Richard Aberdeen
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Many modern preachers severely misrepresent various prophets in the Old Testament. In the United States today, Christians are taught to blindly support Israel, blindly support politicians who blindly support Israel and to blindly support the U.S. government in arming Israel to the teeth with all manner of nefarious weaponry (representing huge profits for the U.S. military industrial complex), no matter how rightly or wrongly Israel treats her neighbors. Wicked leaders in modern Israel for many years have enslaved and otherwise horribly unjustly treated the Palestinian population in their midst.
The real prophets in the Old Testament were very brave people who by-and-in-large, stood up against grave wrong doings and injustices of their own people. The real prophets strongly opposed the actions of Israel whenever her leaders didn't act in accordance with what the prophets believed to be God's will. It is overwhelmingly absurd to pretend that the real Isaiah and Jeremiah would defend the leadership of Israel today in regards to how they continue to gravely and unjustly severely mistreat the Palestinian people.
Evidence for Isaiah, Jeremiah and other major Old Testament figures:
Associates for Biblical Research
Evidence for a minor "seer" indicates the authenticity of other more prominent biblical persons: Evidence for Balaam
More Biblical Evidence
Here is what Isaiah has to say in regards to the eventual future for all nations on earth: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore" Isaiah 2:4.
Consider how absurd it is to pretend that Isaiah would endorse arming Israel to the teeth against her neighbors like modern conservative Christian preachers do. This in spite of what Jesus himself commands us in agreement with Isaiah, that we should put our swords away.
When Jesus was born, God's messengers sang, "on earth peace, goodwill to the people" Luke 2:14. This ushered in a new covenant of love for one another, a covenant of loving our enemies and turning the other cheek. Rather than the old "eye-for-an-eye' covenant of the Old Testament; a covenant of grace, mercy, love, peace and freedom, rather than one of law.
We don't have peace on earth today. But love, justice, peace and freedom are most definitely what all of us should be striving to achieve, rather than promoting, endorsing and moving in the opposite direction. Modern Christians who say they don't care about climate catastrophe or looming disease, famine, global anarchy and World War Three, because they believe such will hasten the return of Jesus, have no idea who Jesus loves and no understanding or concept of what love even is.
According to the New Testament, it is the will of our father in heaven, who is love, that no man, woman or child living on earth should perish. People suffer and die, not because it is God's will but rather, because of our own negative choices and actions. Jesus clearly says, "these things I command you, that you love one another" John 15:17. Christians who promote otherwise are directly contradicting Jesus himself.
We know by the collective words and deeds of Jesus and by the Old Testament command to love our neighbor as our self, how we should behave. That it is God's will that we should care in every way, what happens to God's children who are already born and living among us.
How can anyone claim to care about the unborn, who doesn't care what happens to them after they are born and worse, who supports wicked political leaders who likewise, don't care and rather, deliberately harm the sick, the poor and the otherwise oppressed? How can anyone care about the unborn who they have not seen, while failing to care about the already born, who they have seen?
The real prophets in the Old Testament were very brave people who by-and-in-large, stood up against grave wrong doings and injustices of their own people. The real prophets strongly opposed the actions of Israel whenever her leaders didn't act in accordance with what the prophets believed to be God's will. It is overwhelmingly absurd to pretend that the real Isaiah and Jeremiah would defend the leadership of Israel today in regards to how they continue to gravely and unjustly severely mistreat the Palestinian people.
Evidence for Isaiah, Jeremiah and other major Old Testament figures:
Associates for Biblical Research
Evidence for a minor "seer" indicates the authenticity of other more prominent biblical persons: Evidence for Balaam
More Biblical Evidence
Here is what Isaiah has to say in regards to the eventual future for all nations on earth: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore" Isaiah 2:4.
Consider how absurd it is to pretend that Isaiah would endorse arming Israel to the teeth against her neighbors like modern conservative Christian preachers do. This in spite of what Jesus himself commands us in agreement with Isaiah, that we should put our swords away.
When Jesus was born, God's messengers sang, "on earth peace, goodwill to the people" Luke 2:14. This ushered in a new covenant of love for one another, a covenant of loving our enemies and turning the other cheek. Rather than the old "eye-for-an-eye' covenant of the Old Testament; a covenant of grace, mercy, love, peace and freedom, rather than one of law.
We don't have peace on earth today. But love, justice, peace and freedom are most definitely what all of us should be striving to achieve, rather than promoting, endorsing and moving in the opposite direction. Modern Christians who say they don't care about climate catastrophe or looming disease, famine, global anarchy and World War Three, because they believe such will hasten the return of Jesus, have no idea who Jesus loves and no understanding or concept of what love even is.
According to the New Testament, it is the will of our father in heaven, who is love, that no man, woman or child living on earth should perish. People suffer and die, not because it is God's will but rather, because of our own negative choices and actions. Jesus clearly says, "these things I command you, that you love one another" John 15:17. Christians who promote otherwise are directly contradicting Jesus himself.
We know by the collective words and deeds of Jesus and by the Old Testament command to love our neighbor as our self, how we should behave. That it is God's will that we should care in every way, what happens to God's children who are already born and living among us.
How can anyone claim to care about the unborn, who doesn't care what happens to them after they are born and worse, who supports wicked political leaders who likewise, don't care and rather, deliberately harm the sick, the poor and the otherwise oppressed? How can anyone care about the unborn who they have not seen, while failing to care about the already born, who they have seen?
