I realise we have touched on this topic before but some of us never calmly.... so I honestly hope that those who have a prior opinion will read well into this article, thinking very carefully about the account presented.
Note that neither all Christians nor all Jews hold the questioned views, and that's why I'm posting this relatively objective statement, in case you fear to be isolated by abandoning them.... No.... You would not be alone....
So... please reach for your Bibles, where the truth undoubtedly lies, and don't take anyone else's word for your beliefs in this area.
That's Berean... ok? :-D
Paul said: But the word of God is not bound. (2 Timothy 2:9)
Matthew 10:8 Jesus said
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.[b]Freely you have received, freely give.
[This 'giving' is not about money!]
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also [u]freely give us[b]all things
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, [u]that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God
OK. The article is called:
[b]The Christian Zionist Lie Must Die
by Charles E. Carlson Jul 24, 2007
Find it at [url=http://www.historicist.com/]http://www.historicist.com/
These three paragraphs struck me.
[i]It was at the Washington DC gig where John Hagee actually admitted — perhaps for the first time — that his actions are not driven by his religious beliefs, but by his political motives. In so doing, he not only denies Jesus Christ by his words, but followers of Christ now have every reason — in fact, a duty — to question what he is up to using Christ’s church and teachings to effect his personal political will within his congregation and under false pretenses.
and
[i]But this is the exact opposite of what Hagee, and thousands like him at pulpits all over the USA, have preached thus far, and for which Hagee was showered with tens of millions in donations. Hagee's followers do support Israel for religious ‘biblical’ reasons that they learned from Hagee were inviolable. Hagee’s followers have told us so at many encounters during vigils held at four A Night To Honor Israel extravaganzas. Two of Hagee’s followers took the trouble to write and call us to explain it, and try to convince us again, this very week.
The next crack in the leaking Christian Zionist dike will break it: When tens of thousands of God-fearing Judeo-Christians from thousands of churches nationwide who allow themselves to be classified as "Christian-Zionists” without thinking once about the horrors they are advocating realize they’ve been conned by political Israel's agents, they will leave CUFI, Christian Zionism, and the hundred-year-old movement called "evangelicalism" in droves.