and if you curse them you will be cursed. I would like to help and support Israel but I hate the way the Palestinians are being treated. Am I cursed for not going along and agreeing with the Israeli Jews.
2007-06-21 11:43:16 · 7 answers · asked by Lee Edward 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." (Genesis 12:2-3)
This is a promise God made with Abraham and his descendants.
grace2u
2007-06-21 11:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that you will be blessed for helping jews. It would be ridiculous to suggest that Christians cannot support the Palestinians in their struggle. I'm a Catholic and I do. By the way very few so-called "Israelis" are Jewish. Most of them are atheists. You can't be an atheist and a jew in the biblical sense,no matter that you might have some remote trace of ancient ancestry going back to the Biblical hebrews. So what? Wouldn't matter -religiously - if you're parents were both jewish; if you don't believe in God,you're not a Jew,period. It's absurd to suggest otherwise. Those are not jews over there - by a margin of 90%. Very few Israelis are "jewish" in the Christian sense of the term. Or as a matter of commonsense.
2007-06-21 19:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jurgen 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Genesis 12 G-d blesses Abram and his seed and states in verse 3 that in him all families of the world would be blessed. In Genesis 17:5, God changed Abram's name to Abraham. As Abram, he messed up a lots of times. According to Jewish traditions, when Abram increased in faith and the Holy Spirit, the "h" was added to his name to make Abraham. The "h" is a Hebrew letter called a Hey.
Something else to think about, through Jesus Christ, we are seed of Abraham too. See Galatians 3 starting in verse 13. In short, Jesus Christ is that seed of Abraham, and we as being in the faith of Christ are also seed of Abraham which also means that those who curse Christians will G-d curse also.
One more thing, if you were doing wrong and I blessed you, that blessing would not mean that I agreed with you and with what you were doing. It simply means that I asked G-d to bless you anyway and show you the truth. The thing is this, in order for the Jews to truly come to the Lord, they must accept Jesus Christ the same as everybody else. We were grafted into the mercies of G-d through Christ Jesus and by him, we are partakers of the blessings of G-d as the seed of Abraham.
2007-06-21 20:06:50 · answer #3 · answered by br549 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the question my friend :
Are all the jews in Israel are descendants of the ancient Israelites ? What DNA prove do you have ? I have heard many of the jews there are converts. Some of them are black from Ethopia, some of them are like Anglo-Saxon from Ireland and Russia and some of them are arabs like the ones from Yemen. A jew is not a race, they are a follower of a religion call Judaism. The blessings are only for the decendants of Israelites who follows the command of G-d.
This is where many christians are mistaken of thinking jews as a race and same with the Beni Yisrael.
The jews of today are instead the "spiritual decendants" of the sons of Israel.There are some who are born Israelite in the flesh, for example the kohens,who were actually direct descendants from Aharaon the priest. However, most of the modern jews today are Askhenazi and their only a few amongst them are beni Yisrael. The rests are converts...
By the way, jews are not that type of holy figure like Jesus of Nazareth. They are normal mortal like us, they do mistakes...
There are some of them who are good and there are some of them who are evil out there. So please use you brains before you want to bless somebody. It is not only limited to jews, but also to anyonelse. To the eyes of G-d, everybody is the same regardless their sking colour and religion, what matters most is their righteouness, self-piety and also his or her's willingness to submit to g-d's will...
2007-06-21 18:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ayamkatek 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gen 12:3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
The palestinians are unwittingly being used to interfere with Bible prophecy. Zechariah made it plain that Jesus would return to ISRAEL, not palestine. It is sad that they are suffering, but there are consequences to "kicking against the thorns."
2007-06-21 18:51:39 · answer #5 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
it is written in the book of Genesis 12 v 1-3...
2007-06-21 18:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by ✞ Ephesians 2:8 ✞ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dude, God is with the righteous, not you, me , isreali or palestine. Justice and Peace comes foremost!
2007-06-21 18:49:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋