Posted by Henry IX on November 19, 1999 at 17:47:38:
In Reply to: Christian-Jewish... posted by Shoshana-Chana Platshek on December 07, 1997 at 20:27:29:
: Shoshana-Chana Platshek
: Jerushalem / Israel Internet:shalom-p@internet-zahav.net
: Oh dear - let this be a warning to you: never say "never". Do you really believe that the God of Try again - revise this paragraph a little to make it correspond with the truth of Scripture. Sincerely,
: I wrote this letter in the days of Sukkot and would have sent it to you if I had had your address.
: However, I don't want to withhold this letter from you and ask you to accept it even with this
: retardation.
: In those days we were slaves in Egypt for 400 years, a country whose inhabitants were filled
: with envy and jealousy and the desperate desire to harm us, although they were the masters
: and we the servants, externally at least! But in spite of their riches, we Jews were always
: richer, because the LORD GOD OF ISRAEL was with us! HE called HIS people (the only
: irreplaceable and uninheritable!) HIS "children", loving us even in those days! He prepared
: Moses to serve and lead HIS people. HE, the GOD OF ISRAEL, never spoke directly to the heathens
: = non-Jews, and HE has never changed this habit to the present day. Instead, HE spoke through
: Moses, Exodus 4, 22 „And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son"
Israel *never* spoke directly to the heathens? Please turn to the Torah, and read in Genesis
16, 7-14, where the God of Israel spoke directly to Hagar, who was an Egyptian. Please turn a
few pages farther on and read Genesis 20, 3-7, where God spoke directly to Abimelech, king of
Gerar.
Henry IX
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