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Response to Mark Mullins' "Midrash Examined"

 
Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.
- James 3:1

"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. "Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 
- Matthew 5:10-12  
  April 30, 2014
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1- Response to Mark Mullins' "Midrash Examined"
2- Flip Flop Phil?
3- Wheaton and Brandeis - Two of a Kind
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Response to Mark Mullins' "Midrash Examined" 
Your Word is a Lamp to my feet
MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - April 28, 2014
While we have no aversion to honest theological agreement, the documented dishonesty exhibited by Mr Mark Mullins in his article is as shameful as it is silly in his recent attack at the behest of the CEFTF publication. We have his original article which we have copied to independent witnesses on file for fear he will attempt to revise it as it contains statements completely documented as untrue as well as others that are patently ridiculous and blatantly unscriptural. For someone professing to be a believer in Jesus to directly write false and misleading statements statements that can only mislead and deceive the readers if left unchallenged is a disgrace. Yet even once these were documented in the response below he contacted us standing by what can only be called documented fallacy.

CEFTF have also broken their written agreement to allow a right of response in the same publication and edition. We refer directly to the demonstrably false statements made on Mr. Mullins' article in our response below. His article will be placed in the public domain once CEFTF publishes it, or if they alter it after the fact. We regret having to address such incredible dishonesty, to say nothing if the incompetence and biblical ignorance by interests claiming to be " Christian".

Originally posted on the MORIEL website
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/response-to-mark-mullins-midrash-examined
 
 

Flip Flop Phil?
MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - April 28, 2914

As is fully documented in the public domain - first Philip Powell authored and published the following unambiguous statement:

"Our Lord commanded: "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me"** (John 5:39). Part of that search undoubtedly involves the midrash method which was clearly adopted by Paul the apostle and by our Lord Himself - c/f Galatians 3:16 with John 15:25. This legitimate use of Midrash is basically the same as Typology as taught by the Open Brethren and by the early Pentecostals. More of that as the series continues".

Philip Powell was correct. "Search The Scriptures" in the original Greek text of John 5:39 means " Inquire Into The Scriptures" which is 'Midrash' in Hebrew; 'M - Derash' or "from the Derash", inquiring into the scriptures in order to discover the revealed meaning. He was at that time indeed impeccable in his Conclusion. Now however, several years later he effectively denounces his own self as being heretical for holding such a position.

In the same recent e mail containing a copy of this former article the same Philip Powell now states:

"As you say it does not contradict your argument in any way and more importantly it does not support JP's heretical claims based on his take on Midrash that Jesus and Paul used it, which of course both Paul and Jesus effectively deny. That to me is the crux of the matter. I have never supported JP in that, no matter how much he tries to denigrate me, which is his normal ungodly and ungracious ploy".

As anyone can read for themselves, this is both flatly dishonest and directly contrary to his own former opinion. It is ipso facto directly self-contradictory to the mind of any literate person. If these claims are heretical as Philip Powell asserts moreover, then he is a prima face heretic himself by unmitigated verdict of his own pronouncement.

The dishonesty of stating he never supported a position he obviously did is Eclipsed only by the self-contradiction and inherent lack of logic if his remarks.

We are at a loss to explain this blatant dishonesty and open contradiction.

Originally posted on the MORIEL website
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/flip-flop-phil
 
  
Wheaton and Brandeis - Two of a Kind
MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - April 12, 2014

Hollywood, Brunei, Fire Fox, Homosexual & Feminist Activism and the Pseudo Evangelical Church Where Hypocrisy and Cowardice Know No Limits

This past week Brandeis University pandered to the Saudi Wahhabist funded Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR was three times directly linked by the FBI to radical Islamic terror and was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator. Its Saudi funders flog and hang Christians, imprison and flog homosexuals & lesbians, behead people, fund Islamic radicalism, and will not allow women to drive a car nor allow a copy of the Judeo-Christian scriptures into Saudi Arabia while financing the construction of mosques and fundamentalist Islamic institutions all over the USA and other Western countries with the blessings of evil politicians such as the Bush family (with whom they are financially partnered through the Carlyle group); George W. Bush placed a Koran, a book saying 'God has no Son' in the White House to honor Islam after the September 11th attacks while a bible cannot even be brought into Saudi Arabia. The Saudis do not allow any criticism of the brutal human rights record in Saudi Arabia and, with the support of corrupt American and Western politicians, wish to silence any such criticism in the USA & the West through their sponsorship of terror linked CAIR. Bowing the knee to CAIR, Brandeis University, a hall of liberal academia which misrepresents itself as an institution dedicated to principles of tolerance, diversity, freedom of expression, and advancing the cause of human rights and women's rights cancelled the honorary doctorate of a young Black African woman whom underwent forced clitoridectomy (female circumcision/ genital mutilation) and arranged marriage as an underage girl under an Islamic regime who wrote a book exposing such injustices. Brandeis University is an ideological farce run by hypocrites and cowards. They will oppose those upholding traditional Judeo-Christian family and marital values in the name of homosexual & lesbian rights and women's rights but run like scared mice from the real perpetrators of human rights abuses against women and homosexuals under Sharia.

There are no euphemisms for such hypocritical invertebrates who are emblematic of the liberal establishment who rant about their invented "War Against Women" by promulgators of traditional values (half of whom are also women who disagree with the empty Hilary Clinton - Brandeis - National Organization of Women style of cheaply manufactured political propaganda). At the same time, they remain utterly silent about the undeniable realities of the plight of women in one Islamic country after another, including Islamic honor killings. It is difficult to perceive that any actual liberal or women's rights activist, as opposed to the loud mouth pretenders, would ever even attend such a cesspit as Brandeis University. The feminist lobby likewise issues not a syllable of protest when conservative and Christian women who are public figures such as Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin are maliciously ridiculed by the media in the most sexist, derogatory, and even vulgar terms imaginable. It is of course not about women's rights. That cause is the make believe straw man to manipulate and rally the na�ve and stupid. It is really about political power. As we witnessed at Brandeis, women's rights in actuality has nothing to do with it other than as a ploy in the form of an abject narrative designed to connive the gullible. Unfortunately, the ploy too often works.

When I get home I am deleting Mozilla Fire Fox from my computer and office computer and I would urge all Christians to do the same after they forced out their CEO for having made a $1000 private contribution to the Proposition 8 campaign to preserve traditional marriage - a position which both Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton likewise held at the time. Again, more hypocrisy, dual standards and the suppression of free speech and private political opinion by the same hypocrites who claimed to champion the causes of free speech and political opinion. To them you are free to hold your views only as long as you agree with them.

The Hollywood liberal idiocracy plays a game where fading stars whose careers fumble in an industry where apart from a few legends one's career is as viable as the commercial success of their last film sees loser after loser trying to re-raise their sinking profile by jumping on a politically correct bandwagon - so called 'gay rights' being a favorite because of the number of homosexuals in the film & TV industry. Hollywood however is about money, not anything else. They tolerate highly successful figures such as the Jewish American political conservative film mogul Jerry Bruckheimer because he is not an easy target. The Hollywood hypocrites instead targeted with outrage the Duck Dynasty patriarch 'Phil" for quoting the New Testament denouncing it as hate speech until they found he was not an easy target either, so the cowards did what cowards do and ran away from him too.

With one exception, nothing I have ever seen however more demonstrates the absolute hypocrisy of homosexual and feminist activism however than what I have seen this month of April 2014. The Sultan of Brunei has over the years been reported for his hiring of female underwear models, his excessive gambling which some have estimated can be $3 million per night and his salubrious lifestyle and palatial existence. I have been to Brunei and seen people living in huts on platforms above sludge while the Sultan lives in a residence that makes Buckingham Palace look like a low cost housing public housing project or council estate. Yet, in April of 2014 the Sultan, an absolute autocrat with a personal income of over $16 billion annually announced that Brunei would enact full Sharia Islamic law. The consequences for Christians and Jews will of course mean nothing to the American or British governments. The consequences for women and homosexuals will not either. Yet the sovereign wealth fund of Brunei, which the Sultan controls, owns and operates both the Beverly Hills Hotel with its film star hang out, 'The Polo Lounge' and Hotel Bel-Air. His Dorchester collection also owns a in vogue hotel at Ascot near London, home of the ultimate echelon of British horse racing for royalty and the global aristocracy, as well as premier hotels in the fashion capitals of Milan and Paris.

We may be sure however that the liberal Hollywood elite and homosexual contingent of the film industry will continue to sip their cocktails and champagne at The Polo Lounge without a hint of protest or boycott threat. The fashion industry saturated with homosexual talent will likewise announce no boycott of his hotels in the fashion capitals in protest. It will be business as usual. The homosexual activists only target Christians because they are seen as vulnerable, despite the fact that Christians do not do to homosexuals what Islamic Sharia does. Once again, these spineless wingers say and do nothing in the face of real persecution aimed at them and others. They only play the victim where they can victimize those not in agreement with them. Otherwise, they cower like spineless worms and speak not a word. They will use the Obama administration and Hilary Clinton to bully and intimidate Black African governments into changing their laws concerning homosexuality despite the genocidal impact this would have on the already explosive AIDS/ HIV epidemic in Black Africa. But the Hollywood homosexuals will be in ample prevalence in the Dorchester Collection hotels without saying or doing anything about Brunei.

There is however one exception I have encountered that eclipses even the all-encompassing hypocrisy of homosexual and feminist activism - one and one only. It is the hypocrisy of Wheaton College theologian Gary Burge, the anti-Israel crusader from CHRIST AT THE CHECKPOINT. It is Alex Awad and Salim Munyaner from Bethlehem Bible College. It is World Vision that tried to accept same sex marriage. It is Colin Chapman, formerly of Trinity College Bristol, and it is Stephen Sizer who went to Christian pastor hanging Iran to denounce Israel and Lynne Hybels of Willow Creek Church who had a Moslem Imam in the pulpit of her husband Bill explaining Islam after the September 11th attacks without a reciprocal invitation to explain the Gospel of Jesus in the mosque. These cowards and hypocrites remain silent in the face of the satanically orchestrated persecution of Christians in one Islamic country after another that has reached a hundred thousand in the southern Philippines, hundreds of thousands in East Timor, over one million in northern Nigeria, and over three million in Sudan. The persecution of Christians from the Coptics in Egypt to the Maronites in Lebanon and above all, Evangelicals in Iran, Syria, Gaza, and the Persian Gulf. Yet, these spiritually bankrupt hypocrites issue no complaint. As always, their aim is rather to denounce and oppose Israel, the one nation in The Middle East fully protecting the rights of its Arab Christian population and at least tolerating Messianic Jewish believers in Yeshua / Jesus. Like the homosexual and feminist activists, they only like to attack soft targets or better yet false ones. They will never go against the persecutors of God's people - fundamentalist Islam. They will placate it remaining intentionally deaf to the cries of the Christians suffering for the Name of Jesus in those Islamic countries. It is easier to lash out at Israel for protecting itself from fundamentalist Islam's jihad to destroy it and compel Israel's Arab population to reject faith in Jesus and embrace Islam.

What is the difference between Bethlehem Bible College and Brandeis? What is the difference between Trinity College Bristol and Brandeis? What is the difference between Wheaton College and Brandeis? The obvious answer is NOTHING - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Originally posted on the MORIEL website 
  

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