Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:38:16 AM No.17853587
>I ask the Christians to consider further the following case:
>If the prophets of Yahweh, God of the Jews, were in the habit of telling the Jews that Jesus was to be his son, then why did he give them their laws through Moses and promise them that they would become rich and famous and fill the earth? Why did he guarantee that they would slaughter their enemies (infants and all), and whole races of people, as Moses teaches, before their eyes? Does he not threaten to do to them what he has done to their enemies for their disobedience?
>Yet we are to believe that his "son," this man from Nazareth, gives an opposing set of laws: he says that a man cannot serve God properly if he is rich and famous or powerful (or for that matter, if he is intelligent and reputable!).
>The Jews base their religion on God's promise to give them a land of plenty, but the Christians say one must pay no attention to food, or to one's larder–any more than the birds do or to one's clothing, any more than the lilies do.
>The Jews teach God's vengeance on their enemies, but Jesus advises that someone who has been struck should volunteer to be hit again.
>Well, who is to be disbelieved–Moses or Jesus? Perhaps there is a simpler solution: perhaps when the Father sent Jesus he had forgotten the commandments he gave to Moses, and inadvertently condemned his own laws, or perhaps sent his messenger to give notice that he had suspended what he had previously endorsed.
>If the prophets of Yahweh, God of the Jews, were in the habit of telling the Jews that Jesus was to be his son, then why did he give them their laws through Moses and promise them that they would become rich and famous and fill the earth? Why did he guarantee that they would slaughter their enemies (infants and all), and whole races of people, as Moses teaches, before their eyes? Does he not threaten to do to them what he has done to their enemies for their disobedience?
>Yet we are to believe that his "son," this man from Nazareth, gives an opposing set of laws: he says that a man cannot serve God properly if he is rich and famous or powerful (or for that matter, if he is intelligent and reputable!).
>The Jews base their religion on God's promise to give them a land of plenty, but the Christians say one must pay no attention to food, or to one's larder–any more than the birds do or to one's clothing, any more than the lilies do.
>The Jews teach God's vengeance on their enemies, but Jesus advises that someone who has been struck should volunteer to be hit again.
>Well, who is to be disbelieved–Moses or Jesus? Perhaps there is a simpler solution: perhaps when the Father sent Jesus he had forgotten the commandments he gave to Moses, and inadvertently condemned his own laws, or perhaps sent his messenger to give notice that he had suspended what he had previously endorsed.
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