I am very much bothered by this subject. I believe that one tragic consequence of the anti-Jewish rhetoric of the “gospels” is the name that was picked for the fellow who betrayed Jesus, “Judas.” The name Judas is derived from the Hebrew name “Yahudah.” So if we were to translate the name “Judas” into English it means “Yah(weh) be Praised.” Throughout the Scriptures the names given to persons are known to be extremely appropriate for the function or event that the individual is associated with. Abraham is a good example of it. He was originally called Abram "Exalted Father," but his name was changed to Abraham "Father of a Multitude." Jacob's name means "Take by the Heel" and it was changed to Israel "El Prevails" after another appropriate event in Jacob's life. One of Jacob's sons was appropriately named Yahudah at birth. His name was never changed except when in distorted English transliterations it becomes known as "Judah" "Judas" "Juda" "Jew" "Jude" all stemming from Strong Greek #2455. If "Judah" "Judas" "Juda" "Jude" "Jew" were really translated into English it would have been "Yah(weh) be Praised" (Strong Hebrew #3063). Sadly to say, the truth has no fair chance in our world. The Jews don't like to be so open about "Yah" in the family name because of the respect that we all seem to have for the sacred name, and the Christians are totally ignorant on this subject to be interested at all. In fact, Christians are trained to reject "Judas" (i.e. "Jew") as a despicable name and so they would never name their children "Judas." I don't know any Christian in recent history going by the name of Judas.
So when Jesus is saying that it were better for Judas not to be born, he was in fact saying in Hebrew that it were better for "Yah be Praised" not to be born. Given the importance that is given to names in the Scriptures, Jesus is in essence involving not only the fellow disciple but also the whole ethnic group that goes by that name. Just imagine to say of a person or group of persons by the name of “Yah be Praised” that it would have been better for him/them not to be born. I think that the writers of the “gospels” didn’t know much about the significance of the name Yahudah ("Yah[weh] be Praised") or else they would have picked a different name for the betrayer of the Master. I suspect that they were only interested in making the Jews in general look bad. As it stands now Judas is class as "One of the Twelve" just like Judah is one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Both names are the same in Hebrew. Both of them are Yahudah meaning "Yah be Praised."
Mark 14:21 (NIV) “The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
Mark 14:43 (NIV) Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders.
Several thoughts come to my mind at this point… From the Christian perspective and according to Jesus it seems that it was and probably still is OK and very helpful to perform abortions on unwanted Jews if we feel that the fetus is going to turn out bad when it grows up. It is better not to let it be alive if it is going to betray the "messiah." When the Christians say that the messiah came to be sacrificed for the world I think that it is awfully unkind of any of them not to be eternally grateful to Judas, and even to Pontius, for the great service that they both rendered to the world. They forfeited their own eternal destiny to make salvation possible for the rest of the world. Christians should never stop singing hymns of praise and gratitude to them. No Christian really stops to think about it! Actually, the whole story of Christian "salvation” doesn't seem to square with real life settings. It is so dysfunctional. I can't get over the fact that the apostles were fattening the lamb for the slaughter sort to speak even without their knowledge. The Christian world should be grateful to them, too. When Jesus is quoted saying, "The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him" I wonder where he got that idea from? Somewhere else it is written in the NT…
Matthew 16:21 (NIV) From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."
Where did Jesus get the idea that HE MUST to go through all that? And by the way, where is it written that the followers of the messiah will be randomly picked to suffer and die for the master? Are these rules the Christians made up as the game is played, or has it been prophesied somewhere else in the Tanakh? It is so obvious that the sweetest story ever told was made up many years after Jesus death and this is no joke.
Jesus betrayed by “Yah be Praised.” It just doesn’t make sense. If we wish to add the given name of Yah(shua) “Yah is Salvation” we can have the ultimate, “Yah is Salvation” was betrayed by “Yah be Praised.” It just doesn’t make sense. It seems that Christianity came up with a real dud when they wrote the NT. I am personally convinced that in a real life setting Almighty Yahweh would have preserved the sacredness of his name throughout history! I just cannot picture Almighty Yahweh allowing or even predestining anyone by the name of "Yah be Praise" to betray the real HaMassiach that Israel is expecting. Jesus seems to be forcing an unrelated statement in the Psalms to say that "Yah be Praised" (i.e. "Judas") was predestined to betray "Yah is Salvation" (i.e. "Jesus"). In fact, "Yah be Praised" is called a Devil! It just doesn't make any sense. One has to have a ton of blind faith to swallow that. It really takes a lot of faith to believe in Christianity. Almighty Yahweh hates injustice.
John 6:70 (NIV) Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
John 13:18 (NIV) "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: `He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'
It seems to me that Jesus set up a sting operation in which Judas fell as expected. A righteous person would prevent crime by all possible means, but it seems that Jesus was doing all the opposite. He was announcing that he was going to be betrayed all along. It is like looking forward to it. Not only that, but Jesus was the one who sent Judas to betray him and told him to do it quickly. This is not preventing crime in my book. It is fostering and promoting crime.
Leviticus 19:17b * "Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt."
John 13:18 * "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: `He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'
19 "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.
20 I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."
21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me."
22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.
23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.
24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he means."
25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
26 Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.
27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. "What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him.
In Christianity it is explained that Jesus was the one who delivered himself to be killed and that nobody else did it to him. This is planned suicide. I can clearly read in between the lines how subtly John or whoever wrote his "gospel" is tagging some promotional advice about accepting what Jesus is prophesying because it is the same as accepting it from the "one who sent" Jesus. One has no choice, but to believe. That is, if one is that gullible. So it is easy to prophesy many years in the future anything that already happened. I see that one has to be extremely subjective to Christianity to believe in the Christian faith.
So when Jesus is saying that it were better for Judas not to be born, he was in fact saying in Hebrew that it were better for "Yah be Praised" not to be born. Given the importance that is given to names in the Scriptures, Jesus is in essence involving not only the fellow disciple but also the whole ethnic group that goes by that name. Just imagine to say of a person or group of persons by the name of “Yah be Praised” that it would have been better for him/them not to be born. I think that the writers of the “gospels” didn’t know much about the significance of the name Yahudah ("Yah[weh] be Praised") or else they would have picked a different name for the betrayer of the Master. I suspect that they were only interested in making the Jews in general look bad. As it stands now Judas is class as "One of the Twelve" just like Judah is one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Both names are the same in Hebrew. Both of them are Yahudah meaning "Yah be Praised."
Mark 14:21 (NIV) “The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
Mark 14:43 (NIV) Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders.
Several thoughts come to my mind at this point… From the Christian perspective and according to Jesus it seems that it was and probably still is OK and very helpful to perform abortions on unwanted Jews if we feel that the fetus is going to turn out bad when it grows up. It is better not to let it be alive if it is going to betray the "messiah." When the Christians say that the messiah came to be sacrificed for the world I think that it is awfully unkind of any of them not to be eternally grateful to Judas, and even to Pontius, for the great service that they both rendered to the world. They forfeited their own eternal destiny to make salvation possible for the rest of the world. Christians should never stop singing hymns of praise and gratitude to them. No Christian really stops to think about it! Actually, the whole story of Christian "salvation” doesn't seem to square with real life settings. It is so dysfunctional. I can't get over the fact that the apostles were fattening the lamb for the slaughter sort to speak even without their knowledge. The Christian world should be grateful to them, too. When Jesus is quoted saying, "The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him" I wonder where he got that idea from? Somewhere else it is written in the NT…
Matthew 16:21 (NIV) From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."
Where did Jesus get the idea that HE MUST to go through all that? And by the way, where is it written that the followers of the messiah will be randomly picked to suffer and die for the master? Are these rules the Christians made up as the game is played, or has it been prophesied somewhere else in the Tanakh? It is so obvious that the sweetest story ever told was made up many years after Jesus death and this is no joke.
Jesus betrayed by “Yah be Praised.” It just doesn’t make sense. If we wish to add the given name of Yah(shua) “Yah is Salvation” we can have the ultimate, “Yah is Salvation” was betrayed by “Yah be Praised.” It just doesn’t make sense. It seems that Christianity came up with a real dud when they wrote the NT. I am personally convinced that in a real life setting Almighty Yahweh would have preserved the sacredness of his name throughout history! I just cannot picture Almighty Yahweh allowing or even predestining anyone by the name of "Yah be Praise" to betray the real HaMassiach that Israel is expecting. Jesus seems to be forcing an unrelated statement in the Psalms to say that "Yah be Praised" (i.e. "Judas") was predestined to betray "Yah is Salvation" (i.e. "Jesus"). In fact, "Yah be Praised" is called a Devil! It just doesn't make any sense. One has to have a ton of blind faith to swallow that. It really takes a lot of faith to believe in Christianity. Almighty Yahweh hates injustice.
John 6:70 (NIV) Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
John 13:18 (NIV) "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: `He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'
It seems to me that Jesus set up a sting operation in which Judas fell as expected. A righteous person would prevent crime by all possible means, but it seems that Jesus was doing all the opposite. He was announcing that he was going to be betrayed all along. It is like looking forward to it. Not only that, but Jesus was the one who sent Judas to betray him and told him to do it quickly. This is not preventing crime in my book. It is fostering and promoting crime.
Leviticus 19:17b * "Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt."
John 13:18 * "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: `He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'
19 "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.
20 I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."
21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me."
22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.
23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.
24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he means."
25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
26 Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.
27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. "What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him.
In Christianity it is explained that Jesus was the one who delivered himself to be killed and that nobody else did it to him. This is planned suicide. I can clearly read in between the lines how subtly John or whoever wrote his "gospel" is tagging some promotional advice about accepting what Jesus is prophesying because it is the same as accepting it from the "one who sent" Jesus. One has no choice, but to believe. That is, if one is that gullible. So it is easy to prophesy many years in the future anything that already happened. I see that one has to be extremely subjective to Christianity to believe in the Christian faith.
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