Calumny most egregious

Submitted by Michael (United States), Sep 2, 2006 at 12:36

Bart, you are either ignorant or ... You are clearly intelligent, therefore, ignorance is unlikely. You apparently are choosing to deliberately mislead the uninitiated reader and drive a wedge between Jews, the State of Israel and Christian Evangelicals. The result would be to further isolate Israel. Your effort to question the veracity of the Word of God, for make no mistake that is what you are doing, and inject suspicion is evil.

You are using the same argument recorded in Genesis Chapter 3 by the Arch-enemy of both God and man who questioned the truthfulness of God's Word and God's motive. I hear the same serpentine semantics, the same twisting of truth in your poisonous arguments. You write, to the Christian supporters of Israel, Israels existance portends the end of the world. You do not explain that what is meant is not the physical material end of the planet but the end of the present world system, a cosmos. Your silence is on this point is telling. You wish to terrorize the reader while slandering Christian Evangelicals. The end of the present world system and the reign of Christ and Righteousness on earth is what the Bible clearly teaches. This is something not to be dreaded but to be devoutly desired.

This world system is passing away and the restoration of a lost eden, an earthly paradise, is at hand. The fact that there are birth pangs before birth does not diminish the joy of bringing new life into the world. The world's birth pangs will grow more frequent and intense until the return of Christ Jesus to the earth according to Jesus'own words. It appears that the world may be experiencing the begining of those birthing travails, the epicenter being Israel and Jerusalem as prophesied by Christ.

You write that Christian supporters of Israel will try to force the fulfillment of Biblical Prophesy by compeling the re-building of the Jewish Temple and the institution of animal sacrifice. Again, you are bearing false witness and slandering Bible believing Christians. Building a third Temple has been the uniquely Jewish dream, for two millennia, since the destruction of Herold's Temple in 70 A.D. This is a private matter, a family matter between the Jews and their God. Christian supporters of Israel will never presume to pressure Jews to build a Temple.

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