To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (26381 ) 7/24/1999 6:24:00 PM From: Emile Vidrine Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621
"And the New Testament was written by PRO-JESUS CHRISTIANS." THERE ARE TWO MAJOR ACCOUNTS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS! THE CHURCH'S NEW TESTAMENT ACCOUNT THAT REVEALS THAT JESUS IS THE DIVINE SON OF GOD, OR TALMUDIC JUDAISM ACCOUNT THAT DENIES THE DIVINITY OF JESUS. True, but those pro-Jesus Christians were Jews who were eyewitnesses of the events of which they wrote. They had everything to lose, and nothing to gain by their recording the events they observed. The unbelieving Jewish community and leaders ostracized them, the pagan Romans persecuted them, and eventually most were killed because they refused to change their eyewitness accounts of what they had seen and heard about Jesus. Compare their eyewitness historical accounts to the talmudic fables and myths written by the rabbinical authorities hundreds of years after the events. The Toledoth Jeshu( The History of Jesus) was written by zealous anti-Christain rabbis some 700 years after the events, the Talmud was written more than two hundreds years after the event, and Yehuda ha-Levi's accounts were written some eleven hundred years after the events. The New Testament contains authentic and reliable historical documents that record the central events in the life of Jesus, but the anti-Christian literature of Talmudic Judaism is mostly fables and legends written hundreds of years after the events. There are two major but conflicting sources of information about the life of Jesus. The New Testament is the historical account of his life written and preserved by eyewitness observers and followers. The Talmud, The Toledoth Jeshu, and Khazaria are the formal unhistorical and mythical literature that establishes the foundation for modern Judaism"s rejection of Jesus. Each individual should be given the opportunity to hear both sources of information. Then they can choose whether to believe the eyewitness accounts of the Church written within the lifetime of the Apostles, or the oral tradition accounts of Talmudic Judaism that were written hundreds of years later. It's a choice each person has to make for themselves. One must either accept the Church's account that Jesus was the Messiah, or Talmudic Judaism's account that Jesus was an impostor and not the Messiah. Which do you believe James, the Church's account or modern Judaism's account!