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I see here no way to condemn jews for all of man's sins

On another thread, several Christians mentioned they had never been taught Jews killed Christ. Nor had they heard any Christians say that. They first heard it from Jews and liberals.

That was my experience too. Regret to admit, I simply assumed Christians were making that claim on a regular basis.

15 posted on 08/01/2003 9:56:25 AM PDT by DPB101
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On another thread, several Christians mentioned they had never been taught Jews killed Christ.

My background is mainstream Church of Christ in a small town in Oklahoma,
graduated from a college affiliated with that church body...
...and the view I always got from the pulpit and professors was that Jesus
was killed because he was viewed as a threat by powerful people: the Pharisees and the Roman
occupiers.
And that the events leading up to his death were good to study not only in a religional
sense, but about the abuse of power by individuals and institutions.

I never heard a "the Jews killed Jesus" as a rant or as a scholarly statement.
And that Jesus and his immediate followers were Jews was always understood.

Call me fundamentalist, but I can't find anyplace in the New Testament that said
for followers of Christ to be other than civil with Jews, Romans, Greeks,
or any of their neighbors.
35 posted on 08/01/2003 12:45:02 PM PDT by VOA
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