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Author Topic:   Is the New Testament anti-semitic?
coffee_addict
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Message 1 of 12 (101733)
04-22-2004 12:29 AM


"Is the New Testament anti-semitic?" is the topic for our philosophical debate tomorrow. I think people voted on this topic because of the new movie.
Anyway, since I don't know nearly enough about the New Testament, I have asked one of my philosophy of religion professor to be the referee this time.
Just thought that this is a good discussion topic on these boards.
Me personally, I do not think the New Testament is anti-semitic at all. For one thing, Jesus was a Jew.
What do you all think?

The Laminator

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coffee_addict
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Message 3 of 12 (101933)
04-22-2004 6:57 PM


Hahahaha. Since nobody wants to discuss this, I'll just tell you what happened today in the debate and then we can let this thread die.
We attracted 4 instructors and 2 of them each brought a stack of books on the issue. I just stayed quiet the whole time because I really don't know that much about the bible to go deep into it. Generally, we had a very good discussion going. Since there were actually professors there, there were less nonsensical rantings than usual. In fact, almost everyone that came today was armed with at least 1 bible. There was a guy that brought 6 versions of the bible.
Anyway, that was a good two and a half hours worth of debate.

The Laminator

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coffee_addict
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Message 6 of 12 (101996)
04-22-2004 9:15 PM
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04-22-2004 7:02 PM


Asgara writes:
So, what was the general consensus?
Just like most debates here, there was no general consensus. We had half the people accusing John and Paul of all kinds of things, and we had the other half who said there was no such thing.
One thing though, I've never seen so many bible page flippings. It was like "but over here, it says this..." then someone else flipped like 20 pages over and said "but over here, it says this..." then someone else flipped 30 pages in the other direction and said "but over here, it says this..." then...etc...
It was kinda fun sitting back and watching people do nothing but flipping pages and arguing with each other over passages in the bible.

The Laminator

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coffee_addict
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Message 9 of 12 (102200)
04-23-2004 2:21 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by funkmasterfreaky
04-23-2004 2:09 PM


Remember that the topic isn't Is Christ Anti-semitic?. The topic is Is the New Testament Anti-semitic.

The Laminator

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