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Christians know, for they have met him, especially in the Eucharist.
Kalahari bushmen know their spirit gods are real because they have met them, especially in their rituals.
You haven’t made an argument here – just a repetition of the same unqualified assertion. Assert that as you may, you provide no reason to for anyone else to think you’re right about that. Worse perhaps, you have no reason to think
you’re right about that rather than that you just have a strong personal opinion on the matter. That’s not to say that you’re necessarily wrong just as a matter of a lucky guess, but circumstantially at least what you describe correlates to a meme rather than to a “revealed” truth.
All strands of Judaism that exist today come from the Pharisaic tradition, the same which plotted against our Lord.
Leaving aside the repeated reification of “our Lord”, even if some Jews were to some degree at least responsible, that still doesn’t mean their descendants were or are guilty of anything.
Are you not part of the same “tradition” responsible for the crusades and the Spanish inquisition? Should I therefore blame you for these events?
That God knows the entire history of his creation doess not relieve anyone of their moral responsibility, for God also gave us freewill.
Doesn’t work.
First, if this “God” created us capable of breaking “His” rules then got upset when we did it that was a design fault.
Second, if this “God” wanted to make a blood sacrifice of his own son then the Jews involved were just patsies in “His” plan. If “He” chose a few Jews to take the fall for the rest of humanity, that was “His” fault, not the fault of the people “He” chose as a plot device.
There would have been another way, that's all, but now the Jews are an example of disobedience. As a nation they are now cut off. The only way back is to have faith in Christ and be baptised into the Church.
No. Lots of people have been “disobedient” if by that you mean something like “broken God’s rules”. Picking on just one group drawn from one ethnicity to take the rap is called scapegoating.
That is something entirely different. Read the Old Testament and you will read a history of disobedience, killing of God's prophets and bowing down to idols. In the New, ultimately, murdering their own Messiah and God.
First, if someone is out of commission for a bit and then walking around again he wasn’t “murdered”. Rendered comatose perhaps, but not murdered.
Second, I can read the collection of tribal folk stories called the OT as much as I want, but that’s all I’d have – stories. You’d have all your work ahead of you if you wanted to demonstrate that there
were “prophets”, a “Messiah” etc.
Third, even if we do play along lots of people would have been “disobedient”. Why would a just “God” have scapegoated just some of them to provide his
deus ex machina rather than, say, caused their crops to fail for a bit by way of a yellow card?
See above.
See above. You cannot just visit the (supposed) sins of the father on the son. Even if there was an incompetent designer god with a scumbag sense of morality who thought it was fine to blame selectively for his own mistake and then engineered events to make it happen, that
still wouldn’t implicate the descendants of the people involved.
That is because you do not understand the grace of God.
That’s not an answer. You may as well have said “it’s magic innit”. There’s no “grace” in expecting me to trade my self-respect for a free pass for my wrongdoing. Personally, I hold myself to a higher moral standard than that – if I do bad things, then I should take responsibility for them.
Would that more Christians did the same.
We're talking about the Jewish religion. Plenty of Jews believed in Christ, however, they then ceased to be Jews but instead became Christians.
The Nazis didn’t distinguish between practicing and non-practicing Jews.
Your justifications here are the morality of the gas chamber guard – you’d rationalise anything, and you make it worse by wrapping up the morally contemptible in a cloak of holier than thou. After all, those Jews only have themselves to blame right?
Disgusting stuff ad, disgusting stuff.
