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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061549.983@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov12.014504.9573@newsroom.utas.edu.au> <1992Nov14.004253.7075@netcom.com> <1992Nov17.010556.9465@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:15:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.010556.9465@newsroom.utas.edu.au> Tim.ONeill@english.utas.edu.au (Tim O'Neill) writes:
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- >I'd still say that the fact that Yeshua died a traitor's death was an enormous problem for
- >the early church, and find it very difficult to believe it was a problem they deliberately
- >cultivated.
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- Well, if you think that a "crucified Messiah" is a problem, a "Messiah
- hanged on a tree" is a complete impossibility.
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- "for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse"
- -Deut. 21:23
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- How can somebody possibly be the Messiah if they are under God's curse?
- But change the story a bit, blame it on the Romans, and THIS problem
- nicely goes away!
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- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
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- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-