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To: cothrige
How can recognizing that many, perhaps even most, Jews were obstinate in their opposition to God be taken to be "reversing the role of the Jewish People in the cosmos?" I seem to recall a few times in the Old Testament that the same idea is presented.

In the "old testament" they are labeled obstinate when they deviate from the Torah. Chr*stianity labels them obstinate for refusing to cease observing the Torah and replacing it with something else.

And again, the truth of chr*stianity and of the "new testament" is hardly "self-evident."

186 posted on 02/01/2009 11:24:08 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ('Ashirah leHaShem ki ga'oh ga'ah, sus verokhevo ramah vayam!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
And again, the truth of chr*stianity and of the "new testament" is hardly "self-evident."

I am curious about a couple of things in this. One, why are you arguing about "self-evident?" Do you really believe that the truth of the Old Testament is "self-evident?" If so, how? I wouldn't think so, at least not for a great deal. There is, after all, a reason we call it faith.

Two, why the scare quotes around New Testament? What are you suggesting about that? You seem to have some real language issues or something. You mysteriously refuse to put the "i" in Christianity. Perhaps it reveals a pharisaical attitude that the Greek word for anointed is too holy to include the middle vowel even though there is, to my knowledge, no concept that Christ, annointed or Messias or any equivalent was ever treated that way by Jews historically. And yet you won't capitalize it, even though it is a proper noun. So I would think you are trying to be doubly insulting and saying that Christianity doesn't deserver the moniker invoking Christ, so you won't use it replacing the 'i' with an asterisk, and you won't capitalize it, or New Testament (another proper noun, btw) as a snide aside at believers of that faith. Oddly, you do seem to capitalize Jews. You also write God in full, with caps, and even capitalized people when associated with Jews. Are you trying to say something about somebody through these actions?

188 posted on 02/01/2009 2:16:17 PM PST by cothrige (Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, ni si me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas.)
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