Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.
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Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.
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I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.
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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.
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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.
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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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I don’t know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.
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