Righteous Christians Speak Out on Israel

American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2014 | Michael Curtis

[SeekAndFind]

At a moment when the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is holding its meeting in Detroit, a group of Christians on June 13, 2014 has courageously issued an open pastoral letter that criticized the focus and tone of the present and possible future attitude of the Church towards Israel. The General Assembly (GA) is no longer debating, as it has done since 2000, the issue of how the Israeli occupation of territory taken in 1967 can be ended, but the question of whether the State of Israel should exist.

The pastoral criticism stems from the consequences of the publication in January 2014 of Zionism Unsettled, a 74-page supposed “study guide” produced by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network, a unit of the PC (USA). The guide is not concerned with how and when the “occupation” will end but whether Israel should exist. It states clearly “the problem is Zionism.” Therefore, if Zionism is the problem, then logically the end of Zionism is the solution.

The guide, in weird postmodernist language, defines Zionism as the manifestation of “exceptionalist religious ideology fused with political power.” This bizarre formula echoes that of “Jewish Supremacism” coined by David Duke. Not all members of PC (USA), or indeed of any other church, can be happy about its link with Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who in fact highly praised the “study guide.”

So did Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and an acquaintance of Barack Obama when they were both in Chicago. Khalidi’s view is similar to that of the PC (USA): “The denial of the rights of the Palestinians is largely driven by the exception of Zionist ideology and its real world implications.”

[BCW]

When the US turns its back on Israel and God’s chosen people...we will be several steps closer to hell....this church has been blinded by the dark one.....WOW!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For clarity, liberal churches can now be easily distinguished from real churches. This is because they embrace the following:

Infanticide via abortion
Equating God with gods
Antisemitism
Embrace of international socialism
Despising of the concept of good and evil, sin and righteousness
Rejection of the traditional doctrines of their faith
Adoption of the seven deadly sins as their new sacraments
Seeking an Earthly human messiah

[SpinnerWebb]

All of the Presbyterian churches I have been affiliated with in the greater Houston area have left the PC(USA).

[aimhigh]

I’ve talked to two Presbyterian PCA pastors who reject the idea that modern Israel is of God.

[delchiante]

Quote-Equating God with gods

You might want to repent from the pope gregory calendar then...

Lots of gods and goddesses and created things are given their own days and months in this counterfeit timekeeping the world uses...

[Sheapdog]

If seminary doctors and academics many whom are also pastors could speak off the record they would also agree the modern state of Israel has nothing to do with God, except in the most general sense as are all nations and that Israel is certainly not the fulfillment of any of God’s promises. This would be the case at America’s most conservative seminaries. I know this because I attended supposed conservative Christian university and what passes for the main conservative Seminary in the country. I made it a point to try and get people to commit or state what they believed on this very issue and the results were not good.

[imardmd1]

Back in the '80s, the owner of "The Reformed Puritan Bookstore" would not allow the Scofield Reference Bible, nor any dispensational literature, on his book shelves nor in his catalogues.

Compassion toward Israel has always been present in the hearts and minds of those looking for the Second Coming of Christ and the establishment of His Millennial Reign. This doctrine is not even on the event horizon of Romanist or Presbyterian/Reformed eschatology.

Formally, they are both ruled by supersessionism--that the "Church" replaces Israel.