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Daystar wrote:

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twillight wrote:

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And all the jews who weren't christians were hypcrits. So all the jews are the synagogue of Satan.
Com'on Davey, don't argue when someone supports you!

It isn't me that I want you to understand, it is the Bible. Some Jews converted to Christianity, which was the right thing to do because the others rejected the Messiah (See wedding of the King's Son illustration Jesus gave, which I posted on here somewhere recently) so the Jews were no longer God's method of purpose, so to speak, but this reference was specific in its application to certain Jews who were persecuting the Christians and were hypocritical to what a Jew was supposed to be about.

At least by the fourth century, the consensus amongst scholars is that persecution by Jews of Christians has been traditionally overstated; according to James Everett Seaver,

Much of Christian hatred toward the Jews was based on the popular misconception... that the Jews had been the active persecutors of Christians for many centuries... The... examination of the sources for fourth century Jewish history will show that the universal, tenacious, and malicious Jewish hatred of Christianity referred to by the church fathers and countless others has no existence in historical fact. The generalizations of patristic writers in support of the accusation have been wrongly interpreted from the fourth century to the present day. That individual Jews hated and reviled the Christians there can be no doubt, but there is no evidence that the Jews as a class hated and persecuted the Christians as a class during the early years of the fourth century.