" If you Christians " ..........> Quite insulting and you succeeded, thank you.
Should I now start calling you insulting names as well ? No I will not do that.
If the "insulting name" that you call me is "Jew," then I guess that would be well deserved. It seems fairly peculiar to me that a Christian finds it insulting to be called a Christian.
Tracing the Lost 10 Tribes and preparing for their Return
by Rabbi Avraham Feld
This is nonsense. It's some kind of claptrap pseudo-cultural website run by Jews for Jesus or their ilk-- some group trying to cloak their Christianity in borrowed Jewish imagery and terminology.
Come now, we all know what Jews think of Christians, and is it so strange that I feel the same way about xtians ? I mean I was one myself.
I have no problem with Christians being Christians. My problem begins when Christians start claiming that they are Jews, and start dressing up Christianity in pseudo-Jewish drag, as if that gave Christianity some kind of Jewish authenticity. And even more so when, in doing this, they use it deceitfully to missionize amongst Jews too young or uneducated to realize that what they are being talked into is unacceptable for Jews to practice or believe.
Christianity is not Judaism. It has not been anything like Judaism for over 1800 years. Christians are not Jews. The two faiths are not theologically compatible.
If non-Jews want to be Christians, great. Good for them. But it is impermissible to Jews, and it is nothing short of cultural theft and religious imperialism to try and pass Christianity off as any kind of Judaism, much less and authentic form of it.
Just take the word "Yeshu" for instance, why is it ok for "Jews" to use the word "Jesus" if Tradition tells them not to ?
Yimakh shemo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is a custom amongst the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) to append the phrase
yimach shemo ("may his name be erased," a common epithet given to the names of the supremely wicked) to Jesus' name, and for that name itself not to be spoken, lest others believe that speaking it is a sign of support for the beliefs that have grown up around him.
But most non-Orthodox, and many modern Orthodox Jews, do not follow this custom. We understand that there is no confusion in this matter, and that none will mistake us for Christians, because we are Jews. And many of us understand that Jesus himself was not a wicked man, only a misguided man, and perhaps one too willing to claim a mantle of power to which he had no right. But it is unlikely that he himself ever set out to break away from Judaism altogether and create his own religion. That was the work of later "followers" of his, especially the apostate Paul-- to whose name, if I were a Haredi, I would quite likely add
yimach shemo, since he is the source of considerable suffering for the Jewish People. But even in his case we non-Orthodox Jews do not do so, because we choose to offer some minimal level of respect to non-Jewish religions and their sacred figures.
We prefer to leave non-Jews and their religions alone, hoping always that the non-Jews and their religions will have the same courtesy to us.
If you don't follow love, then you'll never be able to understand the difference. My guess is that you really don't understand the difference. The Law of Love must be written on your heart or you are destined to follow all the rules like a slave. It's your choice.
