(November 12, 2013 at 8:53 pm)Polaris Wrote: The author of Titus was a Jew as well. It is likely Paul was speaking against those who told the Gentiles that they must be circumcised in order to achieve Salvation as Paul in his letters repeatedly rebuked those who added stipulations for Salvation in contrast to his preaching that Jesus/the Holy Spirit was all that was needed for Salvation.
So according to your theory, a jew wrote hate speech against other jews in a very KKK sort of way? Reread the verses and try to catch the tone. Now overlay that tone over the history of early jewish hatred by Pauline followers.
The Church Fathers
Patristic bishops of the patristic era such as Augustine argued that the Jews should be left alive and suffering as a perpetual reminder of their murder of Christ. Other Church Fathers, such as John Chrysostom went longer in their condemnation. Ephraim the Syrian wrote polemics against Jews in the 4th century, including the repeated accusation that Satan dwells among them as a partner. These writings were directed at Christians who were being proselytized by Jews and who Ephraim feared were slipping back into the religion of Judaism; thus he portrayed the Jews as enemies of Christianity, like Satan, to emphasize the contrast between the two religions, namely, that Christianity was Godly and true and Judaism was Satanic and false. Like John Chrysostom, his objective was to dissuade Christians from reverting to Judaism by emphasizing what he saw as the wickedness of the Jews and their religion.[13][14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianit...tisemitism
If you're claiming that it just a joke, then I can agree, the bible in it's entirety is just a cruel joke.
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