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Old 06-28-2013, 07:36 AM   #491
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Everyone has certainly heard of the famous Bishop Cardinal Emile Lustiger of Paris, who converted to Catholicism after the War after being cared for in a convent in Poland. The exact circumstances of his situation are never clear as far as I know.

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Only someone who was not intimately familiar with both Judaism and Christianity would make such an absurd statement.
Please name for me all of the ethnically Jewish bishops, priests, and popes in the Christian religion from 70 to 2013.
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Only someone who was not intimately familiar with both Judaism and Christianity would make such an absurd statement.
Please name for me all of the ethnically Jewish bishops, priests, and popes in the Christian religion from 70 to 2013.
No one can steal a religion, Judaism remains a religion. Jews that became Christians were no longer servants of Judaism and ceased to be identified as Jewish.

There was religious discrimination, but Christian Jews became Christian people like any other.
Were my ancestors Jewish? It is impossible to know since for generations my ancestors have identified themselves as belonging to a Christian society
Ethnically Jewish is such an unpleasant silly thing to say!
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Only someone who was not intimately familiar with both Judaism and Christianity would make such an absurd statement.
Christianity is a rejection of Judaism and was developed by manipulation of Hebrew Scripture. In Christianity Jesus Christ ABOLISHED Judaism. The Law was a Curse.

Are you familiar with the Pauline Corpus?

1. Romans 10:4 KJV
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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
2. Romans 3:20 KJV
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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3. Galatians 2:16 KJV
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Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
4. Galatians 3:13 KJV
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Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written , Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree..
5. Galatians 5:4 KJV
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Christ is become of no effect unto you , whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
6. Galatians 5:2 KJV
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Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised , Christ shall profit you nothing.
Are you familiar with "The Preparation of the Gospel" attributed to Eusebius?

The Jews did not practice the Blasphemy and the Law-Breaking religion CALLED Christianity.

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...But sons of the Hebrews also would find fault with us, that being strangers and aliens we misuse their books, which do not belong to us at all, and because in an impudent and shameless way, as they would say, we thrust ourselves in, and try violently to thrust out the true family and kindred from their own ancestral rights.

For if there was a Christ divinely foretold, they were Jewish prophets who proclaimed His advent, and also announced that He would come as Redeemer and King of the Jews, and not of alien nations: or, if the Scriptures contain any more joyful tidings, it is to Jews, they say, that these also are announced, and we do not well to misunderstand them.

Moreover they say that we very absurdly welcome with the greatest eagerness the charges against their nation for the sins they committed, but on the other hand pass over in silence the promises of good things foretold to them; or rather, that we violently pervert and transfer them to ourselves, and so plainly defraud them while we are simply deceiving ourselves.

But the most unreasonable thing of all is, that though we do not observe the customs of their Law as they do, but openly break the Law, we assume to ourselves the better rewards which have been promised to those who keep the Law.
Christianity was Not known as a Jewish religion.

The practice of worshiping a Man as a God is UNKNOWN in Judaism.

In the very Canon, if you are familiar with the Gospels, Jesus was considered a BLASPHEMER and found to be guilty of Death by the Sanhedrin.

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The Jews answered him, saying , For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
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....Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

62 And Jesus said , I am : and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith , What need we any further witnesses? 64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Christianity was Not a Jewish religion once you are familiar with the writings of antiquity.

The practices and teachings of Christianity are Blasphemy and contrary to the Laws of the Jews.
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"They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long..."
is probably lifted from Josephus or some other lost source. It certainly was not written by a Jew intimately involved with Pharisees, as our scholars love to fantasize.
You haven't spent much time around Jews, have you?

If you go to Israel today, you will find these self-same complaints being lodged by Jews against the ultra-orthodox, who all too often use their supposed piety as a shield for very impious lives.
Ah, so according to you, nothing's changed in 20 centuries ... and Christian Gentiles' hatred of Jews during that entire time was 100% justified. "The Jews" really were just a bunch of hypocrites who deserved to have their religion stolen by righteous gentiles. Got it.
No, all of that is according to you - or, to be more precise, according to your straw man.

According to me, "the Jews" have never been a monolithic group. Not only was there infighting between the various sects vying for power in Jerusalem, but there were tensions between the Jewish laity from the countryside and the "professional" Jews in Jerusalem.

Taking a phrase which criticizes the Pharisees in Jerusalem and claiming (with zero evidence or support) that it "certainly" was not written by Jews is pointless, spurious, and indicative of nothing more than your personal opinion.
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Christianity isn't a Jewish religion.
Only someone who was not intimately familiar with both Judaism and Christianity would make such an absurd statement.
Please name for me all of the ethnically Jewish bishops, priests, and popes in the Christian religion from 70 to 2013.
This request is completely unrelated to your unsubstantiated claim regarding Christianity. You don't have the foggiest clue about Jewishness or early Christianity, but you yammer confidently nonetheless.
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Only someone who was not intimately familiar with both Judaism and Christianity would make such an absurd statement.
Please name for me all of the ethnically Jewish bishops, priests, and popes in the Christian religion from 70 to 2013.
No one can steal a religion, Judaism remains a religion. Jews that became Christians were no longer servants of Judaism and ceased to be identified as Jewish.
For much of the past ~2,000 years, this holds true. However, both at the inception of Christianity and for the past ~200 years, there have been numerous Jewish believers in Jesus as Messiah.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of editing the English translation of the book Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement: The Herzl of Jewish Christianity by Kai Kjaer-Hansen. It is a fascinating account of a Russian Jew who, during a trip to the Holy Land, became convinced that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah and returned to found a congregation of Jewish Believers in Jesus in the city of Kishinev.

Another interesting resource is the book Nazarene Jewish Christianity (or via: amazon.co.uk) by Dr. Ray Pritz, which examines the oldest known sect of Jewish believers in Jesus as Messiah, a group called the Nazarenes, who lived in Judea until the 4th century CE. This very Jewish sect of Jesus-believers persisted alongside both Gentile Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism for over 300 years.

It has never been mainstream, but there is a long tradition of Jews who have accepted the core teaching of Christianity (Jesus is Messiah, sacrificed for the sins of the world) without giving up their Jewishness or adherence to Jewish Law. For the most part, these Jews have been despised by Rabbinic Jews and Mainstream Christians alike.
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Christianity isn't a Jewish religion.

Christianity is a rejection of Judaism
According to you.

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and was developed by manipulation of Hebrew Scripture.
According to you.

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In Christianity Jesus Christ ABOLISHED Judaism. The Law was a Curse.
Utter ignorant nonsense.
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You have exposed that you do not understand the Pauline Corpus.

1. Romans 10:4 KJV
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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
2. Galatians 5:2 KJV
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Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised , Christ shall profit you nothing.
You have exposed that you do not understand the Canon of the Christians.

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4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith , Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure .

7 Then said I , Lo , I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8 Above when he said , Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said he , Lo , I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God
Christianity is a most blasphemous anti-Jewish religion and was started by NON-JEWS based on the abundance of evidence from antiquity where a man is worshiped as a God and a Sacrifice for REMISSION of sins. What utter blasphemy!!

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Christianity isn't a Jewish religion.

Christianity is a rejection of Judaism
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and was developed by manipulation of Hebrew Scripture.
According to you.

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In Christianity Jesus Christ ABOLISHED Judaism. The Law was a Curse.
Utter ignorant nonsense.
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Taking a phrase which criticizes the Pharisees in Jerusalem and claiming (with zero evidence or support) that it "certainly" was not written by Jews is pointless, spurious, and indicative of nothing more than your personal opinion.
The gospel attacks on the Pharisees could be an internal dispute. That Christianity originated with Pharisees is argued by Zimmerman:
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Note 20. See also A. F. Zimmermann, Die urchristlichen Lehrer (WUNT 2.12; Tübingen:Mohr Siebeck, 1984), though he pushes too hard his thesis that in the early community (Urgemeinde) the teachers formed a Jewish-Christian-Pharisaic circle.
James D. G. Dunn, Faith and the Historical Jesus, p. 166.
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This is open to all views with regard to history and the Bible and Jesus, with the one assumption that it Jews were among the early believers:

I'm curious what the main 1 or 2 reasons is that Christianity took hold among early JEWS.

What did the Jews respond to, and why?
I think what you are getting at is that there must have been a preacher named Jesus who set them all on fire.

I'm curious, what are the main 1 or 2 reasons that the Church of Latter Day Saints took hold amongst 19th century NW New Yorkers? My guess is the reasons are fairly similar.
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