Truman’s battle for Israel’s recognition revealed
Washington Post columnist details ‘epic struggle’ in Washington over how to respond to Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. ‘Beneath the surface lay unspoken but real anti-Semitism on the part of some policymakers who opposed Israel’s recognition,’ he says
Transcript:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080514-5.html
Eleven minutes after Israel came into existence, the United States became the first nation to recognize its independence. And because Harry Truman did what was right instead of following the conventional wisdom, we can say today that America is Israel’s oldest and best friend in the world.
What’s fascinating to me is that the U.S. recognized an unnamed state as Israel had not yet chosen it’s name.
John 12:32 ”And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.”
Good things come from bad things. In a world where all men fall short there is a lesson that none of us are perfect and as a result it causes us to look to Jesus. The benefit of our own imperfection is that we find Jesus.
God is the God of all things and in that it only makes sense that he gets all of the glory no matter what. In the death of Jesus Christ on the surface it seems to be a great tragedy yet at the same time it is the greatest story ever told. Only God could achieve something so great out of something so bad.
The terrible suffering of Jesus on the cross brings the greatest miracle of all time, man’s salvation that we can spend eternity with God. In man’s sin and the entire downfall of the human race from one man, another man brings life. Sin brought death and the man who took sin on himself brought life.
“But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” -Luke 21:28.
Keep Looking Up.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080513122249.m3ds3b6j&show_article=1
Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.
Matthew 18:3-4
“Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”
THAT Mr. Einstein may be your greatest blunder of all time.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html
President Bush in a Tuesday interview expressed in unusually frank terms his disappointment over flawed pre-war intelligence and acknowledged his fears about leaving an unfinished war to a Democratic successor.
In an Oval Office interview with Politico and Yahoo News — Bush’s first for an online audience — the president said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
Note to President Bush, it’s a disaster already, nobody told you? I know it could be a bigger disaster right? Thanks for the tax stimulus, oh wait I didn’t get one because I’m in a higher bracket. In the meantime when I drive down my streets they look like the equivalent of a cheese grater. Where is all of our money going? Iraq. Oh yeah and we’re in a recession. Oh and one last thing. Remember when you stated on T.V. that people of all faiths can get to heaven. They can’t.
If politicians want to take credit or pass blame for bringing about ‘doomsday’ you are welcome to but God told us the last days were coming no matter what. Just stop using it to scare people to get Republican votes because you aren’t getting us out of it. Jesus will.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While apes evolved naturally into pre-human creatures, it was the will and desire of God that turned them into humans, an article in the Vatican newspaper said.
“The formation of human beings necessitated a particular contribution by God, though it remains that their emergence was brought about by natural causes” of evolution, it said.
The article posed the question: Does this mean that humans evolved from chimpanzees?
“No, it might be better to say that at some point God willed a spark of intelligence to light up in the mind of a nonhuman hominid and thus came into existence the human as a being, as a subject capable of thought and the ability to decide freely,” it said.
Looks like the Vatican now fully supports evolution.
Why is it that as a human race we seem to revel in tearing people down. Look at celebrities for example. We lift them up to the top and then we seem to revel in the gossip when they fall.
How does this translate in our Christian walk?
Unfortunately you would have a certain level of expectations from other Christians but the flesh seems to win out for many. Instead of encouraging one another we sometimes come off as judgmental and harsh.
Now I realize with bringing this to your attention you might say “Joe, you are tearing people down” and that’s a fair statement. But when we disagree should we be tearing down Christian brother and Sisters as a result of our disagreement?
Unfortunately some Christians lack maturity to realize where they are at to properly analyze where others are at. Sometimes that takes life experience. Marriage, children, buying a home, age etc. As each year passes and we pass through life we will grow spiritually.
I’m not opposed to Christians being critical of other Christians or non-believers. Sometimes condemnation can be a good thing but when it’s all you do it becomes a concern.
So many Christians have turned away from the traditional teachings of the church to preachers like Joel Osteen. Why? Because of the positive message, or worse they leave Christianity entirely. People are tired of being beaten over the head and others being critical. Christians can be the harshest critics of all. But we don’t have to have a candy coated gospel like Osteen and we should be wary of anyone who makes a tidy profit from the gospel.
Yes, I said anyone.
But more to my point. There are a lot of believers out there but they aren’t on track. We can tear them down or we can offer a message of encouragement. God is in our corner rooting for us why can’t we encourage one another? Instead of getting prideful with our bible knowledge or arrogant in our stance toward others how about actually sharing the gospel and scriptures with one another?
Some of us are so intent on being right that we forget we are nothing without Jesus and maybe we should act more like he did. We can encourage anyone including non-believers with a positive word. It doesn’t all have to be fire and brimstone. But the same applies to the body as well.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
12 But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction,
13and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.14 We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
BEIJING, China (CNN) — Thousands of people have been killed by Monday’s powerful earthquake in just one affected region of central China, its government said, with the toll expected to keep rising as bodies are retrieved from schools, homes and factories.Rescuers try to help a child trapped in the rubble at Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan City.
1 of 3more photos »The death toll quickly rose throughout the day. State-run news agency Xinhua said it had reached 8,533 in Sichuan Province by Monday night, and another 10,000 were believed to be injured.
Click on the link for the full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html
Modern technology - including violent video games - is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist
Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis.
It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all.This crisis could reshape how we interact with each other, alter what makes us happy, and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals.
And it’s caused by one simple fact: the human brain, that most sensitive of organs, is under threat from the modern world.
Here’s a funny picture brother Joram from www.thedissident.ws sent me in an email. Lol.
