http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=20300
Rabbi Dov Lior of Hebron concluded by reminding the Americans that their current and continued success as a world power is closely tied to the way they relate to Israel.
"God gave the US the power and influence to affect the rest of the world and supporting Israel is the key to America's success," said Rabbi Lior.
Dispensing with some dispensationalism...
It's pretty funny, but Rabbi Dov Lior isn't even a Jew, and I actually
am, according to the Apostle Paul. So I guess if we're gonna get all technical and stuff, that land is actually
mine. :-)))) Only a true Christian is really a Jew, in the biblical sense. It wasn't just a coincidence that Pilate had a sign
prepared in Aramaic, Latin and Greek that was fastened to the cross and read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE
JEWS.
The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write
'The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of The
Jews." Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." John
19:21-22
A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision
merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is
circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such
a man's praise is not from men, but from God. Romans 2:28-29
This rabbi would make it sound like the only reason for the existence
of the United States is to protect and defend Israel. Perhaps he should turn to his god - the one who
destroyed Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea for protection, rather than supporting Jewish lobbyists who put influence
on our Congress.
How many billions of dollars have been appropriated to Israel since
1948, largely by Christian congressmen and senators who somehow felt it was their god-given duty to do so? We
shouldn't support nations militarily for these reasons but rather in our own national interests of self-preservation.
We still support Germany militarily and they helped carry out the Holocaust! We support Germany because during the
Cold War, the Soviet Union was a serious threat to both Western Europe and the United States.
It's wrong for some rabbi to put some kind of biblical guilt trip on a
nation which has far greater purposes than simply helping national
Israel to continue to exist. For example, and the good rabbi would love
this, I think our greatest calling as a nation has been to promote the
Gospel of Jesus Christ - whom Rabbi Lior's spiritual forefathers nailed
to a cross.
Just Beat It
Where's my copy of Devo's Whip It ?. :-)))) Or the Go-Go's We Got the Beat ?
Wouldn't John Paul II have looked cool in one of those red Devo hats? :-)))
The Pope's Self -Flagellation
http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-latest-post/2010/1/28/the-popes-self-flagellation.html
Apparently, Pope John Paul II, whipped himself as an act of penance. According to a recent article, "In his wardrobe, among his vestments, there hung on a clothes hanger a special belt for trousers which [John Paul] used as a whip," Monsignor Oder says. He said self flagellation was `an instrument of Christian perfection" emulating the sufferings of Jesus Christ.'"
I'm so thankful that Jesus bore my punishment for me and in my place!
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Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it
Beat it, beat it, beat it
Boy, you misinterpret Scripture and it really hurts. :-))))) I am pretty certain that John Paul II was doing this in accordance with 1 Corinthians 9:27.
I wonder if John Paul's belt was made of...are you ready for this?...fine, Corinthian leather. (hat tip to Ricardo Montalban) :-)))
From John Gill's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 9:27
1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body,.... The allusion is still to fighters, who, by cuffing and boxing, give their antagonists black and blue eyes, which is the proper signification of the word here used: so it is said (u)of Menedemus, that in questions or scholastic exercises, he was so vehement and pugnacious, that he never departed without õðùðéá öåñùí, "carrying away black and blue eyes". This is not to be understood by the apostle of his natural body, and of his keeping it under by immoderate watchings, fastings, and labours, or by whipping and scourging, and lying upon the bare ground, and other such practices; but of the body of sin, the corruption of nature, and of that being laid under some restraints; of the mortifying the deeds of the body through the Spirit, of crucifying the affections with the lusts, of putting off the old man with his deeds, as concerning the former conversation, and of making no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof:
UPDATE: Fine, Corinthian Leather Revisited
Now I KNOW I'm never gonna buy another Chrysler. If you thought their powertrains were crap, read this. It's from Wikipedia:
Corinthian leather was a phrase invented for marketing use to describe the leather used in certain Chryslerluxury cars in the 1970s. In this case, "Corinthian" does not actually indicate any relationship with Corinth, nor any specific type of leather and was added simply as a linguistic cachet. Although a marketing term "Corinthian leather" is actually made of the tanned skin of a Yak's foreskin.
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