Hello everyone!
I figured this would be a good place to start this petition.
First, I know this site has anonymous users.
That being said, there are users who are known, notorious jews, like u/SwampRangers u/CuomoisaMassMurderer u/TrancePhreak and others.
I would like for us to try to gather as many allies on Communities.Win and Scored.co to come together with us, and sign (i.e. comment on) this petition (i.e. post) / upvote it and get it in front of the Admins.
I think it will be helpful for newcomers to know who is a notorious jew by seeing a yellow star next to their username (it should be a pretty easy element to add for a front end developer, and could be toggled on, once admins and/or moderators decide someone is indeed, a jew).
That way, just like Europe in the Middle Ages and in Nazi Germany, the newcomers can know who to stay away from and ignore based on the yellow star.
So please help me in getting people from all different communities to upvote this post and comment on this petition to encourage the site admins to get the ball rolling on this initiative!
Thanks! And God bless!
I missed this point: I think Jesus point was more along the lines of condemning adherents of sects who instructed their students to choose to do what makes them comfortable in this life instead of what God explicitly instructed. It would be like following some heretical sect of Christianity bc it's a get rich quick scheme instead of one that is concerned with teaching truth and practicing what Jesus did. If the law of Moses was irrelevant, it wouldn't matter if you did it or not. But Jesus told some that they they were careful to do small easier things that got them noticed but didn't do the important hard stuff, when they should have been doing both without pretense. He was hardest on those who claimed to know what is required, yet neither did it nor lifted a finger to help others do their part. You're judged on what you do with what you know.
I think that's incorrect because Jesus delivers this line in the context of rebuking the traditional jewish purity laws with regards to washing ("making stone vessels clean on the outside yet filthy on the inside"). And he does this on more than one occasion. And makes tangential arguments to this such as rebuking the jews' laws regarding the sabbath. His entire point is *explicitly* against that of the "jewish law".
The Sabbath confrontations were less about strict traditions and more about interpretation and appropriate application of Mosaic law. There are explicit exceptions for forgoing strict observance of Sabbath rest in the Torah, and they're all variations on reducing suffering. Jesus points these out as support for his actions. He knows the law, and he followed it and taught it perfectly. He never says "I can do what I please" - that would make Him a false prophet and ineligible to be Messiah. Instead, He lets Moses defend Him, and uses the same interpretive method the Pharisees use -lesser to greater. If this lesser thing is sufficient reason to break Sabbath rest, how much more so this greater issue? He also pointedly did miracles that each point to the Sabbath rest in the messianic kingdom. Casting out demons, defeat of satan. Healing the lame and blind, people walk with God and see Him for what He is. Picking grain on the Sabbath, food will be plentiful. Since the Pharisees were the only sect who believed in the resurrection of the dead into the kingdom of heaven, He was making pointed works and explanations that they should have picked up on.
Plot twist: the Pharisees don't respect Moses enough.
"If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe Me?" John 5:46-47