%% Good points; I have a catholic Bible NEB, maybe not as accurate as NASB,NKJV,KVJ but good anyway. Some catholic Bibles have many more books than KJV, NKJV, NASB, but mine has the same number of books in it.................................................................
%% There is one scripture on Israel [God's people]commanding God; concerning that ''Ask....+ concerning the works of my hands command ye me'' But the idea of any priest or person ordering the LORD a round all the time like slave=LOL asinine as ESG or woke broke .IS 45
Thank-you for posting this. Please understand I am in no way saying what Martin Luther posted on the door is in keeping with the New Testament. (Martin Luther was a Catholic priest and his posting was to have the Catholic Church correct the false practices he believed it that had fallen into - that is Luther, a priest, wanted to reform the Catholic Church) In your point 1 you have deleted: " For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly - and I myself was unaware of it - will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know. " I think this is his rational: Jews do not believe that Jesus was the Christ, from God and resurrected (1). Indeed the Jews were the ones who had Jesus crucified and after his (physical body's) death - hunted down and crucified any who believed in Jesus (2). 1. The New testament does say that those who deny this are antichrists. "Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. "https://biblehub.com/1_john/2-22.htm 2. 1Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest 2and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.https://biblehub.com/acts/9.htm If Jesus had not intervened and converted Saul (a Pharisee) there would not have been any disciples left and all Jesus's work, pain and sacrifice would have been for nothing. No one would know of his great gift of salvation to those who believe. "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”https://biblehub.com/john/20-19.htm Where many labeling themselves as Christians go wrong is not actually bothering to read the 4 gospels themselves. Jesus makes it very clear that "believing" in him includes following his teachings, the Way. Those who love me follow my commandments. And those who simply say "Lord, Lord" heal sick and cast out demons - but do not follow his teachings - Jesus will say get away from me evil-doers I never knew you. One of Jesus's teachings/commandments is that you should not try to mix his teachings - the Way- the New Testament - with the old. "36He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ ”https://biblehub.com/niv/luke/5.htm So not only here but in many places he says the Old testament - the Jews bible is finished, as one commentator said: "The Old testament was nailed to the cross along with Jesus." Jesus makes it very clear - you must follow his teachings, not the Jews bible. Some examples are: It is written - eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth but I say love those who hate you. For if you only love those who love you are you any different than the pagans? Do not judge others - only God is the judge and he has given all power of judgement to me and I not not judge. Do not pray in public. Do not be like the Pharisees who pray in the public but go into your closet/bedroom and close the door and speak to the Father from your heart. Do not make a show of giving. Give in secret. Do not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. For the Father who sees all things will reward you, but if you give publicly so that men may see your righteousness you have already had your reward. Do not criticize others. Why say 'Brother let me take out the speak in your eye, when you have a log in your own eye. You hypocrite! Take out the log from your own eye so you may see to help your brother.' Be humble. When you come to a dinner do not take one of the best places for yourself. Take a lower place, and then when the host comes he will say 'Friend, come I have a much better place for you. Do not look down on others thinking yourself more righteous. Story of the two who prayed in the temple and the sinner would not even raise his head but the priest said "look at that sinner, I am glad I am not like him' Surely I say to you the prayers of the sinner will be heard and not the priest. .... and so on. - but then the 4 gospels are that long so everyone who wants to know what Jesus taught, it is there for the reading. ====== So as you can see from what you posted Luther is back digging about in the rubbish bin and trying to "pour new wine in the old wine skin". So it is not just Luther, a Catholic priest doing this, it is also done by other denominations. He is referring to a book of hate and wrath and vengeance (old wine), and not what Jesus taught (the new wine). The Way.
Going to your reference (part X1) and turning to Part X " On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) By Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) Part X In the first place, they defame our Lord Jesus Christ, calling him a sorcerer and tool of the devil. This they do because they cannot deny his miracles. Thus they imitate their forefathers, who said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons" [Luke 11:15]. They invent many lies about the name of God, the tetragrammaton, saying that our Lord was able to define this name (which they call Schem Hamphoras), and whoever is able to do that, they say, is also able to perform all sorts of miracles. However, they cannot cite a single instance of any men who worked a miracle worth a gnat by means of this Schem Hamphoras. It is evident that as consummate liars they fabricate this about our Lord. When a Christian hears them utter the word "Jesu," as will happen occasionally when they are obliged to speak to us, he assumes that they are using the name Jesus. But in reality they have the numeral letters Jesu in mind, that is, the numeral 316 in the blasphemous word Vorik. And when they utter the word "Jesu" in their prayer, they spit on the ground three times in honor of our Lord and of all Christians, moved by their great love and devotion. But when they are conversing with one another they say, Deleatur nomen eius, which means in plain words, "May God exterminate his name," or "May all the devils take him." In addition they rob Jesus of the significance of his name, which in Hebrew means "savior" or "helper." The name Helfrich or Hilfrich was common among the old Saxons; this is the equivalent of the name Jesus. Today we might use the name Hulfrich -- that is, one who can and will help. But the Jews, in their malice, call him Jesu, which in Hebrew is neither a name nor a word but three letters, like ciphers or numeral letters. .. They use the name Jesu, signifying 316. This number then is to denote another word, in which Hebel Vorik is found. They treat us Christians similarly in receiving us when we go to them. They pervert the words Seid Gott willkommen [literally, "Be welcome to God"] and say, Sched wil kem! which means: "Come, devil," or "There comes a devil." Since we are not conversant with the Hebrew, they can vent their wrath on us secretly. While we suppose that they are speaking kindly to us, they are calling down hellfire and every misfortune on our heads. Such splendid guests we poor, pious Christians are harboring in our country in the persons of the Jews, we who mean well with them, who would gladly serve their physical and spiritual welfare, and who suffer so many coarse wrongs from them. Then they also call Jesus a whore’s son, saying that his mother Mary was a whore, who conceived him in adultery with a blacksmith. I have to speak in this coarse manner, although I do so with great reluctance, to combat the vile devil. Now they know very well that these lies are inspired by sheer hatred and spite, solely for the purpose of bitterly poisoning the minds of their poor youth and the simple Jews against the person of our Lord, lest they adhere to his doctrine (which they cannot refute). Still they claim to be the holy people to whom God must grant the Messiah by reason of their righteousness! In the eighth commandment, God forbade us to speak falsehoods against our neighbor, to lie, to deceive, to revile, to defile. This prohibition also includes one’s enemies. http://jdstone.org/cr/files/martin_luther/onthejewsandtheirlies10.html
It’s 4:00 AM so just glancing over I caught a lot of items that make’s the Christian God weak. Is he less powerful than Yahweh? You said: “…If Jesus had not intervened and converted Saul (a Pharisee) there would not have been any disciples left and all Jesus's work, pain and sacrifice would have been for nothing. No one would know of his great gift of salvation to those who believe.…” That’s not the God I was raised to know about. Saul was no Ahab or Jezebel. 1 Kings 19:13-18 “Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 14He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” 15The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. 17Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. 18Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.” 7000 surviving during what Elijah thought was himself? How did God save Lot to turn in two nations? Christians in Jerusalem, was Papias who Eusebius quoted saying “Angel appeared in 66 AD to urge the Christians to flea to Pella before Titus destroyed most and enslaved 100,000? I think we were brought up on different Gods, mine was Almighty. Nothing could stop his plan.
Christians are like noob traders, who study and study Al Brooks teachings from one of Al's many books. Suddenly they are know it alls, have an answer for everything, dunning kruger, because 'God' taught them , then they go about attempting (mostly futiley) to convincing 'sinners' to join them on their moonbeam trip to heaven. The bible is their idol, perfect, unblemished, they worship every word of it. Stupid christians quote from the bible like a noob thinks you can make consistent money from trading moving averages and by reading Al Brooks.