[ April 19, 2024 ]
Many have speculated about the causes of anti-Semitism and why it has persisted throughout history in both ancient and modern societies. From the Early Roman times, to Muhammad’s obsession to kill them wherever they are, then through Germany’s Adolf Hitler and today’s comeback.
After years of repentance with “never again” of the sins of the Holocaust the world is now witnessing the ugly comeback of anti-Semitism. This comeback is not coming from the usual anti-Semitic suspects but has been building up in the West especially among Leftist groups that have traditionally been regarded as bearers of the torch of tolerance, inclusion and diversity. Today, openly Anti-Semitic politicians and groups are operating from the halls of European parliaments and recently even the US congress.
Having been born and raised in a brutally anti-Semitic culture where Islamic anti-Semitism had touched every aspect of life, I am now focused on asking ‘why’? Why is this now moving to the West? What is it exactly that is causing this deep-seated challenge to the human condition when it comes to the Jewish people? What is behind the creation of such irrational hatred, anger and blame? Why is it when things go wrong humanity resorts to blaming the Jews? Why would some world tyrants and dictators often give preferential treatment to Jews sometimes but in other times they flip and turn against them? What is it about the way of life of the Jews that shook the core of figures in history like the prophet of Islam, Muhammad?
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Could this challenge be summarized in The Ten Commandments? From the beginning the Ten Commandments represented a challenge to humanity. Isn’t it true that every tyrant in history had to violate the Ten Commandments in order to achieve his wicked goals?
Ever since Moses came down with God’s incredible commandments, humanity was challenged and had to adapt. The human side of Moses himself was angered causing him to shatter the tablets when he saw his people, the Israelites, slipping into a style of life that was contrary to what God had entrusted him to bringing down to his people.
Even though the Jewish people had their struggles with adapting to the laws God has given them, they eventually and as a group, repented and chose not to yield to the temptation of the golden glitter of idol worship. From that time on, the laws of Moses became the criteria for right and wrong in Jewish life. They often struggled but always kept their focus and preserved their Commandments for thousands of years and to future generations.
But that is not where the story ends. From that point on, and since the Jews adopted their revolutionary criteria of right and wrong, the world took notice. The Jewish people have not only raised the bar on themselves but the rest of humanity felt the challenge of measuring up.
What was so unique about The Ten Commandments is that Jews had to apply them to all of humanity. ‘Thou shall not kill’ did not apply only to not killing members of one’s tribe or sect but it applied to all of humanity. The prevalent tribal laws in the Mideast area often prohibited not killing members of one’s group or sect but did not apply the same law when strangers from the outside were murdered. Islamic law for instance applies the death penalty on a Muslim only if he kills another Muslim but will not apply it if he kills a non-Muslim.
Amazing universal Jewish traditions immerged that blessed, but at the same time attracted violence against Jewish communities. The Israelites did not only raise the bar on themselves but also by their mere existence among the rest of humanity, they have shown by example certain prohibitions that the old world did not understand and thus have become a challenge to the rest of the world. Societies that came into contact with Jewish communities were mesmerized but also challenged.
Non-Jews had to face the same challenge the Israelites had faced long ago when Moses came down mount Sinai. The bar has been raised and every society that came into contact with Jewish culture and standards was challenged. Some were happy to emulate Jewish traditions and allowed themselves to be inspired and built upon the Jewish doctrine. For example Christians adopted Sunday as their day of rest and Muslims adopted Friday.
But some cultures could not cope with the challenge and felt the bar of the Ten Commandments was too high to live by resulting in horrific anger, envy and hatred. Such anger and envy eventually turned into rebellion against Jewish ethics, some even went as far as robbing Jewish heritage, bending, reshaping and twisting it to fit their own needs and agenda, then claim them as their own. Islam is perhaps the most prominent doctrine for that example.
The Islamic ideology is the embodiment of what a counter-ideological movement against the Bible, and specifically The Ten Commandments, would look like. The mere existence of Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula was probably the single most challenging threat to Mohammad’s world. Muhammad had a love hate relationship to those strange but disciplined people called the Jews who worshipped one God. Muhammad started with deep admiration and wish to emulate the People Of The Book, Jews and Christians, but he was soon confronted with the reality of the commitment to following in the footsteps of an Abrahamic monotheistic religion. Muhammad wanted the glory but not the self-discipline.
In the middle of his Islamization mission, Muhammad realized that the Abrahamic faith he claimed to be a part of was all about self-control, a commitment and devotion to values of the Torah. When Muhammad realized that the Bible and the Ten Commandments advocated values and rules often contrary to what his own life and culture was all about, he flipped. Muhammad came to the realization that if he was to remain loyal to the Abrahamic faith he claimed to be part of, then his proud Arabian culture and Muhammad’s own lifestyle had to undergo a total change, even more than what Moses required from his own people many centuries ago.
By then Muhammad was already deep in his advocacy of Islamic ‘Abrahamic’ monotheism to his people. After ten years of a more or less peaceful existence Muhammad’s admiration of the Jews evolved into deep envy and rejection. Islam thus started to quickly change from appreciating of the People Of The Book to deep resentment.
The obvious holiness of the Ten Commandments turned into a burden for Muhammad and stood in the way to his ambitions to forcefully spread Islam and making it the supreme religion of the region. Mohammad declared that the Jews and Christians intentionally falsified the Bible, and that his Koran was the true message of God.
Muhammad could not succeed in his forceful mission without violating all of the Ten Commandments. Every Jew he saw was a reminder of his unholy acts. He used deception, lying, murder, stealing and rape against his perceived enemies, both Jews and Arabs who resisted his mission, and who were called in the Koran, not only the enemies of Muhammad, but the enemies of Allah himself.
Even the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Himself had to pass the test of Islamization and Arabization. Allah, the God of Islam, now has human enemies mentioned in many pages of the Quran. Every Muslim follower of Muhammad was to convert Allah’s enemies to Islam or kill them.
Many cultures, such as Arabia under Muhammad that did not or could not adapt to Biblical values of the Ten Commandments found the solution to their problems not in self-awareness and analysis but in blaming the Jews. At varying degrees, Muhammad’s solution of blaming the Jews became the extreme classic response to not measuring up to God’s Ten Commandments. Thus, to the anti-Semite, Jews represent Moses when he descended from Mount Sinai to his people who were caught red handed worshipping idols of gold.
Now, why is it that Jew hatred is making a come back today in Western nations, Europe and even America? Why are Ten Commandments displays being removed by secular Leftist from courthouses around the US? Why would a universally accepted set of laws that harm no one and that have brought order and harmony to society, be a threat to anyone secular or not? The answer again lies in the same human instinctive rebellion against self-discipline, obedience to God and taking responsibility to make the world a better place.
Western modern societies and institutions that claimed to be the bearers of the torch of tolerance and human rights are now regressing back to a different kind of tolerance; that is tolerance of anti-Semites. Today the West has forgotten their commitment to ‘never again’ and is embracing cultures, ideologies, religions and people who wear anti-Semitism as a badge of honor.
The evils of anti-Semitism have plagued the world ever since the Jews brought to the world a truly divine culture of self-awareness, self-control and treating others the way you want to be treated. Until today when ever the golden glitter of the “Me” generation takes a hold of a culture, instead of looking within, some humans choose to blame the Jews.
Before waving the banner of human rights, compassion, brotherhood of man and freedom, the world needs to understand the complex dynamics of the stranglehold of anti-Semitism and how humanity keeps falling into its trap over and over again.
Moses’s descent from Mount Sinai with his tablets is still having a huge ripple effect on the world today.
Nonie Darwish, author “Wholly Different; Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values”
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4 years ago
I have my own take on what certain people have against Jews.
The secret of Western domination of the globe were values developed during the Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment. The secret of Jewish achievements and resentments stirred up is that they got there first.
The Renaissance and Enlightenment emerged after Thomas Aquinas convinced the Roman Catholic Church that Aristotelian reason was compatible with Christianity. This reduced (somewhat) Christian opposition to values that led to fairly benign, free, civilized, technological, prosperous societies. Moses Maimonides achieved the same for Judaism about a century before and did a much more thorough job of it.
One effect of the Enlightenment was greater interest in knowledge and learning per se. Their earlier start gave Jews an edge in the professions which occasionally inflames the inferior complexes of others.
Another byproduct of Enlightenment was greater respect and esteem for commerce. Prior to that, people regarded commercial activities as sufficiently low and unworthy as to defile a holy place as indicated in the New Testament when Jesus chased money changers and other business persons out of a synagogue.
Jews had a head start in business with their achievements in banking, international trade and other enterprises at a time when the Christian world continued to despise commerce. Thus the charges about capitalists concerning greed, stinginess, cunning and mendacity were first leveled at Jews.
Those who have a basic hatred for Enlightenment values like commies, Nazis, Moslems along with overall dumb, ignorant, inbred, knuckle-dragging rednecks will have a particularly virulent hatred of Jews.
4 years ago
Reply to
Jim Austin
Aquinas borrowed heavily from Maimonides.
Moneylenders were important in Temple times, even if they were never IN THE TEMPLE. People came from abroad, with foreign currencies, to bring sacrifices in the Temple. Someone had to change currency so that they could purchase products locally.
4 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
I had thought they were not lending money on Temple grounds but were rather exchanging foreign currency for Shekels to facilitate donations to support the Temple and its priests.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
…’but driving out the moneylenders’ is ever so much more literary, imaginative, and anti-Jewish.
4 years ago
Fascinating article, but I would add that history established that Mohammed demanded of the Jews that they accept him as their messiah, and that they refused, concluding that Mohammed then directed his animosity towards the Jews, which, as we know today, is among the language of the books of Islam like the Quran, Hadith, etc.. What I did fully agree with was the author’s commentary that in order to control their people the despots within Islam must avoid the Ten Commandment laws, though those laws are the measure of humanity. I have long stated, as so many others have as well, that Antisemitism is unmeritorious and is based on a form of envy and jealousy that is a prevailing characteristic rampant throughout this world that we live in, and this article explains some of the inanity and the fact that power hungry people of despotic natures simply cannot accept the values promulgated by the Ten Commandments, as those laws stand in the way of their control of Power and their Greed.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Ditto!
I would add that only a fool would argue the Ten Commandments are not divinely inspired.
Disobeying them is the root of most if not all sin.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Though you are correct about rational obedience and irrational lack thereof, I respectfully believe that you would agree that to violate a commandment would require some situation where there is justification to do so. Then there is the rational aspect of complying with the commandments which speak to what I refer to as our “humanity.” Violating the commandments would never be appropriate unless there is some justifiable basis to do so, and as human beings a right thinking person would know that. Obviously, self defense when dealing with an irrational person who intends to violate a commandment and cause you harm is appropriate. The same goes for other violations like expressing unjustified hate that promotes violence, which should require a proper response, and so on!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Whether you are a believer in a Deity or not, from my perspective, the “commandments” suggest or direct that the conduct requested are consistent with the humanity expected from our species. I expect that even you would agree with that!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
You say you want to use your brain to interpret the ten commandments? Then interpret them through the lens of Jesus when asked to sum up the law and the prophets he said to love God with all your heart soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Um, there’s a difference between self-defense and murder, which is why the commandment in question reads thou shalt not murder, not thou shalt not kill.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I wouldn’t bet on the Hebrew knowledge of a bunch of 16th century Englishmen and I’ll bet they didn’t have access to original texts but were instead working from the Latin translations made by the RCC.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Neither Stalin nor Hitler’s families were either Jewish or Christians so it doesn’t relate. It’s clear that if either parent was that evil that the children were not to obey them and there’s a difference between children and grown up offspring. The correct translation of the next one you mention is ‘thou shalt not murder’. There’s a difference between murder and just killing in self defence or the defence of others. All the teaching in the commandments stand, as does the Torah, for teaching but the blood of Jesus paid for our sins now. If we ask forgiveness we are forgiven if we truly repent. No one can fool God.
4 years ago
Reply to
Alexandra Oon
It only takes a few minutes to verify that both Hitler and Stalin were raised in Catholic families. Moreover, Stalin was being raised to be a priest.
4 years ago
Reply to
mikep1738
Certainly you know the difference between someone raised in a Catholic household and someone who actually believes in and lives out the Christian doctrines.
4 years ago
Reply to
mikep1738
Certainly you know the difference between someone raised in a Catholic household and someone who actually believes in and lives out the Christian doctrines.
4 years ago
Reply to
mikep1738
Bwahahahahahahahah, who cares? When they committed their atrocities they were hardly Christians in any sense of that word. Hitler himself privately deprecated Christianity and admired islum as Albert Speer indicated in his autobiography. The LARGEST division in terms of manpower in the Waffen-SS was the all muslum Handshar division. Stalin had no problems w/the shuttering of all churches and synagogues or the persecution of priests and rabbis.
4 years ago
Reply to
mikep1738
Your statement is either intellectually dishonest or you aren’t thinking through what you are stating or your research is just lazy.
There are many people who are raised in Christian households, some even have gone to seminary, who later reject Christianity. In Islam, if you were born into an Islamic family, you aren’t allowed to apostatize from the religion. But this is not the case in Christianity. If Hitler and Stalin were both Christian at the peak of their power, why would they both attack Christians, the clergy and the Church?
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
There has been religious persecution between different branches, sects, and denominations of Christians as well as Jews (and need I say Muslims). Christianity and Judaism can be interpreted in different ways and they are and have been. Intra-religious persecution and war have happened in both Christianity and Judaism. That’s why the Puritans, the Pilgrims, moved to New England. The Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation led to the Thirty Years’ War.
That is why claims based on faith and revelation are so dangerous, there is no way to demonstrably verify or prove that a claim based on faith and revelation is factual, accurate, and true.
“When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.” – AynRand
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
Just curious, if someone calls themself a Christian but rejects the accepted doctrine, specifically the Bible, would you call them Christian? Specifically if they reject the Bible, there is no need to interpret the Bible thus interpretation of scripture is not a factor… is that person really a Christian in your mind?
Also what proof, besides growing up in a Christian household or even going to seminary (you can be an atheist and go to seminary), do you have that Stalin and Hitler were Christian?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Wow… you completely miss the heart of the Ten Commandments. Do you do that on purpose due to hating God?
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
“do that on purpose due to hating and fearing reason”
It seems you utterly lack reason. You claim to have a “rational morality” but what you mean is relative morality because the truth is you have no basis for morality. In fact, your world view has no basis to call anything good or evil. If you believe that you have the basis to call something good and evil therefor you have the basis for calling something moral versus immoral, what is it? Majority rules? Society rules? Your opinion rules? If you are honest, reason will not bring you to morality. All you can do is borrow concepts from the culture in which you grew up and assume that your worldview can justify it. So rather than accuse others of being lazy, why not take your own advice and really ponder where do you get your definition of good and evil from and how can you come up with a concept of morality. Try this.. ask yourself some questions: Why is it wrong to kill a human being? Do humans have an intrinsic worth? If so why? If society determines that it is better to eradicate certain people* then does that make it good/moral? *note certain people could be humans in the womb, people with genetic defects or people of certain genetic heritage… humanity has determined that it is morally good to do each of these types of murders… do you agree that these are all good? Or are they evil?
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
“You are claiming that reason can not arrive at a rational, objective, true, morality, that reason can not establish morality as such at all, that is an astounding claim.”
Yes. This is my “claim”. Let’s assume your worldview is correct, that there is no God. Reason can get you to conclude that murder is bad for society. But that same reasoning can get you to conclude that cleansing the gene pool of defective gene contributors is good for society. This society would declare murder as evil then turn around and kill people (and not call it murder) for the altruistic purpose of improving humanity. You might recognize my scenario as an allusion to Nazi Germany. You can change the reasons for killing the Jews then you’d have Islam. This begs the question… in your worldview, why is it wrong to kill people? Is it always wrong? Was it wrong for the Nazis to kill Jews? If so why or why not?
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
“I answered your questions in my previous post ”
Your statements stating murder is “objectively immoral” does not actually answer my question. That is only making a claim with no basis.
Why is it objectively immoral? Why is there morality in the first place? What makes something moral versus immoral? It almost seems like you are avoiding the answer because you have no answer.
4 years ago
Most modernist Christians and Jews despise the 8th and 10th commandments preferring state enforced wealth redistribution. Social justice warrior theology now the only ideology allowed by American main stream denominations is incompatible with the decalogue.
4 years ago
Reply to
Andrew
Christianity does not endorse socialism or as you put it “wealth redistribution”. Some want to confuse Christianity with humanism renamed “social justice.”
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 King James Version (KJV)
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
There will always be those that aren’t able to take care of themselves and to those you are to be charitable when it is genuine – widows and orphans and I add widowers who are elderly who have no one and disabled. I am not referring to those that thrive in being victims and victim hood is their career. We have way too much of that today. As soon as there is a problem, up goes the Go Fund Me page and many PROFIT from it.
For those who have fallen on hard times like Ruth, she had to glean the fields behind the harvesters for charity. In other words she was capable of DOING something for it and WORKED for it. Absolutely NO WHERE does the Bible endorse “social justice”. The Pilgrims found that out. Socialism FAILS every time.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I agree with you about AUTHENTIC and TRADITIONAL Christian teaching but mainstream modernist American Christian denominations including Vatican 2 Catholicism has been hijacked by Marxist rubbish over the last 60 years. Oh here is another scripture verse for you to consider St Paul Eph 4 v 25-28 “Give not place to the devil. He that stole, let him now steal no more but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.” Showing that unless somebody is working nobody is going to eat.
4 years ago
So, Nonie, why did anti-Semitism not “take” with you, whereas it does in so many people brought up in nominally comparable circumstances?
You of all people would have good reason to “hate the Jews”.
As some background here, Nonie has speculated that family influences- stemming in part from polygamy and the stresses within the family that accompany it- may promote hatred of others. Nonie, however, did not grow up in a polygamous household.
4 years ago
Noonie Darwish is a true prophet.
4 years ago
without realizing it ND draws a connecting straight line between Mohammed and Martin Luther. Each sought to entice the Jews to leave the faith of their fathers and join new faiths.
Mohammed did it by using Jewish prayer , fasting, dietary restrictions as forms of enticements. Jews pray 3 times daily so let muslims pray 5 times; Jews fast for a single day of atonement so Mohammed created a ramadan month of fasting; Jews are forbidden to eat pork so Islam won’t eat pork and forbid wine, too!
Martin Luther hoped to temp the Jews by disparaging Rome for its anti-Jewish laws and stances, only to turn more viciously anti-semitic when the Jews refused to convert to protestantism.
No matter the hatred, the entirety of humanity is caught in the web of a Jewish calendar, and no amount of rebellion can change that; The 7-day week! Everything moves by it, no matter what day is claimed as a Sabbath.
Religious human sacrifice is gone, too, even if Christianity is rooted in it, as opposed to Judaism. Judaism starts with the eradication of human sacrifice, namely Isaac’s; Christianity has as its basis the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Jews recall human sacrifice through circumcision, christianity renounced circumcision while reveling in the vicarious feeling of transubstantiation cannibalism.
and the differences continue…despite the universally accepted basic morality introduced by Jews to the world at large.
4 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
Your hatred of Christ, or deliberate misrepresentation of him, is obvious. Also, to correct your last line, “basic morality” was not “introduced by Jews”. It was introduced by YAHWEH through the Jews.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
I think he is Jewish and doesn’t accept Christ. I was just listening to Joel Rosenberg, a Messianic Jew and he gives a good explanation for this. It is amazing how many Jews have turned to Christ. It has been picking up too. There are tons of Messianic Jews out there. It’s no longer an anomaly. They have accepted that Christ is God in the flesh. When Christ was on this earth their concern was more with the temporal rather than the eternal. They felt oppressed under Rome and wanted to be liberated from Rome, so they rejected Christ.
I do admit, I have no idea where this came from – ” transubstantiation cannibalism.”
Communion is symbolic for Christians. It is taboo to eat human beings or imagine you are eating a human being or human blood under any circumstance. I guarantee you that if someone has taken Communion, whatever they ingested, bread or a wafer or grape juice or wine is what you will find in an autopsy of stomach contents. Christianity has NEVER advocated human sacrifices! We don’t need animal sacrifices either. Christ was the final sacrifice for our sins. Christ willingly laid down His life as the ultimate sacrifice for sin – no animal substitute. We also don’t have orgies. Some were saying there were “love feasts”. Yes we are to show love for others but not by orgies in church.
He clarified teachings and offered us eternal life and Christians are most grateful for that. I really glossed over what he wrote. Hopefully he will come around… It’s a choice but to mischaracterize Christianity like that is wrong.
Also there is something inside of all of us to know that murdering someone is wrong or stealing is wrong etc… It’s called a conscience. We are all made in the image of God and that is not only reserved for Jews. Even your most basic tribal people have some taboos but certainly not all of what the Ten Commandments teach.
I don’t wish him any ill will. Surely he can also see prophecy taking shape too….
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I agree. The reason I emphasized “by YAHWEH” is because of the arrogance of some Jews who believe Jews are the source of basic morality when in reality, as you noted, basic morality comes from YAHWEH as explained in Genesis.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
Let it go…. He feels the need to defend his disbelief in Christ….
Blessings to you!
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
Let it go…. He feels the need to defend his disbelief in Christ….
Blessings to you!
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
Hatred? Don’t be absurd. What did Christ ever do, other than having others proclaim a heresy in his name? The hatred lies in the millions murdered over millennia in his name.
Misrepresentation of christian theology? Hardly. It is diametrically opposite of 1100 years of the Judaism from whence it sprung. God at Mt. Sinai declared, ” Hear O Israel, The Lord Your God is One.” Not two or three. The Jewish God is also not a mothaphuka.
And very stupid nitpicking over ‘basic morality’ on your part. No Jew ever heard of YAHWEH, either. Those are just transliterated Hebrew letters representing the name of God.
And, as a believer, shouldn’t you be capitalizing ‘him’?
4 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
“What did Christ ever do”, to cause you to reject Yeshua the Messiah? As for the “millions murdered over millenia in his name”, no one murders in the Name of Jesus because His Name has nothing to do with commanding murder. As for the roots of Christianity in Judaism, at least you got that right. As for your next statement about “not two or three”, you sound like a Muslim. Are you so blind that you cannot see the multi-Person nature of God even in the Old Testament? Then with your following statement you came full circle in your hatred of Jesus.
As for nitpicking, you are the one doing it as you attacked the Name YAHWEH/YHVH while downplaying it saying, “Those are just transliterated Hebrew letters representing the name of God.” So to hammer the point home in your language, “basic morality” was not “introduced by Jews”. It was introduced by GOD through the Jews, and prior to the Jewish race, in the Garden of Eden by God to Adam and Eve.
God bless.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
I haven’t rejected the messiah. He just hasn’t arrived yet. There are no do- over mulligans in a true messiah. And morality wasn’t introduced into the Garden of Eden. Paradise, by definition , has no need of morality. The garden had just 2 provisos: not to eat from the tree of knowledge or touch the tree of life.
In Judaism it is important that one recognizes a greater power than oneself that controls the universe. Your vessel for that is Christianity. That is the reason for my not hating it. Your path isn’t my path. It needn’t be. The rewards of an afterlife have different means of attainment. Mine is through 613 commandments and observances, yours contains only the 7 Noahide laws. Choose well and live!
4 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
As for the “not two or three”: Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Magne Trane
couldn’t help but notice how easily you skipped over the indivisibility of God.
4 years ago
Some part of every group hates the Jews: there are even some self-hating Jews like soros.
4 years ago
Reply to
Lagertha
Some part of every group hates Christians: there are even some self-hating Christians, which is why Christians are the #1 persecuted group in the world.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
Very true! It is Christians that are the most persecuted people in the world.
Matthew 10:22
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake:
but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Isn’t it ironic? Liberals want a godless utopia whereas Christians, and I would imagine serious Jews want a godly utopia in heaven.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
If you think I don’t care about the Christians, at least say it straight instead of mocking.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ryan Muhammad
You think because I did not mention Christians that I did not care? You surely have your head up your judgemental ass.
4 years ago
Reply to
Lagertha
The Vikings hardly were kind to Christians, raping nuns and killing priests were always on their list of things to do. There’s a famous account of nuns deliberately mutilating themselves (i.e. to be unattractive to the Vikings) and being burned to death in their convent by said Vikings.
4 years ago
Romans weren’t necessarily always antisemitic; on at least two occasions the Roman Republic allied w/Israel to fight the Seleucids.
4 years ago
For the first time i understand why people hate Jews and Christians. i was afraid if i understood the hate i would share it. Not so.
4 years ago
Reply to
cylde
The unrighteous ALWAYS HATE righteous standards and those that try to live up to them.
No one is perfect. The unrighteous are quick to point out when someone backslides that has made a mistake. The unrighteous are not forgiving UNLESS it is an ungodly person then anything goes!
4 years ago
Reply to
cylde
Absolutely! It took me a lifetime of thinking and experience to discover how the Ten Commandments are the true challenge to humanity that is causing anti-Semitism. The Jews are just the messenger they want to destroy so they don’t have to face themselves.
4 years ago
Reply to
cylde
so why do christians hate Jews? And don’t tell me because of the cruci’ fiction’. Without his death there would be no christianity.
4 years ago
I would say the OPPOSITE of the Ten Commandments is what is acceptable today.
1. Many think of themselves as gods and goddesses.
2. They idolize themselves and material things
3. It’s cool to swear using His name.
4. Church attendance is down and some of that is because the church strayed from proper teachings.
5. Many may not know WHO their father is and some mothers out there are less than ideal….abusive etc.
6. When was the last time you didn’t read a paper or view on the internet someone being murdered?
7. Cheating on your spouse is common – polygamy is picking up too and so is perverted sex – LBGTQ+
8. Stealing happens all the time .. the government steals from you and people steal from each other.
9. Lying is a way of life for many – just look at our politicians – they say one thing for your vote and do another in office
10. Coveting what YOU have NOT worked for is hugely popular among illegals and others and pushed by “social justice warriors”
You could go on and on and on with more specific examples of how the OPPOSITE of the Ten Commandments is advocated by the DEMS and let’s not forget the RINOS!
4 years ago
Yeshua is the messiah
4 years ago
I always preferred the scene where Moses brings down 3 tablets instead of two but drops one saying: “My people the lord God gave us 18 ooops!….. ummm!…… 12 commandments”
4 years ago
I have never met a reform jew who wasn’t also a social justice warrior. Reform jews have led the charge for the welfare state in America. The 8th and 10th commandments are ignored by these folks to the degree government enforced wealth redistribution is a form of stealing.
4 years ago
Christianity is a Jewish sect that lost its way and doesn’t like to be reminded that the religion it was supposed to replace is still around after two thousand years. Jews and the Jewish state’s successes are evidence that undermines the Replacement Theology of both mainstream Christianity and Islam. ✡️
4 years ago
The one truth not mentioned in this article is that a main cause of anti-Semitism has nothing to do with The Ten Commandments but with it being a twisted form of revenge for the death of Jesus on the cross. Some of today’s Christian sects still condemn the Jewish people as a whole for His death forgetting that it was Pontius Pilate alone who tried, convicted, and then sentenced Jesus to death…doing so even when begged to stop it. This can be witnessed by the rise of anti-Semetic hate groups here in the U.S., especially on social media sites. And I think a big reason for anti-Semitism has to do with simple jealous of the Jewish people…a people who have been more “successful,” if you will, than many other collective groups of people
4 years ago
THE SAD REALITY IS LEFTIST JEWS HELP BRING ANTI-SEMITISM ON TOO! THESE ARE JEWS WHO, LIKE ATHEIST NON-JEWS, HAVE REJECTED ALL POSITIVE VALUES OF CULTURAL FULFILLMENT! THE JEW WHO REJECTS ZIONISM WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT OF HIS CULTURAL CALLING LOWERS THEMSELVES TO BE LESS THAN AN ANIMAL WHICH IS WHY THEY LIKE THE JIHADI WHO ALREADY SUBSCRIBES TO AN IDEOLOGY THAT MAKES IT EASY FOR THEM TO BE THAT WAY! SAD BUT TRUE!
4 years ago
The Ten Commandments represent ultimate mutual respect. Respect for oneself is necessary to see respecting others as appropriate. This is psychological equality.
When women as bearer nurturers are not seen as equal to men in power, in value, in intelligence, in every way, psychological equality can never be established. This misogyny is the heartblood of hate, abuse, and neglect.
It starts with traditional responsibilities as equals. Without that you grow violent, disrespectful, entitled abusers who both hard and self harm. The opposite of our inborn nature God gave us. Survival instincts means we avoid harm and self harm and we embrace replicating as a noble behaviour, not as an abuse of mankind or the earth.
Male supremacy filters in Muhammad made him reject self respect and respect for others, ie psychological equality.
Polygamy is the absence of gender equality.
Being LGBT or feminist is the exact opposite of gender equality.
This is why leftists align with other extremely misogynistic groups like Muslims.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara your point is so true that the Ten Commandments represent ultimate mutual respect. Some cultures simply refuse to give that to others.
4 years ago
Nonie makes sone good observations but I don’t think the issue is the 10 Commandments but God. Rejecting the 10 Commandments is a picture of the fall in Genesis 3 where Adam and Eve wanted to be like God and determine good and evil for themselves. Anybody who hates God hates not only the 10 Commandments but Christians and Jews as well. But not just Christians and Jews, anything that reflects Judeo-Christian values… which includes the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
While the Left pretends to be tolerant and for the champions of the victim class, the only thing they actually tolerate is anti-Biblical values.
4 years ago
Don’t the Ten Commandments contradict God’s first commandment to man in Gen. 2:17 to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Who do you think God swore to in his anger they shall by no means enter My rest (Psalm 95:11)? Answer, it was the Jews (including Moses himself) that God brought out of Egypt in Exo. 19:8 that had promised to follow God’s ten commandments. (Aside from two exceptions) They were forced to walk the wilderness and not allowed to enter into the good land of Canaan.
Clearly, this is not a new insight for the Jewish believer but how does the traditional Jewish man of faith incorporate it into his walk with God? Please someone write me back, I would sincerely like an answer.
4 years ago
Reply to
Karl Elshoff
Without Yeshua that Jewish man is required to keep the Law. All of it.
4 years ago
Reply to
Karl Elshoff
JESUS CHRIST came to FULFILL God’s laws/word, not to replace them, so if you LOVE ONE ANOTHER (Jew and Gentile alike) as He loves you and everyone regardless of who they by race, then that fulfills the entire OT laws. However, if you do not follow JESUS as your personal Savior, then who do you follow? SATAN. The Bible is very clear about that and who WILL NOT enter Heaven. God is patient and He will love the sinner, trying to persuade him thru the Holy Spirit and His angels, to be drawn to HIM. But, if the sinner refuses God all the way to their death, then that is called BLASPHEMY against the Holy Spirit. We have all heard that small still voice urging us to do right and when we ignore that, we are going against God. When you follow the evil voice that tells you to lie, cheat, steal, etc, you are following Satan, knowingly or unknowingly, depending on if you HAVE EVER BEEN TAUGHT THIS. You are reading this now and I can tell you, YOU WILL HAVE NO EXCUSE WHEN YOU FACE GOD. You have been warned about the FREE WILL you have in following either right or wrong. And, if you don’t know and you do not seek God for the answer, you are just as guilty of sin. SATAN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS because it will make you accountable to one or the other BECAUSE NOW YOU KNOW there are only 2 actions you can take in every thing you say and do: right or wrong. The in-between people or middle ground people, are already on the side of WRONG.
NOW, this doesn’t mean you should love an evil person. Hate the evil that they do, but love that person. When they continue in their sins, have nothing to do with them in a loving way. This idea that you must remain a friend to sinners to save them, is not up to a person. THAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT’S JOB AND HIS ONLY. You have to pray for that person whether you are friends with them or not, TRUSTING IN GOD that He will send the Holy Spirit after them to nudge and urge them toward the God of the Universe and His Son, Jesus. A lot of people do not understand that there WILL BE REWARDS given to them if, because of their prayers FOR SINNERS, those sinners come to Christ, they will be rewarded in Heaven. The number of souls you save will determine your place in Heaven.
However, the opposite is also true. The more people you lead towards Hell, will be the level of Hell you will suffer.
NEVER STOP PRAYING AND LOVING ONE ANOTHER!
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Brother Tom I am just digging a little deeper into faith issues. There has to be more to the salvation story for the Jewish people or Mosses would not have been seen with Christ on the mount of transfiguration. I am just trying to get a different perspective to an important question.
4 years ago
Regardless of the Ten Commandments, without Yeshua the rest of Judaism is as vile and asinine as Islam.
4 years ago
Such a variety of anti-Semite types on this discussion thread…probably they think of themselves as the “God police”…shameful to say the least.
4 years ago
Ding, ding, ding!!! No one has drawn these parallels ever before. All hail, Nonie !!! Totally brilliant!
4 years ago
What happened to the video on the Mt. of Moses? I watched it yesterday.
4 years ago
I do believe the author of this article is onto something. Since Islam as it has been lived out by Muslims over the millennia, is antithetical to America which is founded on judeo-christian principles of the ten commandments and biblical principles, it is easy to see why Muslims are anti-Semitic & hate America.
4 years ago
This explains why so many democrats loath Christians, Jews but Islamists?
