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Monday, May 20, 2019

Abortion, Possible Jewish Origin


IS ABORTION A "JEWISH THING"?

May 19, 2019

Unexpectedly, the final battle of the NWO may come down to abortion or the sacredness of human life.

Several States and many people are beginning to understand that abortion is murder i.e. infant sacrifice.  Alabama understands that the Federal Law overrides their State law to ban abortion.  They are hoping it will reach the Supreme Court and perhaps override the infamous Roe vs Wade decision.

Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in Alabama

Missouri Senate passes bill to ban abortions at 8 weeks

The Louisiana legislature is halfway toward passing a law — like the ones enacted in Mississippi and Georgia — that will ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many women know they're pregnant.

Alyssa Milano calls for sex strike, ignites social media
Several conservatives agreed with her maintaining that unmarried women should not be participating in sexual activity at all, with anyone.  This would definitely solve the abortion issue.


The NWO ultimately is about the destruction of Christianity by Cabalist Judaism.

Most Jews don't know this.  Cabalist Judaism is not a religion but a satanic cult in which the "Jewish people" are God. 

In practice, the satanist Jewish leadership (the Rothschilds) supplant God and redefine morality by turning it on its head. Their vehicles are Organized Jewry and Freemasonry (liberalism, communism, socialism, zionism and feminism.) 

Jews are at the forefront of the pro-death forces because they don't believe human life is sacred. How could they if the Talmud regards non-Jews as cattle?  How else could they justify their treatment of Palestinians?  They were also at the forefront of "sexual liberation" and pornography resulting in so many unwanted pregnancies.  There were 880,000 abortions in the US in 2017; 40 million worldwide.  93% of Jews support abortion.

Below a Jewish writer expresses her alarm that Christian’s values may be foisted on Jews, rather than the other way around. 

Karen who sent this article: "This Jewish woman (quoting rabbis) says abortion is a cherished Jewish value!  "More to the point, the new law refers to an embryo or fetus as the unborn child. That language reflects a distinctly Christian view of when life starts." Well, she says it all: distinguishing Christians from Jews. Basically, this is the TALMUD verses the BIBLE!!!

"This (Christian) view infringes on my religion freedom as a Jew." she says. This article is a must read to see what the Jews believe!!!"

Opinion of a Jewish Writer
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen 
(henrymakow.com) 

The evangelical crusade making its way from Alabama to the Supreme Court will force American Jews to submit to their distinctly Christian anti-abortion dogma
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When Alabama's governor this week signed into law the United States' most restrictive ban on abortion, making it illegal in nearly all circumstances, it set up a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which made abortion up to 24 weeks a Constitutional right.

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It also presented a threat to my religious freedom as a Jew.

The Alabama law permits termination of a pregnancy only when it poses a "serious" health risk to the life of the mother, has a "lethal anomaly" or is ectopic. The last two conditions don't even refer to viable pregnancies.

No exceptions to the abortion ban in cases of rape or incest were included in the new law, which would charge a doctor who performs an abortion with a felony and the possibility of up to 99 years in prison.

More to the point, the new law refers to an embryo or fetus as "the unborn child." That language reflects a distinctly Christian view of when life starts.

Governor Kay Ivey made no secret of that when she said that the new law is "a powerful testament to Alabamians' deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God."

Alabama State Representative Rich Wingo, a Republican and architect of the new law, told The New York Times, "Our position is just simply that an unborn child is a person." Alabama Senator Clyde Chambliss, who shepherded the bill through the chamber, declared: "I believe that if we terminate the life of an unborn child, we are putting ourselves in God's place." 

That view, like those embedded in new "heartbeat laws" in Georgia and several other states, reflects the institutionalization of Christian hegemony in America. They infringe on my religious freedom as a Jew.

The very first words of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment are: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The U.S. Supreme Court in 1947 unanimously ruled in Everson v. Board of Education that the Establishment Clause forbids practices that "aid one religion" or "prefer one religion over another," and also those that "aid all religions."

In other words, the government is not permitted to pass laws favoring one religion over another, or over no religion.

Anti-abortion activists march with placards and chant in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. January 22, 2015AFP

This is key, because according to classical Jewish text and most rabbinic interpreters, a developing embryo or fetus is not "an unborn child" or "person," but has the legal status of an appendage of the pregnant woman. It is part of her body, not a separate person, until the moment that a majority of a viable baby capable of independent life has been born.

Contemporary rabbis hold, of course, a range of views. Politically and religiously conservative Orthodox rabbis say that abortion is permitted only when pregnancy poses a threat to the mother's life.

Rabbi David Novak heads the Jewish Pro-Life Foundation, which in its video calls embryos and fetuses "Jewish children" and states that "life begins at conception," though it does not offer an explanation for its use of this language. The "position of the tradition is that abortion is prohibited unless the fetus is a threat to the life of the mother, which is extremely, extremely rare these days with prenatal care," Novak told me. "The only basis of dispute is how widely or narrowly does one interpret a threat to the mother's life."

Others have a more nuanced perspective of Judaism's position. "Abortion is neither murder nor manslaughter," but "in a moral category that is completely different than the way the Catholic Church and some evangelicals view" it, says Rabbi Jack Moline, president of the Interfaith Alliance. 

The Jewish Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly on Wednesday night agreed, expressing its "emphatic" opposition to the Alabama decision: "Jewish tradition cherishes the sanctity of life, including the potential of life which a pregnant woman carries within her, but does not believe that personhood and human rights begin with conception, but rather with birth, as indicated by Exodus 21:22-23.

Pro-choice supporters protest the Alabama state Senate vote on the strictest anti-abortion bill in the United States. Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. May 14, 2019\ 

Denying a woman and her family full access to the complete spectrum of reproductive healthcare, including contraception, abortion-inducing devices, and abortions, among others, on religious grounds, deprives women of their Constitutional right to religious freedom."

The Supreme Court's decision in Roe was based not on a determination of when life begins but rather on a woman's right to privacy and autonomy through the first trimester. That jives with Judaism's classical understanding of when life begins. The first 40 days, or close to 6 weeks, are a period in which the Talmud says pregnancy is "like water."

The Mishna states that even a woman who is nine months pregnant may be executed if that is the punishment meted out to her for committing a crime. Her execution may not be delayed to spare the pregnancy unless she has already begun to give birth since the fetus is not a person.

Debating when life begins is an unwinnable fight. Each person's view depends on their religious and political positions.

Instead, the legal battle over the new laws like Alabama's can be based on the Constitutional right to the free exercise of religion. Can government privilege one religion's view of when life begins over another's?

As a Jewish woman and mother of daughters, I know this fight is of vital importance to every woman who discovers she is pregnant and does not want to be. But it is also of fundamental importance to the civil rights and religious freedom of every American Jew.
Just as no law can obligate us to share the religious beliefs of evangelical Christians, neither should a law demand that we share their view of when life begins.


PRO-LIFE BLOGGER/ADVOCATE RECIEVING DEATH AND RAPE THREATS AGAINST HIS FAMILY


Matt Walsh, author of The Unholy Trinity, and a staunch pro-life advocate, describes his position on abortion in the following way "As I have explained many times, I am opposed to abortion in all cases, at all stages, for any reason, no matter the circumstances or manner of the child's conception. My reason, as I've extensively outlined, is that unborn people are people. All people, in my view, have inherent human rights. The right to life is first and foremost and can only be forfeited if a person becomes an active threat to another person, or commits a particularly heinous and violent crime. Since there can be no such thing as a punitive abortion or abortion in self-defense, all abortion is evil because all abortion kills innocent and defenseless people. That's my case, and the case of every staunch pro-lifer."

In a piece Walsh wrote over at The Daily Wire, he explains how he gets hate mail all the time for his conservative opinions, but the "graphically violent messages," he has been receiving of late, are extremely chilling, from liberals unable to discuss or debate, but instead, as seen in his May 16 post shown in the screen shot above, resort to threats of violence, rape and even death, not just against him for his opinions, but against his wife and small children.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Gehenna: Garbage, Murder, or Hell


GEHENNA: GARBAGE, MURDER, OR HELL

7/17/2018

Background
Gehenna is an English transliteration of the Greek word γέεννα, which is from the Hebrew word gê’ hinnom, literally meaning the valley of Hinnom. 
The Valley of Kidron was on the Eastern side of Jerusalem and connected with the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) on the south side.  About the 4th century A.D., the Kidron valley was also called the Valley of Jehosophat which means in Hebrew, the Valley of Judging. 

Eventually, the Hebrew name ge-hinnom (canyon of Hinnom) evolved into geenna (gehenna).

In the New Testament the actual word “Gehenna” is almost always translated as “hell”.  The following translations (i.e. in my collection) use the word Gehenna rather than the word “hell”:  Restored Holy Bible; Young’s Literal Translation; Concordant Literal Version.  The exeGesis Companion Bible translates as “Hinnom/the Valley of Burning”; and the Phillips version as “rubbish heap”.

If you are reading the KJV, the NET, or the NIV, whenever Jesus uses the word “hell”, just consider it to actually be the word “gehenna”.

Matthew 5:29 NET If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell (Gehenna).

Matthew 10:28 NET Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).

Other instances, in the Gospels, include:  Matthew 5:22; 5:30; 19:9; 23:15; and 23:23.  Gehenna translated as hell are in the Gospels other than one instance in James.

The Hinnom Garbage Dump
Almost all sources agree that the section of the valley of Hinnom immediately outside of the temple area was used as a garbage dump.  Not just any garbage but a place for dead animals and various leftover animal parts that had been sacrificed in the temple.  It is also said that executed criminals were dumped there as well.  One read commentator said that sulphur was used to maintain a continuous fire to aid the burning of the rotting flesh of various types. 

Typically, flies and maggots were a permanent feature of the garbage dump.  Together with Sulphur this qualifies the statement of Jesus that Gehenna was a place: "Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:44).

Mark 9:44 is an abbreviated quote from Isaiah 66:24 where God states:  “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

It is not certain that the statement of God in Isaiah 66 was referring to a garbage dump or the sacrifice of babies to Moloch.  It is also not certain that Jesus was referring to the past ritual of sacrificing babies.  However, during His time on earth the area was a garbage dump of dead animal parts and humans that was infested with flies and maggots (worms).  Jesus was certainly aware of the Moloch issue although it is not certain if anyone during His time were familiar with the Moloch sacrificial system.

Todd Bolin of bibleplaces.com says archeological investigation claims that no evidence can be found to support a continual burning of flesh in the Gehenna area.

[Kimchi] maintained that in this loathsome valley fires were kept burning perpetually to consume the filth and cadavers thrown into it. However, Strack and Billerbeck state that there is neither archeological nor literary evidence in support of this claim, in either the earlier intertestamental or the later rabbinic sources.

An answer to Todd Bolin would be the following paragraph:

A Moloch cemetery unearthed recently contained the remains of more than twenty thousand children. The Greek author Kleitarchos described this practice of sacrificing infants to Baal three hundred years before Christ…..

Topheth – Moloch Sacrifice
Within the Hinnom valley was a place known as Tophet(h)  This location, in Jerusalem, is where pre-Christ worshipers, influenced by the ancient Canaanite religion, engaged in the human sacrifice of children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive.

Some claim the explanation for the “fire of Gehenna” is not necessarily due to a burning trash dump, but in the burning of sacrificed children to the Canaanite god known as Moloch.  Jeremiah is explicit that such sacrificial actions occurred there:

Jeremiah 7:31–32 (ESV)  And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My mind. Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.

Topheth (Hebrew: תוֹפֶת‎; Greek: Ταφεθ; Latin: Topheth) was a location in Jerusalem in the Gehinnom where worshipers influenced by the ancient Canaanite religion engaged in the human sacrifice of children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive. Tophet became a theological or poetic synonym for Hell within Christendom. 

Topheth may come from the Aramaic root t-ph-t or the Hebrew toph or taph, meaning "to burn," while others interpret it to mean "altar" whereon children were sacrificed. Still others claim it means "drum," suggesting that they used drums to drown out the cries of the children being burned as sacrifices on the altar to Moloch. Perhaps there is an element of truth in all three suggestions.

One section of the Hinnom Valley was called Topheth (also Tophet or Topeth), where the children were slaughtered.

2 Kings 23:10 KJV  And he (King Josiah) defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Moloch.

Some may ask the question, “Why did they (Israel – Judah) ever stoop so low as to have their own children pass through the fires of Moloch at Topheth in this valley of Hinnom”? 

Another question that could be asked, “Why would many people engaging in recreational sex, without using birth control, kill a child by having an abortion?”  MOST OBVIOUS ANSWER: For most unmarried recreational sex participants it makes their lifestyle much easier, less costly (raising a baby is expensive), and their recreational sex can continue with very little downtime (although the post-psychological conditions are usually not considered).  See also:  Baal Sacrifice Abortion

Does Christian theology also teach that the God of heaven and earth can also only be appeased by having people burned in real fire endlessly in the pagan hell of hades or Gehenna?  Yes, and Christian theology teaches and preaches the identify of this fiery hell as the “lake of fire”.

Gehenna as a Symbol of Hell (or the Lake of Fire)
The traditional explanation that a burning rubbish heap in the Valley of Hinnom south of Jerusalem gave rise to the idea of a fiery Gehenna of judgment is attributed to Rabbi David Kimhi's commentary on Psalm 27:13. He maintained that in this loathsome valley fires were kept burning perpetually to consume the filth and cadavers thrown into it.

Two teachers, with posted articles concerning hell and Gehenna can be found immediately below.  Mr. Walvoord and Mr. Crockett are two esteemed Bible teachers.  It should be noted that both writers are deeply imbedded within the dispensation, 7 year tribulation of the Darby-Scofield conjecture.  Mr. Walvoord is a long-time associate of the Dallas Theological Seminary which, it is told, allows no other teaching than dispensationalism.

These two Bible teachers should give the reader an appropriate idea of the thoughts and beliefs many people have today.

John F. Walvoord
Mr. Walvoord is a long-time president of Dallas Theological Seminary.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931. That fall Walvoord entered the fledgling Dallas Seminary, where he earned his bachelor's and master's of theology (Th.B, Th.M.) degrees, magna cum laude, in 1934 and doctorate in theology (Th.D.) in 1936.

In this place human sacrifices were offered to Moloch; these altars were destroyed by Josiah (2 Kings 23:10). The valley was later declared to be 'the valley of slaughter' by Jeremiah (Jer. 7:30-33). The valley was used as a burial place for criminals and for burning garbage, traditionally considered by the Jews the place of the final punishment of the ungodly. 

Whatever its historical and geographic meaning, its usage in the New Testament is clearly a reference to the everlasting state of the wicked, and this seems to be the thought in every instance.  In James 3:6 the damage accomplished by an uncontrolled tongue is compared to a fire which 'corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell (i.e. Gehenna).'  Though not always expressly stated, the implication is that the punishment will have duration and be endless (if it is not expressly stated then why does he teach an implication?).

William Crockett
Mr. Crockett has a B.A. in Philosophy (Univ. Winnipeg), M.Div. in New Testament studies (Princeton Seminary), and a Ph.D. in New Testament (Univ. Glasgow).  He has been a professor of New Testament studies at Alliance Seminary in New York for 30 years. 

"In the New Testament the final destination of the wicked is pictured as a place of blazing sulfur, where the burning smoke ascends forever. This would have been an effective image because sulfur fires were part of life for those who lived in the Jerusalem of Bible times. Southwest of the city was the Valley of Hinnom, an area that had a long history of desecration. The steep gorge was once used to burn children in sacrifice to the Ammonite god Moloch (2 Kings 23:10; Jer. 7:31; 32:35). Jeremiah denounced such practices by saying that Hinnom Valley would become the valley of God's judgment, a place of slaughter (Jer. 7:32; 19:5-7). As the years passed, a sense of foreboding hung over the valley. People began to burn their garbage and offal there, using sulfur, the flammable substance we now use in matches and gunpowder.

Last Words on Hell
The Bible, was originally written in (mostly) Hebrew and Greek. It uses the Hebrew word sheʼohlʹ (sheol) and its Greek equivalent haiʹdes (hades) more than 70 times. Both words are related to the aftermath of death or the grave.  The King James (and some other versions) seem to translate hades as hell.  The KJV and others even translate the place Gehenna, spoken by Jesus, as hell.  This interpretation can be confusing to those without a handy Greek-English thesaurus. 

As for the actual word 'Hell'...according to Wikipedia "The modern English word Hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (about 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *halja, meaning "one who covers up or hides something...

Subsequently, the word was used to transfer a pagan concept to Christian theology and its vocabulary..."

Ecclesiastes 9:10 NET Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

All of the proposed “last chance for salvation” timestamps some teachers have placed on the events of future history are nothing more than figments of their own blind deluded minds.  Everyone past, present, future, aborted, miscarried, or Amazon Indian will be reconciled to God and His Kingdom at some point in time.   Universal Reconciliation