Pope Francis is complicit in advancing the fake ‘Palestinian Jesus’ narrative

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Posted on 12/09/2024 7:48:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Vatican has unveiled its 2024 Christmas display—which met with Pope Francis’s approval—and it deliberately advances the leftist/Muslim narrative that Jesus was a “Palestinian.” This is a historical rewrite of the worst kind and gives fuel to the worst people.

History is not complicated:

The Bible says—and nothing contradicts it—that around the early 17th century B.C., the Israelites settled in the Land of Canaan, which became the Nation of Israel. Around the year 1,000 B.C., King David defeated the Philistines, who were the Israelite’s ancient enemies. For the next slightly more than 400 years, whether as a single nation or as the split nations of Judah and Israel, the same land was ruled entirely by the Jewish people.

In 586 B.C. (and history does confirm this), Assyria conquered the ancient Kingdom of Israel, which ceased to exist. However, the Kingdom of Judah continued. In subsequent centuries, the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by and became a vassal of the Babylonians and the Hellenist Greeks. The 2nd century B.C. Maccabean revolt saw a brief return to Jewish control but, in 63 B.C., the Romans conquered the Kingdom of Judah.

Through it all, the land was always understood to be the Jewish land. The Jews may have been a vassal state or colony, but the whole thing was Jewish. Indeed, in 6 AD, when the Romans cracked down on the Jews, they still recognized the ancient Kingdom of Judah, for they renamed the land “Judea.”

Around the year 1 A.D. (the moment when the world ticked over from “Before Christ” to “Anno Domini [the year of our Lord]),” a man known as Jesus of Nazareth was born in the Roman-controlled Jewish colony of Judea. His lineage, for he was descended from King David,

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1 posted on 12/09/2024 7:48:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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2 posted on 12/09/2024 7:54:25 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)

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3 posted on 12/09/2024 8:07:55 PM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )

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