Deplorable Patriot and Follower of Yeshua Hamashiach. The Lion of Judah. Equal opportunity offender. I don't worship any party or person.
Christmas has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Yeshua. The very first Christians were Jews. They did as Yeshua did, said & taught who was also a Jew, the most Jewish Jew to walk the Earth & taught from the old testament. He followed the commandments & taught to do so. Constantine made it illegal to Judaize anything & punishable by death. He didn't accept Christianity, he paganized it with pagan celebrations. This is the main reason most Jews don't know Yeshua, but neither do most Catholics. God created the feast days to point to Yeshua but they were looking for an earthly king to save them from the Roman occupation, just like most are looking for an earthly king to save them. Only Yeshua Saves
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If I am understanding correctly, one of the biggest differences Jesus introduced was abandoning the 'eye for an eye' idea, in favor of 'turn the other cheek' ie forgiving your enemy.
Jews in that time saw this as a problem as they had been turned into vassals of Rome.
A Roman governor, (although, compared to Islam, Rome was a fairly beneficial governance - they did not stop Jews worshipping as they pleased [but they had to also acknowledge Roman gods, and Ceaser as divine], and, they brought many civilized things with them- roads, public sanitation, water supply, public security, etc. that they taxed to provide.
The younger Jews wanted autonomy, and eye for an eye was more how they saw things, so Jesus was seen as a 'radical', a Roman sympathizer by them.
When your enemy seeks to ERADICATE you, 'turn the other cheek' is the fast lane to extinction. So the Jewish attitude to islam is very understandable, and, Christians need to see that, if they are not to become extinct to
Deplorable Patriot and Follower of Yeshua Hamashiach. The Lion of Judah. Equal opportunity offender. I don't worship any party or person.
The command is to not murder. You are free to kill if your life or that of your love ones is threatened. Yeshua is coming back to wipe out the world of unbelievers and pagan worshippers. The Jews didn't need Roman governance, just Yeshua. So do the Catholics, the Jewish Yeshua, not the pagan, made made image of Jesus.
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Indeed... but Jesus preached 'forgiveness'... and this was the sticking point with the Jewish community...
They saw things like the Roman occupation (no matter how beneficial) as unforgivable.
Islam is much worse, and is intent on eradicating Juadism, and, I advocate for the Jewish attitude to Islam - no forgiveness, just removal, one way or another... the method based on Islams actions.
