By: Michael Roman

Michael Roman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:48:07 +0000

Dear editor, I read with spiritual pleasure the article above and I am thankful for the opportunity to of posting few thoughts. In my opinion, what you say is very right and, here and there, even REVOLUTIONARY. Indeed, you seem to be part of a new generations of theologians who turn back to their Hebrew roots and this triggers few consequences. One of them is that you have acquired a broader and more correct on the Bible than many theologians had for hundred of years! How come? Well, I am sure you know this, the Christian theology parted from the Hewish roots rather soon after the Goyim, the gentiles began to flood in the Church. Not bad they began to worship the One true God, but unfortunately, they brought along their own pagan ideas about godliness and way of life. Justin the Martyr (around 150 C.E.) already began to show signs of this, and the so called apologets and the polemists followed in his steps. When Constantine got the power, he manouevered the Church to follow his ideas: as Ieroboam, he was a marvelous social engineer. he united with the Ekklesia just in order to manipulate its authority and powert over the souls of people (The Revelation 18: 11,12 and especially 13 speak wonderfully about the souls of men, considered as goods to make commerce with…) He didn’t know any theology, but wanted to have a monolithical religion all over his Empire. In this way, it is muuuch easier to keep people under control , and it is much more difficult to impose your authority if there are too many theologies, schools of thinking, religions, political parties and such…trust me, I come from an ex/Communist country, we were compelled to think much in the same way, to be easier for the authorities to check our minds…(read the book “1984″!) What I wanted to say is that the ties between the Jewish and the Christian theology had been cut off much before 325 C.E., Constantine just acted according to a statu-quo already existing. In their thirst for the heavenlies, the Goyim forgot about the Earth. Some of them had been unknowingly influenced by the Gnostic ideas which played havoc in churches and insisted that what is earthly is necessarily bad and inferior, and what is spiritual is of a good quality… At certain times, Gnosticism was very powerful, and not every church leader knew what to believe, the right (“orthodox”) theology was under shaping and molding…So, for the next more than 15 centuries, it was strongly believed that all the saved people will be in Heaven… As for me, I am not going to uproot any ideas, tho I perceive the incongruency between the Earthly-minded Jewish theology, and the Heavenly-minded Goyim theology. What I draw attention upon is: what should we understand from verses like The meek shall inherit the earth? (of one the Beatitudes from Mat. 5, 5) In hebrew, it is eretz, and in Greek is gee. The Earth? Or just the land of Iisrael? If Yeshua was citing from Ps. 37, there is a problem, for there it refers 6 times to the EARTHLY land of Israel. If he was citing from Isaia 29:19, he means tikun olam, the restauration of the entire Univers, including the earth and the phisical land of Israel…Even so, there are other problems: will the meek be concentrated only in the landish Israel? And those who weren\t so meek, will go to Heaven?…This is just one case, one verse, but there are quite many verses that make no sense if they are read as if everything will be in heaven…And God can’t lie…Accordingly, we need to change our perspective and our minds. And where we don=t understand, we need to humble ourselves and say: Lord, You know…
Baruch ha-Ba!

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By: Michael Roman