So here I go with my hip waders with this subject again, other than my belief that God still has His hand on the Jews and Israel. In the middle east Israel is surrounded by her enemies on every side and owns a mere 1% of the land. And yet she stands by the grace of God. That in itself is a miracle.
" Over 300 years ago King Louis XIV of France asked Blaise Pascal, the great French philosopher, to give him proof of the supernatural. Pascal answered: "Why, the Jews, your Majesty ― the Jews." http://www.aish.com/h/iid/48964091.html
The Jewish people have been flung out of more than 100 countries down through history.
LeoTolstoy said of the Jews,
"The Jew is the emblem of eternity. He who neither slaughter nor torture of thousands of years could destroy, he who neither fire, nor sword, nor Inquisition was able to wipe off the face of the earth. He who was the first to produce the Oracles of God. He who has been for so long the Guardian of Prophecy and has transmitted it to the rest of the world. Such a nation cannot be destroyed. The Jew is as everlasting as Eternity itself.
The problem with Replacement Theology and its many names is that it is anti-semetic. And that is against Gods chosen of who He said were both the "apple of His eye" and His chosen people. We Christians are "co-heirs" with the Jews,we have not replaced them. God still has a place for the Jews. Replacement Theology wants the Jews to have all the curses and Christians to have all the blessings. The doctrine is a false one,and dangerous at that. It was not Hitler who was the first to make the Jews wear a star to identify them,nor was the first to come up with ghettos. It was in fact,the Catholics.
Lets listen to the church Fathers to see what they had to say...
St. Augustine- “Jews deserved death but were destined to wander the earth to witness the victory of the Church over the synagogue.”
The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the Devil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ, and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential that all Christians hate them.
John Crysostom - "The synagogue is worse than a brothel…it is the den of scoundrels and the repair of wild beasts…the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults…the refuge of brigands and dabauchees, and the cavern of devils. It is a criminal assembly of Jews…a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ… a house worse than a drinking shop…a den of thieves, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, the refuge of devils, a gulf and a abyss of perdition."…"I would say the same things about their souls… As for me, I hate the synagogue…I hate the Jews for the same reason."
Peter the Venerable - Yes, you Jews. I say, do I address you; you, who till this very day, deny the Son of God. How long, poor wretches, will ye not believe the truth? Truly I doubt whether a Jew can be really human… I lead out from its den a monstrous animal, and show it as a laughing stock in the amphitheater of the world, in the sight of all the people. I bring thee forward, thou Jew, thou brute beast, in the sight of all men.
Martin Luther -First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honor of God and of Christianity in order that God may see that we are Christians, and that we have not wittingly tolerated or approved of such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of His Son and His Christians.
[FONT="]Secondly, their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed. For they perpetrate the same things there that they do in their synagogues. For this reason they ought to be put under one roof or in a stable, like gypsies, in order that they may realize that they are not masters in our land, as they boast, but miserable captives, as they complain of incessantly before God with bitter wailing.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayer-books and Talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threat of death to teach any more...[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fifthly, passport and traveling privileges should be absolutely forbidden to the Jews...
Let them stay at home...If you princes and nobles do not close the road legally to such exploiters, then some troop ought to ride against them, for they will learn from this pamphlet what the Jews are and how to handle them and that they ought not to be protected. You ought not, you cannot protect them, unless in the eyes of God you want to share all their abomination...
To sum up, dear princes and nobles who have Jews in your domains, if this advice of mine does not suit you, then find a better one so that you and we may all be free of this insufferable devilish burden - the Jews...
Such a desperate, thoroughly evil, poisonous, and devilish lot are these Jews, who for these fourteen hundred years have been and still are our plague, our pestilence, and our misfortune.
I have read and heard many stories about the Jews which agree with this judgment of Christ, namely, how they have poisoned wells, made assassinations, kidnapped children...next to the devil, a Christian has no more bitter and galling foe than a Jew.
John Calvin -[The Jews’] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
This is the foundation of the Replacement Theology. The Jews were falsely accused of kidnapping and murdering children, poisoning wells and blood libels. All this from Christians, so called. This is just an opener on the subject. We'll see how nasty the comments go on this post to see whether its worth the bother to continue.
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