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Israel unite org7/13/2023 God, he said, killed everyone, except Noah and his family in the Flood, to start all over again, and we still have not learnt our lesson. "Isaiah 34:8 says, 'This is the time for controversy,'" Israel retorted strongly, and went straight into pulling another example from the Bible when asked why a kind and merciful God would punish people by way of slavery. So, is the IUIC deliberately courting controversy? The IUIC has cited 1 Kings 8:46 and Deuteronomy 28:25 to support its claim, which some people have rejected as a major misinterpretation of the Scripture. One of the issues that Family & Religion discussed with Israel was the other major controversial one, that Negroes, Hispanics, Indians, etc, were enslaved by the white man because they had broken all of God's Commandments. This was one of the purposes of Israel's visit to the island, to present "archaeological and historical proof" of the IUIC's teachings, as well as to find "lost sheep". The allegation that artists were hired during the Renaissance to "whitewash" black faces in paintings and other media was also made. Many paintings in the UTech presentation were of noted historical and biblical personalities who were said to be black. The image is that of Pope Alexander VI's son, Cesare Borgia, painted by Leonardo da Vinci.īut it is not only Jesus Christ who has a black face. Thus, the Eurocentric image of Jesus Christ, it is claiming, was created during the Renaissance, around 1453. Revelation 1:14 and Daniel 10:6 are the bases of their conclusion. It argues that the Apostle John and the Prophet Daniel described Jesus Christ as a black man with woolly hair. In its literature as well, the IUIC has given biblical and historical references to a black Christ. This is one of the major controversial elements of IUIC, and Israel welcomes the debate. And in the seminar at UTech, Israel gave a Powerpoint presentation in which Jesus Christ was depicted as a black man. It is to be noted that though the IUIC uses the Bible as its authority and believes in the Commandments of Jesus Christ, IUIC soldiers do not call themselves Christians. "And in so doing, we must keep the Commandments, and by us keeping the Commandments under the King, Jesus the Christ, our deliverance will come," Israel told Family & Religion recently, after a seminar at the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech) in Papine in St Andrew. So, in 2003, he founded the Israel United In Christ (IUIC) camp because he wanted "to resurrect the Twelve Tribes of Israel". Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
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