Christianity has created a 4th god.?
The Devil is Real...or so they say.
The first, and probably last, low budget found-footage exorcism movie to share its name with a No. 2 INXS hit, this faux documentary tracks the attempt of a young woman named Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) to help her possessed mother (Suzan Crowley). In 1989, Mom slaughtered three people who were conducting an exorcism on her (pity the fool who tried to write that year's round-robin family Christmas letter!) and is now languishing in a psychiatric hospital in Rome. With the Catholic church unwilling to help, Isabella recruits two renegade exorcists (Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth) to take on her mother's quite literal demons, while an increasingly creeped-out documentarian (Ionut Grama) captures the ensuing mayhem with his cameras.Alas, the mayhem doesn't ensue for all that long. While this religio-horror effort does contain some nice scares, and a memorably unnerving turn from Crowley, The Devil Inside's biggest shock arrives when it abruptly ends — just as it hits its stride. The result is a found-footage movie whose third act remains missing. C+
The Devil is Real...or so they say.
We do have S'tan, an angel with NO free will and who is totally obedience to God, like all other angels. S'tan's job is to act as the DA Fred Thompson on 'Law & Order', bringing charges, accusations against the bad acts of people. But all the mythology that has evolved in Christianity about the "Devil" is completely absent in Judaism. In effect, Christianity has created a 4th god. Judaism forbids the worship of any god but HaShem.
S'tan
Demons
are supernatural, malevolent beings with the power to cause hurt to
humans. Belief in demons , though not
very pronounced in Jewish life and thought, is still prevalent, in a
semi-comical way, at the level of folklore. Even some of the learned
feel compelled to accept, perhaps not too seriously, belief in demons
because this belief is implied in the Talmud in many places.
The Babylonian
Talmud , in particular, produced against a Zoroastrian
background in which the belief was strongly rooted, contains stories
of visitations by demons and spells to ward them off.There is
even a report of a rabbi conversing with a demon prince.
It
is completely unhistorical to maintain, as did Krochmal
, that all these references were inserted into the Talmud by ignorant
copyists or by those influenced by folk-beliefs said to have been
repudiated by the rabbis themselves.
Medieval
Rationalists
Some
of the medieval thinkers accepted the belief in demons. Others
rejected the belief as contrary to the doctrine of divine providence.
Why should God have surrendered His control of the universe, on some
occasions, into the power of such creatures?
Abraham
Ibn Ezra rejects entirely the notion that demons really
exist. Maimonides either ignores the talmudic references to demons or
gives these a rationalistic explanation; as, for example, when he
understands the mishnaic reference to an 'evil spirit' against which
a light can be put out even on the Sabbath
, to mean a spirit of melancholy.
Menahem
Meiri generally follows a similar demythologizing tendency when he
understands the talmudic reference to warding off the demons by
reciting the Shema
before retiring as meaning that evil thoughts invade the mind at
bedtime and these can successfully be dispelled through the
recitation of the Shema . Meiri also
understands the talmudic reference to Joseph the demon, who was able
to traverse great distances through the air, to mean that there was a
skilled acrobat who could vault over great distances and who was
known as 'Joseph the devil' in the sense that he was a devil-may-care
character.
From
the Kabbalah
The
Kabbalah has a vast demonology of its own. The demonic powers
constitute an unholy parody of the sacred realms against which they
are in constant battle.In a very revealing illustration, the Zohar
compares the "Other Side," the domain of the evil powers,
to a vicious dog held by its owner on a long lead. The dog, though it
appears to enjoy independent power, is pulled back whenever it is in
danger of getting out of control.
Under
the influence of the Kabbalah, especially, belief in the existence of
demons became widespread. Although there is no official Jewish rite
of exorcism, there are numerous tales of saintly men exorcising
demons from houses and persons.
Belief
in demons is thus generally present but very peripheral in the Jewish
scheme. No representative thinker, for instance, ever thought of
dubbing Ibn Ezra a heretic because he refused to believe in demons.
Needless to say, sophisticated Jewish thinkers who did believe in the
existence of demons did not think of these as little devils with
forked tails breathing fire but as spiritual forces which God has
unleashed in the world for purposes of His own, or as harmful
psychological processes which take place in the human mind.
Rabbi
Dr. Louis Jacobs (1920-2006) was a Masorti rabbi, the first leader of
Masorti Judaism (also known as Conservative Judaism) in the United
Kingdom, and a leading writer and th
Si
vos vultus amo a anas, et ambulabunt ut anatinus loqui sicut
anatinus...erit vobis
'If
you look like a duck, walk like a duck and you talk like a duck . . .
you must be a duck.'
What's up with all the Hebrew Root Movement teachers looking like Christains, walking like Christians and talking like Christians?... you know who you are.
I watched a recent YouTube video from a Hebrew Roots Movement Teacher and if I didn't know better I'd thought I was in Church. “Satan this and Hellfire that.”? Hello.
I post a lot, and the last thing I want to be is critical of anyone truly seeking truth in scripture. There are many today looking for the Jewish/Hebrew roots of their faith and when I hear someone giving all power and glory to a created celestreal being such as HaSatan (Satan) or using the unbiblical doctrine of Hell to put fear into people, I have to say something. I know that many Christians have no idea what the original tenets of their faith is really based on. It is my hope teachers and pastors who have awoken to the Jewishness of Christianity will also take time to look deeper at what they are saying.
The old Church attitude "King James Bible only 1611 cover to cover, if God said it...I believe it." no longer holds water when most people today know the First Council of Nicaea (325 CE) was to integrate all the different religions under one religious/government emperor- the Holy Roman Empire Universal 'Catholic' Church - Greek myths, Hades (the god of the underworld) as were many pagan religious heresies, knowing too, how anti-Jewish, anti-Israel 'early church fathers' were the Constantine Creed makes this all to clear.
The
Constantine Creed
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
(Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)
Furthermore, any follower of the “Jewish Messiah” (Yeshua HaMashiach) who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:
“I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath “So! dei” (day of the Sun, ), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.”
Additionally, in approximately 365 AD, the Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons:
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day. Rather, honoring the Lord’s Day. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema (against) from Christ”.
Note: Protestants are included as they still observe the holidays and sabbath of Rome, as in “are you going to church this coming Lord’s day”.
Concerning Antiochus Epiphanes…
He set up an image of Zeus in the Temple which was the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel 11. For 3 years, he continued to desecrate the Temple.
These were the new laws that Antiochus set up:
Thou shall profane the Sabbath
Thou shall change the set times (festivals) and lawshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Thou shall set up idols
Thou shall eat unclean animals
Thou shall not circumcise
Thou shall forget Torah
3 years and 2 months later, the Temple was taken back and rededicated. This is known as the Feast of Dedication, or Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah.
What’s really is ironic…..these laws were created by an antichrist Antiochus, and are the same things Constantine would later repeat and this is what people want to live by today. Totally going against God’s Word. People today are living under laws created by Antiochus and Constantine; an antichrist. Source:
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
(Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)
Furthermore, any follower of the “Jewish Messiah” (Yeshua HaMashiach) who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:
“I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath “So! dei” (day of the Sun, ), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.”
Additionally, in approximately 365 AD, the Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons:
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day. Rather, honoring the Lord’s Day. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema (against) from Christ”.
Note: Protestants are included as they still observe the holidays and sabbath of Rome, as in “are you going to church this coming Lord’s day”.
Concerning Antiochus Epiphanes…
He set up an image of Zeus in the Temple which was the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel 11. For 3 years, he continued to desecrate the Temple.
These were the new laws that Antiochus set up:
Thou shall profane the Sabbath
Thou shall change the set times (festivals) and lawshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Thou shall set up idols
Thou shall eat unclean animals
Thou shall not circumcise
Thou shall forget Torah
3 years and 2 months later, the Temple was taken back and rededicated. This is known as the Feast of Dedication, or Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah.
What’s really is ironic…..these laws were created by an antichrist Antiochus, and are the same things Constantine would later repeat and this is what people want to live by today. Totally going against God’s Word. People today are living under laws created by Antiochus and Constantine; an antichrist. Source:
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