Being anti-something isn’t always a bad thing, depending on why anyone is against a certain thing. If a person is hateful and bigoted, that is usually based in ignorance and upbringing, whereas if someone is against something for moral or religious reasons, that doesn’t necessitate hatefulness.
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This message came to me after a discussion with a friend last night, when he told me that I was Anti-Christian. I replied (as my defense) that I was Anti-Christian teaching, but not Anti-Christian.
I am grateful to him for telling me, straight out, that if I am Anti-Christian teaching then I am Anti-Christian. And, in response to that, I had to say he was right.
But I am not Anti-Christian, I am Anti-Christianity. That is the difference between being a bigot and just not agreeing with a religious belief system.
From my lifetime of knowing people who are Anti-Semitic (when you’re Jewish you get to meet a lot of people like that) I have found that the basis for their hatred is not religious, whatsoever. They are not against us worshipping God, or for being devoted to the Torah, although I have been accused of being a Christ-killer, but even that is not enough to generate the level of hatred and violence against us.
The main reason, from my experience, for people being Anti-Semitic is economic. We have been accused of controlling the media and the finances of the world. We even have been accused of being the children of Satan (John 8:44).
The fact that we have been very successful in business and finance has not helped dispel that lie.
But my being Anti-Christianity is not based on economics, social positioning, or anything other than the teachings that Christianity has been proliferating for nearly two millennia. I do not hate any Christians, but I do hate the things they have been taught.
Some examples of those teachings being replacing God the father with Yeshua the Messiah, bowing and praying to statues, telling people that they can ignore the Torah because Yeshua did away with it (which makes the son of God a traitor to his father misleading people away from proper worship), and (this is a biggie!) teaching that Jews are no longer God’s chosen people because God has rejected the Jews as a result of us rejecting his son.
Having a love and respect for God and Yeshua, those teachings are, to me, as annoying as someone insulting my wife in front of me.
So, yes, I am an Anti-Christianity person but I am not against Christians. You might call this one of those times where we hate the sin but love the sinner.
And despite being told, more times than I care to count, that I do not know the Bible or understand the Epistles or that I can’t really be saved because I still do all that “Jewish” stuff, I know that if I continue to try to live as best as I can in accordance with the way God said to live and worship him (which is only found in the Torah), faithfully trusting that Yeshua is the Messiah and through his sacrifice I am able to find forgiveness of sin (which is, ultimately, what being saved means), then I am absolutely positive that I am on the right path to salvation.
And despite not liking Christianity, I still can love Christians.
This ministry is devoted to teaching the truth, as I believe it to be, about who God is, who the Messiah is, what he taught, and how best to serve God in the way we worship him and treat each other. I try to make sure I have biblical justification for every and anything I teach
I have many who disagree with me, on both the Christian and Jewish side, but I never tell anyone what they should believe, only what I believe and why I believe it.
I will argue (always nicely and with respect) with anyone who disagrees, and if we cannot come to an agreement, then so be it- we can each shake the dust from our sandals and go somewhere else. The fact remains that nothing I say, or you say, or anyone says is going to count at all when we come before the Lord God, Almighty at Judgement Day because all that will count with God is what he says.
And when we come before him, as we all shall do, at least I can say that I tried to do what God said to do and not what some men who created their own religion said to do.
Frankly, I think that will go over a lot better with God than someone who says they did what their religion said to do.
Thank you for being here and please remember to share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for this week so L’hitraot, and (an early) Shabbat Shalom!