Why Xtian theology sucks

Herman Ridderbos (1909–2007) a prominent Dutch theologian and biblical scholar known for his significant contributions to Reformed theology and New Testament studies. Particularly noted for his works on Pauline theology and eschatology, exploring themes such as the kingdom of God and the role of JeZeus-Christ in salvation. But he hardly qualifies as a philologist. A biased theologian lacking expertise in Hebrew and Aramaic compares to a BS degree vs. a Doctorate degree. He did not specialize in textual criticism, historical war crime guilt of the Xtian church; or even 2nd Temple Jurisprudence.

Specifically, his revisionist theology failed to address the issue that the writings of Paul predate all the Gospel books! Attempts to declare that Mark predates Paul’s letters – a shallow maintain the status quo revisionist history speculation. The book of Mark written in Rome following the destruction of Herod’s Temple. Protestant “Higher Criticism” only applicable to invalidating T’NaCH Primary sources. Small wonder that this “school” collapsed early in the 20th Century, about the time of his birth.

He fails to go beyond the simple shallow literal reactionary reading of Paul’s letters, and address the serious issue that some Jewish scholars argue that Paul served as a spy agent provocateur of Nassi Rabban Gamliel. A don’t confuse me with the facts, I have my religion – nonsense. The “stoning” of both Stephen and Paul violated the pharisee halacha! Paul stoned outside the borders of Judea, the Capital Crimes Sanhedrin courts had no legal jurisdiction outside of Judea!!! The Book of Acts contradicts itself on this very score! It denounces Phariseeic law, yet validates the stoning on the road to Damascus as an event acceptable as ‘formal halachic’ executions. That’s a serious error that he failed to catch.

This disciplinary gap, it skews all theological belief system apologetics from Paul till today. Ridderbos’ canonical-theological –not historical-developmental — contradicts Church requirements whose theological dogmatism promotes the historical existence of JeZeus. The church new religion totally ignores the Torah priority of mussar over history. The possibility that Paul’s stoning – staged!

He infiltrated the budding Xtian movement – traveled to Damascus and alienated Jewish support for this alien false messiah heresy; which completely ignores the mitzva of Moshiach as no different than any other wisdom Torah commandment. Specifically that all Jews in all generations can sanctify this mitzva just as they can the wisdom commandment of Shabbat. Paul’s theology which declared circumcision no longer a Torah mitzva, violates the negative commandment against adding or subtracting Torah commandments. This theology the later Gospel narratives rejected when their fictional Harry Potter messiah declared his purpose – to fulfill Torah commandments; not add or subtract Torah commandments.

He failed to separate and distinguish Torah common law from Roman statute law. A day vs night difference. Courtroom judicial review over Legislative statute law the writings of Paul concealed. This absolute fundamental distinction totally invalidated when he broadly declared to Goyim, “You are not under the Law”. Of course Goyim not under the Law! Goyim to this day never accepted the Torah revelation at Sinai. Torah common law stands upon the authority of the Oral Torah logic system – the פרדס kabbalah which shapes the entire Shas Talmud, to interpret the k’vanna of mitzvot/commandments. The post NT church denies interpretation of k’vanna as the definition of Torah wisdom commandments which require k’vanna.

Proof that Paul acted as a spy “wolf dressed in sheep clothing” Romans 6:14 where he introduces his “theology” substitutionism, and obliviates Torah common law. Substitute theology defines the writings of Paul: for example: the notion of Goyim “grafted” likewise obliviates the mitzva of ger tzeddik. Proof that Paul served to create a new av tuma avoda zara religion – the direct definition of the 2nd Sinai commandment Torah curse. Rather than promote the Torah obligation of “pursuit of Judicial justice” as faith, Pauline substitute theology prioritized belief in JeZeus. Regardless that JeZeus no more provable in “the historical-method sense”, than the Hanukkah revolt against the Syrian Greek empire – based upon the Torah curse 2nd Sinai commandment.

Paul as recorded in Acts 27-28, then traveled to Rome and declared “Jesus the king of the Jews; Jesus the Son of God” when Romans believed that Caesar was “the Son of God”!!! This theology-propaganda totally ignored by Ridderbos. Xtians today, similar to their rejection of Oral Torah inductive logic “interpretations” as the purpose of all Law time-oriented commandments; they likewise insist that only “Modern” scholarship compares the Pauline “Jesus son of God” to the “Caesar son of God”. Hanukkah pre-dates the NT by a Century or more. Yehuda Maccabee waged his rebellion against the Greek Syrian king by swearing the loyalty of Judea to the authority of the “real” king of Syria. Paul as a student of Rabban Gamliel would have known this basic post sealing of the T’NaCH mussar. To obliviate this fact, strongly supports the conclusion that Paul sought to inject a Monotheism belief system into the body politic of Polytheistic Roman society – something like a virus invades a healthy cell. Torah warfare actively entails both blessing and curses. Prior to the great Jewish revolt against the Romans, the Jewish spy sent to Rome to curse the Roman civilization based upon the precedent of Yechuda Maccabbee.

Every nation who abandons their belief systems in their Gods – dies. It happened among the Assyrians, the Babylonians the Persians the Roman empire after it converted to Xtian monotheism, etc etc etc. This an irrefutable historical fact; while historians can and do debate the prime causes for the fall of empires, its interesting that both British and Soviet empires collapsed post Shoah. Where was Jesus?

The EU makes no reference to Xtianity, when it attempted to write its own Constitution. The church belief system views Jesus as a physical man. But Ridderbos theology failed to discern that Torah common law stands upon prophetic mussar, rather than relies upon actual history – like as emphatically does the church. Torah stands upon the foundation that each generation has its day under the Sun. Proof: the sages halachicly sealed the T’NaCH, Talmud, and Siddur – giving all generations an identical masoret playing field!

This basis-condition of classic ancient warfare – to destroy and kill the Gods of enemy nations – expressed in the judgement of the Gods of Egypt and the obliteration of Par’o Army drowned in the Sea of Reeds; followed by the judgment of the Gods of Canaan or also the attempt of Bil’aam to curse Israel to intermarry and assimilate – the Torah definition of the 2nd Sinai commandment. Ridderbos failure to critique this most basic fundamental flaw in Acts.

Instead his theology skewed the NT ‘as reliable church history’; not as a tendentious text with huge legal incoherencies. This truth did not concern nor interest him in the least. Any more than did C S Lewis address the Shoah: Xtian guilt of 2000+ years of war crimes which culminated in “by their fruits you shall know them” – Shoah church guilt/rat-lines and post war pogroms. Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) failed to condemn the Russian pogroms – another bitter fruit of the Xtian dead religion. Where was Jesus during all the Church war crimes against humanity which resulted in the death of 10s of millions? Ridderbos treats “Son of God” almost entirely as a dogmatic category, not as a subversive imperial counter-claim.

E.P. Sanders (in Jesus and Judaism and The Historical Figure of Jesus) fails to discern the fundamental difference of how Torah defines the key term “prophet” from how the NT re-interprets it as no different than witchcraft. Witches predict the future which the Gospels describe as “fulfill the words of the prophets”. T’NaCH and Talmudic Aggada and later Midrash interpret “prophet” as a person who commands mussar.

The agnostic American historian Bart Ehrman confuses Daniel mysticism-apocalyptic interpretations made upon prophetic mussar (akin to how the Gemara interprets the language of the Mishna), but fails to grasp that all Holy Writings of the Hebrew T’NaCH serve primarily as Gemara-like commentaries to Prophet Mishna-like Primary sources. He failed to grasp that the framers of the Talmud based their Mishna/Gemara Av/tolda relationship upon the Prophet\Holy Writings relationship.

That he grasped the NT as a substitute fraud bears merit. But he did not understand that Torah faith does not spin around the central axis of belief in some monotheistic god as Xtianity and Islam demand. פרדס not a Reshonim institution. The entire foundation of how the Framers of both T’NaCH and Talmud organized these separate Books of Common law jurisprudence stand on the foundation of פרדס as taught by the P’rushim to rabbi Akiva. Aggadic sources function as the weft while Halachic source function as the warp threads by which the sages shape and determine the identity of the chosen Cohen people.

Talmudic common law stands as the model for re-established Courts when Jews reconquer our homeland. That Reshonim “converted” it to meet the crisis of g’lut during the Dark Ages does not stand today now that Jews have reconquered our homeland and struggle to restore the Torah as the Constitution of the Republic which mandates common law Sanhedrin courts. Theology plays no part nor role in Torah common law.

Rambam no different that the Apostle Paul or Arab Muhammad. Talmud sealed. Rambam can no more unseal the Talmud than can JeZeus or MuHammad. The Talmud serves as the basis Jewish culture and customs which define the Chosen Cohen identity in cursed Goyim lands of exile. But no Sanhedrin court ever existed outside of ארץ ישראל. Small Sanhedrin Capital Crimes Courts most essentially can function on the borders of ארץ ישראל as determined by Moshe Rabbeinu himself. Galut Jews “baptized” their assimilated need to have a religion like the Goyim. The Rambam code of statute law as much an abomination as Paul’s your not under the law declaration.

O’lam HaBa does not relate to messianic era. Avram cut the brit between the pieces when his future born seed only existed in “O’lam HaBa”, no different than a man makes קידושין and acquires the O’lam Ha’Ba soul of his wife! Both refer to the children born into the future – O’lam HaBa.

War News: Approaching the climax of the US-Israel war against Shiite fanatics ruling Iran.

Venezuelan compares to Kharg Island. Just as the Cuban house of cards collapsed with the US capture of the Venezuelan oil fields so too China’s house of cards will collapse after US marines capture and occupy Kharg Island. Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil export terminal, critical for the country’s economy. It handles a significant portion of Iran’s oil exports, making it central to both domestic revenue and international trade partnerships. Approximately 90% of the oil refined and sold by Iran is exported to China through Kharg Island.

This relationship underscores China’s role as a major player in the Iranian oil market, providing Iran with a vital economic lifeline amid sanctions and trade restrictions imposed by the West. Just as Communist Castro Cuba will most likely become a US protectorate territory like Puerto Rico. In similar fashion should US Marines capture Kharg Island, this will terminate the US/Israeli War against Iran.

Iranians themselves must choose their own government. But loss of Kharg Island will cripple the Iranian economy like as Cubans experienced when Us Troops captured the President Maduro of Venezuela in one day. The collapse of Venezuela’s anti-US government directly impacted the economy of Cuba. Just as the collapse of the Shiite fanatic government of Iran will directly impact the economy of China.

War News: Azerbaijan’s Kanal 13 reports, Indian based Jagran News reports

Propaganda: Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately pushing the Middle East toward a “worst-case scenario,” saying Israelis themselves “don’t pay the price” while the region, the US and Europe bear the costs of war. Europe not a major player in the balance of power in the Middle East.

Jurgen Habermas & Wolfgang Röllig have died.

Jurgen Habermas father served in the German army during World War II, but the family opposed Nazi ideology. After the war, Habermas became a prominent philosopher and sociologist known for his critical views on totalitarianism and his advocacy for democratic discourse, which inherently opposes the principles of Nazism. He criticized the Lutheran Church’s alliance with Hitler during the Nazi regime. He argued that the church’s collaboration with the regime represented a failure of moral responsibility and an abandonment of its foundational ethical principles.

He denounced the anti-Semitic roots of Martin Luther’s writings in relation to the Lutheran Church’s alliance with the Nazi regime. He reflects on how Luther’s anti-Jewish sentiments have historically influenced attitudes within Protestantism, contributing to a climate of anti-Semitism that persisted into the 20th century. Habermas argues that Luther’s writings contain significant anti-Semitic themes that set a precedent for the treatment of Jews in Xtian Europe. This historical context – crucial for understanding why some factions within the Lutheran Church aligned with Nazi ideology.

He emphasizes that the church should critically examine its history, including Luther’s writings, to acknowledge how these elements contributed to the moral failures during the Shoah. Habermas believes that confronting this history is essential for the church’s role in promoting ethical discourse today. Habermas contends that the remnants of Luther’s anti-Semitism can still be seen in some contemporary attitudes and beliefs, making it imperative for the church to address and rectify these issues.

Likewise he rebuked corrupt Calvinist theology – no different than Luther’s, both antisemites theologies slandered Jews and Judaism. He notes that both Luther and Calvin’s anti-Jewish sentiments have had lasting effects on how Protestant communities interacted with Jewish people throughout history. This interplay has perpetuated cycles of discrimination and alienation. By linking Calvin’s thoughts to current attitudes, Habermas stresses the necessity for Protestant denominations to engage in meaningful reflection and correction of these past ideologies to ensure they do not continue to influence modern beliefs and practices.

Jürgen Habermas has posed the question, “Where was Jesus during the Shoah?” By asking this question, he highlights the complicity and silence of the church in the face of extreme suffering, urging a reevaluation of the church’s role and responsibilities. His polished definition of justice, in the shadow of the Shoah – an essential moral obligation to prevent repetition of past atrocities and to ensure recognition of the dignity of all individuals.

He held that Europe as the ‘Body of the Church’ must remember in order to address their long history of slander and war crimes which resulted in the Shoah, as the basis – the fundamental – of post war justice. Habermas suggests that true justice must contribute to building a future that honors human dignity and prevents the repetition of past atrocities, thereby establishing a moral framework that guides contemporary societies.

He traced the roots of anti-Semitism back to the Gospels, particularly discussing the implications of certain New Testament passages. He examines how specific texts and interpretations have historically contributed to anti-Jewish sentiments within Xtianity. Habermas emphasizes that the early Christian church, in its efforts to establish its identity apart from Judaism, sometimes portrayed Jews negatively, setting the stage for centuries of anti-Semitic attitudes.

Habermas points out that theological positions derived from these texts have justified discrimination and violence against Jewish communities throughout history, culminating in the eternal church disgrace of the Shoah, a crime on par with Cain’s murder of his brother. He warned that if the church ignores its historical guilt regarding anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, it risks rendering Xtianity irrelevant. He reflects on the consequences of such neglect, suggesting that failure to confront and acknowledge this past could lead to a disconnect between the church’s teachings and moral integrity.

He posits that if Xtianity fails to engage with its past, it could become akin to ancient religions, like those of the Greek gods, viewed as obsolete and disconnected from modern moral challenges. In highlighting these concerns, Habermas underscores the necessity for the church to embrace its responsibility, advocating for a transformative approach that honors human dignity and reconciles with the affected communities.

Wolfgang Röllig (1932-2023), philosopher and sociologist known for democratic discourse and critical theory. Critiques the roots of anti-Semitism in Xtian theology, particularly in Gospels, emphasizing the church’s complicity during the Shoah. Defines justice as a moral obligation to recognize historical wrongs and prevent future atrocities, emphasizing a transformative ethical framework. Warns that ignoring historical guilt could render Xtianity irrelevant, stressing the need for moral renewal. Suggests that Xtianity must engage with its past to maintain relevance in contemporary society. He demanded that the European church own its responsibility for the post War “Rat Lines” and Polish pogroms.

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