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To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Just remember that Jesus was a Jew, sent by God to save the Jews. He was a new covenant between God and God's choosen people. There were no Christians around to save. They came later.

Saving the Jews required His blood - following the Jewish ritual of sacrifice practiced in Temple at that time.

God killed Christ. Christ killed Christ. Christ died for the Jews, the Romans and you and I. I don't hate the Jewish people and/or the Romans for what transpired as it was part of God's plan. [That doesn't mean that unscrupulous people haven't used this act of love for evil purposes by manipulating weak-minded believers.]

The Jewish leaders then, like today, feared Jesus' message. They feared the growing following of Jesus then and they fear that this movie might move more to follow Him.

There is nothing anti-Semetic about this movie.

370 posted on 03/05/2004 3:57:24 AM PST by Abundy
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To: Abundy
No, to be sure, Jews who are knowledgeable about their own religion don't fear Christianity at all and don't fear at all that the movie will lead Jews to convert to Christianity. Jews understand the evil of religious intolerance and respect all others to practice their religions in peace. What they fear is a new outbreak of hate and pogroms, because that has been the history of the fanning of the flames of prejudice that Christian passion plays have brought in Europe and in the Americas. Call the phenomenon whatever you want, but it has brought rapes, mayhem, and death to countless Jewish communities.

The Islamic radicals who are the declared enemies of both Christians and Jews must be overjoyed at the wedge this movie is driving between Christians and Jews. Truly sad for Christians and Jews and for interfaith progress.
1,171 posted on 03/06/2004 11:08:05 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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