RE: [TruthTalk] Is Truth always rational?

[Slade Henson]

I try to be sensitive as well, and your efforts are appreciated and noted. Often (actually more than often), people are corrected on this forum for making blanket statements about people groups... except when it comes to Pharisees. It seems I'm the only one here who tries to show them as the guys in White Hats instead of bad dudes in Black Hats. I also understand that the text seems to give the Pharisees a bad rap. We must understand who wrote the Gospels and who the intended recipients of these writings. It seems (to me) that they are written by Jewish authors) intending them for certain Jewish groups. We must understand that there is a intellectual/religious war between the leadership of the Judeans (AKA The Jews) and those from Galilee. There is also a war of sorts going on between the leadership of the Judeans (AKA The Jews) and the rest of the Judeans. The texts show an "inside debate" that's easily misunderstood by "outsiders" (culturally, geographically, and chronologically) like us.   For instance, Luke is written by someone from the Priestly caste (or at the outside, a Levite) who is very familiar with a man (Theophilos) who ended up being HIGH PRIEST for a time. Not just anyone was able to be on first-name familiarity with a High Priest. Also, it shows just how deeply entrenched belief in "Yeshua as Messiah" was within 1st-Century Judaism. One man (a leader in the Chicago Jews for Jesus organization) believes Messianism in the 1st-Century CE reached 40% or more!   You said, "Lk... indicates a deadly consensus (see 22:66) ignoring the public findgs of Pilate," and I agree. That's why Pax Romana (the greatest law in the Pagan Lands) ruled supreme, and Yeshua died.   -- slade -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 11 December, 2004 20.53 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Is Truth always rational? sensitvly...  Pharisees get the benefit of the doubt while we're interprtg them as threatng ...