Earlier today I dealt with a couple of lies - and by pre-dating those posts, technically I committed two of mine own (OPSEC and all) - so, tonight, I shall deliver the Truth. Andrew Torba comes close to it, announcing for tabsheer that old redundancy that Christ is King.
Where my brother in Christ sets feet slightly off-track is where he concentrates on the Jews as Christ's killers. He veers into abject haeresis when he says you cannot pick and choose which parts of God’s Word you want to defend and believe in
. Self-contradiction in fact: Torba has picked 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 in preference to Saint Mark. That's not God's Word; it's probably not even Paul's.
The core of truth behind the hostility against Judaism is that when God looked upon this world, observing the civilisations upon it, He could have chosen to make His point in Egypt at the time of the Ramessides, or China under the Han, or Persia under Darius I. He did not. He chose Judaea, and not even that of the Hasmonaeans but the subject province under the scheming overlordship of Sejanus.
We're not even here to answer, why then and there. We are here to ask ourselves, if Christ had appeared under Torba's possible ancestors, the Turks, preaching His message - would the great khagan have treated Him any better? how about Slavs?
How about the Cherusci under Arminius? Were the Germans at the time any better than the Jews? (Are they now?) What would shah Darius have made of a pretender to the House of Babylon? We don't even need ask him; he told us all an earful at Behistun.
No: God chose the Jews, at least to set the stage for His passion-play. For that, we get to bear Christians' blame (and Muslims').
If we are to pray for the salvation of the Jews, I agree it will come through Christ; but it will not come through Torba.
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