Ultra-Orthodox Jews Harass Israeli Believers

ARAD, Israel - For the past seven years, the small Messianic Jewish community in the southern Israeli town of Arad has been harassed and persecuted by ultra-Orthodox Jews who accuse them of missionary activity.

The small desert town, with a population of 25,000 mostly secular residents, is home to a growing number of Israeli believers.

Yakim Figueras, pastor of one of the four congregations there, told CBN News that for years, religious Jews have subjected the believing community to sometimes daily cursing and harassment outside their homes.

"They come with either half-truths against us or complete lies…and they entice their own people and try to bring others against us," Figueras said.

On Wednesday, a demonstration organized by Yad L'achim, the aggressive anti-missionary organization, brought about 200 protesters to the home of Polly Sigulim. Their message was clear.

See also: http://roshpinaproject.com/2011/03/11/report-on-anti-messianic-jewish-demo-in-arad/

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Don’t be absoloutly ridiculous in miscombobolating my words...I am not Anti-Scripture, GOD, Jesus Christ, Abraham, Moses, Judaism and Christianity....

I said *Organized Religion* enact traditions and rituals that are man made..They are not directly GOD breathed inspired commandments...

The Holy Bible is a GOD inspired book for when it was written for all generations to seek the Wisdom of GOD..

What I was saying to you, is that you seem to believe that all the Talmudic sages were enacting direct commandments from GOD, I dis-agree..

I believe GOD spoke to Abraham and gave him a *Promise* of things to come for the Jewish Nation...

I believe that GOD spoke to Moses and gave him the Laws for Israel..

I believe that Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (As bringing the gentile nations into GOD’s family) salvation and grace

I believe Jesus Christ will complete his mission in the Second Coming when all nations come agaisnt Israel (The Battle of Armageddon) and fullfill GOD’s everlasting promises to the prophets and Israel....

Amazing you think people who dis-agree with you are some kind of demonic heathen...

Check yourself....

It’s dawned on me that you’re unlearned, so I’ll explain...

The Commandments were collected and reinterpreted in the Talmud, but they originate in the Torah, and were handed down to the Prophets directly through God. I repeat - Jews believe every Commandment can be sourced back to the Torah and is God’s word. That is the source.

To clarify, since you have probably never seen an actual Talmud, it has a number of lists and discussions between scholars providing their opinons and, sometimes merely ideas, in the shared common purpose of understanding God’s Word (Torah) fully and from all possibilities, irrespective of how unlikely.

Rambam didn’t invent Jewish Commandments when he collected his list of 613 Commandments (all of which are sourced in the Torah). It’s simply a lie to say these Commandments were an invention of organized religion. The Talmud only clarified, and pondered the depth of their meaning and practical ways in which Jews could adhere to them.

Rejecting the idea that Judaic Commandments are Toranic as you have, is a rejection of the Bible... the same bible adapted and expanded by Christians. Therefore, you are rejecting many basic concepts of Christianity too. To each their own, but it makes you anti-Scripture.

Now once a Jew ascribes to non-Jewish beliefs, he/she has set themselves apart from the Jewish community (gone beyond “the fence of Torah”). They may be descended from Jews but are no longer of the Jews. However, they can return to the faith of their ancestors anytime, the door is left open, and they do not even need go through conversion when they return.

Th legacy of the feuding sects like the Sadducees, Pharisees, Scirri, Zealots, Essenes, etc. is handled by the Talmud, and a tradition to question, evolve, and study Jewish ideas even today under Pharisaic Judaism. You see, Judaism has no fixed doctrine, or anything like an Apostle’s Creed, and it allows one to pick and chose beliefs within a very small set framework - Jewish tenets.

BUT — There are beliefs that define a Jew and beliefs that are not Jewish....and you’re unqualified to determine the difference.

Fact: Christian doctrine (Jesus as God’s progeny, as God, Trinity, original sin, the Law as a curse, etc.) is antithetical to Jewish beliefs and knowledge of God’s Teachings in Torah. Jews understand this. Jews cannot be Christians or vice versa, based on their respective beliefs. But all are God’s Children, and can be equally righteous.

“The righteous among ALL the nations of the earth have a share in the world-to-come.”
—Tosefta Sanhedrin 13:2

Comparatively, Christian doctrine teaches that unless one believes as a Christian, one will be cursed to Hell:
“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of G-d’s one and only Son.”
—John 3:18 [also Mark 6:16]

Mind you, that your personal sick armagedon fantasy voiced in your last post belongs to it’s own brand of fundamentalist Christianity... much like your rejection of the 5 books of Moses.

You’re through here, wether or not you know it.

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