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Christians refuse to celebrate Christmas amid Gaza war | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

β€œMy family is facing hell on Earth.” Palestinian Christians say they will not celebrate Christmas as they grieve for the people killed in Israel's war on Gaz...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Christians #Christmas #Gaza #Israels #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #celebrate #killed #latestnews #newsheadlines #refuse #war
Christians refuse to celebrate Christmas amid Gaza war | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

Don't expect any of those hardcore "christians" in US and Europe to condemn this or raise their voice against it.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is going to change their unconditional support of Israel by those people.

PS. I'm sure no one in Israel is going to protest against this killing of innocent people or their criminal PM and head of the army taking responsibility for it.

#Gaza #Impunity #WarCrime #Christians #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/october/israel-hamas-war-palestinian-christian-mideast-statements.html

#Palestinian #Evangelicals Call Western #Church to Repentance, Criticized in Return
JAYSON CASPER

..."β€œStatement-making is not the most critical task of the church,” said Haidostian, whose Armenian evangelical union has not commented officially on the war. β€œMore important is the task of educating about peace, justice, and historical grievances, not only current affairs.”

But Arab #Christians make them, he said, from concern in two directions.

First, he said, they appeal to a relationship of trust with international partners in the West, to counter β€œthe unbalanced and unconditionally favorable” view of Israel often conveyed by the mainstream media.

And second, to show the region that they are not simple bystanders. Haidostian agreed that they may face local pressure from Muslims or Jews, adding that they often feel an existential hopelessness at the dwindling state of the Christian community.

But their statements assert that they, like Palestinians, are not illegitimate children of the land, nor foreign to it.

β€œArab Christians are often victims too,” Haidostian said. β€œTo blame them for partiality is simplistic.”

And though he has a strong opinion about this current conflict, the Armenian leader urged Christians not to view the region as a monolith. Believers should be careful not to conflate biblical Israel with the modern state, he said, nor allow government and media rhetoric to shape their faith commitments.

What does Christ desire of us now? he asked. Inasmuch as the Holy Land is the cradle of Christian faith, in John 17 Jesus made clear his desire stretches far beyond."...

Palestinian Evangelicals Call Western Church to Repentance, Criticized in Return

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Farhad A

#Israel’s #UN ambassador Gilad Erdan to #Evangelical #Christians in #Texas: β€” "In the words of Isaiah: We must stand together. Jews and Christians in our holy mission for the truth."

It happened as Mr. Gilad Erdan and other Israeli diplomats flew to Southern American State to hold a prayer rally with Pastor John #Hagee, which happens to be the Chairman of the #ChristianZionist organization Christians United for Israel and became prominent for his controversial views regarding interpretations of the blood moon prophecies and his comments against the Catholic Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee#Catholicism), Jewish people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee#Jewish_people)and Islam

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee#Islam)Just like Israeli Prime-Minister #Netanyahu (https://t.me/BellumActaNews/108013), Mr. Erdan cites the Book prophet Isaiah β€” which for the Jewish eschatological vision contains prophecies about the End of the World and the End of Timesβ€” & called on evangelicals to help lobby the #US gov to back Israel not in another secular territorial war against the #Arabs, but in a religious war against #Islam
#Politics #Palestine #saveGaza
#StopIsrael

John Hagee - Wikipedia

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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
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An Altar in a Protestant Church?

Another rant by Robin... 😀

While it's true that we #Protestant #Christians offer "sacrifices" in our #worship, they are sacrifices of praise, "the fruit of our lips," as the KJV bible puts it. And we give sacrificially - of our money and time and talents. We "lay them on the altar" in a figurative sense, not as the #Papists do in their #Mass, literally repeating the crucifixion of Christ on every occasion of their Mass. It is not "the Lord's Supper" in any biblical sense, but a new and literal sacrifice of Christ for the forgiveness of sins committed since the previous Mass.

All of the Protestant denominations confess that #Christ died once for all, and that His sinless life, atonement on the Cross, and resurrection was sufficient to atone for and wipe away all guilt for all sins committed by all of His elect. Once for all time.

So why would any Protestant church (and others not aligned with the Protestant #Reformation) refer to any part of their church's architecture as an "altar?" What Christ did is sufficient! There is nothing to be added to His perfect, completed work, other than the application of Christ's work to the hearts of His people by the Holy Spirit. There isn't any other sacrifice, nor any other way to atone for our sins, our failures, our faults, or sinful desires. Unless it is made completely clear on every occasion that the "altar" in a Protestant church is representative of legitimate Christian sacrifice (we are, after all, "living sacrifices" to God, qualified as such by the sacrifice of Christ).

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