Official Statement Re: Orthodox Christian/Jewish Relations

[George Australia]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"PAUL, A BONDSERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST, CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE, SEPERATED TO THE GOSPEL OF GOD.
TO ALL WHO ARE IN ROME, BELOVED OF GOD, CALLED TO BE SAINTS.
I SAY THEN, HAVE THEY (THE JEWS) STUMBLED THAT THEY SHOULD FALL? CERTAINLY NOT! BUT THROUGH THEIR FALL,TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY, SALVATION HAS COME TO THE GENTILES. NOW IF THEIR FALL IS RICHES FOR THE WORLD, AND THEIR FAILURE RICHES FOR THE GENTILES, HOW MUCH MORE THEIR FULLNESS! FOR IF THEIR BEING CAST AWAY IS THE RECONCILING OF THE WORLD, WHAT WILL THEIR ACCEPTANCE BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?
FOR IF THE FIRSTFRUIT IS HOLY, THE LUMP IS ALSO HOLY, AND IF THE ROOT IS HOLY, SO ARE THE BRANCHES. AND IF SOME OF THE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF, AND YOU, BEING A WILD OLIVE TREE WERE GRAFTED IN AMONG THEM AND WITH THEM BECAME A PARTAKER OF THE ROOT AND FATNESS OF THE OLIVE TREE, DO NOT BOAST AGAINST THE BRANCHES. BUT IF YOU DO BOAST, REMEMBER THAT YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THE ROOT, THE ROOT SUPPORTS YOU. YOU WILL SAY THEN "BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF THAT I MIGHT BE GRAFTED IN". WELL SAID, BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF THEY WERE BROKEN OFF AND YOU STAND BY FAITH- DO NOT BE HAUGHTY, BUT FEAR. FOR IF GOD DID NOT SPARE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, HE MAY NOT SPARE YOU EITHER. THEREFORE CONSIDER THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD; ON THOSE WHO FELL, SEVERITY, BUT TOWARDS YOU, GOODNESS IF YOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS; OTHERWISE, YOU WILL ALSO BE CUT OFF. AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY DO NOT CONTINUE IN UNBELIEF, WILL BE GRAFTED IN, FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN. FOR IF YOU WERE CUT OUT OF THE OLIVE TREE WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE, AND WERE GRAFTED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A CULTIVATED OLIVE TREE, HOW MUCH MORE WILL THESE WHO ARE NATURAL BRANCHES BE GRAFTED INTO THEIR OWN TREE? FOR I DO NOT DESIRE BRETHEREN, THAT YOU SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY, LEST YOU SHOULD BE WISE IN YOUR OWN OPINION, THAT BLINDNESS IN PART HAS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN. AND SO, ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED AS IT IS WRITTEN: "THE DELIVERER WILL COME OUT OF ZION, AND HE WILL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."

[OrthodoxyOrDeath]

Anyone who wishes to engage with Brenden on certain social issues involving Jews, Muslims, ect - THIS WILL BE THE ONE AND ONLY THREAD.

Anyone not so inclined, please do not open this thread.

Our administrator suggests that everyone read this, by Archbishop Averky: On Holy Zeal.

[brendan]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Have you had enough of the fight against the Jews? The man who does not have enough of loving Christ will never have enough of fighting against those who hate Christ." - St. John Chrysostom.

[brendan]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"What aroused their especial ire was the fact that Christ, by unmasking the hypocrisy of the Judaic Scribes and Pharisees, destroyed their myth of 'chosenness by God'. Having laid bare the satanic roots of the limitless pride of these self-appointed rulers of the Earth, 'Jesus said unto them ... Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.' (John 8: 42,44)." - IAONN (may his memory be eternal), Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg, (1927-1995)

[brendan]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Europe is presently the main battlefield of the Jew and his father, the devil, against the heavenly Father and his only begotten Son . . . (The Jews) first need to become legally equal with Christians in order to repress Christianity next, turn Christians into atheist, and step on their necks. All the modern European slogans have been made up by Jews - the crucifiers of Christ: democracy, strikes, socialism, atheism, tolerance of all religions, pacifism, universal revolution, capitalism and communism... All this has been done with the intention to eliminate Christ . . . You should think about this, my Serbian brethren, and correspondingly correct your thoughts, desires and acts." -Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic (1880-1956) in his book "Addresses to the Serbian people - Through the Prison Window"

[fserafim]

In the 1960s, a Roman Catholic theologian, Dr. (somebody - forgot the name) said that the Orthodox should remove all negative references to Jews in the Holy Week Services. Since that time I have not heard anymore but I have been collecting info on world jewry as we prepare for the reign of Antichrist. I have not written about this, the Holy Fathers and later holy men have written about this. But I read and I take note. In Intelligence work you collect info for the future. It seems to me that while we all look at the threat of Islam, we don't notice what is creeping up behind us. Why should we? In our PC, tylenol society we don't want to hear bad news.
And of course our salvation is what should concern us. Nevertheless we must keep our eyes open. We must be as wise as serpents, but gentle as doves.

[Liudmilla]

Forgive me , Father....but these kind of threads and the posts they contain...do nothing for me but make me dispair and want to cry. They also make me realize that Evil will win, if only because we fight hate with hate, evil with evil and wrong with wrong......we do nothing that ensures our own salvation. Perhaps instead of teaching hatred we should be teaching love. I really don't think that this is what God had in mind, while this is exactly what evil does want.....
Milla