Tonight I watched a PBS program that showed the efforts of Jews and Christians to come to an understanding of what binds them together culturally as Americans. There were a lot of expressions of goodwill toward each other; Americans genuinely want to live at peace with each other. The difficulty with accepting each other centered around whether Jesus was the Messiah prophesied by Scriptures who came two thousand years ago or was he the Messiah who was to come sometime in the future. The people who were interviewed for this documentary could agree that the Messiah was a positive figure, but they couldn't agree on his Godhood. The terminology they used differed markedly. The Jews used some Greek words such as "Adonai." And the Christians used some modern Hebrew words that represented their interpretation of the Bible. What they were both unaware of was that neither the Hebrew based on the Greek Septuagint, nor the Hebrew based on the modern Hebrew Torah are accurate representations of the Scriptures. This is the major problem with why the two groups will never come to terms regarding the differences of their faiths. In contrast to these efforts at reaching a peaceful understanding of what the Scriptures say there is the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures, which Jesus taught from. These Scriptures don't need any clarification. Jesus read from the Scripture of Isaiah at the synagogue when he declared the age of the fulfillment of his kingdom was at hand. Jesus read from the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures; the Scripture of Isaiah was originated in the Ancient Aramaic, as were all the Scriptures. The Ancient Aramaic is the designation for the language of the Jews at the time of Eashoa the Messiah (Jesus Christ). This was the scribal language of all Scriptures, even though Greek and Latin were more popular languages at the time.
The doctrines that divide Jews and Christians today were non-existent at the time of Jesus. These doctrines were fabricated after the 4th Century of Christianity when the Jews and the Roman Catholics were totally polarized. At the time of Jesus, the Christians and the Jews were one and the same people. Of course there were Aramaeans, Samaritans, Greeks and Romans also, who became Christian, but the majority of the Christians were also Jews. So during the early centuries of Christianity there was no variance as to what constituted the Scriptures. There was only one disagreement and that was whether Jesus was the Messiah prophesied by the Scriptures.
This is not the major divisive factor between Jews and Christians today. We could all agree on the concept of the Messiah to some extent. At least we all see the Messiah in a positive light. And when he comes everything will be resolved between the Jews and the Christians with respect to who the Messiah is. The problem is today Jews and Christians can't stop discriminating against each other. Anti-Semitism led to the death of six million Jews sixty years ago. The pain of that loss is still with us, because the Christians today are still saying the same things they said before which caused the hatred against the Jews. These sayings are based on the false translations of the Scriptures by Western theologians, which are contained in the Bibles still being used today by the Western Churches. The Ancient Aramaic Scriptures don't have these false concepts in them, because the false concepts that generated the hatred for the Jews never existed in the authentic Scriptures in the Ancient Aramaic that Jesus read from in the synagogues and the doctrines that he taught to his disciples and his apostles. If we go back to the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures we can reconcile Judaism and Christianity today.
Apr. 4, 2006