To Deborah

Submitted by Seamus Dafydd Dives MacNemi (United States), Oct 21, 2009 at 22:27

My Dear Lady, Your so called New Testament would not exist if it had not been for the Roman emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicea that he convened. It was that council which laid the foundations of the entirety of the Christian religion and the theological concepts which it embraces today. It created the liturgy, the prayers. and established the format that was to be the blueprint of all subsequent Christian theological development including the idea of the trinity, the concept of "Original Sin" ( which was in no way part of the Torah and had nothing to do with Yeshua) and even the idea of predestination which closed the possibility for human growth and developement.

Christianity alone holds all men accountable for the sin of Adam. No such idea exists in the Torah and indeed, the Torah expounds against any and all such ideas. As well, the Torah does not condone the deification of men no matter how great they might be. For you to make Yeshua a god offends the most sacred of Jewish beliefs "HEAR OH ISRAEL THE LORD OUR G-D IS ONE" and there is none other like HIM. This you constantly throw in our faces as if it was the writing of our sacred texts and nothing could be further from the truth. YESHUA WAS NOT and IS NOT G-D!

Virtually all of your New Testament is based upon hearsay and many of your so called witnesses were not even there to see what actually happened. You know nothing of the social and political realities of Yeshuas time and you do not recognize the impact of the Roman subjigation of the Jews on the developements of that time. You know nothing of the suffering of the people or the rampant corruption of the ruling classes of that time. You think Yeshua just appeared miraculousy in an instant from out of the heavens without any causal reason for his being. You embrace some kind of immaculate conception and divine birth like that of the Roman god Mithra. You have Yeshua magically changing water into wine like the Greek god Pan or the Roma god Baccus and you claim he walked upon water like the Hindu god.

There was absolutely nothing super human or super natural about Yeshua. He was concieved and born as are all men and he died as all men do. What ever divinity was in him exists potentially in all men and women but it must be cultivated by means of a specifically defined discipline. Such can be obtained only through a qualified Rabbinical teacher. Christians know nothing of it nor have they ever taken the pains to learn.

If you really want to learn I suggest you seek your nearest Lubavitcher Chabad. They exist in many of Americas cities and if you are really serious I am sure you will find a place. I did.

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