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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: ADL'S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC ADL'S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC By Rev. Ted Pike Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, believes anti-Semitism will last as long as Christians accept the New Testament's "lie" that the ancient Pharisees were responsible for the death of Christ. 1 In his recent book, Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, 2 Foxman claims this "deadly" 3 deception has caused untold Jewish suffering through the millennia. Such New Testament-generated hate culminated in the Holocaust, he claims - but it breaks out afresh as the "Christ-killers" charge is inferred in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ and readings from the "anti-Semitic" Christian story at Easter. Foxman says another wave of global anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews could be on the way unless Christians agree to ignore large sections of the New Testament. What sections will probably be on his "must censor" list? Certainly, it would include Christ's incendiary attacks on the Pharisees, whom He called "whitewashed tombs, full of dead men's bones." 4 Foxman would also censor the Apostle John: "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son does not have the life... Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." 5 In the book of Revelation, recorded by John, Jesus says those Jews who reject Him are "the synagogue of Satan," 6 another passage Foxman would certainly cut out. But most importantly, Foxman would censor the multitude of passages in all the Gospels that reveal a pharisaic conspiracy to entrap and finally murder Christ. 7 The book of Acts squarely lays blame for the crucifixion upon the Pharisees and the nation of the Jews. 8 To please Foxman, St. Paul's clear indictment must also be omitted: "The Jews...killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God but hostile to all men." 9 Foxman claims Jews were not responsible for the crucifixion and that Roman officials masterminded Jesus' death. But only one "Roman official" is mentioned in the New Testament as authorizing the crucifixion; Pontius Pilate was a weak-willed political opportunist, reluctant to condemn Christ. He was coerced by an entire Jewish Sanhedrin and a mob of Jewish citizens who screamed, "Crucify him! His blood be upon us and on our children." 10 Foxman's Case Against the New Testament Foxman summarizes his case against the New Testament: "Over the last century a growing preponderance of evidence and scholarly study has demonstrated that the execution of Jesus was instigated primarily by the Roman authorities who ruled Palestine in the first century C.E., not by the Jewish people. And the anti-Jewish rhetoric that mars several books of the Christian New Testament has been shown to reflect not historical fact but the rivalry at the time the books were written between Jews who followed Jesus and those who did not. "Nonetheless, versions of the Gospel narratives that emphasize Jewish guilt (rather than the responsibility of the Roman imperial authorities who actually imposed and carried out the death sentence) were included in the Christian canon. As a result, with every annual reading or reenactment of the story of the death of Jesus in Christian churches, millions of Christians imbibed the notion that the Jews had been guilty of the worst crime in history. Into our own time, the deicide libel has been used to justify hatred of Jews and violence against them, including from Christian pulpits. Through the centuries these denunciations have led to countless outbreaks of violence against Jews, including murderous pogroms, a bitterly ironic betrayal of the legacy of the man Christians revere as the Prince of Peace. "For almost two thousand years Christian teachings drove the spread of anti-Semitism throughout Europe and beyond. (As we'll see, the current explosion of anti-Semitism in the Moslem Middle East is fueled largely by myths and doctrines that originated in Europe.) The story of Christian anti-Semitism is a long, complicated and tragic one. Scholars such as the late Dr. James Parks have traced a direct line from ancient Christian teachings on Jews and Judaism to the death camps of Hitler." 11 Christians Still Guilty According to Foxman, Christians in modern times are also very largely responsible for the Holocaust. "...many Germans and Austrians who spent the week murdering Jews then went to church on Sunday, apparently seeing no inconsistency in their actions and it's also true that the political and social atmosphere in which the persecution and killing of millions of Jews could be seen as broadly acceptable could not have existed without the tacit acceptance of the Christian churches - as well as the ingrained anti-Semitism of twenty centuries of dogma, doctrine and preaching that demonized Jews...because Christians and the Christian churches had spread hatred of Jews for so long, it's impossible for Christians - and in particular the Catholic Church - to regard themselves as passive or innocent bystanders during the Holocaust. The killings could not have happened without the sins of millions Christians - sins of commission as well as sins of omission." 12 Modern Christianity, Foxman asserts, is thus based on hateful, vengeful lies spread by the New Testament. He says the evangelism practiced by devout Christians is also anti-Semitic. "Although it is supposedly motivated by love for the Jews, this idea [that Jews should be converted] is inherently anti-Semitic in that it implicitly denigrates the value of Jewish belief." 13 Threat of Religious Right But Foxman's allegations go farther still. He says we should fear Christians because they want to take over America! They are "part of a broader strategy to transform American government into a wholly owned subsidiary of the evangelical movement... They seek the power to impose that faith on everyone in America, replacing pluralism and tolerance with theocracy." 14 Ironically, Foxman thus becomes one of the "conspiracy theorists" he usually rails against. Foxman's ADL exerts enormous influence over at least half million Jewish members of B'nai B'rith worldwide. His dark warnings about the Christian threat helps explain the eagerness of many Jews to oppose Christian symbols, ceremonies, holidays, and values. Foxman is trying to instill a guilt complex in Christians and a desire in the Jewish people to resist, restrict, and ultimately persecute Christians; 15 ADL/B'nai B'rith hate laws were created for this purpose. To stimulate Jewish anger at Christians, evil Jewish leaders are creating a truly Big Lie: that the New Testament is inherently evil, anti-Semitic and violence-generating - a book which, like Mein Kampf, should not be read. How Should Christians Respond to Foxman? Bible-believing Christians remain extremely reluctant to identify evil Jewish leaders for what they are (Jewish). Such truthtelling, however, would be very constructive. It would embarrass the Jewish community into restraining their brethren in Jewish "civil liberties" groups and the media. Tragically, lack of specificity from evangelicals only gives a green light to evil Jewish leadership, hidden behind a media they control. Eventually, they will convince not only the Jewish people but the world that Christianity is the most hateful and hurtful of the world's religions. A generation from now, our media-reared children may regard Christianity as deserving outright persecution. The power of Foxman's blame-throwing against Christians inheres in his presumption that all who have ever called themselves Christians are indeed Christians. This allows him to lump together in "collective guilt" those who, throughout history, were Christian in name only with those who do in fact epitomize the words of the gentle Jesus. Christ commanded us to love our neighbors and bless our enemies. Anyone who behaves in a malicious persecutive manner toward Jews, especially to the extent of the medieval barbarities and pogroms, is not a Christian. A true Christian is simply not responsible for the misdeeds of counterfeit Christians, nor is the New Testament. Nowhere does the New Testament remotely hint that Christians should persecute Jews, nor does it provide even one example of such persecution. On the contrary, the book of Acts contains at least 20 instances of Christians being persecuted at the urging of Jewish leaders. 16 This is the kind of persecution that ADL's national executive board member, Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham, brought down upon 11 Christians in Philadelphia in 2004. They were jailed and threatened with 47 years in prison and $80,000 fines each, for the "hate crime" of witnessing to homosexuals on a public sidewalk. Should Christians Change the New Testament? Can Christians accommodate Foxman and disregard the New Testament? Not without destroying Christianity - the New Testament defines Christianity. No Christian can omit or de-emphasize any part of the New Testament. To do so is to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, an act for which Christ will be ashamed of that person on the Day of Judgment. 17 After 300 years of blessing 18 from Christian America, a nation established on New Testament values, it is time for Foxman to face reality. Jews, far from being harried victims, have been the coddled darlings of evangelical New Testament-believing Christians since at least the 17th century. Foxman and Jewish leaders should stop raking up the past and count their present blessings - blessings which would never have come upon them except within a civilization upholding Christ's New Testament message of love and forbearance. The church must stand resolute against Foxman's demands that it deny the New Testament. It is Foxman's persecution complex which must end. End Notes: 1 Most Christians already accommodate Foxman by saying we "all" have crucified Christ by sinning. This doctrine was virtually unheard of before the 1970s when Billy Graham first promoted it; it is neither Biblical nor logical. The Bible does teach that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). It also states those who have once believed and yet apostasized "again crucify…the Son of God" (Heb. 6:6). Yet Scripture does not teach that through some metaphysical alchemy we all participated in the crucifixion. The crucifixion was a unique historical event nearly 2000 years ago when Christ was rejected by His own, the Jewish people. Though Pilate was badgered into authorizing it and a handful of Roman soldiers drove the nails, the force behind the crucifixion was entirely Jewish. The New Testament assertion of the Jewishness of the crucifixion is central to the historic prophecies and claims which ground the Scripture. Without such a reference point there is little significance in Christ's return someday to rescue and absolve a repentant Jewish remnant from the stigma of so heinous a national sin. This may explain why the New Testament repeats its charge of Jewish guilt in about forty different passages. 2 Harper, San Francisco, 2004. 3 "...Christianity developed a set of doctrines that proved to be deadly," p.97. 4 Matt. 23:27. 5 I John 5:12; 2:22. 6 Rev. 3:9. 7 Christ's revelation that He would suffer under the Jews and be killed. Mt. 16:21, Mk. 8:31, Lk. 9:22; "One man should die for the people." "...planned together to kill Him." Jn. 11: 47-53, Jn. 18:14; "Delivered to the chief priests and condemned to death." Mt. 20: 18-19, Mk. 10:33, Lk. 18: 31-33; "...and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and to kill Him." Mt. 26:4, Lk. 22:2, Jn. 7:1; "...to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death." Mt. 26:59; "Why do you seek to kill me?" Jn. 7:19, Jn. 8:37,40; "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?" Jn 7:25; "Chief priests and elders took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death." "...delivered Him to Pilate." Mt. 27:1-2, Mk. 15:1, Lk. 23:1; "Pilate knew that because of envy they had, delivered Him up." Mt. 27:18, Mk. 15:10; "What are you willing to give to me to deliver Him up to you?" "Chief priests and scribes seeking how they might put Him to death." Mt. 26:15, Mk. 14:10-11, Lk. 22:2-6; "...seeking how to destroy Him." Mk. 11:18, Lk. 19:47; "chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabas, and to put Jesus to death." Mt. 27:20, Mk. 15:11, Lk. 23:18, Jn. 18:40; "...and they shouted ‘crucify Him!" "He ought to die!" Mt. 27:22-23, Mk. 15:13-14, Lk. 23:21-23, Jn. 19:6-7,15; "Pilate delivered Jesus to their will." Mt. 27:26, Mk. 15:15, Lk. 23:24-25, Jn. 19:16; "His blood be upon us and our children!" Mt. 27:25; "...for this reason he who delivered Me up to you has the greater sin." Jn 19:11; "...and how the chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death and crucified Him.Lk. 24:20; "...Jesus, whom ye have crucified..." Acts 2:36, Acts 3:14-15, Acts 4:10, Acts 5:30, Acts 13:28, Acts 21:11; "[Jews] who have both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets..." I Thess. 2: 14-16. 8 “...this man...you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.” Acts 2:23; “God has made Him both Lord and Christ - this Jesus whom you crucified.” Acts 2:36; “But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One...and put to death the Prince of Life...” Acts 3:13-15; “Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified...” Acts 4:10; “Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross,” Acts 5:30; “...the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,” Acts 7:52; “...they asked Pilate that He be executed,” Acts 13:28. 9 I Thess 2:19, 15. 10 Matt. 27:22, 25. 11 P. 47 and 48. 12 P. 93 and 94. 13 P. 138. 14 P. 140 and 141. 15 To combat "a looming international emergency" of global anti-Semitism, Foxman urges his readers to "work for passage of hate crimes legislation on the national level and in states and localities where no such laws currently exist" (p. 178). ADL has been deeply frustrated over the five failures to pass its Orwellian federal hate bill, "The Local Law Enforcement and Enhancement Act." 16 Acts. 4:1-21; 5:17-18; 5:26-40; 6:9; 7:1-60; 8:1-4; 9:1-2; 11:19; 12:3; 13:50; 14:2-6, 19; 17:5-9; 18:12; 21:27; 22:22; 23:12; 24:1, 27; 25:7. 17 Mark 8:38. 18"Three and one-half million Jewish immigrants arrived on our shores around the turn of the century with an average of $9 per person in their pockets, less than almost any other immigrant group. Six decades later the mean family income of Jews was almost double the national average." (George Gilder, p. 11, Wealth and Poverty)
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But Foxman's allegations go farther still. He says we should fear Christians because they want to take over America! Can't have that now, can we? Not only do they claim that POS plot of land in the ME as THEIRS, they want America too!! ".....Upon seizing the reins of government, the new Noachide leaders will move quickly to implement a full agenda of reform. All economic and technological aid to the Communist Bloc, including the PLO, will be terminated immediately. Full support will be given to Israeli forces to reinvade PLO- controlled areas, with military assistance offered where necessary. Jewish courts (the batei dini of the rabbis) will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts. The pre-existing Noachide judges and courts will replace the existing court system of each country, and the legal code will be drastically rewritten to conform to halacha; in the United States, the emphasis will be on restoring the authority of the Constitution [LOL!!!} and abolishing all unconstitutional government programs and agencies [give-away programs that they used to wrest power away from the people]. The national debt will be foreclosed, probably by paying off creditors with government land holdings, thus averting economic disaster. And "law and order" will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures ["Patriot Act", concentration camps; guillotines ], again in accordance with Torah law....." The Final War For Jerusalem [JerUSAlem??] http://www.cephas- library.com/nwo/nwo_noachide_judge_and_courts_will_replace_ours.html They are "part of a broader strategy to transform American government into a wholly owned subsidiary of the evangelical movement... They seek the power to impose that faith on everyone in America, replacing pluralism and tolerance with theocracy." I guess only the Jews should be allowed to do that. In 1776, when the Judeo- Freemasons gave us their CorpUSA, to make us slaves of the "Crown", less than 1 percent of the people in this country were Jews. 99 percent were Protestant Christians. The Jews came preaching "liberty and equality", so by the subtility and cunning of the serpent, they could put us out of this country. It is not going to happen. Psalm 2. "The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606 (1) JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith...... ....We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government: DO, by these our Letters Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and well-intended Desires; And do therefore, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, GRANT and agree, that the said Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hackluit, and Edward-Maria Wingfield, Adventurers of and for our City of London, and all such others, as are, or shall be, joined unto them of that Colony, shall be called the first Colony; And they shall and may begin their said first Plantation and Habitation, at any Place upon the said-Coast of Virginia or America, where they shall think fit and convenient, between the said four and thirty and one and forty Degrees of the said Latitude; And that they shall have all the Lands, Woods, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Marshes, Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, from the said first Seat of their Plantation and Habitation by the Space of fifty Miles of English Statute Measure, all along the said Coast of Virginia and America, towards the West and Southwest, as the Coast lyeth, with all the Islands within one hundred Miles directly over against the same Sea Coast; And also all the Lands, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Woods, Waters, Marshes, Fishings, Commoditites, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, from the said Place of their first Plantation and Habitation for the space of fifty like English Miles, all alongst the said Coasts of Virginia and America, towards the East and Northeast, or towards the North, as the Coast lyeth, together with all the Islands within one hundred Miles, directly over against the said Sea Coast, And also all the Lands, Woods, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Marshes, Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, from the same fifty Miles every way on the Sea Coast, directly into the main Land by the Space of one hundred like English Miles; And shall and may inhabit and remain there; and shall and may also build and fortify within any the same, for their better Safeguard and Defense, according to their best Discretion, and the Discretion of the Council of that Colony; And that no other of our Subjects shall be permitted, or suffered, to plant or inhabit behind, or on the Backside of them, towards the main Land, without the Express License or Consent of the Council of that Colony, thereunto in Writing; first had and obtained...... Provided always, and our Will and Pleasure is, and we do hereby declare to all Christian Kings, Princes, and States, that if any Person or Persons which shall hereafter be of any of the said several Colonies and Plantations, or any other, by his, their, or any of their Licence and Appointment, shall, at any Time or Times hereafter, rob or spoil, by Sea or Land, or do any Act of unjust and unlawful Hostility to any the Subjects of Us, our Heirs, or Successors, or any the Subjects of any King, Prince, Ruler, Governor, or State, being then in League or Amitie with Us, our Heirs, or Successors, and that upon such Injury, or upon just Complaint of such Prince, Ruler, Governor, or State, or their Subjects, We, our Heirs, or Successors, shall make open Proclamation, within any of the Ports of our Realm of England, commodious for that purpose, That the said Person or Persons, having committed any such robbery, or Spoil, shall, within the term to be limited by such Proclamations, make full Restitution or Satisfaction of all such Injuries done, so as the said Princes, or others so complaining, may hold themselves fully satisfied and contented; And, that if the said Person or Persons, having committed such Robery or Spoil, shall not make, or cause to be made Satisfaction accordingly, within such Time so to be limited, That then it shall be lawful to Us, our Heirs, and Successors, to put the said Person or Persons, having committed such Robbery or Spoil, and their Procurers, Abettors, and Comforters, out of our Allegiance and Protection; And that it shall be lawful and free, for all Princes, and others to pursue with hostility the said offenders, and every of them, and their and every of their Procurers, Aiders, abettors, and comforters, in that behalf...." The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606 (1) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va01.htm See also THE US IS STILL A [freakin'] BRITISH COLONY This country is the promised land for Christians [Ezekiel 34:13], so why not put that in your Zionist pipe, Abe, and smoke it all the way back to the hellhole you have created in the Middle East.
#27. To: All (#25)
See also THE US IS STILL A [freakin'] BRITISH COLONY Gen 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; Gen 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. [note: do search. The Jews claim to be a "nation".] Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Gal 3:17 And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise..... Gal 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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