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originally posted by: DarknStormy
a reply to: Snakedoctorjw
One of the hardest things people can do is decipher who are good religious people and who are the bad religious people. We tend to just throw everyone in the same category. If Christians were running around blowing themselves up we would all be labelled terrorists just like the Muslims are today.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
the truth is they have no promise to that land if they are unrighteous.
The Modern day Israel is in fact the Antichrist ...
originally posted by: FlyersFan
- Everyone has a different opinion on what 'righteous' is. I could give a list of 'unrighteous' things that Israel is doing .. but also that the 'Palestinians' are doing, and that Syria is doing, and that Iran is doing, and that China is doing, and that the USA is doing. If the land in Israel can only go to those who are 'righteous' then NO group of people on this planet should be there. It should be uninhabited.
- Did they ever really have the promise from God in the first place, or did someone just claim it and so it became part of their own folklore?
It may be antichrist, but I don't think it's 'THE Antichrist'. From reading scripture, it looks like 'the Antichrist' is a single human being. But at any rate, I'm sure there are lots of 'antichrist's' out there ... and there are lots of people in the running for possibly being 'the Antichrist.
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: DarknStormy
a reply to: Snakedoctorjw
One of the hardest things people can do is decipher who are good religious people and who are the bad religious people. We tend to just throw everyone in the same category. If Christians were running around blowing themselves up we would all be labelled terrorists just like the Muslims are today.
that's true, but explain why American Christian right-wingers went to Africa and convinced an entire government to put to death gay people, and the US government had to come and they were finally able to convinced them not to do that....so ....gay people there, now JUST, JUST... get a "life in prison" sentence......maybe atheists can go down to an African country and convince that government to give the death sentence to all Christians in that country....oh yeah, American atheists don't, because they believe in the first amendment, that everyone is entitled to believe their in own religion, without persecuting others.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
The thing is Homosexuality has always been condemned by all religions.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
righteous is what is considered righteous in the scriptures. Stealing and Murder are examples of unrighteous, upholding the law of God is righteous. This was the conditions in inheriting the holy land ....
From October 8th, 2013 - New York Times
The four mitochondrial lineages common among Ashkenazis are now very rare elsewhere in the Near East and Europe, making it hard to identify with certainty the lineages from which they originated.
With the entire mitochondrial genome in hand, Dr. Richards could draw up family trees with a much finer resolution than before. His trees show that the four major Ashkenazi lineages in fact form clusters within descent lines that were established in Europe some 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The same is true of most of the minor lineages.
“Thus the great majority of Ashkenazi maternal lineages were not brought from the Levant, as commonly supposed,” Dr. Richards and colleagues conclude in their paper. Overall, at least 80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and 8 percent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain, the researchers estimate.
Dr. Richards estimates that the four major lineages became incorporated into the Ashkenazi community at least 2,000 years ago. A large Jewish community flourished in Rome at this time and included many converts. This community could have been the source of both the Ashkenazim of Europe and the Sephardim of Spain and Portugal, given that the two groups have considerable genetic commonality, Dr. Richards said.
I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan - Revelation 1;2, 9
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: DarknStormy
righteous is what is considered righteous in the scriptures. Stealing and Murder are examples of unrighteous, upholding the law of God is righteous. This was the conditions in inheriting the holy land ....
If the condition is 'do not murder' and 'do not steal' ... then no one should inherit the holy lands. I can't think of any group of people - religious groups or political groups - that doesn't wave something wicked in their present or past history. Heck .. the murder spree Joshua went on should kick the Jews out and the 'spread islam at the point of a sword' all through the 700s and 800s would exclude the Muslims. Christians have the crusades and christian on christian violence through the centuries so they can't have it either. I guess the Abrahamic religions all need to leave.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
Israel is built off murder and deceit .....
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: DarknStormy
Israel is built off murder and deceit .....
Most countries and most religions are. Israel is no better and no worse than the rest.
It all comes down to this - did God really promise Israel to the Jews 4,000 years ago? (answer - unknown) And was a part of that alleged promise that they had to behave a certain way?(yes) DId they misbehave? (yes) If they did, is there anyone worthy of picking up the alleged promise and living there? (No).
No one can prove that God actually made the promise to begin with.
So I don't think it matters. That's it. I'M OUT/
originally posted by: RocksFromSpace
Very interesting video about how the Quran Declares Holy Land Given To The Israelites.... but "With Conditions".. all of which Israel and the Jewish people have broken. So the covenant with God to the land claimed by Israel is null and void.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
originally posted by: FlyersFan
a reply to: DarknStormy
That's a good first step. Now ... WHO does he think should be getting the land? And is his opinion based on 4,000 year old ancient documents of an alleged promise from God? And why should anyone in 2014AD care about an unsubstantiated claim from 4000 years ago? It seems that both the Jews and the Muslims are using that alleged promise from God to further their own land grab agendas.
No, he is merely explaining the situation, he cannot change it or alter it. What is done is done for a reason. It's not about taking the land off the Jews. Islam also recognises the Jews as the people who were promised the holy land but because they were not meant to return, they look at this Israel as an imitation or imposter. So it's not so much that Israel is a country but the way it is operated and who is controlling it. Israel is owned by the Rothschild's.
originally posted by: Logarock
originally posted by: [post=17813033]DarknStormy
This is simply another side of the anti Israle kick. What? So the Muslims have the right to purge Israle out of the land and there by do Gods work? That's what this amounts to.
The truth is that the Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies.
They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. In their two thousand years of Divinely decreed exile no Jew ever sought to end this exile and establish independent political sovereignty anywhere. The people's sole purpose was the study and fulfillment of the Divine commandments of the Torah.
The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism's inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.
However, despite the media blackout and easy resort to terror the simple truth remains unrefuted and irrefutable: ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA!
Torah true Jewry waits patiently for the Messianic redemption. They have nothing to do with any kind of pseudo "Jewish State" and its aggressions against other peoples. They have a deep sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians who have suffered the most from Zionism's false teachings and barbaric actions. The Zionist state is not a Jewish state. The Zionists alone are the only ones responsible for their actions. Authentic Jewry has and will continue to oppose the very existence of this blasphemous state.
originally posted by: Logarock
a reply to: sk0rpi0n
Christians were not looking for a la la land return of Israle but simply the return of the people.
then Christians and jews also have to prove that using relevant scripture. And scripture tells us that israels stay on that land depended upon its moral behavior. Strange how christians defend an a people who insult jesus on national tv.
If this guy were trying to make a case that this isn't the return he must do it now according to the area of scripture that has to do with the return after the diaspora.
earlier area of scripture? When did God give israel permission to run brothels, hold gay parades and insult jesus?
That's found in Ezekiel. He wants to focus on an earlier area of scripturethat has to do with conditions of living in the land to begin with.
so when will God punish them for their present behaviour? (gay parades, prostitutuon, insulting jesus? )do the ''conditions'' allow israel to insult jesus and reject him as a false prophet among other things?
They were punished already for that and quite brutally as they were warned.
The conditions of the return are found in Ezekiel and are not a reestablishment under the original covenant agreement.