Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Conversations: Featuring Melanie Phillips II" video.

  1. "Christianity is based on the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah who fulfilled the ancient Hebrew prophesies." Consequently, Christianity is based on the Hebrew Scriptures. Once you've acknowledged that, you've acknowledged the validity of the Judeo-Christian tradition. "Also, the morality of Jesus was based on "Love Your Enemies" and thus forgive those who trespass against you." No that's not the whole of Christian morality. Radical forgiveness is PART of Christian morality. A new part, I grant you, but a new part of a coherent whole. "The core of Judaic morality is 'An Eye For An Eye' " That's Israelite civil law. Israel was a nation. The Mosaic law had to provide for civil government. Christianity doesn't preclude the punishment of crimes or personal or national self defense. You're comparing apples and oranges. "Devarim (Book of Deuteronomy), precisely lays out Judaic morality." It lays out the supreme civil law of the ancient nation of Israel. "What is Judeo-Christianity?" You are changing the term to make it sound like a religion. Nobody is claiming that, so your construction is a straw man. "Judeo-Islam?" There is an important similarity between Judaism, Christianity and many more of the beliefs of great societies in history that is lacking in Islam. C. S. Lewis in the appendix to "The Abolition of Man" lists the common themes running through ethical systems throughout history. The first category is the Law of General Benificence (basically the Golden Rule), which is the important notion of a guiding or defining principle for morality as a whole rather than morality being just an arbitrary list of rules. Lewis is unable to find such a category in Islam. "Judaism opposes Christianity. Yes?" No. Only in the sense that every religion disagrees with every other. Not in any specific sense. And there is a vast common ground, and most what Western society has drawn from Christianity is part of that common ground. There is not a shred of Biblical support for your specific contempt toward Jews. The Bible condemns such an attitude throughout: Genesis 12:3 John 4:20-24 and the definitive treatise on the proper Christian attitude toward Jews: Romans 9-11. Apart from Jesus, they are unsaved, but we are nowhere told to hate the unsaved, quite the reverse, much less single out one particular group of unsaved for special opprobrium, much less to lie about anyone at all. The Bible is chock full of promises for the future felicity of Israel which have not yet been fulfilled, and shall be without fail. "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." As for the regrafting of Israel back into the vine as prophesied in Romans 11; we see this being fulfilled today. There are as many Jewish converts since 2000 as there have been in two centuries prior. This is documented in the YouTube channels "Jews for Jesus" and "ONE FOR ISRAEL". God is on the move. Follow or get out of the way.
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