{"id":2823,"date":"2015-06-23T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2015-06-23T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:29:08","slug":"a-biblical-answer-for-racial-ethnic-and-social-turmoil-a-lesson-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/a-biblical-answer-for-racial-ethnic-and-social-turmoil-a-lesson-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Biblical answer for racial, ethnic and social turmoil: a lesson from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Tom Brennan,<\/p>\n

Recent tragic events in America have led many to ask \u201cWhy\u201d? Many are exploiting racial, ethnic, economic and social issues for political and personal gain to be sure. But Christians can look to the Bible and Israel for the only real answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Israel every morning people rise and say in one voice\u201d \u201cShema Yisrael\u201d. This has happened for over 3,500 years without fail. \u201cHear O Israel thy G-d is One\u201d. The evening closes the same way. Israel is one nation under One G-d. Yes there are sects and a difference; yes there are disagreements and sometimes fights. And yes there is poverty, and some inequality in the way human agencies interpret laws and finances. But each day the faithful rise and declare in one voice that prayer.<\/p>\n

Humans have a way of taking a straightforward instruction and spinning it into something they can personalize and use for their own benefit. It\u2019s called marketing or branding in today\u2019s terminology. Churches call it a denomination, a doctrine or other unique term. The early Gnostics saw an opportunity to take the Gospel and create a unique and very marketable version of a basic truth and create their own version of it. We have the \u201cGospel of Judas\u201d and other spinoffs as proof, all in conflict with the Gospels and Epistles actually transmitted by the Disciples.<\/p>\n

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