Religious Superiority And Arrogance

Submitted by Infidel (Canada), Sep 2, 2006 at 00:10

Who are you, that you should take issue with the comfort level that I, or others, as Christians, have in supporting Israel? And pray tell, who in the heck cares whether Roman Catholic Christianity has no place whatsoever for a role for Israel in God's plan in the Christian era?

While you're at it, tell me what does your ridiculous and disdainful statement mean: "the view of some Christians that Israel has a place in God's plan is amorphous". Is it, Christians that believe that Israel has a place in God's plan are: lacking definite form, shapeless, of no particular type, anomalous, lacking organization or are they lacking distinct crystalline structure? What authority or appointment by what ecclesiastical power allows you to pontificate that the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions, "have a more fully developed theology of Israel's place in God's plan". You state that, "simultaneously, all the curses of the ancient covenant for unbelief were laid upon Israel, permanently". By what authority do you make this condemning statement, can you quote a scripture or are we to assume that it is based on your own supercilious hubris?

And why bring up Pat Robertson's name? While I'm not a member of Pat Robertson's church and not the least bit interested in his congregation, I can't understand why you needed to bring his name into your arrogant, presumptuous, and unproven dissertation. A man of God or a student skilled in Biblical understanding would have used scriptures to expound his theory and not the expectation that his own presumptuous wisdom would suffice.

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