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Re: Worthlessness
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:54:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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A quick search via Google got me this page:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/samaritan.htm
where it is claimed that the Samaritans adopted old testament beliefs in the
first century BC. Depending on how far back the parable went, perhaps they
were and perhaps they were not jewish. But in any case they were almost
certainly not christian at the time that Jesus told the parable.
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The issue was not that the Samaritan woman was or wasn’t a Jew. It was that she
was not a Hebrew, and therefore a Gentile, and therefore supposedly racially
inferior to all the people who crossed to the other side of the street.
Besides, when that parable was told, noone was officially a “Christian”. Jesus
and all of his apostles followed the Jewish faith, and for quite a long time
after the crucifiction they termed themselves “Christian Jews”. It wasn’t until
the leaders of the Jewish religion threatened them with something akin to
excommunication if they didn’t renounce their belief in Jesus as the messiah
that they fully separated into an independant religion. It’s been about ten
years since I studied this, but, IIRC, that process took until sometime between
200-400AD to result in what we would recognize as Christianity.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hey, thanks for clearing all that up. Don merely asked whether they were believers or not, but all that extra background is great stuff. I also learned something else interesting. You think the Samaritan was a woman... the King James version (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Without trying to dilute your point, which I find quite valid, I have to say that your question piqued my curiousity. So, for what it's worth. A quick search via Google got me this page: (URL) it is claimed that the Samaritans adopted old (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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