Subject: Parable fo the Good Samaritan - Evaluate |
Bible Note: Amen! Beautifully said, Mommapbs! I believe another falicy in the statement presented is: "Samaritan – from a community, which was considered, at the time, to be the equivalent of satanic religion (John 8:48, demonstrates the general opinion of Samaritans). This could be compared to modern day attitudes towards Muslims." This is a false statement because there is no comparison. The Samaritans were "considered" devels and outcasts by the Jewish because they had intermarried with pagan women and feared not only the Lord but pagan gods. 57. Why Jews Exclude Samaritans 7 Why are Samaritans (kuthim) excluded from entering Israel? --Because they were mixed up with the priests of the high places. Rabbi Ishmael said: "They were righteous proselytes in the beginning." Why are they excluded? --Because they marry illegitimate women but not a brother's widow. 32 They also feared the LORD and from among themselves they appointed all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. 33 So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from which they were deported. 34 And to this day they do according to the preceding manner. --- Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings 17:5-6, 24-34 When will they be accepted? --When they deny Mount Gerizim and confess Jerusalem and the resurrection of the dead. After this, he who robs a Samaritan is like one who robs an Israelite. --- Babylonian Talmud (supplement), Kuthim 2.7 Although the Samaritan people were rejected by the Jewish in reality neither were saved or lost until they had the opportunity to accept or reject God's anointed one, Christ Jesus the Lord. In the case of the Moslims by the mere doctrins of Islam and the Quran, they have made the conscious decision to reject Jesus as the Savior and the incarnate image of God, thus bringing about their own distruction. 1Jo 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 1Jo 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [[but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also]. Islam is a satanic religion because it rejects Jesus, thus God is not their Father but Satan is. There is no other choice. It has nothing to do with whether we "consider" it to be or not, the Bible says it is. Jhn 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. |