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   From: telige@mail.clara.fl.com   
      
   On 23 Feb 2004 05:48:00 -0800, rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B.   
   Winn) wrote:   
      
   >telige@mail.clara.fl.com (William) wrote   
   >> rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B.Winn) wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >The Pharisees never denied the existence of God.  They claimed to be   
   >> >crucifying Christ because he had blasphemed God by saying he was the   
   >> >Messiah.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks. So you were wrong to twist the prophecy about adulterers to   
   >> mean those who denied the existence of God. It was directed at the   
   >> Pharasees who never denied the existence of God.   
   >   
   >You are correct in saying that it was directed at the Pharisees.  This   
   >was the most cutting comment that could be made about them.  The   
   >Pharisees prided themselves in obeying the letter of the Law of Moses.   
   > When Jesus Christ called them a wicked and adulterous generation, he   
   >was condemning them in the way that would cut them the deepest, in the   
   >source of their greatest pride.   
   >Since Jesus Christ was saying that he was Jehovah, the one who   
   >gave the Law to Moses, he was saying that they had denied Jehovah, the   
   >God that they worshipped.   
      
   Jesus never said he was Jehovah. He said, until he was blue in the   
   face, that God was his father and that God was greater than he was;   
   and that God knew things he didn't know; and that he had to do God's   
   will and not his own will.   
      
   >However, the Pharisees were in the strange position of denying   
   >Christ while acting as administrators for God because until the   
   >crucifixion was actually accomplished, the covenant had not been   
   >broken.   They did not cease to believe in God.  They crucified the   
   >Son of God because of their zealousness in enforcing their   
   >interpretation of the Law of Moses, which they sincerely believed had   
   >been given to them from God.  Jesus Christ was a Lamb slain from   
   >before the foundations of the world.   
      
   Back to the point. You were wrong to twist the prophecy about   
   adulterers to mean those who denied the existence of God. It was   
   directed at the Pharasees who never denied the existence of God.   
      
   William   
      
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