I apologise to you Mr. tovey

Submitted by Seamus Dafydd Dives MacNemi (United States), Oct 1, 2009 at 01:24

Dear sir,

I do not wish to offend you or to abrogate your true belief. My intent is just to clear up the record of history and attempt in some small way to repare the many misconceptions that have been foisted upon us be the Roman church about who Jeshua was, his life and his family experience and background. It is my desire to reveal the man as he was, to give him a human face that all can reach out to and a life that all can relate to.

The theological inventions of the church have driven many folk from his teaching because they made him seem to be such an untouchable and unreachable imortal that for many he never connected to reality in their lives. I have spent many long hours studying the history customs and culture of the Jews of that period. I have studied those events that happened in the century before the time of Jeshua. I know the play and all of the actors, the script and how it worked out over time. This is the story that the church has fought for ages to keep hidden from all of the folk. This is the story that has led to all of the troubles that the Jews have suffered through since that time. It is my task to reaveal the lie for all to see and to put an end to all of the injustice of antisemitism. I love Israel without any restraint. The Jews are as my own people. If I was to abandon them then I would be cutting off my right hand and I might as well just cast myself uon the fires for my life would cease to have any real meaning for me.

As well, I know the true teachings of Jeshua because I know of those who were his teachers and mentors in life. I know their beliefs and general world view, their cosmology and experinces as a people and a nation. I k ow of the intrigues and petty bickering in the court of Herod. I know the schemes and back door deals that brought the Romans into Israel and I know the lie that Shauul the apostate foisted off on all of the folk and the effect it had on all subsequent events.

Jeshua never intended to create any new religion. It was his mission in life to breathe a new life into his own religion which had become moribund in complacency under the influence of the Hellenists and the corrupt rule of the false king Herod. The temple of that time had become an institution so corrupted that it ceased to have any real relevance in the lives of the people. Caiphas, the high priest had no legitimate claim on that position. He was merely a puppet set in place by Herod and Herod was a lacky of the Romans so you see what the people had to deal with. Most of the real wealth was in the hands of the Roman and Greek sympathizers and the common people were being taxed into oblivion by Rome. Fear, mistrust and bitter enmity was the order of the day though out the land. This was the situation that Jeshua was born into and grew up in.

So you see, the picture is not so prtetty as you might have supposed and the Christian Bible, which seems to releave the Romans of any responsibility for their evils is just a gloss over the truth. Rome has absolutely no claim on the Jews or the legacy of Jeshua. Jeshua lived and taught as a deeply religious Jew. He did not say anything that was not in the thinking of the religious leaders of his day. From an early age he demonstrated a native intelligence that would have been remarkable in any era. He was quickly recognized by the Elders so much so that that they arranged to compensate his family for the loss of his labor so that he could spend his time studying. By the age of six years he could read aloud from the sacred scrolls of the Torah. As well, he knew all of the blessings for all of the occaisions of the Jewish calendar and he was well versed in the family rituals of observation which took place in every Jewish household. By the time of his Bar Mitzva he was already a noted Baal Kria (Master of the Torah) and he began his ministry only after a prolonged period of intense study with the masters of his day. Of course the narators of the Bible chose to pretend that they knew nothing this choosing instead to gloss over this early life in order to hide the faults of the Romans and the hand that they played in the events that took place at that time. Also it would seem that the fabrication that they concocted and served up to reenforce their claim to primacy better served their political purposes. Do not ever suppose that there was not a great deal of political bickering between the varius factions of that time. The Romans and the Greeks especially were guilty of the romanticizing the idea to suit themselves and they fit Yeshua out like some pagan god alah Dioneseus and Pan along with the whole pagan pantheon. For them it seemed fit to make of him a sort of every mans god in order to attract followers to their newly found cult. The Jews, of course, would have none of this and so they were blacklisted. That was the real cause of the schism that brought about the formation of the Christian church and the persecution of the Jews for the next two thousand years. Today we have just began to rebuild that which was lost after many long years of slumber. The newly formed butterfly has just emerged from its crysalis and awaits to take flight.

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