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Pope Benedict's new book and the conversion of the "Jews"
by Michael Hoffman
This column is online with research links:
http://tinyurl.com/65ntkpx
The pope's new book on Jesus Christ and the Jews, "Jesus of Nazareth:
Holy Week," has been published. I will be reading it early next week and
my full review will appear in "Revisionist History" newsletter in April.
From excerpts I have read online, the book is written in the classic
mode of casuistry, the post-medieval Roman Catholic lawyer's corollary
to the Talmud's lawyerly pilpul.
By means of this casuistry the pope is saying one thing to the Left and
the rabbis, but provides enough cover for his thesis so that the Right
and conservative Catholics can allow themselves to believe that he
really didn't say what the rabbis and the Left are saying he did say.
What a tangled web! Whatever happened to plain speech? "Let your yes be
yes, and your no be no; anything else is of the evil one" (Matthew
5:37).
The Vatican and the rabbis do not heed Christ's sage admonition, that's
for sure. For example, Purim, the Talmudic feast of revenge, is just
around the corner on the rabbinic calendar, Adar 14 (March 19-20). On
Purim, every Judaic male is required to get so drunk he can't tell the
difference between Haman and Mordechai. The Talmud obligates Judaic
males to become intoxicated at Purim, then warns them of the potential
dangers of such inebriation (Babylonian Talmud, Megila 7b). The Talmud
provides a plausible denial loophole for its own command to Judaic males
to become intoxicated with alcohol. Bottom line: for centuries Judaic
males have gotten hopelessly drunk on Purim.
Pope Benedict's casuistry reflects the plausible denial stratagem
exhibited in Megila 7b: while the pope does not affirm in "Jesus of
Nazareth: Holy Week" the theory holding that "Jews" will be saved
independently of Christ, he does suggest the Church should not be
targeting "Jews" for conversion efforts.
Observe this tangled web of papal casuistry: [1] "Don't convert the
'Jews,' [2] but they do need Christ to be saved."
[1] Don't convert the "Jews" — absolutely delights Pharisaic Judaism and
the Left.
[2] "Jews" still need Christ to be saved — provides a face-saving escape
clause for the pope's Right-wing.
Benedict "approvingly quotes" Cistercian abbess and "Biblical writer"
Hildegard Brem: "The church must not concern herself with the conversion
of the Jews, since she must wait for the time fixed for this by God."
I'm going to "approvingly quote" the founder of the Christian Church
(just in case His words count for anything next to those of abbesses and
pontiffs): "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(Matthew 15:24)
Let's see now, at the beginning of His ministry Jesus focused his
conversion efforts solely on the House of Israel, but since then, that
focus has been abrogated? Or would the casuists prefer to employ the
word "derogated"?
The charge given by Jesus later in His ministry, to carry the Gospel to
the gentiles, to the ends of the earth, Pope Benedict reverses, in favor
of what the pontiff terms a "sequence": first the "full number" of the
Gentiles comes to the faith, and only then the Jews.
So Jesus had it wrong. He sought to convert the Jews first. He wasn't
aware of the "sequence"!
The pope quotes St. Bernard of Clairvaux's advice to one of his
predecessors, Pope Eugene III, that "a determined time has been fixed"
for the conversion of the Jews "that cannot be anticipated."
Clever! The pope has switched gears and is alluding to eschatology, the
Pauline prediction of Judaic conversion in general, in some form and to
some extent (we know not the particulars), at the end of time.
This process would, however, never forbid the conversion of individual
"Jews" before the end time, and it never did. Ecclesiastic history
testifies to militant missionary efforts toward Judaics. Otherwise, what
were Peter and Paul doing in the Church in the first place? Why didn't
Christ just convert the Roman Centurion, the Samaritan woman and any
other gentile He chose, and make them apostles and disciples, leaving
His call to the Simons and Sauls to the time when the "full number" of
the gentiles would be converted?
No doubt Dr. Scott Hahn and other august PhD. theologians beholden to
the Novus Ordo Seclorum, will resolve these "seeming" contradictions and
tie them into a neat traditional package, exactly corresponding to "what
the Church has always taught."
But the Church has always taught that from motives of charity and
compassion we should free Judaics from the shackles of bomdage to the
religious system based on the Babylonian Talmud, and lead them to the
love, grace and mercy of Jesus.
Catholic Saints like Vincent Ferrer responded heroically to the call to
convert Judaics. Among Protestants, international missionary
organizations were founded, such as the London Society for Promoting
Christianity Among the Jews. In the space of a few decades of the 19th
century, nearly 1800 Judiacs were converted and baptized in the
Society's London chapel in Palestine Lane, and thousands more were
converted throughout Germany and eastern Europe. One of the leaders of
the Society, Rev. Dr. Alexander McCaul, warned of the sins which Judaics
commit as long as they remain in Judaism:
"Every man who uses the prayers of the synagogue, there confesses
himself to God as a believer in the oral law, and consequently ready to
execute all its decrees of cruelty, fraud and persecution...That is his
profession in the synagogue; when he then comes forth from the solemn
act of Divine Worship and tells me that he is...charitable and that he
abhors persecution, how can I possibly believe him?..so long as their
words and their deeds contradict each other, a mist hangs over
them...There is falsehood somewhere and the only possible mode of
removing this appearance is by a public renunciation of the oral
law...To their God they owe it, for by the blasphemies of the oral law,
His character is misrepresented and His name blasphemed."
Judaism is an offense to God — now — at this moment! Pope Benedict XVI,
by "suggesting" that Jews need not convert to faith in Jesus Christ "at
this time in history," is abandoning them to their sins, and ultimately
to damnation, for no one is saved by their race!
Who then is the "Jew hater"? Is it the Christian evangelist who converts
Judaics, or the Catholic casuist who leaves them to die without Christ?
The rabbis claim to be the defenders of the "Jews." Are they not
actually their worst enemies? And what of a pope who, by retarding
missionary efforts, cooperates with the Christless agenda of rabbinic
Judaism?
Michael Hoffman is the author of "Judaism Discovered," an 1100 page
textbook and reference work. He is a former reporter for the New York
bureau of the Associated Press.
Hoffman's work is reader-funded, through donations and book and
newsletter sales.
This column is online with research links:
http://tinyurl.com/65ntkpx
Tell a friend!
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Pope Benedict's new book and the conversion of the "Jews"
by Michael Hoffman
This column is online with research links:
http://tinyurl.com/65ntkpx
The pope's new book on Jesus Christ and the Jews, "Jesus of Nazareth:
Holy Week," has been published. I will be reading it early next week and
my full review will appear in "Revisionist History" newsletter in April.
From excerpts I have read online, the book is written in the classic
mode of casuistry, the post-medieval Roman Catholic lawyer's corollary
to the Talmud's lawyerly pilpul.
By means of this casuistry the pope is saying one thing to the Left and
the rabbis, but provides enough cover for his thesis so that the Right
and conservative Catholics can allow themselves to believe that he
really didn't say what the rabbis and the Left are saying he did say.
What a tangled web! Whatever happened to plain speech? "Let your yes be
yes, and your no be no; anything else is of the evil one" (Matthew
5:37).
The Vatican and the rabbis do not heed Christ's sage admonition, that's
for sure. For example, Purim, the Talmudic feast of revenge, is just
around the corner on the rabbinic calendar, Adar 14 (March 19-20). On
Purim, every Judaic male is required to get so drunk he can't tell the
difference between Haman and Mordechai. The Talmud obligates Judaic
males to become intoxicated at Purim, then warns them of the potential
dangers of such inebriation (Babylonian Talmud, Megila 7b). The Talmud
provides a plausible denial loophole for its own command to Judaic males
to become intoxicated with alcohol. Bottom line: for centuries Judaic
males have gotten hopelessly drunk on Purim.
Pope Benedict's casuistry reflects the plausible denial stratagem
exhibited in Megila 7b: while the pope does not affirm in "Jesus of
Nazareth: Holy Week" the theory holding that "Jews" will be saved
independently of Christ, he does suggest the Church should not be
targeting "Jews" for conversion efforts.
Observe this tangled web of papal casuistry: [1] "Don't convert the
'Jews,' [2] but they do need Christ to be saved."
[1] Don't convert the "Jews" — absolutely delights Pharisaic Judaism and
the Left.
[2] "Jews" still need Christ to be saved — provides a face-saving escape
clause for the pope's Right-wing.
Benedict "approvingly quotes" Cistercian abbess and "Biblical writer"
Hildegard Brem: "The church must not concern herself with the conversion
of the Jews, since she must wait for the time fixed for this by God."
I'm going to "approvingly quote" the founder of the Christian Church
(just in case His words count for anything next to those of abbesses and
pontiffs): "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(Matthew 15:24)
Let's see now, at the beginning of His ministry Jesus focused his
conversion efforts solely on the House of Israel, but since then, that
focus has been abrogated? Or would the casuists prefer to employ the
word "derogated"?
The charge given by Jesus later in His ministry, to carry the Gospel to
the gentiles, to the ends of the earth, Pope Benedict reverses, in favor
of what the pontiff terms a "sequence": first the "full number" of the
Gentiles comes to the faith, and only then the Jews.
So Jesus had it wrong. He sought to convert the Jews first. He wasn't
aware of the "sequence"!
The pope quotes St. Bernard of Clairvaux's advice to one of his
predecessors, Pope Eugene III, that "a determined time has been fixed"
for the conversion of the Jews "that cannot be anticipated."
Clever! The pope has switched gears and is alluding to eschatology, the
Pauline prediction of Judaic conversion in general, in some form and to
some extent (we know not the particulars), at the end of time.
This process would, however, never forbid the conversion of individual
"Jews" before the end time, and it never did. Ecclesiastic history
testifies to militant missionary efforts toward Judaics. Otherwise, what
were Peter and Paul doing in the Church in the first place? Why didn't
Christ just convert the Roman Centurion, the Samaritan woman and any
other gentile He chose, and make them apostles and disciples, leaving
His call to the Simons and Sauls to the time when the "full number" of
the gentiles would be converted?
No doubt Dr. Scott Hahn and other august PhD. theologians beholden to
the Novus Ordo Seclorum, will resolve these "seeming" contradictions and
tie them into a neat traditional package, exactly corresponding to "what
the Church has always taught."
But the Church has always taught that from motives of charity and
compassion we should free Judaics from the shackles of bomdage to the
religious system based on the Babylonian Talmud, and lead them to the
love, grace and mercy of Jesus.
Catholic Saints like Vincent Ferrer responded heroically to the call to
convert Judaics. Among Protestants, international missionary
organizations were founded, such as the London Society for Promoting
Christianity Among the Jews. In the space of a few decades of the 19th
century, nearly 1800 Judiacs were converted and baptized in the
Society's London chapel in Palestine Lane, and thousands more were
converted throughout Germany and eastern Europe. One of the leaders of
the Society, Rev. Dr. Alexander McCaul, warned of the sins which Judaics
commit as long as they remain in Judaism:
"Every man who uses the prayers of the synagogue, there confesses
himself to God as a believer in the oral law, and consequently ready to
execute all its decrees of cruelty, fraud and persecution...That is his
profession in the synagogue; when he then comes forth from the solemn
act of Divine Worship and tells me that he is...charitable and that he
abhors persecution, how can I possibly believe him?..so long as their
words and their deeds contradict each other, a mist hangs over
them...There is falsehood somewhere and the only possible mode of
removing this appearance is by a public renunciation of the oral
law...To their God they owe it, for by the blasphemies of the oral law,
His character is misrepresented and His name blasphemed."
Judaism is an offense to God — now — at this moment! Pope Benedict XVI,
by "suggesting" that Jews need not convert to faith in Jesus Christ "at
this time in history," is abandoning them to their sins, and ultimately
to damnation, for no one is saved by their race!
Who then is the "Jew hater"? Is it the Christian evangelist who converts
Judaics, or the Catholic casuist who leaves them to die without Christ?
The rabbis claim to be the defenders of the "Jews." Are they not
actually their worst enemies? And what of a pope who, by retarding
missionary efforts, cooperates with the Christless agenda of rabbinic
Judaism?
Michael Hoffman is the author of "Judaism Discovered," an 1100 page
textbook and reference work. He is a former reporter for the New York
bureau of the Associated Press.
Hoffman's work is reader-funded, through donations and book and
newsletter sales.
This column is online with research links:
http://tinyurl.com/65ntkpx
Tell a friend!
***
The HOFFMAN WIRE is a public service of Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816 USA
24 Hour Revisionist News Bureau:
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/news.html
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