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Church plans to build the “Jewish” Temple

By Aaron Klein

(WND) JERUSALEM – A Jewish Temple organization has slammed as “a hubris-inspired act of self-aggrandizement” controversial plans by a Pentecostal church to reportedly build a $200 million replica of the First Temple in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“This planned church is a mockery which stands in diametric opposition to everything that [...]

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Disfiguring women in the name of religion

[ Know them by their fruits... When was the last time a Jewish or Christian sect disfigured a woman's face in the name of their religion? When was the last time members of a church performed female "circumcision" on virgin girls, or decapitated others in the name of their faith, for that matter? [...]

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Religion of Peace(tm) demontrates liberal good will, open-mindedness

[ I hope you detect my heavy sarcasm in the title of this post. This is a prime example of the sort of murderous frenzy that cultic thinking engenders among its adherents... ]

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Muslim extremists chop off Catholic’s hand

Suspected Islamic militants have chopped off a Catholic professor’s hand in Kerala for [...]

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Half a million Jews make mecca to Meron for Lag B’Omer

[ Lag B'Omer is a holiday that celebrates Kabbalah (or Jewish mysticism).  The mecca made to Meron demonstrates just how popular Kabbalah is in Israel these days... ]

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Half a million observant Israelis made their way to Mount Meron on Saturday night as the Sabbath gave way to Lag Baomer, the Jewish holiday [...]

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Shroud of Turin – Second Face Appears

By Jerome R. Corsi

Scientists examining the Shroud of Turin since the restoration that began in 2000 have found a “second face” on its reverse “hidden side,” a discovery they believe adds evidence to the argument it is not a medieval painting or photographic rendering.

As part of the restoration undertaken in the summer [...]

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Taqiyya and playing the victim

[ I don't endorse the mixing of Christianity with the ugliness of American geopolitics, but the fact of the matter is that many Islamic political groups justify deception for the sake of the advancement of the "house of Islam" (i.e., 'taqiyya' ). Adherents to such ideology characteristically attack others, such as devout Christians, as [...]

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Jewish Spiritual Awakening? 600,000 Visit Kotel over Pesach

(IsraelNN.com) A record number of people, a vast majority of them Jews, visited the Kotel (Western Wall) plaza over the Pesach (Passover) holiday. According to the Kotel Heritage Fund and the Israel Police, more than 600,000 people from all Jewish streams – secular and religious, young and old – visited the ancient remnant of [...]

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John Piper Defends Rick Warren

I was not altogether surprised to learn that John Piper (of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis) recently invited none other than the mega-star of pop-Christianity, namely Rick Warren, to be a keynote speaker the Desiring God National Conference to be held in October 2010.   You can read of Mr. Piper’s decision to include Warren [...]

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Slaves didn’t build pyramids?

Slaves didn’t build pyramids

By KATARINA KRATOVAC

CAIRO — Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.

The series of modest nine-foot-deep [...]

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John Piper’s Replacement Theology

Preface: I regularly attended Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for over eight years. The senior pastor there, Dr. John Piper, is a gifted and eloquent speaker, but I often detected a not-so-subtle theological bias in his teaching that suggested that God had no abiding interest in the State of Israel or in the [...]

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Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

By SARAH LYALL

The New York Times

LONDON – The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

On the surface, the [...]

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David Flusser – Reclaiming Jesus from Christianity?

[ The late Dr. Flusser is sort of an evangelist for a "liberal" idea of Jesus -- not unlike what the German Higher Critical Schools attempted to do last century... What makes this disturbing, however, is that many in Israel appear to be listening to his "reconstructed" views of Jesus... ]

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He’s one [...]

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New Disinformation Piece about the Bible

[ If you didn't know any better, you'd think the "Bible" dates back to the 4th century AD at the earliest based on the recent Independent-UK propaganda piece quoted below....  One word our British friends will recognize: Balderdash.

It is a mistake to say Codex Sinaiticus is the first "Bible," since there are numerous [...]

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Obama praises Islam at Ramadan meal

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised American Muslims for enriching the nation’s culture at a dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

“The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country,” Obama said [...]

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World’s Largest Temple Model Inaugurated next to Temple Mount

[ How cool is this? A model of the Second Temple -- the one Yeshua walked in -- located just across from the site of the original Temple! ]

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(IsraelNN.com) The world’s largest model of the Holy Temple was inaugurated Wednesday only a few hundred meters away from the Temple Mount, the site where [...]

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Can Third Temple be built without destroying Dome of the Rock?

A new Jewish interfaith initiative launched last week argues building the Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem would not necessitate the destruction of the Dome of the Rock.

“God’s Holy Mountain Vision” project hopes to defuse religious strife by showing that Jews’ end-of-days vision could harmoniously accommodate Islam’s present architectural hegemony on the Temple Mount.

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Protected: John Piper and Federal Vision Heresy

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Piper’s Perpetual Plummet!

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Piper’s Perpetual Plummet!

by The Desert Pastor

I recognize some of our readers are not going to be pleased with this post, but we believe it is necessary to point out error when it occurs. Too many within evangelicalism hold some men in high regard to the point that they will accept all [...]

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Episcopal “Bishop” calls individual salvation “heresy”

[ How trendy...  Sounds like Kabbalah has reached the ears of the apostate Episcopalian denomination.  I hope "Bishop" Katherine takes some time to read the words of Yeshua about this matter some time, instead of listening to "red string" donning mystics... ]

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Episcopal Bishop calls individual salvation called heresy, idolatry

Episcopal Presiding Bishop [...]

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Protected: John Piper and “Easter”

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Protected: John Piper & Presbyterianism

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Rabbinical Spies and “Conversions”

[ It strains all measure of credulity to think that some people would feign conversion to Judaism to become "missionaries."  Most likely these "converts" are simply confused souls.  After all, who would attempt to lead people to Mashiach, the God of all Truth, in a deceptive manner? If they did, they are obviously not [...]

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World’s oldest Bible (in book form)

[ It should be noted that the The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest extant codex -- i.e., book form, of the Bible (dating from the 4th century AD).  There are numerous mss, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, fragments from the Gospels, etc., that date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. ]

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Protected: John Piper & Mark Driscoll

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Protected: John Piper & Doug Wilson

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Protected: John Piper and Paedo-Baptism

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Protected: John Piper and the “New Evangelical” Movement

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Ethiopian patriarch to reveal Ark?

‘Ark of the Covenant’ about to be unveiled? Ethiopian patriarch tells pope he will show artifact to world

The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world’s most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says [...]

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Protected: John Piper and Roman Catholicism

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First Black Woman Rabbi

Another first for a black American: the female rabbi breaking down barriers

Alysa Stanton embarked on her own audacious journey. She spoke about breaking barriers, building bridges and providing, calling on people to focus on their similarities rather than differences.

Now that stage of her journey has reached its end, with Stanton attaining the [...]

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Oy Vey… Flipping Halachah

Religious row as Orthodox Jewish couple sue neighbours for ‘imprisoning’ them with automatic hallway light

A Jewish couple are suing their neighbours in a block of flats, saying an automatic security light is keeping them prisoner in their home because it forces them to break their Sabbath rules.

Dr Dena Coleman and husband Gordon [...]

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Obama’s anti-Semitic pastor

[ Of course Mr. Obama, who sat under "Rev." Wright's teaching for 20 years, was impervious to such anti-Jewish bigotry, right? Just look at his speech in Cairo, after all! -- sarcasm ]

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A leading Christian Zionist says if President Obama wants to be consistent in his condemnation of anti-Semitism, he should speak [...]

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Jesus Hears a Who?

Why does the following remind me of Horton Hears a Who?  

Is pastor Biltz making the assumption that Yeshua is “hard of hearing” or perhaps is off doing something more interesting, like bowling with the angels or something…   At any rate, there is no need to engage in such a foolish exercise.  No one can force [...]

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Tony Blair’s Anti-Christ Mission (and Rick Warren)

Tony Blair has said he wants to spend the rest of his life bringing the religions of the world together.

On the eve of the launch of his “faith foundation”, the former prime minister also said faith had given him the courage to make unpopular decisions he knew were right during his 10 [...]

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Chief Rabbis persecute Messianic Jewish kid

Both chief rabbis of Israel called on Tuesday to cancel the International Bible Quiz slated for the capital on Independence Day in protest against the participation of a 16-year-old girl who believes Jesus is the Messiah.

“Choosing her as a finalist in the International Bible Quiz for Jewish Youth is a transgression of Halacha [...]

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