Jerusalem: A Growing Powder Keg in Mideast

The article below shows the obvious tension surrounding the question on Jerusalem. The Word has this to say:

Jeremiah 30:3 'For behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.' The LORD says, 'I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it.'"


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Title: Jerusalem: A Growing Powder Keg in Mideast
By Andrew Lee Butters / Jerusalem Monday, Dec. 07, 2009

On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected area nestled at the foot of the southern walls of Jerusalem's Old City. The site is believed to have been the seat of power of the kingdom of David, before King Solomon built his temple higher up on Mount Moriah. Until a few years ago, only a few thousand tourists a year visited the City of David, but Elad's efforts — digging tunnels, uncovering ruins and building a visitor's center — drew at least 460,000 people to the site last year. The organization hopes to make its project the flagship of a series of religious and historical theme parks in a loose ring around the Old City to boost its appeal as a tourist destination. But the enterprise also has a potentially explosive ideological purpose: to cement Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem — a claim that is hotly and often violently disputed by Palestinians and the wider Muslim world.



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It seems biology (not religion) equals morality

Below is an excerpt from an article that tries to show that(human) morality has got nothing to do with religion but is biological.

Well, OF COURSE IT IS BIOLOGICAL !!! Religion, which is man's creation, can never achieve what is truly GOOD, whether Buddhist, Muslims, Christians, Atheists. On the other hand we all know at least a few Atheists who have such good morality that it puts religious people in shame.

Followers of Yeshua (Jesus) should not be surprised - that Morality is biological, built into the DNA of our brains, whether we are religious or not. Guess who build / designed our brains? Who else but the Great I AM.

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It seems biology (not religion) equals morality

Ref: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/contributors/it-seems-biology-not-religion-equals-morality-20091202-k5x8.html

"Recent discoveries suggest that all humans, young and old, male and female, conservative and liberal, living in Sydney, San Francisco and Seoul, growing up as atheists, Buddhists, Catholics and Jews, with high school, university or professional degrees, are endowed with a gift from nature, a biological code for living a moral life."