“Why would Jesus go through the crucifixtion and ressurection if He wasn’t God?” – why would 200,000 others Jews besides Jesus be crucified by the Romans?

“Remember Jesus said all other ways are false and He is the Only way to reach Heaven” – yeah, and Muhamad said the same thing too. Same with Jim Jones, by the way. Luckily, Hinduism and Judaism both are more tolerant religions. I don’t care what religion anyone else follows, because my motto is Jesus’s teaching “You shall know the tree by its fruit.”

“confess your sins to Jesus and live for Him” – I’ll stick with G-d, thank you very much.

“Now are you calling Jesus a liar?” Yes.

“A prophet can’t forgive sin but Jesus did and this proves Deity” – or fraud, or insanity.

“Remember the other faiths have not made the same payment of sin that Jesus did for us” – except that Deuteronomy 24:16 makes it crystal clear that G-d holds every person responsible solely for his own sin.

As I said before, why doesn’t he check out the beam in his own eye first?

Certainly not. The Lord should never be accused of hate. The hater here is garyt. The comments above sound like they’d make a great foreword to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or Mein Kampf, or the Qur’an. Maybe garyt can hang out with Usama bin Laden in the afterlife.

it is “talk the walk, walk the talk” as in you are going to talk the walk you better be able to walk the talk

grrr

I can’t believe the sickening statements my wonderful Christian neighbors are making about Judaism. Did you ever open up the Bible and open up your brain at the same time?

I fully appreciate the razor sharp statements you’ve offered here.

As a practicing Catholic, a devout follower of American Indian spiritual teachings and Navajo religious customs, and a man married to a Jewish woman, I want to be accountable in this discussion for my silence on the matter.

But rather than confuse accountability with putting a gigantic “NOT ME!” button on my chest, I want to say that I never once learned in any spiritual setting that maligning Judaism or its followers was expected of me.

I offer this not to defend myself or to imply that you have lumped me in with others.

I offer this point because *how* I was taught is almost as important as *what* I’ve been taught over the 5 decades I’ve spent on Earth. Human teachers who lived close to the Way of the Christ, The Prophets, and the Great Mysteries, exemplify the walk along with their facility with the talk.

It has never made sense to me how someone in a position of authority as a spiritual teacher could imply, insinuate, or dispense lessons which called for the degradation and destruction of people from other faiths simply because they held their own faith and sought to practice it; how they could teach THAT and not implode from a complete lack of integrity is beyond my understanding.

I hope “Christians” here have taken to heart the words you have expressed here with such erudition and verve.

My thanks for telling it like it is.
Shalom and good evening to you and yours.

Bear1909 out.

I think that’s incorrect, Bear. The verse cited above is from the Hadith. There might be something in the Koran though, someone can enlighten me Surah and verse on that point.

purplepeep: but of course. i see that i misquoted referring to the Golden Book of Humanity when in fact it was Hadith.

tsk. tsk. how to keep all of that wisdom straight in my pea brain.

thanks for the clarifier.

now back to my regularly scheduled bout of outrage with Adobe Premier Pro.

I can’t believe the sickening statements my wonderful Christian neighbors are making about Judaism. Did you ever open up the Bible and open up your brain at the same time?

There are many things in the Bible, including laws, prophecy and history, among others. Were you aware that laws are not the same thing as history? What a concept!

America has fought several wars, some for survival. That doesn’t mean we have a religious imperative to kill all non-Americans. The Israelites were attacked many times by other nations, including during their years of wandering in the Sinai desert, and – surprise – chose to fight back in order to survive. Are you shocked? That doesn’t mean there is a Jewish imperative to kill non-Jews. In fact, I will tell you authoritatively that there is no such law. Indeed, one Jewish prophet says, “Each man shall walk in the name of his god, and I shall walk in the name of the Lord” – vastly more tolerant than Christianity. We are even forbidden from proselytizing. But you have the audacity to talk about the “progression” from one scripture to another? Get the beam out of your own eye before pointing out the mote in someone else’s eye, as the Talmud teaches.

On February 20th, 2008 at 4:49 pm, lgm said:
Quoting the Koran does not prove Islam is violent any more than quoting Joshua proves that Judaism is violent.

Many Muslim clerics and leaders quote the Koran to prove that Islam is violent. Your argument is with them, not us.

I challenge you to cite any contemporary Christians or Jews who quote the Bible to justify attacks on non-believers.

Granted, not by force.

That’s the point. I’m not asking what any book says. I’m telling you to find me a Christian sect that encourages the wholesale slaughter of another race/religion. Not conversion, slaughter.

Nowhere will you find any non-muslim clergyman spewing such foolishness. Nowhere does Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, or any other religion preach that you will be rewarded in heaven for taking somebody else’s life.