Sunday, May 6, 2007

The Arrogance of Christian Missionaries

B"H

Already a few times I got e - mails from different Christian missionaries, either in English or in German. If I do not believe in Mr. J. then I will go to hell. Furthermore, I got the advice to look into certain messianic ideas and if not, then my fate will be hell. To be honest, I really prefer going to hell than meeting any of those missionaries. Hell might be more interesting.
But what really surprised me was their arrogance and, at the same time, their ignorance concerning the Torah. Usually missionaries do not have a great Torah knowledge. They rather repeat what they were taught during their seminars. Surprisingly, they never come up with something new but keep on repeating the same confused ideas they already had hundreds of years ago.

After hundreds maybe even a thousand years, the Catholic church finally admitted that J.did not fulfill any requirements when he first showed up. The Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin lists all the conditions a Meschiach has to fulfill, and J. did nothing whatsoever and completely failed.
Finally after admitting this, the church made up another idea. J. has to come a second time and then he will fulfill anything we want. Well, if I was G-d, the last thing I would do was breaking my own laws. Why should I do that ? Do I have to come a second, a third, a fourth time in order to get my plan through ?
The second coming is a completely ridiculous idea.

Another popular quote from missionaries is that one of G - d's name is Elokim. Elokim is written in plural and therefore there must be many G - ds (according to Christian philosophy J., the holy spirit and the father).
According to Jewish understanding, Elokim is not a plural form, but the name includes different powers of G - d. For example, the powers with which He created the world.
If those missionaries just knew the Torah in its original version and not with false translations. Just look into Sefer Bereshit (Genesis) where it says:

"Bereshit bara Elokim et HaShamaim ve et Haaretz." - "In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth."

Where ever you see the word Elokim in the Torah, it is considered to be in the singular form. Just look at the verb before or behind Elokim and you will realize that the verb is in singular. Of course, you should know some Hebrew in order to see it.
Christians as well as many many Jews do not know the Torah in its original version and simply believe what they are told by other people or mistranslations. The best possibility for English speakers might be getting the ARTSCROLL - Torah with its translation and explanations.
A very famous quote from the missionaries is still the virgin birth thing representing another mistranslation from the prophets. There the Hebrew word does not mean virgin but young woman.

Torah, Talmud and prophets are written in metaphors and the deeper meanings have to be studied very carefully. However, Christians and missionaries do not bother with deeper study but read what they would like to see. If their opinions do not fit into the context, they make up stories and squeeze it in.

I do not know why Christians always try to convert the Jews. Once someone said to me that they are just jealous of not being Jewish. However, in Judaism (see Talmud Sanhedrin) we have the idea that Jews and Gentiles receive a place in Olam HaBah (the World to Come). The only thing Gentiles have to do is keeping the seven Noachide laws (see Talmud Sanhedrin).
Instead many Christians spread the opinion that G - d abandoned the Jews and now they are the chosen people. Again, if they really knew the Torah they wouldn't say such things. Especially in Sefer Devarim (Deutoronomy) it says several times that the laws given to the Jewish people in the Torah are eternal. One cannot just change G - d's rules and claim themselves as chosen.

One of my rabbis, Rabbi Meir Weiner, said that at least Christians have got the idea of a Creator. When they are being asked by G - d what they have done they will say that they got the concept but their forefathers gave them the wrong information.
I am just asking myself how they are going to justify the mass killings of Jews during the Middle Ages and today's second Holocaust called conversion of Jews into Christianity. More then a year ago the "Jerusalem Post" used this phrase Holocaust, as missionaries are destroying souls.
Hopefully a new law will pass in the Knesset. Then Israel can deport missionaries very easily.

Many more information about the tactics of the missionaries can be found here:
http://jewsforjudaism.com/

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