Subj : Today's Thought
To   : George Pope
From : Newborn
Date : Sun Oct 09 2005 20:54:00

  Re: Today's Thought
  By: George Pope to Newborn on Thu Oct 06 2005 04:38 pm

 > N>    Jesus was a Pharisee?   What is your evidence for that?  The word 'Pha
 > N>    means 'seperate', and describes a group of legalistic leaders who zeal
 > N>    kept the law in its smallest detail.  The Pharisees formed a self-righ
 > N>    self-denying Jewish sect that was very vindictive of those who didn't 
 > N>    the Law.
 > 
 > Because Jesus taught the same teachings as the Parushim (who later became th
 > rabbinate); think of the term "pharisee" as "rabbi" and you'll see that they
 > were the "Orthodox"(ie. the only kind then) and JC began the concept of
 > reformation.
 > 
   Jesus never attempted to 'reform' the teachings of the "pharisees" He 
   condemend them.  

 > N>    Jesus never belonged to this sect, and therefore could never have
been
 > N>    of it.  He condemned their traditions and disputed their interpretatio
 > N>    of the Law.  In fact the Pharisees were His mortal enemies who led the
 > 
 > He had to have belonged to it to have received the oral teachings OF the gro
 > 
 > His manner of addressing them ("you vipers..." was quite common among the
 > differing opinion Pharisees. . .
 > 
   Not true.  Jesus NEVER had any formal training in the Rabbitical Orthadoxy.
   His knowledge came from the fact that He was God and had given the Law
   Himself.  

Newborn

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