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To: malakhi
Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact.

There are plenty of examples of anti-Jewish rhetoric in the Christian scriptures.

Example?

Almost as if a philosemitic core of material was written down and edited from a very different viewpoint.

None of which addresses the fact, that the name of "Jesus" was not put forth to hide his Jewishness. And that the narratives in the Gospels leave us with no ooption other than knowing that Jesus was a Jew. He had to be, to fulfill Scripture.

References to the leaders who turned Jesus in, or to those who persecuted the early Church are not to be taken as indictments of an entire people.

SD

46,097 posted on 04/03/2003 10:28:23 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
There are plenty of examples of anti-Jewish rhetoric in the Christian scriptures.

Example?

Here are just a few:

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him. (John 7:13)

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue. (John 9:22)

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews (John 20:19)

When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him (Acts 9:23)

References to the leaders who turned Jesus in, or to those who persecuted the early Church are not to be taken as indictments of an entire people.

Up until fairly recently, that is exactly how it was taken.

46,105 posted on 04/03/2003 10:41:55 AM PST by malakhi (fundamentalist unitarian)
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