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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/20/2025 4:06 PM, Andrew wrote:   
   > "Dawn Flood" wrote in message news:10aml2r$17dnq$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> Andrew wrote:   
   >>> "Dawn Flood" wrote:   
   >>>> My best guess is that Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic preacher who   
   >>>> got on the "bad side" of the Romans, and they dealt with him in the   
   >>>> "Roman way."   
   >>>   
   >>> No, according to the Bible it was not particularly   
   >>> the Romans, but the religious authorities of that time.   
   >>>   
   >>> After they arrested Jesus they brought Him to the   
   >>> Roman governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate. They   
   >>> even had to wake him up.   
   >>>   
   >>> So it wasn't the Romans, but the Jewish leaders   
   >>> who officially rejected Him, and demanded for   
   >>> Him to be crucified.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Oh, sure, and the Gospels also record that "the sky becomes (became)   
   >> dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three   
   >> hours..."   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_darkness   
   >>   
   >> I don't believe it; in my opinion, it was "a theological and literary   
   >> creation" (per the late scholar Raymond E. Brown.)   
   >>   
   >> Believe such things, if you wish; I don't.   
   >   
   > Thanks Dawn, I hope you have a really nice day!   
   >   
   > Bye!   
   >   
      
   You, too, Andrew!  Fall is coming soon, and, so, it's "skirt weather"!   
      
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