Upon further study of the eras related to 70 CE, 560 CE, 1540 CE, and 2030 CE; it would seem that each era veers further from the original Jewish roots of our faith. Each era is punctuated by an effort to exterminate all things Jewish. What remains is blond, blue-eyed Surfer Jesus that is our buddy because Christians get grace, and the Jews get Hell. Nothing could be fuehrer (intended) from the truth.
By 70 CE, the Temple and Jerusalem are destroyed, the Jews are murdered or expelled from the Holy Land, and the first schism occurred: Messianic Judaism was annihilated by Romans and Gentile Christians.
Early in the first century, most archaeologists’
have found that there were three churches present across Asia and Europe. The
Jewish Synagogue, the Messianic Synagogue, and the Christian Church all have
buildings coexisting peacefully nearby in most regions, especially in Turkey
(the seven churches cited by John in Revelation). When the Roman [Christian] Church
became more powerful, it systematically bullied the Jews, and destroyed the
Messianic Churches. By 560 CE, any hint of Messianic faith was gone. All that
remained was dispersed Jewish communities, and the depraved government Church
of Rome, soon to be the Holy Roman Empire. Thus, the second schism occured.
By 1050 CE, the Eastern Church planned to split from the
Roman Catholic Church because of deep divisions. Thus, the third schism occured.
Relations between East and West had long been
embittered by ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes.[2][3][4]
Prominent among these were the issues of the source of the Holy Spirit
("filioque"), whether leavened or unleavened bread should be used in
the Eucharist,[5] the Pope's claim to universal jurisdiction, and the place of
Constantinople in relation to the Pentarchy.[6]
In 1053 CE, the first step was taken in the process
which led to formal schism. Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius
ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople.[7][8][9] According
to the historian John Bagnell Bury, Cerularius' purpose in closing the Latin
churches was "to cut short any attempt at conciliation".[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_SchismBy 1539-1540 CE, prompted by lions chasing him in his dreams, Suleiman the Magnificent's men rebuilt the streets and the walls of Jerusalem, and sealed the Eastern Gate, for only the Messiah to enter. This also marked the time for the supposed reformers to turn their anger against the Jews. Martin Luther became a full-fledged anti-Semite, and John Calvin became a Systematic Theologian, totally divorced from Hebraic thought. Neither truly reformed much of anything about the non-biblical practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Rather, both reformed the Protestant Church further away from Yahushua haMashiach, a Judean Rabbi. That anti-Semitic sentiment remains as Luther and Calvin’s lasting gift to the protest. The fourth and final schism occured.
Luther's main works on the Jews were his 65,000-word
treatise Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen (On the Jews and Their Lies) and Vom
Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (Of the Unknowable Name and the Generations
of Christ) — reprinted five times within his lifetime — both written in 1543,
three years before his death.[10] It is believed that Luther was influenced by
Anton Margaritha's book Der gantze Jüdisch Glaub (The Whole Jewish Belief).[11]
Margaritha, a convert to Christianity who had become a Lutheran, published his
antisemitic book in 1530 which was read by Luther in 1539. Margaritha's book
was decisively discredited by Josel of Rosheim in a public debate in 1530
before Charles V and his court,[12] resulting in Margaritha's expulsion from
the Empire.
In 1543 Luther published On the Jews and Their Lies
in which he says that the Jews are a "base, whoring people, that is, no
people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be
accounted as filth."[13] They are full of the "devil's feces ...
which they wallow in like swine."[14] The synagogue was a "defiled
bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut ..."[15] He argues that
their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed,
rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated.
They should be shown no mercy or kindness,[16] afforded no legal
protection,[17] and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be
drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time.[18] He also seems to
advocate their murder, writing "[w]e are at fault in not slaying
them".[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_anti-SemitismCalvin and the Jews
Most of Calvin's statements on the Jewry of his era
were polemical. For example, Calvin once wrote, "I have had much
conversation with many Jews: I have never seen either a drop of piety or a
grain of truth or ingenuousness – nay, I have never found common sense in any
Jew."[103] In this respect, he differed little from other Protestant and
Catholic theologians of his day.[104] Among his extant writings, Calvin only
dealt explicitly with issues of contemporary Jews and Judaism in one
treatise,[105] Response to Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew.[106] In
it, he argued that Jews misread their own scriptures because they miss the
unity of the Old and New Testaments.[107] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin#Calvin_and_the_Jews
With respect to Paul’s writings, is it a wonder if any generation over the last 2,000 years has ever read these words?
With respect to the Good News they are hated for
your sake. But with respect to being chosen they are loved for the Patriarchs’
sake, for God’s free gifts and his calling are irrevocable. Just as you
yourselves were disobedient to God before but have received mercy now because
of Isra’el’s disobedience; so also Isra’el has been disobedient now, so that by
your showing them the same mercy that God has shown you, they too may now
receive God’s mercy. For God has shut up all mankind together in disobedience,
in order that he might show mercy to all. Romans 11:28-32 (CJB)With respect to Paul’s writings, is it a wonder if any generation over the last 2,000 years has ever read these words?
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