(March 20, 2014 at 9:26 am)Chad32 Wrote:(March 20, 2014 at 9:19 am)rightcoaster Wrote: Chad -- this is exactly where the Christians run off the rails. It is the difference between OT literalists, who were the Sadducees and are the Karaites; and the OT interpreters, who were and are the Pharisees, today's rabbinic Judaism. The Pharisees devote their energies to working around the things that were OK "then", whenever "then" was, but are not OK "now", whenever "now" is. And because rabbinic interpretation is so....well, so human...and because there is no formal hierarchy of authority, that is why there are so many sectarian interpretations, even within the most strictly Orthodox.
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... The Pharisees were called hypocrites for cherry picking, .... Jesus also called them out once about shouting in public squares about their religion, .... and supposed to kill people who don't convert, and all that. Love your enemies, but drown professed atheists and people of other religions in rivers.
You are parroting the incorrect view of the Pharisees as portrayed by the increasingly anti-Jewish evolution of Christianity, which was and is a religion about Jesus and not at all the religion of Jesus. In fact, the rabbis had and have carveouts for the "God-Fearers". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah
Atheists seem OK, but idolaters are SOL.
