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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (17090)	4/15/2004 4:12:08 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) of 28931

That's an interesting perspective. I find it hard to understand how the Gospels could have been written to gain Gentile support for a Jewish uprising. This is especially surprising since as you say, the initial attraction of the Christian message was to slaves and the dispossessed. These people would have hardly been in any position to lend any support to the Jewish revolt. Any attempt to favorably influence the outcome of the Jewish uprising would had to have been aimed the aristocratic Romans if there was any Hope to effect any relief. NO? I think there is some truth to your observation that slaves found the message of the Gospel attractive but that is only one small aspect of the story. The real power of the Gospel is found in the changed lives of those who were willing to die rather than deny what they knew to be the truth about Jesus. I can't imagine that any of the Biblical writers would have left an event like the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem out of their writings. This tells me that they were all written before 70 A.D. This is also affords well with the trend of most scholarship which is moving back the estimated dates of the writing of the Gospels prior to 70 A.D..

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