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FieryOpal -> RE: Racism and Islamophobia. (9/14/2014 12:22:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
Its also on record in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.
[A] (circa 185-254 CE) to write: "Therefore the blood of Jesus came not only upon those who lived formerly but also upon all subsequent generations of Jews..." The Christian church taught until recently that all Jews -- past, present and future -- are equally responsible for the death of Christ. 2
[B] (Psalms 79:6): "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name." This is a call to God to commit genocide against persons of other faiths who are either unfamiliar with Judaism and Christianity, or who have learned and rejected these religions.
[C] (Exodus 22:20): "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
And so it goes on.
[A] Yes, it is a travesty that there are those in Christian leadership throughout history who have blamed the Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ and persecuted them.
The earliest Christians WERE Jews. Virtually all of the disciples and contemporaneous followers of Jesus were themselves Jews. Gentiles were not actively welcomed into Christianity until St. Peter received his vision of them being grafted into the fig tree by (spiritual) adoption. (Acts 10, Romans 11)*
The historical record as recounted is an explanation for how this came about. Stating an event is not the same as inciting it. Roman governor or prefect of Judaea, Pontius Pilate symbolically washed his hands of Jesus' blood. He had given the crowd a choice between which condemned prisoner to let go as the Passover "scapegoat," as was their tradition. Those in the crowd then shouted, "His blood is on us and on our children!" because they could not be swayed to show Jesus mercy. (Matthew 27:25)
On the Cross, Jesus forgave EVERYBODY, prayed for God the Father to forgive them [all], for they know not what they do. This meant not just the Romans, not just the centurions, or the Pharisees and the Sadducees, but all the Jews, and anybody in the future who would despise Christ--they were also pre-forgiven so that they might receive salvation.
* We are all on even ground in accordance to Galatians 3:28--There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
[B] The Psalms are a collection of prayers and hymns sung to the Lord God. Many have been attributed to the authorship of Moses and of David, Warrior King of Israel. This is one such passage praying for victory over one's enemies, not a strange request or entreaty to make of one's Deity.
[C] Exodus 32:8--They have been quick to turn away from what I [Moses] commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'
For those Hebrews delivered out of the bondage of slavery from Egypt, this was the ultimate betrayal, to fashion a golden calf (of Goddess Hathor) to worship in the Egyptian fashion, instead of showing their gratitude and devotion to their own Hebrew Lord God, who did not have an idolatrous form to worship. This was their dire warning not to revert back to the ways of their Egyptian slavery, or to bring upon that accursed state by forsaking the God of Moses who had delivered them.
When Moses descended from Mt. Sinai, he had two stone tablets with the 10 Commandments carved upon them. These were later stored in the sacred Ark of the Covenant.
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