DR Very thought provoking. And I certainly agree with you about the existance of the WMDs. I too knew someone who was involved in that. In my opinion, the whole mantra about "Bush Lied" was classic Democratic bullshit that was repeated so many times by the media that it became "true." - Much like the ongoing bullshit about how Bill Clinton was a great president instead of the white trash rapist he was. RR does make some good points about how government attracts the worst kinds of people for the most self serving of reasons. And in some ways, the same is true about religion and religious zealots. I am still amazed at the transparent disconnect between a quest for spirituality and the pursuit of power. JS ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@xxxxxxxx> To: "sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: How Christianity has been turned upside down Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:30:13 -0400 Jesus never challenged the rabbi's rule. He challenged their interpretation of the law, but not their position or ability to rule or their authority to rule. What he did challenge was their understanding of the Law (meaning the scriptures which are the Law). They were furious at him for doing this. You're right about the Rabbis of the Sanhedrin trying Jesus and finding him guilty of Blasphemy - which is #1 Commandment (Law) I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Jesus not only agrees that blasphemy is an evil, but being merciful he tempers it, it can be forgiven, but he adds that there is one blasphemy that can never be forgiven: Mark 28-30 28 “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30 for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.” Jesus was taken before the Sanhedrin and charged with blasphemy and convicted, just as St. Stephan who was the first martyr - and Saul later Paul was there at that martyrdom when he was on the side of the Sanhedrin - as he should be - as he was not illuminated by the truth that Jesus had given which after he fell down blind and later recovered his sight, he received and was converted to Christ. The Sanhedrin / "the rabbis" had authority to judge interpret the Law but NOT to make Law, only God made Law. This used to be our basis of British Common Law in the USA but no more, now it is more like you say, the Supreme Court and other courts make law. Jesus had as you say the authority to judge but even higher than theirs, in addition to their powers, Jesus had the authority to make laws, which he passed to Peter - the Rock and his Church. As for weapons of mass destruction, they were there, we got most of them along with barrels of money, I know an Army Ranger who saw them being loaded on a ship, but everything about that was declared to be above top secret, so you won't hear anything about it because of the acquisition of the gold and jewels would signify that our economy is going to Hell in a hand basket. Most of what you say about government I agree with - and it is illegitimate for governments to abuse people and their authority like that. Going into that cesspool would take us forever. Usually it comes down to money, land, and power. 73 DR On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Exactly. Jesus challenged the rabbi's rule. The Roman governor told the rabbis that Jesus had not broken any Roman law. Why did they try to trick Jesus into saying that he challenged Roman authority to collect taxes? It was the rabbis who tried Jesus and found him guilty. They claimed it was because he said he was the Messiah (how is that a crime anyway?) in order to justify their actions just as the U.S. Government claimed they invaded Iraq because they had WMD's. In Jewish communities the rabbis made the laws, claiming they were given that authority by God. Jesus said that he was also a son of God and as such had as much authority as they did to judge right and wrong. For this he had to be executed because death is the punishment for challenging authority is Jewish and Islamic and communist states. All governments do is rob and murder people. If you owe money to the U.S. Government. they will forcibly seize everything you owe and kill you if you resist. Can you imagine a bank or private company doing this if you owed them money? During the 20th Century governments were responsible for murdering 200 million people, not counting the ten's of millions killed in wars. All governments are evil because they attract evil people, people who want to rule over others and rob and steal with impunity. It does not matter if they are "democratically" elected, which is a farce, or claim they are given the power by God, such as Jews and Muslims, or they are warlords who are at least honest. -RR -RR -----Original Message----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." Sent: Aug 30, 2014 9:48 PM To: "sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: How Christianity has been turned upside down The chief rabbis called for Jesus's execution because he committed the offense of saying he was God. Pilate sat on the judgement seat and heard the case, and found Jesus innocent of violating any Roman law. 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.” 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid; 9 he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.” 12 Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar.” 13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 15 They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. Pilate was afraid that the Jews would tell Caesar that he was administering law unfairly, fear again ruled. Pilate's wife had a dream and she was right. But without Pilate's decision, what had to be done would not have been done, so Pilate and the Rabbi's both glorified God by their acts - God brought beauty out of it all.[ 73DR On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Pontius Pilot washed his hands of Jesus's execution. He said he wanted nothing to do with it. In Jewish communities well into the 20th Century it was rabbis who made all the rules. It was the Jewish rabbis who called for Jesus's execution. -----Original Message----- From: "Lee, NI7I" Sent: Aug 30, 2014 11:52 AM To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: How Christianity has been turned upside down I had always been under the impression that the Romans killed him and that the Romans were in power (the government) at that time.. Guess I was wrong. Le e On 8/30/2014 7:57 AM, Ron Ristad wrote:Jesus said that his kingdom was not of this world. He challenged government control. The government being the Rabbis in a Jewish state. That's why he was executed. The only solution governments have for any problem is to kill people. This is why the more problems there are the more people must die. -----Original Message----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." Sent: Aug 30, 2014 8:28 AM To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: How Christianity has been turned upside down No he wouldn't. He be called a blasphemer because he said God was his father and that he was God. He said his kingdom was not of this world. 73 DR On Aug 30, 2014 10:01 AM, "Ron Ristad" <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Jesus would be called a terrorist today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQI7MVHYf8M -RR ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2