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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

How about Christ himself? He offered a sometimes scathing critique of the practices of the Jewish sects of his day. Was he an anti-semite?


452 posted on 07/29/2006 5:21:27 PM PDT by olderwiser
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To: olderwiser
"How about Christ himself? He offered a sometimes scathing critique of the practices of the Jewish sects of his day. Was he an anti-semite?"

I don't mean antisemitic I mean anti-Jewish, against those who are of the Jewish faith. Jesus was against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees of course..fine...good. What I don't understand is why Jesus or anyone else would expect that a body of people who had believed for 5 thousand years (or however many thousand of years) that there was only one all transcendent God who could not be embodied even in a statue, could just overnight start to believe God had a son in human flesh. To the Jews that was blasphemy. I don't think I would have become a Christian if I had even seen Jesus myself and seen his miracles. The or now had I been a Jew and believed with all my heart that to be a remain a Jews was what God wanted of me I would be bound in conscience to remain a Jew. The fact that I am a Christian is luck and by the grace of God. I was raised Christian. Had I been raised Jewish I would in all probablity be Jewish now. I don't change that easily.

478 posted on 07/29/2006 5:47:12 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days.")
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