Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Combatting Christian Anti-Christian Zionists

An excellent article is here on "theo-terrorism".

Thanks to my friend Rabbi Abe Cooper and also Yitzchok Alderstein we learn that

Evangelical and conservative Christians – Israel’s most important allies – are increasingly targeted for conversion from Christian Zionism to Christian Palestinianism.

Here's an example (I have blogged about it here and here)
In 2010, Palestinian Christians convened the Christ at the Checkpoint (CATC) conference under the aegis of the Bethlehem Bible College, aimed specifically at Evangelicals. CATC repudiated Christian Zionism as a false teaching, an erroneous misreading and manipulation of Scripture.

...Evangelicals who came with an open-minded commitment to hear both sides heard Mitri Raheb, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem deny the connection between modern Jews and those of the Bible.

“I’m sure if we were to do a DNA test between David... and Jesus... and Mitri, born just across the street from where Jesus was born, I’m sure the DNA will show that there is a trace. While, if you put King David, Jesus and Netanyahu, you will get nothing, because Netanyahu comes from an East European tribe who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages.... I always loved to say that most probably one of my grand, grand, grand, grandmas used to babysit for Jesus.”

No one stormed out in protest. Rather to the contrary: Some participants, like Lynne Hybels (who is married to the head of the Willow Creek network of 13,000 Evangelical congregations), returned to the US as committed workers for the Palestinian cause.

There's a site dedicated to undermining Christian Zionsim.

Anyone reviewing the material of such groups and particularly the comments sections of blogposts discussing the issue is amazed by the naked anti-smitism and incitement language beyond the basic lack of knowledge espoused.

Save us!

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All persons interested in Israel and Jews should Google "Do Christian Zionist Authors Push Their Agenda Through Lies and Plagiarism?"
(Warning: Christian Zionists will not be provided with shock absorbers!)

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