School apologizes for burning New Testament

Jersualem Post ^ | December 25, 2001 | Shoshana Kordova

[BrooklynGOP]

The teacher said that if missionary material were found in the school again, it would be thrown into the garbage rather than publicly burned, said Lesnick.

Anyone doubts that a teacher in a Christian school wouldn't throw Jewish/Muslim or any other missionary material into the garbage?

[Polybius]

On the flip side to that:

We have some Jewish friends who came over tonight on Christmas Eve to pick up their son who had stayed playing with our son today and to share some Christmas cheer.

They have their son enrolled in a "home school" contract teacher arrangement that teaches out of the basement of the Episcopal Church.

They were going to take him to the school play and brought his costume which was a shepherd's garb. When I asked what the play was about, they said it was a Nativity play. Oy Vey! :-)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Oh my! It’s hard to tell the difference between the Taliban and Israel with this sort of law and logic in play.

A possible difference is that the Taliban, or the Saudis, for that matter, would have destroyed the missionaries, not the book.

[Ridin' Shotgun]

You bet they would ... along with the cough drops, tylonol, midol, pictures of guns or knives and a whole host of other zero tolerance garbage. Everyone has gotten SO ridiculously intolerant in this wonderfully diversified world we live in these days.

[churchillbuff]

Yes, I doubt it - - having been in (christian) Sunday schools where such nonChristian literature was discussed - not burned.

[calvin sun]

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. -- John 1:10-11

[BrooklynGOP]

Yes, I doubt it - - having been in (christian) Sunday schools where such nonChristian literature was discussed - not burned.

Are you talking about non Christian literature or non Christian MISSIONARY literature.. And was this a planned class, or a discussion that spontaneously happened because a child brought missionary literature to class?

[ozzymandus]

Yes, I doubt it. In fact, I would think that a teacher in a Christian school would probably be fired for burning a Koran or a Talmud in front of his class. The idea of Jews burning Bibles is repulsive, despite any hypothetical "what if" you can dream up.

[LarryLied]

Are you talking about non Christian literature or non Christian MISSIONARY literature..

You are setting up an argument which denies Christians their identity. The essence of Christianity is its missionary nature.

[Castlebar]

I think this shows that Israel and the US have something else in common - narrow minded totalitarian teachers and school administarors. Was this an "Israeli-NEA" diversity exercise?

Keep in mind that a thousand other schools in Israel DIDN'T engage in this pinheaded garbage that day, and it was one of the students' parents who complained.

[BrooklynGOP]

The idea of Jews burning Bibles is repulsive, despite any hypothetical "what if" you can dream up.

Uh. You are twisting the facts. The fact is that I quoted the part where he said that he will throw it in garbage, not burn it.

[BrooklynGOP]

You are setting up an argument which denies Christians their identity. The essence of Christianity is its missionary nature.

So what you are basically saying is that Christians won't drop it till everyone on the plant is a Christian? Is that the argument you are setting up?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Jordana Klein

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The idea of Jews burning Bibles is repulsive, despite any hypothetical "what if" you can dream up.

That is probably why they said they were wrong, apologized, and set a process to avoid such mistakes in the future. Now when do you expect to see an apology from the Islamists massacring Christians in Indonesia on Christmas Eve?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

So what you are basically saying is that Christians won't drop it till everyone on the plant is a Christian? Is that the argument you are setting up?

What part of 'Go forth and teach all nations' do you not understand?

[BrooklynGOP]

What part of 'Go forth and teach all nations' do you not understand?

Oh, I understand everything perfectly... I just needed someone to confirm it for the sake of aesthetics of this particular thread.

[dlt]

A possible difference is that the Taliban, or the Saudis, for that matter, would have destroyed the missionaries, not the book.

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?id=35081&mador=1

Sunday, November 29, 1998

Enraged mob attacks Jews for Jesus meeting By Aliza Arbeli, Ha'aretz Correspondent

A mob of several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews besieged an old Arab structure in Be'er Sheva yesterday after a rumor spread in the city's synagogues that missionaries were baptizing Jewish children.

The Haredim stopped their prayers to go to the house, where they found about 40 people, including women and children, who are members of the messianic movement Jews for Jesus. The movement has met in the same building for 17 years.

Police Chief Superintendent Kobi Cohen, who headed the police force that arrived at the scene, said police rescued the trapped worshipers and escorted them past the singing and dancing demonstrators.

A messianic Jew who was in the area described the experience as terrifying. "A mob of men in black surrounded us and were shouting and throwing stones and they tried to jump over the fence. We were especially scared for the children. We're not missionaries. We are Jews just like those who want to kick us out. We all believe in the same god, but we also believe in love and tolerance," he said.

A few days ago in Kiryat Malachi, several dozen youths from a Chabad high school attacked an American couple whom they suspected were missionaries. The boys hurled stones at the house of the new immigrants, who moved to the city three months ago. The couple denied engaging in any missionary activity and said they belonged to a humanitarian organization based in Switzerland and came to Kiryat Malachi to work with Ethiopian immigrants.

Two weeks ago, a mob of ultra-Orthodox men attacked and ransacked an apartment rented by three Swiss Christian women they accused of conducting missionary activity in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim. The women denied the accusations.

[Sabramerican]

This wasn't reported in some anti-Israel rag. It is on the front page of the Jerusalem Post.

It is making news because it is so out of the ordinary. People do stupid things. Even Jews.

Read the article. Jews complained. Jews made it a story.

That being said. Yes, Jews object to be proselytized. Yes, they might act irrationally when they get fed up with unceasing proselytizing.

Where Christians insist that it is their duty, Jews must insist that they will resist. We can't always agree.

[maestro]

...............a Hebrew copy of the New Testament.

?? Who is the publisher?
?? What is this Hebrew N.T. called? Title?
?? What original source-language 'text' is it translated from?
?? Who are its authors, editors, translators, and illustrators?
?? When (year)(s) published? Versions? Houses?
?? Is it a Cult-perversion text and NOT Scripture!...?
?? Who? Which? 'Christian' groups 'support-endorse' this 'text'?
?? Who? Which? 'Christian' groups Actively DO NOT 'support-endorse' this 'text'?

BOTTOM LINE:: Maybe, this 'text' NEEDED TO BE BURNED!!!

Think it through..........there ARE MANY DECEIVERS & LIARS 'fooling' both Jewish peoples and Gentile peoples!!!
(Does this 'text' retain, 1st John 5:7......?)
If it doesn't have, 1st John 5:7.......o.k., burn it!!!
:-(
:-)

[BrooklynGOP]

Jews 4 Jesus is a cult.