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Simple. Just as I have more than 1 attribute, God does, as well. And no--God being just does not mean he's not loving.
Precisely, or as Paul put it: 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails.
The love continues and punishment without possibility of change is NOT love.
To suggest it's anti-semitic, one must assign motive to the writers. That isn't justified by the writing. The Gospels record the events, and I'm not sure there is any editorializing to assign motive or blame where it doesn't lie. The Gospels do not paint all Jews as bad, only the specific leaders. It is no more anti-semitic than a movie about slavery says all white people are racist.
I think it's clear there is, in some cases moreso than others.
In the end, intent might not matter as much as the fact that the hearers took the "Jews are bad, the gospels say so" idea and ran with it to the point of horror.
I'm accepted and loved by God because I'm righteous in his eyes because I have the righteousness of Christ.
God cannot condone sin, so I want to know why you believe, that if you're less than perfect, that God would accept you?
This is precisely the attitude that causes relgions to war with each other -- and individual denominations within the same religion to war with each other.
This attitude is the reason why Europe saw 500 years of Catholics fighting Protestants and why the Muslims are experiencing the Shi'a vs. Sunni war -- as well as Islam vs. Christianity and Judaism.
It is why I have said a thousand times that religion is the most divisive and abrasive cultural trait of any civilization.
It's just too bad that, even after 4,000 years of near perpetual bloodshed due to these ridiculous superstitious differences in belief we still have people in the era of nuclear weapons who would say what you just did.
Congratulations! I love it when my opponents score points for my team without even realizing it.
The Pharisees actually were pretty righteous as people go. They have a very bad rap over the centuries, in my view, mainly because of the deliberate Christian smear -campaign in the Gospels.
Jesus was (I would bet good money) a devout Pharisee himself.
He also told folks to do what the Pharisee told them to do...
I was Christian, did research and went to Judaism so i guess i passed the test!
Mazel Tov!...
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