Orthodox Jews Burn Hundreds of Bibles

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Yes, I know you meant a small group, but the discription you left didn’t distinguish them from other Orthodox Jews. 🙂
 
I know all that,jews are like people in general,and people in general tend to avoid all kinds of extremism…also,what did i say about Israel? it has nothing to do with my opinion about Judaism.I see it as a the religion that is most similar to islam,thats my opinion
 
Emily01 said:
Orthodox Jews burnt hundreds of bibles in Israel two years ago
by Associated Press

"It seems burning of religious texts is not something only confined to crazy fringe Christian leaders wanting to burn Quran’s on Spet 11.

In 2008 Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in an act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land."
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I’m not surprised in the least. To Jews as well, our faith is profane.
There are certain multiculturalists out there who believe that it’s a fruitful intellectual exercise to compare the three great monotheistic religions.
I think it’s a waste of time because there are more contrasts than comparisons.
Our histories are such that each has gone his or her own way.
There seems to be quite a lot of wormwood between them as they exist now.
And only God can seal these breaches.
 
viveret said:
I’m not surprised in the least. To Jews as well, our faith is profane.
There are certain multiculturalists out there who believe that it’s a fruitful intellectual exercise to compare the three great monotheistic religions.
I think it’s a waste of time because there are more contrasts than comparisons.
Our histories are such that each has gone his or her own way.
There seems to be quite a lot of wormwood between them as they exist now.
And only God can seal these breaches.
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In the Jewish State of Israel it is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment to burn the Christian scriptures or the Koran. The singular incident of the thread , which occurred in 2008, was a spontaneous local neighborhood reaction by extremely religious Jews to intense Christian missionary (Jews for Jesus) activity in their neighborhood. The missionaries distributed hundreds of copies of the Christian scriptures together with missionary material throughout the neighborhood. The local religious population gathered up the material and burned it. Now I suppose they could have just thrown it out, but I have no doubt they also had a message to send, given the last two thousand years of history, about people trying to convince them to stop being Jews.
 
Now I suppose they could have just thrown it out, but I have no doubt they also had a message to send, given the last two thousand years of history, about people trying to convince them to stop being Jews.
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The issue of what is holy and profane is central in monotheism.
If this material were merely bothersome, the community would have sent it elsewhere.
It was profane.
They burned it.
Period.

And if Jews are so offended by people trying to convert them to Christianity, why is it that John Hagee is welcomed into Israel?
 
From a criminal point of view, throwing the material into the trash could also been seen to be in contravention Israeli law. The essential difference is between a person who acquires the scriptures of another religion for the purpose of desecration and between having unwelcome and unsolicited religious material thrust into your mailbox. Now if the posters here received religious tracts from Jehovah Witnesses or Scientologists or Mormons, that they did not wish and was aimed at their abandoning Catholicism, how should and would they act? If the particular material was historically connected with the persecution of their people and religion should that influence their actions? Now for the record, I myself would have placed it on my bookshelf for further study.
 
I also think contributing such material to the local library or other repositories is a good idea. You never know when a historian is going to need it.
 
There is an additional aspect to consider when dealing with Jewish orthodox families. Christians often justify trying to make Jews break their eternal covenant with God and to adopt their beliefs, on the basis of their dogma that only people holding their beliefs may get into the world to come. Seemingly, not only should the Jews not object to these attempts at conversion, they should be grateful that an attempt is made to save the Jews from themselves. The Jew on the hand, believes that the Gentile not only is not barred from the world to come, but that it is easier for the Gentile than for the Jew to get into the world to come, as they have only to follow the seven Noahide commandments. However, this is only true concerning Gentiles not Jews. Under Judaism, if a Jew abandons Judaism and adopts Gentile beliefs, than that Jew is cut off forever both from God and the Jewish people. Orthodox Jewish parents seeing their children exposed to missionary activity are sincerely and seriously concerned for their children’s welfare.
 
Chosen People - That has to be one of the best (and accurate) explanations I have read on this forum. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
 
chosen_people said:
There is an additional aspect to consider when dealing with Jewish orthodox families. Christians often justify trying to make Jews break their eternal covenant with God and to adopt their beliefs, on the basis of their dogma that only people holding their beliefs may get into the world to come. Seemingly, not only should the Jews not object to these attempts at conversion, they should be grateful that an attempt is made to save the Jews from themselves. The Jew on the hand, believes that the Gentile not only is not barred from the world to come, but that it is easier for the Gentile than for the Jew to get into the world to come, as they have only to follow the seven Noahide commandments. However, this is only true concerning Gentiles not Jews. Under Judaism, if a Jew abandons Judaism and adopts Gentile beliefs, than that Jew is cut off forever both from God and the Jewish people. Orthodox Jewish parents seeing their children exposed to missionary activity are sincerely and seriously concerned for their children’s welfare.
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there is a muslim family in Israel,they used to be orthodox jews,so much that they moved from USA to Israel,and there they met some muslims and learned more about islam,so they found truth(so to say).The guy talkes a lot about jewish religion that is so hateful against nonjews…its really true,i didnt believe the word “gentile” is still used…:eek::eek:
 
Holy books should not be burned or disrespected in any way.

stormy
 
chosen_people said:
There is an additional aspect to consider when dealing with Jewish orthodox families. Christians often justify trying to make Jews break their eternal covenant with God and to adopt their beliefs, on the basis of their dogma that only people holding their beliefs may get into the world to come. Seemingly, not only should the Jews not object to these attempts at conversion, they should be grateful that an attempt is made to save the Jews from themselves. The Jew on the hand, believes that the Gentile not only is not barred from the world to come, but that it is easier for the Gentile than for the Jew to get into the world to come, as they have only to follow the seven Noahide commandments. However, this is only true concerning Gentiles not Jews. Under Judaism, if a Jew abandons Judaism and adopts Gentile beliefs, than that Jew is cut off forever both from God and the Jewish people. Orthodox Jewish parents seeing their children exposed to missionary activity are sincerely and seriously concerned for their children’s welfare.
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thank you chosen. i really could have used your (name removed by moderator)ut on some other threads dealing with gentile sabbath keepers, who think the gentiles are obliged to keep the Jewish law, instead of the noahdic law. and for some weird reason believe that God has abandoned his Chosen people the Jews. when our own New testament says otherwise. Peace Grace and many blessings to you and yours. 🙂
 
Emily01 said:
Orthodox Jews burnt hundreds of bibles in Israel two years ago
by Associated Press

"It seems burning of religious texts is not something only confined to crazy fringe Christian leaders wanting to burn Quran’s on Spet 11.

In 2008 Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in an act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land."

Apparently, it’s OK for Jews to burn hundreds of copies of the Holy Bible, but I wonder the tremendous amount of public outcry if even 1 copy of the extremely blasphemous Jewish Talmud were to be burned.
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Please give sources.
 
bosnian_muslim said:
there is a muslim family in Israel,they used to be orthodox jews,so much that they moved from USA to Israel,and there they met some muslims and learned more about islam,so they found truth(so to say).The guy talkes a lot about jewish religion that is so hateful against nonjews…its really true,i didnt believe the word “gentile” is still used…:eek::eek:
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wow! i am really offended being called a gentile! :rolleyes: maybe that term is used because that is what non-Jewish people are. myself included. its not a slur. Peace
 
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