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Is Christianity correct when it claims Jesus (peace and blessings be upon him) to be the Son of God?
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Is Christianity correct when it claims Jesus (peace and blessings be upon him) to be the Son of God?
Christianity is an awesome religion. But Christian theology is [at best] misleading. Why? Simply because the latter claims Jesus (a mortal man of flesh and blood) to be the literal Son of God; And it also goes on to claim that, being “the Son of God” implies Jesus shared God’s own nature [thereby being equal to God, and worthy of our worship and praise].
Yet despite their Father/Son relationship, Christianity persists to claim the status of a monotheistic religion; one that worships one single God. Can you imagine a Greek pagan claiming that, since Zeus was the father of Vulcan, Apollos, Mars, and Neptune, they all share the same nature; and thus were all just one single God... Would you ever believe the Greek religion to be a monotheistic one?
Truth be told, if anyone has the right to claim to be “the Son of God”, it is the nation of Israel. Why? Because God personally bears witness to it. As is written: “... Thus saith the Lord, ISRAEL IS MY SON, EVEN MY FIRSTBORN”- Exodus 4: 22.
And the fact of Israel being “the Son of God”, also implies that each Israelite is a “god-like” creature, as attested by the Creator, when He goes on to say: “I [God] have said, YE ARE GODS; AND ALL OF YOU ARE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH”- Psalm 82: 6, KJV.
Curiously, no sincere Hebrew believer would ever dare claiming any sort of Divinity for himself. Why? Because true believers are expected to be meek and humble, avoiding all sort of self exaltation. As is written: “LET ANOTHER MAN PRAISE THEE, AND NOT THINE OWN MOUTH; A STRANGER, AND NOT THINE OWN LIPS... ”- Proverbs 27: 2, KJV.
And it is also written in another place: “The high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, the Holy One, says this: I LIVE IN THAT HIGH AND HOLY PLACE WHERE THOSE WITH CONTRITE, HUMBLE SPIRITS DWELL; AND I REFRESH THE HUMBLE... ”- Isaiah 57: 15, Living Bible
God, and the openly Homosexual lifestyle
Reformed Samaritanism teaches that God is slow to chastise any sin; save open immorality... He is slow to chastise any open immorality, save openly homosexual immorality.... Why? Because the latter violates God’s commandments (All of them! ).
In other words, the homosexual man dishonors his parents (... putting them to shame with his homosexual conduct);
he steals (" robbing his parent’s share of grandchildren); he bears false testimony (claiming to be " a woman trapped inside a man's body”);
he murders (the souls of the offspring he refuses to bring into the world as a result of his homosexual lifestyle);
he blasphemes his Creator (hinting that God isn’t perfect, as He assigned him " the wrong biological sex" );
he covets what doesn’t belong to him (the role of the woman, which was given to her as " an exclusive property" );
he serves and worship a " serpent-like" idol (the male penis, which has the shape of " a serpent" ); he violates Shabbat (with the " extraneous fire" of his homosexual passion).
In fact, there’s no sin homosexuality doesn’t violate. That’s why, even when God was angry with many cities (Niniveh, Tyre, Sidon, Babylonia, etc), He gave them centuries to repent. But as for Sodom and Gomorrah, He exterminated them at once (again, as if to imply that He is slow to judge any sin, save open homosexuality.
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Joshua, the prophet promised by God
God promised to send Israel a prophet like Moses, as is written: “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth... ”- Deuteronomy 18: 18, King James Bible. In what sense would this prophet be like Moses? In that, just as Moses had written Torah (God's Law), he too would write Torah. And who was this prophet? - Joshua, of whom it is said: “And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of God... ”- Joshua 24: 24, KJV.
But, didn't Joshua write his own book? What words would Joshua write in the book of the Law?.... He did write many words, including the verse stating that Moses was the most humble of all men (“Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth”- Numbers 12: 3, KJV), as well as the way Moses did eventually die (the last 8 verses of the book of Deuteronomy, starting with the phrase-- “So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.... ”- Deuteronomy 34: 5, KJV)
Don’t let anyone entice you to be “devoured” by the lion!
Hebrew Scripture hints at the idea that, once the God of the Hebrews has commanded you to do [or say] something (get yourself circumcised, keep Shabbat, abstain from pork and shell fish, Keep the sacred feasts, constantly meditate in Torah, etc), you should not let anyone fool you into embracing the [false] idea that the Almighty has arbitrarily changed His mind concerning you.
Indeed, you should keep in mind the incident that happened to the prophet whom God had sent to rebuke wicked king Jeroboam. You see, the Creator had told this prophet that he shouldn’t eat nor drink while at Samaria; but suddenly a false prophet showed up, and convinced him that God had changed His mind [so that the prophet could now do what God had formerly forbidden him to do]. In the end, this false prophet not only rebuked God’s real prophet, but even foretold him that his rebellion would be severely punished [being eventually devoured by the lion].
As is written: «Then he [the false prophet] said unto him, “Come home with me, and eat bread”. And he [the real prophet] said, “I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest’ ”. He said unto him, “I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water’ ”. But he lied unto him. So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. … And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, “Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee, But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers”… And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him”»- 1 Kings 13: 15-19, 20-22, & 24- King James Bible.
Why was “the lion” image used in connection with the former allegorical story of rebellion and punishment? And why are we told that the real prophet was from the tribe of Judah [therefore being a jew]? It was used in order to serve as “a hint”; one foretelling that, in the future, all Jewish believers would need to exercise caution when dealing with the ideas surrounding the image of “a coming lion” (Jesus, whom Christianity describes as being “the lion of Judah’s tribe”).
Thus, any Jewish (or Hebrew) believer who embraces the false notion that God no longer wants him to abstain from what God has forbidden him [by means of Moses Law], is thereby listening to a false prophet, and just as it happened to the ancient Jewish prophet, he too will risk being “devoured” [suffering harm] by “the lion”. May Adonay have mercy of all Hebrew believers...
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