Stealing from the Jews

Virtual Deaf Church July 8, 2016 in ASL 95 Subscribers Subscribe

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Christians are practicing cultural appropriation when they take from Jewish religion including their stories, names, and Bible. For example, Abraham is a forefather of the Jewish people. Yet, Christians took Abraham and used him in their stories. The Christians also took the Hebrew Bible and turned it into their Old Testament.

This cultural appropriation must stop. The Jewish experiences are their own. Their sufferings are their own. Christians have no right in taking it from them and make it their own. When Christians use Jews to prove that God exists or that Jesus will be coming back because Jews have taken back Israel, it is an insensitive and disrespectful approach to Jewish tradition, thoughts, and religion.
Here is a good example, there is one of fastest growing cult in America, known as "Messianic Jews or Yisralites." Those are Gentiles (non-Jews) who have taken on the name of Jews and claimed to be Jews themselves. They have gained many new disciples, actually non-Jews themselves, by teaching them the "correct name of God." Jesus is now changed to Yeshua and God to YHWH. The Rabbinic Judaism do not approve of those movements. They rightly reject those movement as non-Jewish.

This video was made in response to a Christian apologist who claimed that the existence of Jews is a veritable evidence. This theologian carefully analyze this "veritable evidence" and give his scholarly opinion. He summarizes the Jewish history that contradicts with this claim. The history is as summarized in the video: Canaanite herdsmen, Ancient Israelites, Exilic Jews, Post-exilic Jews, Hellenistic Jews, Hebraic Jews, Rabbinic Judaism (Byzantine, Islamic, Europe), Modern Jews, and Modern Israel. The historical comparison referenced in this video: Romans, Roman Catholics, Western & Eastern Romans, the Byzantine Romans, the Holy Roman Empire, Medieval Catholics, Modern Catholic, and Modern Europe.

This video is signed in American Sign Language (no English subtitles).