Die verkündigungskirche in Nazereth

Die verkündigungskirchein Nazereth

Die Kirch wurde von Guseppe Musio, einem Architekten aus Nazereth, entworfen und gebaut von einer Israelitische Firma, Solel Boneh genannt. Es wurde 1968 eingeweiht. Bevor diese Kirch gebaut wurde hatte die ruine des Kreuzfahrers Kirche hier geliegen für mehr als 700 jahren.

Dies liegt daran weil die Turken nicht die Christen erlauben Kirchen zu bauen. Die Moslems hatten die Kreuzfahrer im 13 jahrhunderd erobert und wolte nicht dass sie zu ruckehr um das Landzu regieren. Im Islam Kirchen und Moscheen sind ein weg zu zeigen wie das Landregiert. Also wenn mann sieht keine Kirchen ist klar das Christen nicht das Landbeherschen.

Diese moderne Kirche ist ein Ausdruck für die schöne Christliche Vorstellung das

größe kommt aus bescheidene anfängen.

Maria wohnte in einem bescheidenen Höle wen der Engel Gabriel zu sie erschien zu verkündet dass sie die Mutter Gottes wird wohren. Diese Idee setzt sich auch in der Geburt Jesu, weil er in einer bescheidenen Höle  in der kleinen Stadt Bethlehem wird geborten, als die Profet Micha hat profeziet.

          

Nach der geburt Jesu ist die heiligen Familie nach Äegypten geflüchtet. Da auch sie lebten in sehr bescheidenen Verhältenissen. Da wieder erschien der Engel Gabriel an Joseph in eine Traum und berichtet ihm dass er mit seiner kleine Familie in dass Heiligen Land zuruckkehren muss.

Gott berichtet dass sie beim Nazerenen  muss leben weil er werd sein Volk durch ein Nazarene retten, deshalb gehen sie in Nazereth, die Stad die Nazerenen.

Die Kirch ist wie eine vergroßerte Höle gebaut. Der Besucher spurt das er befindet sich in einem bescheidenen Höle.

Erst später beginnt man zu spüren wie Demut wendet sich zum Majestät als einer die Schritte klettert an die konigliche Kirch zu verehrung die Jungfrau Maria.

Die erste Kirche die hier in der Byzantinische zeit erbaut wurde nun ziert die kleine Stadt von Lorette in Italien die es als geschenk den Kreuzfahrern für ihre hilfe bei der Eroberung der Heiliges Landes.

Archaelogical digs in the City of David

I have the great privelege to guide in the new archaeological excavations in the part of Jerusalem known as the City of David.

I have no doubt that Jerusalem is cradle of Jewish civilization and I'm proud to be a member of that group. I'm not objecting to Jerusalem being the capital of the Jewish People. I believe that this our rightful capital. I'm objecting to the use which is being made of archaeological discoveries to prove our right to call Jerusalem Jewish.

Archaeological discoveries are always very interesting in many ways and for many reasons but they actually become uninteresting when we use them to prove the history of a certain nation, like the Jews. Yet this is what is often done.

I remember reading that Dame Kathleen Kenyon was considered anti-semitic because she refused  to define the period of her discoveries in Jerusalem as the Israelite period, instead she called them by the universally accepted title Middle Iron.

For Dame Kathleen Kenyon archaeology was a universal science. For example the lintel in the video is called Ionic and not Israelite because "Ionic" puts it in a universal category. This tells us that the ancient Israelites had strong connections with the world around them. They were part of the culture of that time and they were influenced (in art, literature, religion, commerce etc) by the cultures around them. That is exciting, in my opinion.

Using that universal artistic design as a proof of Jewish origins in the city of Jerusalem to strengthen our claim to possession of Jerusalem only serves to arouse starry eyed fanatics to greater fanaticism.

Apparantly Jews are financially supporting the digs only because they're proving Jewish ownership of a place. This is a very bad idea because its turning people into narrow minded bigots. We must not do digs to find Jewish things. We must do digs to find universal things. The latter is science the former is bigotry and destroys science.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (New Version)

It's generally accepted that this church is one of the most important building projects of Constantine the Great.*

He became emperor of the Roman Empire in 312 following the death of Diocletian, who had persecuted Christians very severely for not paying homage to the emperor as God and so weaken the unity of the Empire..Many Romans had adopted Christianity and had stopped making offerings in honour of the Emperor in the temples.

Constantine clearly saw that his predecesor's policy of persecuting Christians was not solving the problem of disunity in the Empire. On the contrary, the more they were persecuted the more loyal they became to their religion and the number of Christians in the empire was simply increasing. Persecution was only making more enemies of the empire. Persecution was just making the empire more divided and Constantine sought to unify it.

Constantine decided to use the Christian ability to attract members for the purpose of bringing unity to the Roman Empire.

Instead of persecuting the Christians in 324 he issued the decree of Milan, whereby Christians were permitted to worship Jesus as all the other Roman gods. Later, at the end of the 4^th century, Theodosius, Constantine's successor declared Jesus as the main God of the Roman Empire. Jesus had become the State God.

With this act Constantine achieved great success. Christians praised and sanctified the emperor and began to visit the place where Jesus rose from the dead in their thousands. Constantine sanctified this place with the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

By his action Christians suddenly became loyal Roman citizens. Worshipping at the church which Constantine had built became the way to show loyalty to the emperor and the empire.

Constantine had succeeded in using the Christian religion to unify the Roman Empire.

Seeing that Christianity had it's roots in Judaism and was similar to it in many respects and seeing that the Jews were loyal Roman citizens the Christians naturally expected that Jews would be attracted to Christianity, something that hadn't happened before and that disappointed Christians.

This didn't happen, Jews weren't attracted to Christianity, despite the official approval of the emperor. As a result Christians began accusing the Jews of being "Misanthropists" (people who hate other human beings".

As the ties between Christianity and the state became stronger so Jews were evermore looked down upon and as their loyalty to the state became questionable because of their refusal to worship Jesus they came to be regarded as second class citizens and the seeds of anti-semitism were sown.

* According to Gregory Armstrong, Constantine's Church, an article in Gesta Vol 6 of 1967 at least 23 churches were built according to Consta