I’d guess Jack Chick, but I don’t see any of his artwork.
I’d guess a seriously crazy offshoot of the JW - and thats saying alot.
Not really-it’s much more like Jews For Jesus.
I should re-scind my comment anyway - I didnt look at this link from the OP, I was actually referring/thinking of the other link the OP posted along the ‘name of god’ - the ‘yahweh’ site.
I think Moses delivered “monotheism” to the Israelites, when you look at the Torah, there is Jehovallah and not much else (the serpent in Eden is unclear, it was probably just Adam’s penis). So Christianity, dividing the unity of the godhead as it does, might qualify as a “pagan” religion, because it is not truly monotheistic and includes other superbeings like Gabriel and Voldemort. IOW, the site is putting down christianity in general as not a true belief because it is not properly monotheistic as Judaism and Islam are.
Except that “Jews for Jesus” & most mainstream Messianic Jewish groups are Trinitarian, hold Jesus to be Deity, aren’t hung up on Sacred Name doctrine (YHWH & Yeshua instead on God, Lord, Jesus) or Christendom’s traditions/holidays, or make keeping kosher, Hebrew festivals, or Sabbath-keeping to be salvation issue.
So in other words, it’s nothing like Jews for Jesus.
The only big similarity to Jack Chick, as mentioned earlier, is the hostility to Roman Catholicism & her traditions as a survival of the alleged Nimrod-Semiramis “Babylonian Mystery Religion”- other than that, he is a historical orthodox Trinitarian Protestant. I am not sure when he stands on Christmas & Easter as such, but he does hold to Sunday as the Christian day of worship.
I think it is like Jehovah’s Witnesses, who claim that Jehovah is THE god, while Jesus is only A god. But there’s only one God.
Go figure.
The fact of the matter is that Christ is the messenger and child of the heavenly father…
Before Abraham was, he is…
Therefore, if this world is controlled by dark powers of wickedness…
Whos to say that every trinity or concept before Christ ( Yahushua) was just a false immitation of the one true being (Yahushua) who returned 2,000+ years ago… See he is the root and offsprng of david meaning he is the beginning (OSIRIS MITHRA ETC ARE IMITATIONS) and end.
Says who?
Well, sure… And the tradition of Mithras dying nailed to a tree was a “backwards in time” manifestation of Jesus’ Crucifixion. Jesus came first, even when he came afterward.
Not only is a thousand years the same as a day – backwards run even can time.
There was recently an interview on Fresh Air with Reza Aslan*, the author of a book about Jesus as a historical figure called Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, and he said basically the same thing. I see the specific part of the interview I’m thinking of is quoted on the Fresh Air website, so I’ll put in an excerpt here. I don’t have the background in history/religion to judge the accuracy of this, but I thought it was interesting:
*I thought it was pretty amusing that a guy named Aslan had written a book about Jesus, but I’m a geek.
It wasn’t just royalty, many Greek aristocratic famililes, eupatridae, believed they had gods for ancestors. And it was hard to deny it if you believed in the mythology at all; Greek gods wuz horndogs.
My Aunt, a native Hawaiian, shared in the local tradition of being descended from the volcano goddess. As a rational scientist, she scoffed at the idea. But she was never reticent about recounting it.
What would a Jewish Messiah look like, then?
I heard chunks of that interview also, and I didn’t pick up on Aslan.
I’d like to hear anyone with evidence of any Jewish tradition with God relatives involved. The reference in Genesis is very old. I certainly never got any in my religious training, such as it was.
As for what the Messiah will actually look like, it is in the Bible. It is no accident that he is descended from David, since he is supposed to bring back a golden age as there supposedly was then. Not that much different really from the return of the warrior king in other cultures. I know stuff has been added since. But since Judaism has no damnation, there is no need for the Messiah to bring salvation.
I’m in no way a Messianic scholar, though.
A crude Nazi-drawn anti-Semitic stereotype.
Not that simple…
http://judaism.about.com/od/judaismbasics/a/Gehenna-Jewish-Views-of-the-Afterlife.htm
Thanks for the link. There’s some interesting stuff there, but it doesn’t seem to mention what Lamia quoted on Jesus as a Roman-style “God-man” and how that differs from a Jewish image of a Messiah. Would it be more like some kind of superprophet? Simply a mere mortal, but with Jesus-like magic powers? Is the concept of a “son of God” (other than perhaps men as metaphorical “sons of God”) missing from Jewish scriptures? What about the Old Testament?
Some insight might be gained from a handful of false messiahs, people whom large numbers of Jews were ready to accept as the Messiah, but who turned out not to have the right stuff. Here is a Wikipedia link. Most of these guys are quite a bit less than cosmic.
The concept of an actual “son” of God, a physical offspring, is very much missing from the Old Testament. God created living things, but did not beget them. The idea is incompatible with Judaism, and also with Islam.