(urth) OT: heresy
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 11:11:16 PST 2009
> I'm just going by the meaning of the terms. I'm either a Jew or a Brunian,
> depending what mood I'm in when you ask me:
> I have no dog in this fight.
Well, the meaning of terms is formed entirely by the context and the era it
is used. The Reformation and Reaction was all about the meaning of those
terms.
For example, I could argue that all Christian denominations merely branches
of Judaism based on Jeremiah 31 (where the term New Testament comes from)
with altered rules for receiving converts. Certainly that is how 1st century
Jewish Christians saw themselves. Just because they were expelled from the
synagogues and so had to set up their own synagogues (which were eventually
called "kyriakon" from which we get "church") does not rationally deny them
that status. There's not even an "original group" to deny them that status
since Judaism from the 2nd century on is a new branch itself developed to
carry on without a Temple in Jerusalem.
Obviously, however, this definition of terms would be unacceptable to 99.99%
of Jewish rabbis.
J.
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