(PRIMER) THE REAL ROOTS OF PROTESTANTISM AND CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
In yesterday's post on Tucker Carlson's interview with the Greek American nun Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos (link) I promised you that I'd be posting on the issue of the early Church and its roots in Second Temple Judaism. Protestantism is of course a fairly late development and most of its faithful have little to no knowledge of the things that went on before its founding. As I was going through the material for this post, it hit me how bad the situation really is. An entire history of over 2000 years has been erased from a large part of the Western contingent. Or its information is simply wrong. As a result, Protestants can be manipulated into anything. Fortunately much can be set right in three well spent videos. So here goes.
June 30, 2015 Orthodox Christianity 101: Finding The Church Jesus Built - Seminar 1: History of the Church.
The narrative, if known at all, is that Christianity grew out of Judaism followed by some vague, undefined story that at some point the two went separate ways. But that is only part of the story.
In reality Jews, in the course of the first century, rejected Christ and the Christians, so much so that after the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 by the Romans, they started an entirely new religion in reaction.
The official date of this first schism is AD 90. The rabbis by then regarded the entire Christian community as non-Jewish, declaring it a separate religion and a separate people.
By the time of Emperor Nerva (AD 96–98) the Romans also saw Christians as a separate group, exempting them from the Jewish capitation tax (fiscus judaicus).
As Deacon Ezra explains in his series "Finding the Church That Jesus Built" Christianity is the continuation of Second Temple Judaism in which Christ was born. Today's Rabbinic Judaism is a later offshoot, much on par with the Great Schism of 1054 in which the Sea of Rome separated from the rest of Christianity.
Christianity is thus an older religion than Rabbinic Judaism. If you put that in a diagram, it looks as follows:
Second Temple Judaism > Christianity > Rabbinic Judaism
New religions call for new narratives that explain and justify their existence. While the Pope was content with changes in form and dogma, the Rabbinic Jews edited their own history since the beginning of their existence.
Jews not just rejected Christ and Christianity starting a new religion in the year AD 90, they also rejected Scripture they had used up to the first schism and began to rewrite their books, spending the next thirteen (!) centuries editing it.
This is the Masoretic text, today's Jewish Bible which was completed around AD 1400. Father Ezra gives us the timeline in the final part 8 of "Finding the Church That Jesus Built". You can watch the entire playlist via this link.
June 30, 2015 Orthodox Christianity 101: Finding the Church Jesus Built - Seminar 8: Worship and Holy Scriptures.
Protestants, when harking back to the roots of their religion (which is 16th century Germany) are reverting to the founding of the new religion, Rabbinic Judaism and the new Masoretic text on which Protestant Bibles are based.
This history is the basis of today's narrative of much of the Western world. It passes by early Christianity altogether. What Protestants, Christian Zionists and other dispensationalists are actually following, is a version of Rabbinic Judaism. It has nothing to do with Christ whatsoever!
In fact, the first schism was a fervent and conscious rejection of Christ, His teachings and His followers. Since this is the much cited basis of historical Western antisemitism (another misnomer), it becomes clear why this part of religious history is being covered up and the narrative is held on to, for dear life.
What has happened since the onset of Protestantism is the subject of an excellent and very interesting study posted by Dr David Patrick Harry, which is well worth going through at length. I bet yah, most of us had no idea, including myself.
Aug. 12, 2025 COTEL: Kabbalah & the Reformation: The Esoteric Roots of Protestant Thought (Sponsored Stream). @Westgate letter starts around 1:35 mark.
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