Posted on 08/23/2007 11:59:58 AM PDT by SJackson
“There wasn’t anything to even support much of a population when the
Jews got back to it. The promise land was left as an unwanted waste land.”
IIRC, after a tour of The Holy Land, Mark Twain generally asked “where are
the people?”...it was a desolate, under-populated no-wheres-ville.
It strikes me that when one penetrates all the verbiage and spin of this evangelical faction one is only left with the old moral equivalence argument. Also, they’re setting up a straw man and projecting a stereotypical image of the evangelical as an uncultered boob. Nothing could be further from the truth. For example, whatever one thinks of the theology of Pat Robertson, he’s a graduate of Yale Law School and a very well informed social commentator.
But, theology aside, most evangelicals understand that Israel is an ally, a democracy, and an inherent part of Judeo-Christian Western civilization.
Bravo for placing these socialist ‘Christians’in the appropriate context -the Book of Revelations which prophesizes the ‘falling away’ of the false church(s). This exposure of the leftist ‘evangelicals’(aka liberation theologians) Ron Sider and his counterpart Compolo and the liberalized Fuller Seminary professors, et al whose sole intent is to smear true Christians who take the Bible as the Word of God and attempt to live in the Spirit by which it was created. I’m glad to learn of David Chilton’s book which turns the light on those who serve up Christianity under the socialist-marxist cloak, pushing that version of the meaning of Jesus’life and teachings, “proving that Sider understands neither the Bible nor economics when it comes to his conclusions about profits, taxes, foreign aid, and Western guilt for the Third World poverty.” (from book review)
” he wrote a book about ordering your private world”
That’s the book he wrote while fooling around with another man’s wife. in chapter 7 or 8 he talks about how his wife has implicit trust in him all the while he is committing adultery. What a guy! And then the church takes him back, what a church!
These letter writers must be historical revisionists. The current "Palestinians" (Arabs) didn't even exist until Yasser Arafat - an Egyptian, BTW - created a "nationality" from scratch in the 1960s to abet his perverse dream of driving Israel out of existence.
I, of course, have no interest in the Christian Bible.
Judgment is made on the basis of the behavior of self-professed believers.
I, of course, have no interest in the Christian Bible.
Judgment is made on the basis of the behavior of self-professed believers.
I thought we were talking about the proper understanding of a Christian doctrine, and whether Christians were correctly understanding it.
It's a damnable heresy which ignores everything contrary to their prize belief of the Church being God's new chosen, and not a grafted in branch as the Bible clearly states.
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