Scapegoating the Romans
Almost every year near Good Friday, confusion is sown concerning the death of Jesus, usually put forth by a nationally syndicated, white liberal “Christian” columnist, or a sermon from a Protestant minister, or a priest of the modern “Catholic” Church. They proceed to focus culpability for Our Lord’s crucifixion almost exclusively on the Romans, and Pontius Pilate. A few years ago we were present for a sermon by a Jesuit priest at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington who devoted his homily to sparing the Pharisees a single harsh word while alluding to Pilate in no uncertain terms as "a thug."
According to the politically correct view now in vogue, the Pharisees of 33 A.D. were more sinned against than sinning.
Among falsifiers on the Right, are two luminaries in the ersatz white “Conservative” firmament:
“…the kingdom of Christ…is conducted in a spiritual manner, recognizes no other honors and resources than righteousness, holiness, peace of conscience, salvation and eternal life; no other arms than the Word and the Spirit; no other fortifications than the protection of God. Pilate had this understanding of it.
“He (Pilate) clearly perceived that no prejudice could be created from it (the kingdom of Christ) against the empire of Caesar; otherwise he would not only have agreed with the accusation of the Jews charging Christ with rebellion against Caesar, but he would have been the first to think of taking Him out of the way.
"However, having dismissed this accusation of the Jews and (accepted) Christ’s own confession concerning His kingly office, he (Pilate) pronounces Him just and innocent, and desires Him to be cleared from condemnation (for he knew that for envy they had delivered Him, Matthew 27:18)…" (End quote from the 17th century theologian Francis Turretin).
The disinformation that renders the Romans the main malefactors is also undercut by none other than the Babylonian Talmud itself, in Sanhedrin 43a, where it is stated that the Romans were favorable toward Jesus and did not want to execute him:
“Rather it must be that the case against Jesus was different, because he had close connections with the non-Jewish authorities, and those authorities were interested in his acquittal.”
— The Steinsaltz Talmud, volume 17, p. 159
(Random House, 1998)
What is there to debate? We have God’s Word in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15. This is an unambiguous statement. This Scripture was declared by St. Paul without qualifications of any kind.
The same is true here:
“The God of Abraham, and the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our Fathers hath glorified His Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered and denied before the face of Pilate, he judging Him to be released. But you denied the holy and just One, and asked a man-killer to be given unto you, but the author of life you killed ...” (Acts 3:13-15).
These are the Words of the New Testament.
Tough-guy O’Reilly told United Press International (UPI) on April 10, 2014: “...kids in public schools should learn about Christianity if they are American children. If they don’t like it, that’s too bad,’ he says.”
Wow, what a mensch. One question: which Christ is O’Reilly presenting in his history, the Christ of the Gospel or the Christ of the falsifiers?
The most authoritative rabbi in the western Judaic world is Moses Maimonides, “the Rambam.” He is venerated in the elite media and academia, though few of his gentile enthusiasts have bothered to discover what he actually taught. We regret to report that Maimonides was an unabashed Jesus-despiser. We realize we are not to use those words; that they are politically incorrect and “offensive.” By the grace God, we have no fear of uttering truth however, and in the case of Maimonides, this is the truth. In his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, Rabbi Maimonides wrote: “The Christians are idol worshippers” (Avodah Zara 9:4).
“Idol worshippers” (true Christians) are subject to severe penalties according to the "Noahide Laws" promoted by every American President from Ronald Reagan forward, under the rubric of “Education Day USA.”
Rabbi Maimonides stated that Jesus was killed “by the court,” a reference to the rabbinic court: “Yeshu the Christian, who imagined himself the messiah and was killed by the court...” (Rabbi Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah: Laws of the King 11:4).
Maimonides is echoing the halacha (rabbinic law) concerning the execution of Jesus as detailed toward the conclusion of tractate Sanhedrin 43a in the uncensored edition of the Talmud Bavli:
Nowhere does the Talmud or Moses Maimonides, the supreme halachic authority for western Talmudists, blame the Romans, as do Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, Protestant "evangelists" and the corporate media.
There are literally thousands of Leftist academics and clerics, as well as Right wing leaders like O’Reilly, Napolitano, Pence, Pompeo, and televised “evangelicals," who minimize the role of Orthodox Phariseeism in the killing of the Son of God, putting the onus on the Romans and Pilate, so as to curry favor with those who exert an inordinate influence on the corporate media.
Because we are all sinners, it is true that in that sense, all of us are indeed guilty of Jesus’s crucifixion. But there is also the historical, Scriptural fact that the Pharisaic leaders who were the progenitors of Orthodox Judaism and its holiest book, the Talmud of Babylon, were directly responsible for killing Him. Jesus said, “Sin must come, but woe to those through whom it comes” (Luke 17:1).
Talmudism is in higher repute in Christendom now than ever in history and it is to the Pharisaic theology founded upon it -- and successive texts possessing halachic authority (such as the Mishneh Torah) -- to which our apologetic and educational efforts are centered.
Nothing we teach is a negative reflection on Judaic people in general. It would be diabolic to insult Judaic people as "Christ-killers." Due to our own dreadful sins every one of us is guilty of putting Jesus on that Cross of Calvary and being responsible for His death.
It is however, incumbent on us as Christians to lovingly correct errors, as did Jesus, John the Baptist and the apostles Peter and Paul. We pray for those who promote the falsehoods of Talmudism. We are not reluctant to proclaim the truth about the Jesus-denying snares and pits into which precious Judiac and other people fall as a result of the continuing influence of the Pharisaic nullification of Scripture, which was virulent in the first century and which has culminated in the 21st century distortion of the Good Friday narrative.
Boldly teaching proscribed Biblical truths is a necessary antidote to prevailing errors.
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The Codex Sinaiticus is very clear about who killed Jesus.
Matthew 27:49
In most translations this part is omitted and the "story flow" is damaged.
It was one of the Jewish priests who stabbed Him to death.
In this way, it was an acceptable sacrifice, for the Eternal, to the Torah.
Unfortunately, there are serious omissions on both sides of the argument regarding the crucifixion which, was an historical event, however as the missing parts of Habakkuk - recovered amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls confirm and the issuing of Eli! Eli! Lamasabachthani from the figure on the cross - make absolutely clear. That the one being crucified was as the Gospel of Barnabas makes clear that it was not Jesus, but the transmogrified "wicked Cohen" Judas asking "My God, My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" For if he was the son of God, or a con-substantial part of a triune deity who had decided that one of its parts was prepared to sacrifice its self for man's narcissistic love of himself - then he/they would have suffered in silence. As the Qur'an records: "The Jews boast that they killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary. But neither did they kill him nor crucify him but a duplicate likeness of him". The good news about Good Friday is the fact that they crucified Judas their own man. As Jesus is recorded as saying in the Laughing Gospel whilst sitting with Peter: "And I watched and laughed as they nailed their man to their death". In other words Christians celebrate a CRUCIFICTION of Christ Jesus who was taken up to heaven by two angels who returned at Pentecost to explain to the disciples and his blessed mother what had really happened "for they truly thought it was him on the cross". He is scheduled to return following the destruction of Iraq and Syria and descend at the white tower in Damascus.
To me, a simpleton, apparently...I cannot fathom why, especially Catholics, are afraid to speak the truth as to who is actually the main player in the murder of Christ. What is even more alarming, is the fact that almost all Catholic priests (of today), not to mention Bishops, even Popes, are, on the surface, are intimidated into silence as to who really is responsible for killing their "Boss". I say "today", because when prelates were thoroughly Catholic they had no qualms, in fact they claim it with vigor, that the perfidious Jews made up the charges, perpetrated, instigated, and intimidated the Romans into handing down the worst form of execution the Romans had, at the time. It was these evil Jews who recommended the harsh penalty of crucifixion, when Pilate didn't even wish to have him scourged, yet did so to simply placate the Jews, hoping the brutal scourging would satiate the bloodthirst of the Jews, who proved they were the false Jews by their decision by rejecting their God. Anathema sit!
The first problem that comes with mentioning Pontius Pilate is deciding which Gospel account of him to cite. In Mark, the earliest version, Jesus stands silent before him. In John, composed a half century later, they have a lively philosophical discourse. Luke’s and Matthew’s accounts also differ significantly. The Gospel of Pilate, a testimony eventually discarded by the church, praises him as none other than the first gentile convert to Christianity. Yet all sources agree that Jesus’ followers fled on his arrest, so one wonders who actually witnessed the events the Gospels narrate so inconsistently.
The Sanhedrin did not need Pilate’s permission to kill Jesus. If he had violated some religious taboo, they would have stoned him, as they did Stephen and others before and after him. Jesus was executed by the Roman prefect for an offense committed by him against Rome. Crucifixion was an especially cruel and unusual punishment, reserved by the laws of Rome only for non-citizens convicted of capital murder or judged guilty of insurrection.
Traditional Roman tolerance for Judaism vanished overnight when the Judean rebellion of 66 broke out. The rebels began by treacherously massacring three Roman garrisons after promising the men safe conduct out of the country. Accordingly, John reimagined the episode, transforming Pilate into a noble Roman hero, with the now universally reviled Jews becoming the villains of the piece. Pilate was even presented as virtually powerless over a vicious Jewish mob, baying for Jesus’ blood - just as John’s Roman audience would have remembered the Jews of Jerusalem howling for the murders of the unfortunate legionaries in the uprising.
Unknown is right with the codex sinaiticus. A part is omitted and the story flow because of that damaged.
It must have been a priest who did the killing, to make the sacrifice acceptable for God. It must be a slaughtering with blood flow, done by a priest, as is commanded in the Torah. The Romans didn't do the sacrifice. They were not entitled to do so.
Seem to me that as only the Priestly class of Jews where permitted to sacrifice animals in an acceptable way to God, and that as Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, "The Lamb of God", that only his cleansed people, the Jews, could in fact carry out this task.
gibbon says pilate had to take early retirement in switzerland so as not to get in trouble as a christian sympathiser
Edward Gibbon in also does not blame the Romans for the destruction of the temple. He wrote: "On the 10th of August A.D. 70, the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by the hands of the Jews themselves, rather than by those of the Romans."
David M.
Jesus sacrificed his all
Suffered
Arose
And sits now to the right hand of the father as Long Jesus
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