Posted on 08/07/2011 5:42:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Churches in the U.S. are preparing to read sections of the Torah on Sunday, August 13, in a show of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people.
The move is a response to an initiative by a group of churches that read from the Muslim Koran during their services on Sunday, June 26. According to the Faith Shared project, which initiated the Koran reading, 66 churches from 32 states joined that effort.
In an effort to counter the move, a grassroots movement of churches across America is preparing to read from sections of the Torah during their services.
According to Pastor Mark Biltz, one of the pastors leading the move, while Jewish communities around the world read the Shema prayer, Christian communities will join them in solidarity. “There is a special bond between Jews and Christians, as both hold as the greatest commandment to love the L-rd their G-d with all their heart," Pastor Biltz explained. "So I’ve also posted the Shema in as many languages as I could find on our website so everyone could see it.
“I am asking in a show of solidarity with the G-d of Israel, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that churches/organizations join together in one accord and read from the Torah during their Saturday/Sunday services this coming August 13 and 14,” he wrote.
Biltz went on to say that "The suggested reading from this Torah portion is the greatest commandment, found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9, that we love the Lord with all our heart, soul and strength."
The pastor is referring to the verses after the one-line Shema prayer. The reading will obviously not be from a parchment hand-written Torah scroll.
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>> Are Imams reading from the New Testament
They reject the New Testament.
Any attempt to equate the Torah, a revelation of YHWH to his chosen people, to the book written by Mohammed is like trying to compare the Ritz Carlton to an abandoned Super 8.
Historically, the Torah is revered by the Jew and the Christian. The stories of Mohammed? By neither.
I think that’s the point. The Torah is part of the Christian Bible, and therefore suitable for reading in a Christian Church.
The Koran is NOT part of the Bible, and contradicts it in numerous ways.
The Gita was assembled sometime in the First Century AD. There were already Jewish missionaires in India. Christians were to come.
What Church would be Dumb enough to read the Qur’an?
So true. And it is so stupid when idiots say that we all just worship the same God.
>The Torah is already part of the Christian Bible. They should be reading it a lot already. Sheesh.
I know. I taught my Sunday School lesson from it today. Didn’t think I was making a grand political statement.
I agree. Jesus was, after all, a nice Jewish boy. Mohammed was not. It is blasphemy and sacrilege for any Christian minister or Catholic priest to be reading passages from that filthy book(the Koran) in the House of God.
That’s good. Some churches I’ve been in preach almost exclusively from the New Testament and don’t use the Old Testament much. This is sad because there is so much good stuff in the OT and the OT is much longer than the NT.
The palestinians were claiming recently that Isa (Jesus) was really a Palestinian freedom fighter. True story.
>>What Church would be Dumb enough to read the Qur’an?
Sadly, it is probably United Methodist.
Fair judges of the matter have always assumed the writers stuffed ancient Jewish text into the Koran and the Hadiths ~
More recently translators of some of the most ancient copies of the Koran (written in pre-dot Arabic) have determined it was actually written in Aramaic (by those same fellows in Damascus where Aramaic was still used at the time). Not only that, it looks like the basic document was a missionary's manual for converting the Arabs of Mecca ~ and that, too, was prepared in Damascus some years before Mohammad.
Some items are rather obscure but seem to have been taken from an exceedingly old Torah.
The Koran wasn't exactly "written" ~ more like "assembled" with some Arabic history tossed in for good measure (and probably to make the Arab conquerers of Damascus happy).
The Moslem belief is that the Earthly Koran is a copy of the Real Koran which was written by God and is kept in Heaven. It is, frankly, impossible to discuss this with Moslems ~ they don't believe Mohammad wrote the Koran!
I can not find a list of churches that are participating.
Hinduism gained its foothold as a survivalist religion for te Brahmin class, like Islam.
Islam has a system of abrogation built into it. In short, the “truth” of the scripture is that scripture which is most recent chronologically. If one writer early on said killing infidels is bad but a later writer said it was good, then “killing infidels is good” is truth according to the Koran. This system also enables Muslims to point to either passage to support whatever argument they need to make at the time. The contradictions enable lying to further the aims of Islam, which is to force Islam onto all peoples of the world. It is primarily a totalitarian political system to its leaders, even if its adherents to consider it a religion.
Similarly, Hindu early on adopted the philosophy that it would adopt elements from any other religions that the masses would find appealing and that the ruling caste could use to better remain in their ruling positions. Thus, in Hindu, you will find a lot of Buddhism and other eastern religions and influences from Judaism and early Christianity.
I happen to have a very good priest who always unites the readings.
If members of the parish take the opportunity to attend scripture study, he tells us the background and significance of each reading.
Mr. “Purpose Drive Life” Rick Warren has his finger in this - I’ll bet.
Mr. “Purpose Drive Life” Rick Warren has his finger in this - I’ll bet.
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