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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 17, 2014 at 11:49 am
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Of course, but I can;t really differentiate between jesus and paul...lol, systematically speaking. Jesus seems to have been whomever paul wanted him to be, and paul seems to have been whomever people wanted -him- to be. To me, jesus was a device by which Paul layed out -his- own theology. I think churches out to have effigies of Paul in them (up there behind the altar),. rather than effigies of christ, but that's just my opinion.
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 17, 2014 at 12:04 pm
It's a funny video and I love mitchell and webb but obviously it doesn't mean that Jesus was racist, the parable is just about different people who walked past a man who was dying and it happened to be a Samaritan who helped him.
The parable is a story Jesus told after a man asked him who is the neighbor who he should love. Jesus said love thy neighbor, the man asked who is my neighbor. Then Jesus told the story that a man was beaten and was dying and local people walked past him but a samaritan walked to him and aided him and that Samaritan was acting as the mans neighbor. Meaning we should all be neighbors to each other no matter where we are from or our backgrounds.
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 17, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(August 17, 2014 at 10:48 am)Vicki Q Wrote: (August 17, 2014 at 10:34 am)Chad32 Wrote: Gotta love Monty Python. Yes Jesus was racist. Everyone was. The whole bible is about how jews are better than other people.
Mitchell and Webb, not Monty Python. Although it is Brianesque. Also, Jews weren't written as 'better', they just had a unique responsibility.
Oh, sorry. Wrong source.
A unique responsibility for what? Spreading the word of a god who is supposedly omnipresent and already known throughout the world?
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 4:59 am
(August 17, 2014 at 10:34 am)Chad32 Wrote: Gotta love Monty Python. Yes Jesus was racist. Everyone was. The whole bible is about how jews are better than other people.
now you're just being anti semetic
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 11:58 am
(August 17, 2014 at 10:10 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Jesus seems to be whatever people want him to be.
Yup.
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(August 17, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Chad32 Wrote: A unique responsibility for what? Spreading the word of a god who is supposedly omnipresent and already known throughout the world?
The debate on whether C1 Jews routinely tried to proselytise remains active, with the current majority saying not. Although their monotheism was very unusual or unique, they didn't appear to push it too hard. Their vocation was rather different.
(Rereads note to self from a few years ago- “ Never post about something you read in N.T.Wright until you've finished the book”. Shakes head and sighs.)
Israel was given the vocation to bring rescue and restoration to the human race, passing judgement on human wickedness in order to establish true humanness. This would re-establish God's rule over the cosmos. It's the blessing to Abraham (Genesis 18:18).
The track record of success as recorded in the OT wasn't great, so any sense of being 'better' than everyone else would be short lived. In fact, they became as much part of the problem as everyone else.
The Early Christian narrative was that Jesus had sorted this mess out.
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 12:33 pm
(August 17, 2014 at 11:28 am)Thackerie Wrote: (August 17, 2014 at 10:52 am)Rhythm Wrote: Corinthians 9:22
"to all men I have become all things"
This quote is attributed to Paul, not Jesus.
Jesus, if he ever existed, was worm food by the time Paul "saw the light."
The odds that "paul" ever existed are very slight.
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 12:38 pm
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RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 12:48 pm
(August 18, 2014 at 12:38 pm)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote: I get turned on by Jesus for Some reason, Especially when crucified.
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Re: RE: Was jesus racist?
August 18, 2014 at 1:05 pm
(August 18, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (August 17, 2014 at 11:28 am)Thackerie Wrote: This quote is attributed to Paul, not Jesus.
Jesus, if he ever existed, was worm food by the time Paul "saw the light."
The odds that "paul" ever existed are very slight.
It's more likely that Paul existed than Jesus. Someone had to write all that bullshit.
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