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The meaning of “Jew” in this context is clear: a Jew is openly hostile to Christ and willing to persecute those Jews who accept Him as the Messiah. John's mention of “fear of the Jews” indicates that Jews were then afraid of “Jews.” The well-being of the Jews who accepted Christ was threatened by the Jews who rejected him.... The parents of the man born blind exhibit “fear of the Jews” because the “Jews” threaten to expel followers of Jesus, also Jews, from the synagogue. The <mark>identity</mark> of both groups was essentially religious, not ethnic; both <mark>identities</mark> were a function of Christ. The Jews who acknowledged Christ were expelled from the synagogue. The Jews who rejected Him, the people John calls “the Jews,” defined themselves by that rejection.” | The meaning of “Jew” in this context is clear: a Jew is openly hostile to Christ and willing to persecute those Jews who accept Him as the Messiah. John's mention of “fear of the Jews” indicates that Jews were then afraid of “Jews.” The well-being of the Jews who accepted Christ was threatened by the Jews who rejected him.... The parents of the man born blind exhibit “fear of the Jews” because the “Jews” threaten to expel followers of Jesus, also Jews, from the synagogue. The <mark>identity</mark> of both groups was essentially religious, not ethnic; both <mark>identities</mark> were a function of Christ. The Jews who acknowledged Christ were expelled from the synagogue. The Jews who rejected Him, the people John calls “the Jews,” defined themselves by that rejection.” | ||
[ | [Christian <mark>identity</mark> is with the <mark>Divine image and likeness</mark> as visibly manifested in the Jewish Mashiach (Messiah, Christos, Christ) — Y’shua Ha-Nozri (Jesus the Nazarene), Y’shua Ha-Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah, <mark>Jesus Christ</mark>)— not <mark>identity</mark> with Palestine, Jerusalem, Temple, and “the Jews”. Christian <mark>identification</mark> with <mark>'''spiritual'''</mark> Divine image and likeness is why Jews blame Christianity as source of all their woes. Jews find such <mark>'''spiritual''' identity</mark> threatening to their <mark>'''material''' identity</mark> based on DNA (sperm of Abraham), ethnic history, land of Palestine, Jerusalem and Temple — the reason Jews must continually seek to quash Christianity as anti-semitic in order to maintain their well-being rooted in <mark>'''material''' Jewish identity</mark>. ''See'' — [[Identity]] ] | ||
“The Talmud may have protected the Jews from schism and sectarian divisions, but the price the Jews paid for this protection was complete rabbinic control. The Talmud took the sacred scriptures out of the hands of the Jews and made their interpretation the sole purview of the rabbis as codified in Talmudic lore. The word of God was nullified by the Talmud. The Talmud, the saying went, permitted whatever the Torah forbade. The Jew, in other words, could not appeal to sacred writ without the permission of the rabbis who controlled the Talmud. The Talmud became, as a result, control through hermeneutics. The Talmud became, according to Walsh, “the chief means employed by the Annas and Caiaphas of each age to keep the mass of the Jewish people in ignorance of the true nature of Christianity, and to fan their misunderstanding of it to hatred.“ To fan this hatred, the Talmud contained “the most scurrilous and vindictive blasphemies against Christ.” The Talmud claimed that Christ was a bastard (Kallah 51A) off-spring of a Jewish whore and a Roman soldier (Sanhedrin 106A) who is in hell buried in boiling excrement (Gittin 57A). During persecution, the most controversial parts of the Talmud were committed to memory and transmitted orally, but the tradition of blasphemy and subversion continued unabated. The Talmud insured blasphemy and subversion became part of Jewish culture, because, as one scholar noted, the Talmud was “the creator of the Jewish nation and the mold of the Jewish soul.”<br> | “The Talmud may have protected the Jews from schism and sectarian divisions, but the price the Jews paid for this protection was complete rabbinic control. The Talmud took the sacred scriptures out of the hands of the Jews and made their interpretation the sole purview of the rabbis as codified in Talmudic lore. The word of God was nullified by the Talmud. The Talmud, the saying went, permitted whatever the Torah forbade. The Jew, in other words, could not appeal to sacred writ without the permission of the rabbis who controlled the Talmud. The Talmud became, as a result, control through hermeneutics. The Talmud became, according to Walsh, “the chief means employed by the Annas and Caiaphas of each age to keep the mass of the Jewish people in ignorance of the true nature of Christianity, and to fan their misunderstanding of it to hatred.“ To fan this hatred, the Talmud contained “the most scurrilous and vindictive blasphemies against Christ.” The Talmud claimed that Christ was a bastard (Kallah 51A) off-spring of a Jewish whore and a Roman soldier (Sanhedrin 106A) who is in hell buried in boiling excrement (Gittin 57A). During persecution, the most controversial parts of the Talmud were committed to memory and transmitted orally, but the tradition of blasphemy and subversion continued unabated. The Talmud insured blasphemy and subversion became part of Jewish culture, because, as one scholar noted, the Talmud was “the creator of the Jewish nation and the mold of the Jewish soul.”<br> | ||