written by a dear friend David Silver -

"Last week the people at the Bethlehem Bible College held the fourth Christ at the Checkpoint Conference (CATC). As you probably realize the title of the conference is meant to imply that if Yeshua was alive today, he would have to pass through the Israeli security checkpoints as He moved about Judea and Samaria. I wrote "the people at the Bethlehem Bible College" because I don't consider them to be true Bible beiieving Christians. Here are the reasons that I believe that to be true ....

1/ They claim that Yeshua was a Palestinian - THATS A LIE There was never a country called Palestine. The name Palestine did not come into being until 70 AD - 40 years after the resurrection

2/ The title of the conference implies that if the situation was the same in Yeshua's lifetime as it is today, He would have had to pass through the Israeli checkpoints THATS A LIE There were no Checkpoints in the time of Yeshua because there were NO "Palestinians" therefore Yeshua would not have encountered any checkpoints or security barriers.

3/ They have rewritten parts of the Bible to suit their politics - last year the president of the BBC, Jack Sara, gave a message at the CATC, quoting from Ezekiel and changing the words DRY BONES which clearly refer to the Jewish people, to THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. Here is the exact quote of what Sara said .... “The hand of the Lord was on me and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of the [West Bank – Bethlehem, Jenin and Salvit and Nablus and Ramallah.]** It was full of bones ... He asked me, ‘Son of Man, can these bones live? Can the [Palestinian people live?]’** THATS A LIE and the last verse in the Bible warns against interfering with the Word of God

4/ The CATC manifesto states that you cannot use the Bible to establish land borders or ownership - here is the quote "Any exclusive claim to land of the Bible in the name of God is not in line with the teaching of scripture." THATS A LIE

5/ 2013 guest speaker Dr Mitri Raheb taught that Christianity was born in Palestine - THATS A LIE - the name Israel was replaced by the word Palestine after the Roman destruction in 70 AD, 40 years after the resurrection

6/ The official BBC blog from Day 2 of this years event asked the questions .... How do you love your neighbor when he builds a wall around you, separates you from your family and detains and shoots your people? How do you love your neighbor with tear gas in your eyes? Take it a step further - how do you love your neighbor when he wants to kill you? Absolutely no mention of the 1300 plus innocent Israeli men, women & children blown to pieces as they sat in buses and restaurants over the last 10 years. No mention of terrorists hiding under beds in ambulances with their bombs ready to kill more Israelis. It places the blame on the Israelis and THATS A LIE.!!!."