4. Isn't the "Jewish" god the God of the Old Testament? Isn't this why we refer to the popular belief in Christ as the "Judeo"-Christian religion?
Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser wrote in "Judaism and the Christian
Predicament" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967) p. 59:
"This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians - that Judaism is the religion of the Hebrew Bible. It is, of course, a fallacious impression... Judaism is *not* the religion of the Bible."Rabbi Moshe M. Maggal, wrote: "...you will notice the great difference between the Jewish and Christian religions. But these are not all. We consider the two religions so different that one excludes the other. ...we emphasized that there is no such thing as a Judeo- Christian religion. ...There is not any similarity between the two concepts." Rabbi Maggal (President, National Jewish Information Service) letter, 21 August 1961.So what is the nature of the "Jewish" god? It is not the God of the Hebrew Bible as we have just seen by their own admission. They have no need of the concept of God as they have "killed off God" a long time ago as James Yaffe comments: "And so it seems we must agree with Rabbi Richard Israel, who writes in "Commentary's" symposium on Jewish belief, "[The current discussion on] the Death of God will cause Jews to ask, 'So what else is new?' ... The Jewish funeral was a much more private affair. We buried him [YHWH-God] quietly and in the middle of the night." -- James Yaffe, "The American Jews" (New York: Random House, 1968) 161James Yaffe's statement was a comment to a statement made by Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham Temple: "...the whole concept of God is outdated; Judaism can function perfectly well without it."If the self-styled "Jews" have "killed off God", then what sort of "god" do they have? The Jewish God is the "Jew" as the Jewish Cabala (Kabbalah) puts it: "The Jew is the living God, God incarnate: he is the heavenly man. The other men are earthly, of inferior race. They exist only to serve the Jew. They are the cattle seed." Who are the racist supremacists? "You will know them by their fruits..." In the following quote we begin to understand this "Jewish" idea of their "god" a little better as it is applied more directly to today: "The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this *new world order* the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands." -Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, 'La Revue de Paris', p. 574, June 1, 1928 Continue on to fifth question. Return to the GOAL Reference LIbrary |