Israeli minister: The Bible says West Bank is ours - UpFront

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Bible is the book of Christianity, not Judaism.

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

I am for an Israeli state on 67 lines

I disagree with you on this, I believe in a unity state which will be both Islamic/Jewish. In the long run, it would be far more beneficial for the Palestinians to make a unity state.

 

[The SC]

really jews belive in Bible.. since when?

Judeo-Christian

This article is about the term grouping Judaism and Christianity. For the 20th-century American concept of common values shared between the two religions, see Judeo-Christian ethics. For modern Christians who retain a Jewish identity, see Messianic Judaism. For converts from Judaism to early Christianity, see Jewish Christian. For the intersection in general of Judaism with Christianity, see Christianity and Judaism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian


Principles of Judeochristianity

1. The basic text of Judeochristianity is the Bible as preserved in Jewish and Christian tradition. It consists of two parts: the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
   
   
2. The Bible is the divinely inspired word transmitted through human understanding over many times and places. The Bible must be understood as a whole, without picking and choosing only those parts that serve one’s interests. Nevertheless, the human process of transcription and transmission is fallible. Therefore the Bible cannot always be taken literally, and must be understood within the context of its original time and place.
   
   
3. Biblical criticism must be considered and can provide valuable insights concerning the Bible’s historical context and the meaning of the text itself. However, it cannot be an exclusive guide since many of its insights rely upon educated speculation. One must struggle with scripture, sifting its eternal truths from their time-bound expressions, and understanding these truths through faith and with the heart.
   
   
4. The Hebrew Bible must be understood in its own right and in its original order. It is the story of the discovery of God’s intimate relationship with human beings through the history and experience of the Hebrew People. The biblical term for this relationship is “covenant.”
   
   
5. The New Testament represents the continuation and culmination of Hebrew prophecy. Through Jesus’ life and teachings we learn that God’s intimate relationship with human beings extends to every individual member of every nation on earth. It was Jesus’ prophetic vocation to bring this message to the world. The New Testament extends the Hebrew covenant to all of humanity.
   
   
6. Judeochristianity is not a substitute for either Judaism or Christianity. It is a way of seeing both that emphasizes the continuity of these two traditions. As such Judeochristianity makes no commitment to either Jewish or Christian religious doctrine. It is equally applicable whether one believes Jesus to be the Son of God, the Messiah, or the last of the Hebrew prophets. Christians need not suspend their belief in Jesus’ divinity, nor need Jews accept this belief, in order to appreciate and benefit from this approach. Judeochristianity is a unifying approach that accepts both Jews and Christians (and others as well) exactly where they are.
   
   
7. The central idea in Judeochristianity is non-self-interested love. Non-self-interested love is defined as the awareness of others’ individuality. Jesus’ central message was to teach this love, which is the natural culmination of Hebrew prophecy. By his complete willingness to embrace his suffering and by his faith in redemption in spite of it, Jesus became a representative of all human suffering and his suffering became a prophetic demonstration of his message of God’s redemptive love.
   
   
8. God can neither be defined nor grasped with the intellect, but may be described as Absolute Goodness. Created in God’s image, we are endowed with a sense of goodness, which enables us to distinguish good from evil. This sense is limited, is not infallible, and may encounter difficulty evaluating competing goods. We must therefore use it with caution and self-awareness; nevertheless, it is our most reliable means to knowledge and guide to action. We may try to ignore or suppress this sense of goodness, or dismiss it from fear of facing ambiguity; nevertheless, we are responsible for cultivating it to the best of our ability. “The Spirit helps us in our weakness” (Romans 8:26): if we are genuinely devoted to understanding goodness, we will receive aid from beyond ourselves.
   
   
9. We cannot comprehend the whole of goodness, but we can discern its many specific expressions, such as love, beauty, honesty, integrity, generosity, patience, compassion, truth, and justice. The highest good of all is non-self-interested love, and is the standard by which other goods are judged. We can develop our sense of goodness. Self-examination is important, lest we substitute our own prejudices or desires for what is truly good. We have the capacity to tell the difference between desire and true goodness, and when we are honest with ourselves, we know. A well-developed sense of goodness is the soundest basis for faith, especially for those who have not learned faith when very young. Internalizing a sense of what goodness really is, we acquire hope in a saving Presence beyond ourselves, which is the source of the good that we perceive.
   
   
10. Keeping all this in mind, it is possible to speak of the reason for which we were created. We were created to reveal the goodness of God. We do this by expressing goodness directly in all its different forms, and by choosing goodness over its alternatives. Our highest purpose and the greatest good we can manifest is to learn to love without self-interest. Therefore this principle can serve as a guide to action in difficult situations. We can ask ourselves: of all the choices available, which most enables God’s nature to be known?
    
    
11. We can even speak of a specific reason for the creation of each one of us. This individualized reason is called our destiny. It is the unique way in which we are each called to express goodness in our own lives. It may have to do with the talents we were given, the jobs we must perform, or with entirely different things, including our network of relationships and the ways we express love through them. We may think of the spiritual journey that orders our lives as the search to find and fulfill our destiny. We cannot know it in advance. We discover it by devoting ourselves to God’s will, which is the expression of goodness. To practice this we listen for and follow the cues that point us toward the ways of expressing goodness that best fit our individual constitution and life circumstances.

Finally, these principles lead to the following article of faith:

The purpose of our lives is to realize non-self-interested love. If we cherish it and are working toward it, God helps us. If we ignore it, then we are left to our own devices.
The Test of True Religion
The foregoing principles lead us to a criterion through which religions may be judged. Too much religion, especially theistic religion, is characterized by intolerance based upon belief. The message is: Believe what I believe, or God will reject you and throw you out of the kingdom. Such religion is contrary to love, and therefore denies the goodness that is God’s essence.

There is only one simple criterion by which any religion may be judged: does it lead its adherents in the direction of non-self-interested love? If it does, then it should be respected. If it does not, then there is a better way. Doctrinal distinctions are secondary, and of no importance when the time comes for us to account for how we have stewarded the resources with which God has entrusted and blessed us.

Any religion that encourages intolerance, that sets itself up as the only way to salvation, that preaches God’s rejection of those who believe differently regardless of their hearts and deeds, does not have the true spirit of love and cannot be a true path.

http://www.judeochristianity.org/judeochristianity_principles.htm

 

[Mugwop]

Since when the Jews believe in bible? They refused Jesus and crucified him (according to Christian belief)

I believe it was the romans that crucified him.

 

[GumNaam]

and which one of the 3000 different versions of the bible would that be?

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

I disagree with you on this, I believe in a unity state which will be both Islamic/Jewish. In the long run, it would be far more beneficial for the Palestinians to make a unity state.

I agree with you...

 

[Rollno21]

Israel is a reality ,people should accept it and move on

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

I believe it was the romans that crucified him.

I believe he was referring to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide

 

[Mugwop]

I believe he was referring to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide

Oh ok

 

[Taimoor Khan]

I believe it was the romans that crucified him.

I none of our issue as Muslims. We will be with him when he comes back.

Its between Christian and Jews. Christian do believe its the Jews who wanted him to be crucified, Rabbis to be precise. Romans had no choice, as for them, its a choice between one man on one hand and whole Jewish establishment on the other.

 

[Hamza913]

really jews belive in Bible.. since when?

They believe in the Old Testament.

 

[Kompromat]

I see a Muslim land occupied by European migrants.

https://www.google.co.il/maps/place...x6a6b422013352cba!8m2!3d31.046051!4d34.851612

 

[Solomon2]

I see a Muslim land occupied by European migrants.

Because that's all you want to see, yes?

 

[MultaniGuy]

Because that's all you want to see, yes?

lol @Solomon2, the Zionists did eat and steal Palestinian land.
Why doesn't the Zionists give back the land to the Palestinians?

 

[WaLeEdK2]

Israel is not allowed to exist if they want to talk religiously.

Changing the words in the bible and Torah doesn't help their cause either lol.