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To: BibChr
Let me try this one more time. The New Testament account of Jewish actions as pertains to the death of Jesus is in error. To keep this simple I'll limit myself to my first point in post #67.

Jewish holidays run from sundown to sundown. Passover was at the time the holiest festival of the year. Jewish law and tradition FORBIDS work on a festival. According to the New Testament, the events leading to the capture of Jesus transpire on the night of Passover. Matthew 26 verse 18 "I will keep the passover at your house". Later that night, according to the text, Jesus is captured and taken before the priest and scribes where they attempt a trial(Matthew 26 verse 57).

This scenario is completely contradictory to Jewish law and tradition. The High priest and the temple elders would NEVER have convened a trial to decide a death sentence on the holiest day of the year. In an Orthodox Jewish home you are forbidden to even turn on a light switch on the Sabbath because it constitutes work! The idea that that all the top members of the Temple would stop all celebration and preparation on the holiest festival day they had to try to put a man to death defies belief.
88 posted on 02/21/2004 9:26:01 PM PST by Poison Pill
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To: Poison Pill; Dataman
You keep imposing your faith on the facts, and I keep trying to point you both to reflection on your assumptions, and facing facts.

Let's try this.

Two thousand years from now, if Messiah Jesus still tarries at the right hand of the Father (Psalm 110:1), historians are going over the records written during the late nineties.

And the Poison Pills conclude that the accounts of the Clinton impeachment are all wrong, totally unreliable.

Why? Because these future "historians" practice the same blind, historically revisionistic arrogance you are hiding behind.

They say,

"No, no, it never could have gone this way. The Consitution requires removal of a President for high crimes and misdemeanors. The records show that this president committed perjury, he abused the powers of his office to suborn perjury and cover up his crimes, he disgraced his office in an atrocious manner. Good heavens, he even bombed foreign countries just to manipulate the headlines! It is simply impossible that he would have been allowed to remain in office!

"Further, the Senate is required to try such cases. The documents allege that the Senate did no such thing, but that it held a mock trial consisting of some abbreviated thoughts, with, no evidence, no cross-examination, no serious chance to consider the weight of the matter. They are depicted as shirking their office, their Constitutional responsibility — and we are supposed to believe that it was the opposing political party that agreed to this! Incredible! It could not have happened thiw way!

"Hence, the records are all wrong! We're sure of it!"

And of course it is these come-lately Poison Pillian revisionists who would be wrong.

So you take your blind-faith revisionism, and I'll stick with the facts and the eyewitness testimony.

In your quiet moments, though, do you ever wonder why you find the facts so threatening, why denial over this massive crime is so comforting to you?

You really should.

Dan
How to Make Your Very Own Jesus

89 posted on 02/22/2004 7:15:50 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Poison Pill
You left out Matthew 26:53

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He shall presently give Me more than twelve legions of angels?

54: But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

90 posted on 02/22/2004 7:24:37 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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