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Thread #67315   Message #1124893
Posted By: Strick
26-Feb-04 - 11:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Subject: RE: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
"In other words, Right-Wing Fundamentalist Christians believe they must defend the Jews' right to Israel so that the rapture can occur and the Jews can go to Hell."

Bless you, Nerd but I have to disagree. In the words of a deeply fundamentalist friend, "the Jews have their deal with God, we have ours". I know not everyone agrees, but it's scripturally based:

Romans 11:25-29

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
   "The deliverer will come from Zion;
       he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
    And this is my covenant with them
       when I take away their sins."
As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.

(italics added)

Not trying to convert anyone, just pointing out that a good number of fundamentalists (not that I'm one) firmly support Israel because they believe they're on the same side.

It's sad that for once people are trying to get along rather than kill each other and we can't be pleased with it.