Re: Restored (and a final story for Luke and Daniel)

Oh, Jim, I'll have to put the kettle back on & have at you, now.
tina

>You'll have to be careful about the "political rebel" part when you do
>respond.
>Remember the complexities of politics in Palestine in Christ's day. The
>Roman
>Empire had possession of the territory with a governor over the region.
>The
>Romans, however, allowed Palestinian Jews a great deal of self-governance,
>which
>was represented by their puppet-king Herod (at the time of the birth of
>Christ)
>and by the Sadduccees and Pharisees, who represented both governmental
>bodies
>and religious authority by their governance of the temple and
>interpretation of
>Jewish law (respectively).
>
>NT writers in the Gospels and Acts tend to depict the relationship between
>Rome
>(and its representatives) as benign or at least indifferent. Pilate, you
>remember, did not really want to crucify Christ. All problems come from
>members
>of select Jewish groups (the Pharisees in the Gospels, the Sadduccees in
>the
>book of Acts, along with representatives of the Pharisees that are
>especially
>aggressive) in their attempts to discredit or eliminate Christianity.
>
>So you can say Christ was a "political rebel" in the sense that his
>religious
>reform was threatening to religious authorities in Palestine who also held
>broader societal power. You can't really say he was a political rebel
>against
>Roman rule. He called himself a king, but then said his kingdom wasn't of
>this
>world. And then there's that passage Luke brought up, and Paul's
>injunction to
>the Christians in Rome of all places to be submissive to governing
>authorities.
>
>Jim
>
>tina carson wrote:
>
> > Goodnes, Robbie, there is so much here to refute, where to begin?
> > I'll put the kettle on, set back with a cup of tea, & have at it. Back
>in a
> > moment,
> > tina
>
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