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2023-03-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel Introduces Bill to Outlaw Teaching The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Sentence Violators to Prison

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Posted by 746 2023-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Posturing for the rubes always carries the risk that it will be taken seriously.

Not that we have had any such problem on this side of the Atlantic.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-23 09:22|| 2023-03-23 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 1. My understanding of the Jewish view of Jesus is that He was a Jewish rebel who tried to take on Rome and got killed.

2. I have read Jews, Muslims, and commies fear Evangelicals a lot.

Posted by Bill Greans6336 2023-03-23 09:49|| 2023-03-23 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a good way to generate anti-semitism in a generally sympathetic population group.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-03-23 10:36|| 2023-03-23 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Barabas, or Yeshua Bar Abba as he was known back, was also a rebel who was accused of killing Romans. He is the one who the Jews wanted freed in stead of Jesus (whose name was also Yeshua) because Bar Abba was actively fighting against the Romans where Jesus was not.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-23 11:54|| 2023-03-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Many countries and empires, beginning with the Roman Empire, have tried this. It has never worked.

Posted by Tom 2023-03-23 14:32|| 2023-03-23 14:32|| Front Page Top

#6 My understanding of the Jewish view of Jesus is that He was a Jewish rebel who tried to take on Rome and got killed.

A heretic, certainly, though I never understood him as aiming at Rome. But he wasn’t the only claimant to being messiah among the Jews. A century (132 CE) later Bar Kochba triggered the second or third Jewish-Roman war — depending whether one counts the Kitos Revolt, which took place outside of the Holy Land, as #2 — and actually ruled Israel as a prince for three years before Rome reconquered it. The first Jewish-Roman war started in 66 CE, a generation after Jesus died, and had nothing to do with him as far as I am aware.

Wikipedia has a page of claimants to being the Jewish messiah here, most of which I’m not familiar with, though Shabbatai Zvi in the 17th century got a great many people across Europe to sell all their belongings and follow him through the Ottoman empire to the Holy Land... except that the Ottomans caught him and persuaded him to convert to Islam. I believe those who followed him mostly ended up slaves, but who knows. The most recent claimant is the Chabad rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who died in 1994. None has delivered the promised Messianic Age ruled by a descendant of the House of David from Jerusalem, which is definitive as far as we’re concerned.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-23 23:06|| 2023-03-23 23:06|| Front Page Top

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