BLOG POSTING, WEEK OF SEP 29, 2025:   NAILS IN THE COFFIN

As a quick summation: by about 200 AD we have Greek thinking church fathers; located in Rome and elsewhere; and separated from Jesus’ Jewish roots by bad feelings.  To that we now pound two nails in the coffin.  (And what's in the coffin?  A clear understanding of Jesus’ and any Christian’s Jewish roots.)

The first nail is a huge animosity.  It seems those early church fathers then developed a “distaste” for all things Jewish (after all “those Jews” did reject and kill our Savior).  And why is that a major problem?  They thereby cut themselves off from 2000 years of experience, tradition, and oral knowledge of Blood Covenant, living with and under Covenant, tithing, food sacrifices, and the action associate with almost every foot of Israel, which just about any 14 year old could have easily rattled off.  Then they filled the void with Greek religiosity.

And just in case you think this shallow, un-Christ-like rejection by the Greek fathers, wasn’t serious, I would remind you, the resulting Satan fueled hatred was so strongly embedded in the church that Martin Luther in his 1543 “On the Jews and Their Lies” still wrote of killing Rabbis and burning down Jewish schools and synagogues.  People, it was not until March 18, 1965 that the Catholic Church first forgave the Jews as not being wholly involved in killing Christ.  Hatred of Jews is still alive, and strongly encouraged by Satan!

The second nail?  That Greek thought pattern is NOT the basic thought pattern used by God to record the Bible!  (See my June 23 BLOG.)  And it doesn’t seem to matter too much which author God used, or which language it was recorded in at any particular era, the message was specifically tuned to His new nation Israel, and its thinking was: concrete; pictorial; story telling; never giving a concept important to God in one short three verse Pauline lump but always a little in one story and a little more worked out in a whole different story.  You LITERALLY need the WHOLE Bible to get the WHOLE counsel of God!  The present day use of three Pauline verses to “prove” anything winds up proving much much less than the experts lead you to think.

The Coffin lid can’t come off 
if you refuse to admit it is on.

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