Re: So shallow
Posted by Arota on 2025-November-5 06:12:54, WednesdayIn reply to Re: So shallow posted by diogenes on 2025-November-3 10:50:17, Monday
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He's not a Christian, he's an American. There are very few American Christians and even the early American "Christians" were not Christians. Protestantism in general already separated itself extremely from Christianity by referring only to scripture, often an extremely faulty understanding and translation of scripture, and divorcing itself from the historical record and historical interpretation and even from the original texts and their meaning, which was supposedly their focus. American Christianity separated itself even more from this, even American Catholicism, which is basically just American Protestantism but with a bit more pomp. One clear example of this is the over 1000 year history of Christians rejecting Jews as those who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah. The biblical concept of "Israel" for over 1000 years did not refer to a specific area of land or a nation-state, but rather something similar to the Islamic concept of the "Ummah", that is, the community of believers. For Jews, "Israel" was the community of all Jews. For Christians, "Israel" was the community of all Christians, that is, Christendom. Modern defenses of Israel, often based on the Scofield Bible, modern political associations, or other reasons, are quite clearly heretical and antithetical to any type of interpretation of the text or to historical precedent. |
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