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I would think that you have just expressed the beliefs of most of the first few century Jews. While it would be a false statement to say that they read the bible literally themselves as the practice of interpreting long ago events into the context of their day, mixing and matching versus out of...

Thanks. I hope to reread this when I can better let it sink in.

Except it was too fast and furious for a guy that out of habit reads and the maybe remembers to go back and like. I don't think I got back to liking anything. And now I need to run.

The point I am missing is the relevance of "modern day"? You first introduced your own experience here (I think). I guess that the discussion that followed was just a tangent from here and not at all related to "throughout history, has led to the persecution of Jews". But to my reading, my...

Then I am missing your point.

From memory. Wasn't Jerusalem more or less like a modern beach town when it came to population? A rather small population that swelled up for festivals like Passover? Or wars? I think I have heard ranges from 20K to 80K, with festivals in the few hundred thousand and estimates in the...

@dgreen is not stereotyping. You guys are not seriously suggesting that the fight over the Old Testament scripture breeding two millennium worth of antisemitism is a matter for debate? And/or that its share of the blame for antisemitism would be trivial?

While it doesn't end with the Holocaust, I think there are a pretty clear changes in attitudes of the masses pre and post. And the ugliness starts really early. Like in the gospels. As in "Sons of the devil". Or the Epistle of Barnabas which was popular the first few centuries spelling it...

If we assume Paul had his revelation within three or so years after the crucifixion in order to make the timeline in Galatians work (so that 17 years doesn't push us too late), then Christians were being persecuted in synagogues (whatever "being persecuted" actually meant) immediately. Their...

I don't think this was ever true, unless "many" simply means a little more than a few thousand or so. Certainly not any significant percentage.

But if that was the case roughly 2000 years ago, what makes us so sure that it is not the case today? I believe that is ultimately a third of the question. The other third is why does God allow his people to go off on such a tangent? And the final third would be those concerning the...

You know, I knew that this meant that "the [current] church" more or less begins when Paul starts his mission somewhere around Acts 9 or Acts 13 (though I also needed to google those exact chapters). But until just this second, the fact that this is just before the mid-point of the book of Acts...

Misreading Revelation 22:18-19 (if I googled correctly) to mean a closed cannon is to blame here. I think whether or not there are new "truths" to be revealed is irrelevant as to whether or not there are new ways to express them. But maybe in two thousand years they'll be trying to piece...

Spinning off the post from earlier today and in this case blatantly stealing an idea presumably from that blog, or its comments section, or something linked from it. First in the previous post about this past week's gospel reading I said that Luke and Mark portrayed things a bit differently...

Interestingly enough, since Sunday I've kind of been tossing around how this week's gospel lesson and how I described it a week or so ago. Luke 9: 51-62 - This goes to why early Christians thought the Kingdom of God was coming any minute, both Jesus (here) and Paul said as much. And how my...