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To: olderwiser
"How about Christ himself? He offered a sometimes scathing critique of the practices of the Jewish sects of his day. Was he an anti-semite?"

I don't mean antisemitic I mean anti-Jewish, against those who are of the Jewish faith. Jesus was against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees of course..fine...good. What I don't understand is why Jesus or anyone else would expect that a body of people who had believed for 5 thousand years (or however many thousand of years) that there was only one all transcendent God who could not be embodied even in a statue, could just overnight start to believe God had a son in human flesh. To the Jews that was blasphemy. I don't think I would have become a Christian if I had even seen Jesus myself and seen his miracles. The or now had I been a Jew and believed with all my heart that to be a remain a Jews was what God wanted of me I would be bound in conscience to remain a Jew. The fact that I am a Christian is luck and by the grace of God. I was raised Christian. Had I been raised Jewish I would in all probablity be Jewish now. I don't change that easily.

478 posted on 07/29/2006 5:47:12 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days.")
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

Hmm. Christ preached in a particular time and place, but his good news was meant for everyone. People of different faiths, or no faith, have found the message startling wherever and whenever they hear it.

Yes, the priests of his time found his teachings blasphemous. But I think it says something that he did not call his followers to arms to defend him, and those who opposed him could not win by pursausion or argument. I don't count Christ as anti-Jewish.


488 posted on 07/29/2006 6:01:39 PM PDT by olderwiser
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