JEW-ISH?

JEW-ISH???
With all due respect, I wrote this article after much debating with myself on this issue. I believe it to be absolutely true, and would welcome any critical comment from those who know me, since I am Chabad Lubavitch and have studied the Law all of my life...
So...Jew-ish? Not hardly. I intend to stop calling myself a Jew and I am definitely NOT Jew-ish. Jew-ish means Jew-like.
I ask you this, Hebrews. Whose Law do we obey? Is it NOT The Mosaic Law? Do we not read from the Mazoretic Texts? From HEBREW texts?
Where, praytell, are the Laws of Judah? Find them for me and I will say I am wrong. Those who know their history know full well that *Jew* was an epithet directed at the Tribe of Judah during the ancient Hebrew Civil Wars. It was an epithet then, it is an epithet now... though raised to greater heights during the rise of Roman Hellenism, the Islamic rise, and then the 3rd Reich.
Why have we adopted an epithet to call ourselves when it was used as much as a disparaging word in Biblical times, repeated in the tomes of RC Doctrine to equate Jews as an evil thing, to Jude during the Reich to equate us with vermin, and should it not be as painful to the Hebrew soul to be called an epithet like *Jew* as much as being called a kike?
I have come to believe that it is and will not answer to the word, Jew, anymore.
Have we not, as a people, gathered in ourselves as Israel? Who here, or anywhere, is Judah-ish, or Levi-ish, or Benjamin-ish? There is no such thing as Juda-ism. There is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are the inheritors of being monotheistic Hebrew from Abraham, and Israel from Jacob. No one has rewritten our history to preclude or discount the Lawgiver. It was NOT Judah. It was G-d and Moses. THAT is the People we are gathered from the four corners of the Earth. We are Israel in name and Hebrew in religion, though the word Hebrew, or the Name, Moses, for that matter, is seldom heard among the Children of Israel anymore.
We have taken their dirty word for us and claimed it is what we are. It has become a spitting word to 3/4 of the world, and still we operate under the mistaken notion that we respect ourselves when we claim the name the world has bestowed upon us as a sign of their disrespect for all that we are or ever were.
There is also no such thing as Judeo-Christian doctrine or ethics. There are Hebrew ethics adopted by Christians and spliced into their lexicon.
I do not blame them for this. Our Laws, some of which were patterned after The Code of Hammurabi which Abraham knew well, had more to do with justice than with worship. Our other Laws came from Moses and contained far more than mere codes of justice, but the Commandments were dictated by the Lord G-d Almighty and Christianity has changed them.
I wrote this on my website at the height of the seige at The Church of the Nativity.
As Christians worldwide condemn Israelis for trying to save your Church from oblivion, remember it is not YOUR blood you willingly shed to save it.
The blood being spilled is Hebrew blood and if were not for the fact that Israelis respect the sanctity Christians place on the Nativity, there would be no sanctuary for the murderers inside. The Church would be street level by now.
As you condemn, where is the condemnation for the cold-blooded killers that stood directly in front of your church while watching their fellow Muslims being raided for THEIR terrible acts?
Where is your outrage that the *priests* appointed by Arafat are not Catholic, or even Christian, but Islamic clerics wearing priestly robes?
The terrorists watched. They smoked. They laughed. And they did nothing to stop their own camp from being attacked because of them.
Even when the time came for them to fight, without their women and children to hide behind, they stormed the Church to hide behind Priests and Nuns and a G-d they do not believe in.
WHAT THEY DID KNOW...WHAT THEY DID COUNT ON, WAS ISRAELI MORALITY.
They consider it weakness. They would never have let something so *spiritual* as our G-d stand in their way.
They have stolen the souls of all they touch and they have wrent your souls assunder.
FOR SHAME THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT HEBREW BLOOD TO BE SHED YET AGAIN FOR YOUR COWARDICE AND THE COWARDICE OF THE CHURCH LEADERSHIP.
Were I so evil, I would say to you that your church is not my church and that MY Lord has forsworn us from idolatry, and we should not be in the position of protecting idolators.
But I am not so evil. Neither are my people, so while we do not worship your idols, we realize they are sacred to you because the truth of the First and Second Commandments have never stopped the leaders of the Church once Rome took it for itself.
You live in a fool's world. G-d protects fools because they know not what they do.
So we protect you.
And don't you just hate us for it?
G-d's Commandments:
1ST and 2ND COMMANDMENTS: I AM THE LORD THY G-D WHO BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER G-DS BEFORE ME. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, NOR ANY MANNER OF LIKENESS, OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH; THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN UNTO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM; FOR I THE LORD THE G-D AM A JEALOUS G-D, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION THAT HATE ME AND SHOWING MERCY UNTO THE THOUSANDTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT LOVE ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
The following is directly from a Catholic Priest; the explanation used for years to condone the unforgivable.
In his own words:
"Catholics worship statues!" Despite how ridiculous the claim is, people still make this accusation. They say that because Catholics have statues in their churches and pray in front of them, they are violating God's commandment: "You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in water under the earth: you shall not bow down to them or serve them" (Ex. 20:4-5); "Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold" (Ex. 32:31).
"This tract will examine the standard Fundamentalist arguments against the ancient Christian practice of using images, and it will as provide a brief biblical response to these arguments, showing the Scriptural evidence for this practice."
"First, let's point out that it's right to warn people against the sin of idolatry."
"But the accusation that Catholics are idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints is completely incorrect, being based on a misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and use (both good and bad) of statues."
The above statement is intentionally pyschobabble. It is at best, a rationalization, but for all practical purposes, it is a lie. It is a lie that has caused many millions of people throughout the centuries to sin.
What is the lie, you say. Continue.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, claims that it is a sin to have statues because "God has forbidden the use of images in worship" (p. 281). Many Protestants embrace this claim, yet if they were to "search the scriptures" (cf. John 5:39), they would find that exactly the opposite is true. Not only did God never condemn the use of statues in worship (though to be sure he did condemn the worship of statues), he actually commanded their use!
*note the small h for He, The Lord.
Remember the whole of the FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENTS. It did not change because a MAN said it did.
GOD SAID TO MAKE THEM
"While Protestants and others quote Exodus 20:4-5 to bolster their charge of Catholic "statue worship," they forget about the numerous other passages where the Lord commands the carving of statues: "And you shall make two cherubim of gold [i.e., two carved statues of angels]; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be" (Ex. 25:18-20)."
Have any of you seen cherubim In Heaven, ON Earth, or IN the Water?
David gave Solomon the plan "for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this he made clear by the writing of the hand of the Lord concerning it all, all the work to be done according to the plan" (1 Chr. 28:18-19). Note that all this was directed according to divinely inspired writing.
Please note, it was not the writing that was to be worshipped. It was to be housed and TAUGHT! From generation to generation, forever.
TAUGHT. Not worshipped.
Ezekiel 41:15 describes graven images in the Temple: "on the walls round about in the inner room and [on] the nave were carved likenesses of cherubim."
And again, except for a few delusional LSD users, who among you have seen cherubim In Heaven, ON Earth, or IN the Water??? In any case, the carvings were not to bow down to nor worship. They were ornate decorations which involved NOTHING of the sort of admonishment contained in the Commandments.
THE RELIGIOUS USE OF IMAGES
During a plague of serpents he sent to punish the wicked Israelites, God told Moses to "make [a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live" (Num. 21:8-9).
The fact that one had to look at the bronze statue of the serpent in order to be healed shows that statues could be used ritually, not merely as religious decorations.
Have any of you seen fiery serpents IN Heaven, ON Earth, IN Water??? This was a test of faith. G-d's OWN test. Not to be toyed with or used in later centuries to lead His people astray as nimbly as this church has done.
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it is helps to remember one's mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants themselves have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school for purposes of teaching children, especially those who haven't learned to read. Catholics also use statues to commemorate certain people and events, much like Protestant churches that have three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas.
This is a bogus claim.
SAINT is a word that Christians use to sanctify people. MEN cannot judge those who G-d would sanctify. By doing so, you usurp the Lord and spit in the Lord's eye. G-d chooses those who will be remembered on earth BY THEIR WORKS and I remember Shakespeare though I have never met him and he is not a saint. G-d chooses His prophets and they are not saints. G-d chooses who lives forever or ends right here. No MAN has this power.
Furthermore, the Church deliberately kept most people illiterate as it feared those who might eventually understand what terrible wrongs had been perpetrated in the name of a purported HEBREW RABBI whose purpose was to bring His people out of Hellenization and back to MOSAIC LAW. NO Hebrew Rabbi would have condoned such things since knowledge was a virtue among Hebrews.
If one measured Protestants by the same rule, then by using these "graven" images, they would be practicing the "idolatry" which they accuse Catholics of practicing. But the fact is, there's no idolatry going on in these situations. God forbids the worship of images, but he doesn't ban the making of images in general. If he had, movies, videos, photographs, manger scenes, paintings, drawings, and all sorts of things would be banned, since they too are images.
Neither do any of these things REQUIRE genuflection. Only the Church. Nor are any of these things to be worshipped and were not made with such thoughts in mind. The psychology of the Church is to MISLEAD, not lead.
Since Rome took over the Church, they have consistently misled people on Scripture with Dogma and illegitimate doctrine. It is a religion of men, made by men, enforced by men, and enormously disdainful of women. In short, it is blasphemous from its beginning even up to and including this very moment.
WHAT ABOUT BOWING?
Sometimes anti-Catholics cite Deuteronomy 5:9, where God said concerning statues, "You shall not bow down to them." Since many Catholics sometimes bow or kneel in front of statues of Jesus and the saints, anti-Catholics confuse the legitimate veneration of a sacred image with the sin of idolatry. The fact is, Deuteronomy 5:9 doesn't help the anti-Catholic argument.
First, remember that although bowing can be used as a posture in worship, not all bowing is worship. For example, in Japan it is the custom for people to show respect and politeness by bowing in greeting (the equivalent of shaking hands in the West). Obviously there is no "worship" going on here. The Catholic who kneels in front of a statue when praying isn't worshipping or even praying to the statue anymore than the Protestant who kneels with a Bible in his hands when praying is worshipping or praying to the Bible.
Here again is a rationalization of something which compares apples to oranges. No one prays TO a Bible. The Bible is there to be READ, not worshipped. Secondly, in Japan, you are not REQUIRED to bow down before someone as a sign of worship. It is their way of politeness. Thirdly, it is THEIR tradition, much like a salute. There is no other reason to bend your knee before a statue than the Church says it is the IMAGE of worship. The Church REQUIRES it, although G-d has specifically commanded that THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN UNTO THEM.
You are required to cross yourself with *Holy Water*. Who can make Holy Water? Some bottling plant in Peoria? It is a certainty that no MAN can. So the entire mass begins with a lie, continues with blasphemy, and ends with blasphemy. No man can replace G-d. Didn't Christianity's Jesus, Himself, TEACH you how you should pray? Why then do you need a Psychology professional to tell you how?
When people had to look to the bronze serpent to be healed, they were not worshipping it, as shown by the fact that, years later when they did worship it, and even gave it a name ("Nehushtan") as a snake-god, the righteous king Hezekiah had it destroyed (2 Kgs. 18:4).
And by THIS admission, he makes everything that came before a lie. What better example of the *Christ as G-d* Dogma do you need? NO OTHER G-DS BEFORE ME. When you began to worship an image as a god, you were destroyed.
"HIDING" THE 2nd COMMANDMENT?
Another charge made by Protestants is that the Catholic Church "hides" the second commandment. This is because in Catholic catechisms the first commandment is: "You shall have no other Gods before me" (Ex. 20:3) and the second is: "You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain." (Ex. 20:7). They argue that Catholics have deleted the prohibition of idolatry in order to justify their use of religious statues.
But this is false. The fact is, Catholics simply group the commandments differently than Protestants traditionally have and abbreviate them for ease of memorization.
In other words, the Catholics hid the Second Commandment and do not tell you what the full meaning behind it is. They have sought to make it seem less important than it really is lacking the understanding, that by breaking the second, you can NEVER keep the third. It guarantees the sin.
That such abbreviating is reasonable to Protestants is demonstrated by their common rendering of the Sabbath Commandment as simply, "Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy," though the actual text of the commandment is quite lengthy: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it" (Ex. 20:8-11).
And yet, Rome changed the Sabbath Day to suit itself and guaranteed yet another sin. Jesus Himself admonished that you had best pray the retribution does not come on the Sabbath because you would not be able to run. These are not the sentiments of someone who paid no heed to the Sabbath as Paul decreed in his successful attempt to pervert The Mosaic Law to Romanism. Romanism is Pagan as it gets. The Trinity with all its *saints* is its Pantheon. And the hierarchy is as corrupt as the day is long.
Martin Luther recognized that the statements "You shall have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3) and "You shall not make for yourself a graven image" (Ex. 20:4) are in fact two parts of a single command, and he abbreviated them to "You shall have no other gods before me."
(Never mind that Matin Luther was a notorious anti-semite.) You pray to Mary. You pray to Jesus. You pray to *Saints*. You venerate a MAN, (the Pope,) as the human representation of G-d on earth. Excuse me, but no pope is, or ever was, even a mediocre substitute for G-d. Because you do not understand the FIRST and SECOND COMMANDMENTS. They go together and cannot be separated according to what some cipheror decides their importance to each other is. They were written plainly and succinctly. Any diversion is sin of the highest order.
You genuflect before priests, men and women, and accept wafers into your mouths which represent human flesh. You drink from a chalice which represents human blood. G-d has forbidden these things. For all practical purposes, this practice is a representation of outright cannibalism.
I have taken time to tell you these things. It is up to you to understand, accept, or reject it.
It's a very short explanation. I could get more technical. But this is the truth and you don't hear it from Roman Clergy.
You have taken our religion, our laws, and turned them inside out, upside down, and invented Original Sin to deal with it. Someday, when My People are NOT being strangled by madmen and Chosen people wannabes, I'll tell you why Original Sin is impossible.
Having said all this, I still did not wish to see you lose your Church. It's simply that you are so ungrateful, I don't think you deserved it.
And the sun has gone down in Bethlehem.....
Hebrews, do you understand me? Is there a Book in the Old Testament called The Book of JEWS?
NO!
THINK about who you are, why you are, where you came from, and the LAW you are supposed to follow. We are NOT *their* jews. We are Hebrews. We are Israelites. And we had best start being who we really are instead of what the rest of the world has chosen FOR us. My name is not an epithet. My religion is not an epithet, despite the common practice we have adopted of taking their epithet as our NAME.

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