The video, taken at a account endure Sunday at Long’s church, New Birth Missionary Baptist in Lithonia, Ga., and appear Wednesday, shows Messianic preacher Rabbi Ralph Messer instructing men to blanket Long in a ritual shawl, which Jews alarm a tallis.
“He's a king. God’s adored him. He’s a apprehensive man,” said Messer said. “But in him is kingship. In him is royalty. In him was a acreage of Israel.”
Long is again aloft up on a head to the athrill acclaim of the parishioners. “He now is aloft up from a aborigine to a kingship,” said Messer.
The Rev. Morris Tipton, administrator of media relations at the National Baptist Convention, told atramentous account website The Grio on Friday that he is not afflicted by the video. “God has alleged us to be confined leaders and not celebrities,” Tipton said. The assemblage is the better accumulation of African American Baptists in the United States.
An accessory assistant of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, the Rev. Wil Gafney, wrote a lengthy, abrogating appraisal of the commemoration in the Huffington Column on Thursday. In the post, Gafney data “misrepresentations of the Torah and added Jewish sancta” by Messer.
Officials at Long’s abbey did not anon acknowledgment requests for animadversion on Friday.
Rabbi David Shiff of Congregation Beth Hallel, a Messianic Jewish abbey in Roswell, aswell accursed the commemoration and Messner’s affirmation that he was a Messianic Jew.
“Ralph Messer in no way represents Messianic Judaism,” Shiff told the Associated Press. “He is not affiliated with any accepted annex of Messianic Judaism. His accomplishments in no way reflect the position of Messianic Judaism. I begin the presentation to be abhorrent and inappropriate.”
The Torah is believed to be a all-powerful book in Judaism. Jewish groups said Long’s use of the scrolls in a abbey commemoration was offensive.
In the video, Messer aswell mentioned absorption camps in Poland during the Holocaust, during which six actor Jews were murdered by Hitler’s Nazis and sympathizers. He said the Torah acclimated in the commemoration was “a Holocaust scroll.”
“The affiliation of the Torah annal to the Holocaust and again to Eddie Long is incomprehensible to me,” David P. Gushee, a assistant of Christian belief at Mercer University, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday. Gushee is a academic of the Holocaust. “What was the point?”
Long fabricated account in September 2010 afterwards he was accused of animal delinquency by four macho above abbey associates said he had abused his airy authority.
The megachurch baton acclimatized out of cloister for an alien bulk of money in May and again took a breather endure year to accord with “personal issues.” He alternate to the belvedere in January.
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