Monday, September 4, 2023

Refuting One for Israel on Rabbinic Necromancy

 On Facebook on somewhere on YouTube the Protestant outreach to Jews called "One for Israel" produced as video called "Exposing Rabbinic Necromancy" among their claims was lighting fires for the dead is a pagan therefore sinful practice.

Unfortunately for One for Israel, the practice is Biblical:

They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.--2 Chronicles 16:14 
In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.—2 Chronicles 21:19 
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.-- 2 Chronicles 32:33 
You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.--Jeremiah 34:5

Egyptians embalmed and buried their dead, so did Jews in the Bible. So what? See my articles on commonalities between Biblical Judaism and the surrounding pagans for why this reasoning is absurd. 

What is puzzling to me is how One for Israel doesn't know the Biblical prooftexts? Even Protestant commentators acknowledge it. 

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