Ethiopians to hold large seders in Israel

JTA ^ | 13-4-11 | JTA

[Cronos]

Some 5,500 Ethiopian immigrants will celebrate the seder together in 16 absorption centers throughout Israel.

About 1,000 of the new Ethiopian immigrants have arrived in recent months and will celebrate their first Passover in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.

The large seders are organized by the Jewish Agency and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

At a model seder on Thursday, some of the new immigrants will learn about Passover holiday customs and practice the holiday songs at a model seder at the Jewish Agency`s Mevasseret Zion Absorption Center. They will be joined by Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive; Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews; and Sofia Landver, Israel's Minister of Immigrant Absorption.

[Cronos]

Wishing our Jewish friends a happy passover in advance

All of us Christians do this -- we reject the anti-semitic stance of the OrthodoPresbyterian C (OPC) which tells its members to " not celebrate the Seder or other Jewish festivals. " --> These people, the OPC are not Christian and we reject their anti-Jewish and anti-Christian beliefs

[Vanders9]

at the Jewish Agency`s Mevasseret Zion Absorption Center...

oh, that's going to be picked upon by the opposition...

[Cronos]

Oh, yes, now you just have to wait to see the OrthodoPresbyterian C (OPC) to come and start talking about blood libels (can you believe they still promote that, thank God it’s a small anti-Christian/Jewish group of just 10,000 adults)

[Happy Rain]

If not for the Passover throngs of Jerusalem to witness it,The Passion of Christ would have been less intense and perhaps less effective.

[Cronos]

careful — the OPC prowls the FreeRepublic forum to shout out it’s anti-semitism and it howls out blood libel each time.

[Cronos]

Remember friends to wish our Jewish friends on passover and perhaps celebrate it with them if necessary — we will show our disgust to the anti-Christian, anti-Jewish OrthodoPresbyterian C (OPC)’s anti-semitic fatwas

[lastchance]

Amen.

[Celtic Cross]

The OPC is pretty loud and bombastic for such an insignificant little cult.

[Cronos]

the OPC (OrthodoPresbyterian C) believes that God's chosen people today are not the Jews

Remember that this is not a Christian Church, but one that preaches hatred against all Christians and Jews and seeks only to have us fight.

[Cronos]

The OrthodoPresbyterian cult is extremely loud, and has alredy betrayed its anti-Christian nature.

How numerous is this group spreading hatred?

The OPC and PCA combine consisting of about 400,000 people, yet the OPC was formed in the 1930s and has had two splits since then. It is heading for it's third split.

This is what an ex-Ruling Elder of the OPC says about this group:

From the Trinity Foundation

• the Report continues the conspiracy of silence that has prevailed in the OPC for three decades. It leaves the erroneous impression that the serious doctrinal problems are outside the denomination, not within it. The Report gives false comfort to those who think the OPC is still a bastion of Biblical orthodoxy. On the contrary, the Report, and the 2006 General Assembly’s commendation of it, both maintain the OPC as a safe haven for those who teach error
• Men within the OPC, including at least one member of the Committee itself, teach heresy regarding the Gospel and many other fundamentals of the faith.
• The OPC long ago ceased to proclaim the one true Gospel to the exclusion of all false gospels
• The Orthodox Presbyterian Church has abandoned the marks of a true church of Jesus Christ
• The Orthodox Presbyterian Church was founded in 1936 by about 135 people who were offended by the lack of discipline in and doctrinal errors of the Presbyterian Church in the USA. .
  But early in its history the OPC fell under the influence of an agnostic view of propositional revelation emanating from Westminster Seminary -- a view that said that there is no identity of content between the \"Christian system\" of theology, meaning Reformed confessions of faith, and the \"divine system\" of theology, known only to God.
  
  This agnosticism has now brought the OPC to the point of falling. Like its predecessor, the PCUSA, the OPC has failed to discipline teachers who teach contrary to Scriptures and the Confession of Faith, and it has endorsed un-Biblical teaching about Scripture and the Gospel.

Are they spreading their message of hate?

Despite the crowing that one may hear or read, the actual numbers show a large number leaving the Presbyterians as a whole

	2009 membership	2010 membership	Lost	Gained
PCUSA	2,934,952	2,844,952	90,000
PCA	335,000	340,000	5,500
OPC	21,123	21,530	407
		Disappearing Presbyerians	84,100

The PCA is 300,000 in membership

2011 Church Membership: Southern Baptists Decline; Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons Increase

And PCA statistics provide a blurry snapshot says that Total membership in 2009 – 346,408, an increase of 5,556 while in contrast the PCUSA has 2,000,000 members --> and dropping

If the PCA adds in 5,500 members each year, they will reach 1 million members in 118 years

Yet one can't go by the same growth percentage as growth tapers as size increases. But even taking that fallacious number, it will be 40 years. That's not counting the number of splits it will have before then.

The truth is that they shout a lot more on internet forums, giving one a wrong idea of their actual size. Why should one oppose these attackers of Christianity and America?

Because they attack the very foundations of our country by having made God into a monster who DECIDES on creating evil -- they do this when they state that God has decided it is “better to bring good out of evil, than not to permit any evil to exist.

They neglect to ask themselves How does God decide anyway since He knows the outcome?Is He NOT sure in the first place and needs to make a decision because He does not understand Himself ,thus making Him not ALL knowing?

If the OPC robot-maker god created evil than evil is part of the essence of the OPC/PCA idea of God. This is not the Christian God

The OPC/PCA believe that Christ has evil in Him as part of His essence since the second person of the Trinity is God incarnate. This is a horrendous belief that leads only to more people leaving Christ.

The OPC and the PCA (combined are 350,000) posters have one aim only -- attacking anyone who is not a member of their little groups

[Cronos]

It’s a pity that the OPC keeps its fatwa on members celebrating Seder with their Jewish friends or even wishing them. I guess the anti-semitism runs too deep and the hatred is too engrained in the OrthodoPresbyterian C.

[Biggirl]

All you need to do is report any problems to the AM for the religion forum and any offending stuff is removed.

[Biggirl]

Also I want to add in advance, to all the Jewish people and to the Jewish FRpers ahead of time, a good and blessed Passover also.

[onedoug]

¨Next year in Jerusalem!¨

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cronos.

[Cronos]

Yes, to all the Jewish people and to the Jewish FRpers ahead of time, a good and blessed Passover also.

[Cronos]

Really? I wish you well on your journey.