My continuing swapping of e-mails with an Australian Pentecostal pre-millenialist has taken a mind blowing turn. Our discussion evolved to who can be saved. I posited that if a Jew accepted Jesus as his personal saviour, was baptised and confessed his sins he could be accepted into the Kingdom of God. My all-knowing sacerdote proclaimed if they were from the seed of Adam they would be accepted, but if descended from Cain they were doomed. For all Christians that may be reading this blog please forgive me for my following comment--What the Fuck?!?
First of all, most scholars agree that the myth of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden is a derivation from a Sumerian origin myth. So who is the uber-genealogist that has kept track of those in the Book of Adam and the Book of Cain. Likewise, recent research has proven that their is no racial genetical link between those that call themselves Jews. Which makes sense since the Jews have been scattered all over the Mid-East, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Now I know that the Jews are a holy people, but I think it would be a safe assumption to say that many Jews had relations with their hosts/captors/slave-owners. So maybe a once pure Semite blood line was now intermingled with peoples from the known ancient world. So my query is if there is a "Jew" that is in the Book of Cain, but he has Teutonic, Mongol and Greek blood, is he condemned from the Kingdom of God?
Another interesting aspect of the all-holy, all-knowing, Jew hating, "Minister of God" is his assertion that the Holy Bible is canonical and all words are inspired by the Almighty. When I asked him how many books are in the bible he quickly proclaimed 66. But, a quick search on Wikipedia shows that the Catholics, Lutherans, Coptics and King James have a hard time on agreeing with which books should be in the Bible. Combine this with the infighting among the early Christians, which contained factions of Gnostics, those that believed Christ was a holy man but not the Son of God, and those that believed in the Divinity of Jesus. Much allegations of heresy were thrown around and Constantine finally put the sandal down at the Council of Nicene, which for the most part gives us the extant version of our current bible, with a bit of tweaking.
One troubling issue is the discovery of the Qumranian scrolls in the mid 1900's which were written during and shortly after the time of Christ. Some things that negates the supposed "accepted" bible is James the Just was the first leader of the Church of Jerusalem not Peter. "St." Paul was not following the teaching of Christ but inventing a "Christian" mystery religion that appealed to the Hellenic/Roman culture of the time. The magical actions of the Christ put him in the pantheon of the Hellenistic Gods. However, the Nasoreans or proto-Christians knew that Paul's teaching had nothing to do with the Messiah's gospels. Witness Paul's abduction when he brazenly entered the Jerusalem temple to address his "followers" when they started to stone him but eventually just imprisoned him in a shack on a hill overlooking the Temple. The true believers knew that Paul was the "Spouter of Lies" that was repeatedly mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Jesus' teachings were 1700 years before his time. He believed that all men AND women had the right to salvation. He believed as long as the faithful worshipped correctly and the King lead righteously, life would be in balance or Shalom. Teachings of great wisdom. I find it hard to believe that he would forsake his own "race" into the kingdom of Shalom.
And for those that still have a problem with this treatise ponder these two points. If the Dead Sea Scrolls prove that Jesus was not resurrected but died as a mortal, all of Christianity comes tumbling down on the one thing that made Christianity a religion--the Divinity of Christ. Likewise, Jesus of Nazareth was thought to be from Nazareth, but Nazareth did not exist until well after his death. Oh and one final point if Jesus was a Jew how did he get a Mexican name.
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