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To: MestaMachine

Maybe, but the Israelites, which were/are a race, were God’s “chosen people” according to any interpretation of the Old Testament. This implies that all others are not God’s people. I think this doctrine of the faith is what not only drove people to Christianity instead of Judeism in droves back in ancient and medieval times, but also limits the rate of Jewish converts today. The early Catholic church spun Christ’s purpose of existance to be God’s new covenent to all people, not just the Israelites. I myself walk a line between Catholic and agnostic (I believe in the history as taught by the Catholic church, but struggle to find the faith to believe in the hocus pocus side), but I can certainly see why people perceive the jews as a race.


13 posted on 04/05/2010 6:13:35 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601

That is an extremely convoluted leap of illogic. Israelites were not a race. Never.
The entrance into the CULTURE required circumcision and a belief in one true G-d.
The advent of Christianity was not because of Jesus. It was because of Paul who deliberately perverted the laws of the Sabbath, Baptism, Circumcision, and “created” a new “covenant” which was based on a Roman lie and an abberant adaptation of Jesus’ own words and deeds.
It was because Paul offered forgiveness and redemption of the worst sins under the original Commandments and made the discipline of the Mosaic Laws and Torah irrelevant to gentiles.
Paul was a mass murderer...of Hebrews. He hated them because he could not live up to the tenets of the faith. He sold his soul to Rome and sought converts who never knew anything about the faith he denigrated.
He was self-loathing. NONE hate so much as those who hate themselves.


14 posted on 04/05/2010 8:29:58 AM PDT by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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