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- From: pub@riscee.pko.dec.com (Publius)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
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- References: <1992Dec28.053547.18160@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:39:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.053547.18160@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
- >
- > "+ The `servant of the high priest' who accompanied Judas in leading
- > authorities to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane may have
- > been the Apostle Paul himself before his conversion.
-
- This only shows how little the author knows the history. Apostle Paul
- was a Pharisee before his regeneration, and everyone who has the
- slightest idea of the history of that period knows that Pharisees
- were the bitter political as well as theological enemies of the high
- priest.
-
- > ... By
- > unfairly blaming the Jews, the Gospel stories precipitated 2,000
- > years of Christian antisemitism.
-
- The Gospel stories never blame the Jews for the condemnation of Jesus.
- Gospels blame the Roman-appointed high priest for that crime. Anyone
- who has the slightest idea of the history knows that the high priests in
- that period were Roman puppets hated by the rabbis and the Jewish populace.
- By equating the high priest with the Jews, the critics have exposed their own
- total ignorance of the history.
-
-
- Regards,
- --
- For Christ and His Kingdom
- -- Publius
- Disclaimer: These opinions are mine, all mine, mine alone.
-