the Romans and they called this land Palestine. The root word is Philistia. P. and F. is interchangeable. Phalestinim (Hebrew) or Philistinim (Arabic).  Then came the 70 AD, another exile, Byzantine period, and the Crusaders period, then the Muslim period, then the Turkish empire and then (modern days) British mandate, UN partition and problems…    

Taking it all into account one ponders. Will Jews ever find peace? Either we have to keep on destroying the way Samuel told Saul to annihilate Amalek, or try to make peace the modern, diplomatic way. Hack them to pieces, chase them all the way to Egypt and Jordan, or deal with it.

Cheap Christian Zionist jabs won’t do. Feel something, and wipe that smirk off your face.

That’s my schtick. What’s yours?  

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LESS DEMOCRATIC JEWISH NATION

Proposed Israeli law would recognize country as ‘nation-state of the Jewish people’

AP Photo/Dusan VranicUltra-Orthodox Jews watch people wave Israeli flags outside the Old City's Damascus Gate during Jerusalem Day celebrations in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 28,2014.

Israel has no constitution. The reason according to local lore is that the secular majority and the ultra-Orthodox minority could not agree on how to refer to God so they never wrote an actual constitution. Instead there are a series of 13 “Basic Laws” that function as a constitution.

Several members of the governing coalition have now written a new basic law, which recognizes Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people.”

“The state of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, where they realize their aspiration for self-determination according to their cultural and historical legacy….the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his support behind the law after the nine-months of U.S.-mediated peace talks ended in April without an agreement. During those negotiations, Netanyahu repeatedly demanded that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recognize the Jewish character of Israel, a demand that Abbas has steadfastly rejected.

Now, after Abbas’s Fatah and the Islamist Hamas have established a unity government that aims to pave the way for Palestinian elections, several Israeli initiatives that had been put on hold are now being pushed forward, including this new proposed basic law.

“Just as the ‘basic law on human dignity and liberty’ anchors the democratic nature of the state of Israel, we need a law that will enshrine its Jewish nature,” Ayelet Shaked, one of the law’s backers and a member of the Jewish National Home party said in a statement. “This should have been done a long time ago.”

In the draft of the legislation, Israel is described as both a “Jewish” and a “democratic” state. But some worry that the new law would describe Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” in a way that some would make the Jewish character of the state more important than its democratic character.

Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images. Benjamin Netanyahu supports the proposed basic law.

“Twenty percent of Israel’s population is made up of non-Jews and it like saying to those citizens who are loyal to the state that they are somehow less than the Jews,” Wadie Abunassar, of the International Center for Consultations, and an Arab citizen of Israel, told The Media Line. “It sends negative signals to the Arab and international community.”

Abunassar said it is as if France passed a law saying that only Catholics were full citizens and that highlighted the Catholic nature of France.

Defenders of the proposed law argue that it includes the “personal rights” of all citizens of the state of Israel. Critics, though, say this does not go far enough.

“The whole spirit of the law transmits a message that Israel should be more Jewish and less democratic,” Amir Fuchs, a legal expert at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) told The Media Line. “It’s meant to bring more substance to the Jewish nature of Israel and lessen the democratic nature of the state.”

The current proposal has some amendments remaining from the original draft. In the first version, Arabic was no longer listed as one of the national languages. In addition, the original draft described Israel as “a Jewish state with a democratic system of government.”

Wadie Abunassar says this latest proposal will join a series of recent anti-democratic measures such as the “Naqba law” which allows the finance minister to penalize any state-funded institutions which mark Israel’s Independence Day as a day of mourning. Many Palestinians refer to the creation of the state of Israel as the “naqba” or “catastrophe.”

He said he understands the impetus for this current law enshrining Israel as a Jewish state but believes it is unwise.

“Some people here are concerned that Israel will face an existential threat from within and from outside that could threaten the state’s Jewish character,” he said. “But instead of pushing away Israel’s minorities, Israel should use them as a bridge between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

[Source: The Media Line]

TWO POINTS

Israel has no no Constitution and the lessening of the democratic nature of the state.
Taking into account the Palestinian Arab's aspirations and now the recent marriage between Fatah and Hamas things will only escalate on both sides.

If Israel has a new Constitution declaring Israel as a strictly Jewish state with Hebrew as the official language that would have to lead to theocracy and perhaps even monarchy.

[Ezekiel 37 24-26] "My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. [25] “They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever. [26] I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever."

KING & PRINCE

David was long dead when Ezekiel spoke these words, and yet someone from the root of Jesse will be king, but also a prince.

[Jeremiah 33:32] As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.

How, when at what point in time will this happen? It is happening already.

There is someone here who is from the root of Jesse (Ishai) through Raddai (1Chrinicles 2:14) the fifth son, brother of David.

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400 TERRORISTS GO FREE?

Under the new offer, Israel would determine which 400 prisoners would go free. There has been no confirmation of the new offer by Israel but Israeli politicians are already reacting to the proposal.

Israel has reportedly offered to release an additional 400 Palestinian prisoners as a sign of goodwill towards the Palestinian Authority in order to entice the Palestinians to agree to extend peace talks for another six months.

According to Palestinian sources involved in the peace talks, the offer is backed by the United States, who is attempting to save talks from total collapse.

Israel has delayed releasing the fourth and last installment of 26 Palestinian terrorists from prison due to the lack of guarantee by PA President Mahmoud Abbas that he would continue negotiations once the prisoners were released.

Abbas has in turn announced that he would not consider extending talks until the prisoners are released by Israel.  The Al-Ayyam newspaper cited Palestinian sources close to the negotiations as saying that Abbas is insisting that Israel release the fourth batch of prisoners as a precondition to any future deliberations.

At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the additional 400 Palestinian prisoners would not be released without Israel receiving something of value in return.

“In any case, there won’t be any deal without receiving something of clear value [in return],” the prime minster stated.

Netanyahu said that within the next few days, the issue “will be closed or it will blow up” and made clear that no decisions would be made without governmental approval.

Sunday morning, the A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the release of prisoners would not lead the PA to take immediate states to further peace negotiations. The sources confirmed that the PA does not want to appear responsible for failed peace talks, saying “the leadership does not want to enter immediate conflict and appear responsible for the breakdown of the negotiation process.”

Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) said, “If this is true, I will recommend that we leave the coalition.”

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told Israel Radio on Saturday night that he was opposed to the release of terrorists from prison. He said that the process of releasing the fourth installment of Palestinians from prison should be stopped immediately “since there hasn’t been any forward movement in the peace process.”

Reports on Saturday stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that his coalition would fall apart should Israel free the last batch of terrorists.

On Friday, PA officials informed American mediator Martin Indyk that Israel was not releasing the last batch of terrorists. PA official Jibril Rajoub said that blocking the release was a “slap in the face of the U.S. administration and its efforts.”

Fatah officials Hazen Abu Shanab told the Ma’an news agency that Israel would immensely regret its decision to not release the prisoners. He called on the international community to hold Israel responsible for failed peace talks.

“The release of prisoners is a legitimate, lawful, and human right. Their freedom should not be linked to concessions regarding extending or continuing the diplomatic process,” Abu Shanab said.

Responding to reports on the prisoner release, U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Saturday night: “In regard to reports this evening on an agreement on the release of prisoners, no deal has been arrived at, and we continue to work intensively with both sides. Any claims to the contrary are inaccurate.”

WHAT ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS?

One should take into account (true or false) that Israel wants peace and asks for extra time to negotiate peace. But with the unchanged Palestinian charter  (that calls for the destruction of Israel) there will be no peace not now nor ever.

One thing is sure, the Israeli prisons are overcrowded, so some must go. There also must be a show of good will. But what about justice? The Palestinians care for their own terrorists, but do they care for the innocent children that are being blown up by bombs? 

I do not take sides. I know the end of it all and wait. The Bible declared the end. The climax is coming and it is near. 

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SCARY KERRY

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said it was wrong for Israel to insist upon being recognized by the Palestinians as a “Jewish state” as a condition for peace.

“I think it’s a mistake for some people to be, you know, raising it again and again as the critical decider of their attitude towards the possibility of a state and peace, and we’ve obviously made that clear,” Kerry told the congressional House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Kerry’s remarks would seem to be an about face from Washington’s position on the matter just over a month ago.

 

My Schtick

Just because you want to be successful Mr. Kerry you are more in a wishful thinking mindset rather than reality. Just look at the history. The UN partition of Palestine gave equal opportunities to both peoples. The Arabs had the same opportunity as the Jews did, but they chose hate which they would never give up for they want the whole pie and their history from PLO to Hamas proves it. In the PLO charter, to this day, the clause which calls for a complete annihilation of the State of Israel has not been removed and won't be removed just because Arabs are severely constipated and they won't let go of the big s... which their brains are laden with. When you constantly breathe hatred your breath in the contamination of the self-produced toxins. 

Whose side are you on? [Isaiah 62:1] For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet - The God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel says so. 

 

Obama's Abomination

 

The discrepancy suggests that the Obama Administration could be succumbing to Palestinian pressure and altering its proposal to lean more toward the Arab agenda.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly stated that he will never recognize Israel as the Jewish state, and threatened to quit the peace talks over that and other US-backed Israeli conditions. 

On Sunday, Arab League head Nabil Elaraby told Al-Arabiya that he fully backs Abbas’ position, and is calling for all Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against Israel’s demand to be recognized as the Jewish state.

For Israel, the condition is a critical one because official recognition of a Jewish state by the Palestinian Authority would mean that the Arabs finally accept Israel’s right to exist in the region as the national homeland of the Jewish people, thereby precluding (presumably) any future attempts to destroy it.

 

My Schtick

First of all people like Abbas talk like fools because the smart way to defeat the Democratic State of Israel is to live with it under one roof. With the permission of the Islamic law, having four wives, the Palestinians could demographically take over. And since it is the State itself they can't stand they could have a state through demographics. But that is too farfetched for such was the son of impatience - Ishmael. 

Go figure. make peace with someone you do not see eye to eye and you do not recognize as a legitimate partner. No one ever cared about the Jew. The surface sympathy shown to the Jew in 1948 was the Jewish opportunity. The ratio proportion of Arab lands to that tiny sliver of land called Israel today is 600 - 1. What the hell they want it for? Where is the Islamic unifying love and care?

[Matthew 7:16] You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? - Jesus said. So simple, so wise and so true. 

Mr Obama and Mr Kerry are you trying to grow grapes on thorn bushes and figs on thistles?

It is written that Ishmael's hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand will be against (today's Arabs).  

[Genesis 16:11-12] And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has given heed to your affliction. He will be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; and he will live to the east of all his brothers.

This wildness has not gone anywhere. Arabs will implode. Those who are still in Islam should run for their lives for this prophecy comes to pass.

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POLITICS & PREJUDICE

The Catholic Church embarked on a mission to woo Protestant leaders, especially of the Faith Movement to join the church. The Argentinian Pope Francis knows well about the growth of those churches in South America. The “culprit” is the Faith Movement that “steals” the Catholic sheep. The Swedish founder of the “Word of Life” Church in Uppsala Sweden, Ulf Ekman, has just joined the Catholic Church. The Pope now also woos Kenneth Copeland. Ekman likes the priesthood, he said, (the robes, I suppose) the organization (as if God loves organizations, which are Kenite and temporary); and he likes the liturgies and ceremonies. I wonder if any of these big preachers are really born again.

JUST A THOUGHT

The more you understand the more you know and the more you know the wiser you become. That’s just a natural progress of things. Some people may be afraid to know too much, but one cannot ever have too much of knowledge when it comes to God, His Kingdom as it is both plainly and secretly presented to us in His Word. There are messages that are plainly on the table, but also messages that are under the table. Those on the inside, dwelling in God’s chambers; can let you in on some secrets; provided you are up to speed to get them. 

God hired laborers for the harvest, but He also has sons. In Matthew 7:20-24 we read something very wise and quite plain. We know them by their outward fruits. Perhaps most of those in religion are only hirelings and not sons? Hired hands (the laborers hired only for the harvest) must carry God’s truth, thus they are anointed, but only for that service of harvesting. The sons may be a bit lethargic for to them belongs everything; so they are not as ambitious as the hirelings are. The hirelings work for the glory bit, fame and money, but sons do not.

Video: Learn more about hirelings

HOW EASILY ONE CAN BE PREJUDICED
 

I often said in my meetings. “All that I preach is the Truth and I would risk my life for what I proclaim, that’s how well I know what God places on my tongue and who actually speaks, not me but Him. But if someone stepped into the meeting and shouted, “All this preacher says is a complete lie. Don’t listen to him!”  I guarantee you that many would be deeply perturbed and perhaps even the majority would agree with the shouter against the preacher. Why would that be so? God’s Word is like the uncomfortable sword and as the prophet Jeremiah said, it is fire and hammer that shatters rocks (Jeremiah 23:29). The Word of Truth penetrates, it pierces and the flesh hates it. Subconsciously people do not like it; so any arising “opportunity” like that of the shouter quickly gets them off the hook. Subconsciously people wish to see yet another fallen preacher. The root of self-righteousness can’t wait to sprout and take over the garden. Just think about it.

Greeks seek philosophy and they indoctrinate for they do not know the individual freedom. Once you lay down the rail tracks the trains will go on them having no freedom to go anywhere else; so it is with indoctrination. Most of today’s Bible preaching is indoctrination, although some well meaning teachers do not even know it. Figuring out the future events is indoctrination leaving no room for each individual. I do not do this. I leave it all up to you. I educate and reason. Some do not like that freedom, which requires responsibility. Some would rather be indoctrinated so when bad times come they can blame the preacher for it. Some turn their back on religion, church and a preacher for they have been so disappointed.

INDOCTRINATION

Indoctrination is a borderline brainwashing and anyone allowing him or herself thus be brainwashed surrender their freedom. Then people must cope with disagreements saying, ‘I don’t believe it. It is false. You are false, etc.’ Why? Because they were indoctrinated and became like that choo-choo train that runs on the same tracks over and over again. They never tasted space, which is grace, which is freedom. False piety and religiousness can be easily broken with higher knowledge.

FORCING ONE'S HAND WITH A BELIEF

Here we see how the business competitors and racists swayed one of the future US presidents who was dubbed into discrimination. Here is an excerpt of the story. 

Grant’s order prohibited the issuing of trade licenses to Jews within the Tennessee district. Furthermore, it required them to leave the district within 24 hours of the order or risk imprisonment. Grant’s zealous underlings immediately began to enforce the order: Entire families were marched out of town with only what they could carry.

According to the American Jewish Historical Society’s research, Lincoln did not know about Grant’s order and expressed surprise when a group of Jewish leaders met with him to protest Grant’s decree. President Lincoln disapproved of the order and expressed his disbelief to Grant in a letter: “a paper purporting to be [issued by you] has been presented here. It expels all Jews from your department. If such an order has been issued, it will be immediately revoked.” Three days later, Grant obeyed the commander in chief’s orders and revoked General Order No. 11. Lincoln later told Jewish representatives, “To condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad” and promised to not only rid the country of slavery, but to protect Americans from religious discrimination.

Grant’s reputation was not tarnished by the General Order No. 11 episode. In fact, after the war, most Americans regarded Grant as a hero and he went on to win the majority of the Jewish vote in the presidential election of 1868. As president, he appointed Jews to top federal positions.

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ALLAH ASSIGNED ISRAEL TO THE JEWS

"Allah Gave Israel to The Jews, There's No Palestine"

Allah has promised Israel to the Jews -- so says Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who declared on his Facebook page recently that "Palestine" doesn't exist.

Blogger Elder of Ziyon translated Arab news sources that this Saturday reported on Adwan's statements, in which he quotes the Koran saying Allah assigned Israel to the Jews until the Day of Judgement (Sura 5 Verse 21), and that Jews are the inheritors of Israel (Sura 26 Verse 59).

Honest man, indeed it is written so.

[Koran Sura 5:21]  "O my people! Enter the holy land, which Allah has assigned to you, and turn not back (in flight) for then you will be returned as losers."

[Koran Surah 26:59] Thus [We turned them (Pharaoh's people) out] and We caused the Children of Israel to inherit them. 

Note: "Allah" is the Arabic derivative of the Hebrew (God) Elohim, El or Al. [End]   

"I say to those who distort...the Koran: from where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it 'The Holy Land' and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment," argued Adwan. "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in the Koran."

"Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won't succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews)," warns Adwan.

The sheikh had more harsh words for the "Palestinians," calling them "the killers of children, the elderly and women" in using them as human shields in order to falsely accuse the Jews of targeting them. He reports having seen the same tactic used by "Palestinians" against the Jordanian army in the 1970s.

"This is their habit and custom, their viciousness, their having hearts of stones towards their children, and their lying to public opinion, in order to get its support," declared Adwan.

Adwan has previously said his support for the Jewish people "comes from my acknowledgment of their sovereignty on their land and my belief in the Koran, which told us and emphasized this in many places, like His (Allah's) saying "Oh People (i.e the Children of Israel), enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned unto you'" (Sura 5, Verse 21).

The Jews are a peaceful people according to Adwan, who says "if they are attacked, they defend themselves while causing as little damage to the attackers as possible. It is an honor for them that Allah has chosen them over the worlds - meaning over the people and the Jinns (spiritual creatures) until the Day of Judgment. ...When Allah chose them, He didn't do so out of politeness, and He wasn't unjust to other peoples, it is just that they (the Jews) deserved this."

Source http://virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=12060

Audiobook with extra comments is in works

Islam as a religion emerged about 600 years after Christ. Islam posed, and still poses, a major challenge to Christianity. History shows that wars between Christians and Muslims were frequent and lengthy. Judaism as a religion emerged shortly after Cyrus the king of Persia, Ezra, Nehemiah and the after the second temple period.

The need for an official Jewish religion arose shortly before Rome. The Maccabees scored some victories over Greece, which was at the sunset of its rule; and Rome respectfully allotted to the victors the Temple Mount as an autonomous center of Judaism. The entire area of today’s Western Wall belonged to the Jews for Judeans after Persia were called so.

The Hasmoneans (Maccabees) appointed a body of Prusheem (Pharisees) and their job was to proselytize and teach people Judaism, which at that time was still in diapers, barely formulated.  To this very day Judaism does not have an official theology, as that of the Catholic creed, which was formulated some 300 years later A.D. under Constantine.

Furthermore it must be said that when Jesus arrived on the scene, proselytizing was at its peak. Anyone claiming to have some Jewish or Israelite lineage, and was willing to convert, was circumcised and had to learn the Torah according to the Pharisaic interpretations. During that time two prominent rabbis, Shamai and Hillel, were quite influential in the formulation of the Jewish thought. Another cast of Sadducees arose, Zealots and Essenes. Jesus seemed to have started a new movement, which later in the year 42 A.D. was coined as Christian.     

Hellenization of Jews was not so much with the sword but rather with the weapon called thought. After the Maccabees rebelled against this (Hellenization) process it was almost too late, for most Jews were already quite disoriented.

In view of the above, the necessity to De-Hellenize them was indeed great. Among the many converts many of the Pharisees were not even Jewish by blood, but by religion only. Their ideas were mixed with Greek mythology and philosophy of which remnants have remained to this day. Largely, the Church has inherited many of the pluralistic and dualistic ideas with which it is very difficult to part. Why? – Because of pride, to put it flatly and simply. And this statement begs for explanation.

Anything living moves for “In Him we live and move…” (Acts 17:28). Life creates movement. God is moving by creating new things and giving us the fresh and living new wine. But the well-established man’s dogmas remain frozen.  It seems that man has decided that there is nothing new under the heavens, as if—when it comes to the life-giver our Heavenly Father—the human mind lies in a coffin ready to be buried. 

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