Why blame Judas? Why blame the Jews?
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For the first part it is simple ...\nThink about this: we are all God's creation and one way or another we carry on God's will. One of the assets given to us is free-will, the will to do as we choose. God's purpose now is to guide us on the right path, but it is us who must walk it. Judas did not know God's will at the time, it was much later that people were aware of what Jesus' death actually ment.\nThe fact that God intended it doesn't excuse Judas' act. It was Judas' choice to betray his teacher and this alone makes his act evil, just like any treason. God doesn't mind-control anyone. He chose to betray Jesus to the romans, thus he is a traitor and his treachery is ten-fold since we are talking about the Son of God (something Judas really believed or he wouldn't be an Apostle).\nAlso the fact that he's a traitor doesn't mean christians should hold a grudge against Judas. After all, he was forgiven for his actions did lead on the right path.\n\nAs for the accusations against the Jews, whatever they had done then, it's all done and it subscribes to the same things I've said above.
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As I am Jewish, I find a lot of contradictions in Christians. And narrow minded ideals, which is also a contradiction, as Jesus taught the exact OPPOSITE of that sort of behaviour. So forgive me, but you goyim just confuse the hell out of me.
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No one knows the answer.  The bible thumpers try to blame it on God but it doesn't answer the basic question of "Why?".  There is not yet a satisfying answer that I know of.
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I don't think we'll ever be able to make a good judgement because we'll never see all the evidence about the Gospel of Judas. Those who want to use it to change Christianity are only going to show what they can use to help them. Also, so much of the Gospel is gone, it is like trying to read the bible skipping every 2 paragraphs or so.
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This is only a theory, \nbut when Constantine and the Council of Nicaea canonised the Bible, they weren't too kind to the Jews. They didn't want anything to do with them as they felt Jews were beneath them. So they made it known, separated Easter from Passover, introduced the death penalty for ministering Judaism, same for those listening, coined the term 'Christ Killers' and basically treated them like dirt, and the same went for their Prophet and Book. \nAfter changing words in the Bible, adding to it (words like 'begotten' meaning to sire or father), calling Jesus a son of God - which was more powerful than having a Prophet who was only spoken to by God, they then started to regain their power back away from the people.... and all because some guy called Jesus had stirred up plenty of trouble for Rome by giving out free medicals and telling them to believe in One God that created all of us.\nThey set out to burn any Bible that didn't match their own and kill anyone who wouldn't accept the new doctrine - crusades. \nThe God of Constantine in the NT would certainly be more merciful than the God of the Moses in the OT.... it says so, as written by powerful political men of the 4th Century.\n:)
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The Jews did not kill Jesus, even according to the Christian's New Testament itself.\n\nIn Matthew 27:2, Jesus had to be given over to the authorities, Rome, to be tried by the Governor of Rome, Pontius Pilate. 64 years before Jesus was born, the Jews had lost the land of Israel to Roman rule. \n\nThe Jews had no power, no authority, to put anyone to death. \n\nJesus was crucified. The Jewish way to give the death penalty was through stoning, as everyone knows. Crucifixion was a Roman form of execution, and they reserved it only for those who were seen as trying to overthrow the Roman government.\n\nAccording to Matthew 27:37, the sign placed by the Romans over Jesus's head read, "Jesus Christ King of the Jews." The text of Matthew in 27:37 calls this sign, "the accusation." In other words, the crime for which Jesus was crucified was for being, or having the pretense to be, the king of the Jews, INSTEAD of the Roman emperor, and this is according to the Christian's own New Testament! (see also Matthew 27:27-29)\n\nSo why does the Christian New Testament make it appear that the Jews wanted Jesus dead? Simply because by the time that the New Testament stories about Jesus (the Gospels) were being written, from 60 C.E. onward, the Jews were in open rebellion against Rome. The Early Christians did not want to be identified with the Jews, and they did not want Rome to think that Christians worshipped a man who was crucified by the Romans. So they wrote their New Testament so as to absolve the Romans from the responsibility of putting Jesus to death. This went so far as to put words in the mouth of "the Jews," that said "the Jews" accepted responsibility for Jesus's death, and that the guilt for it would be on their childrens' heads forever! (Matthew 27:25).\n\nOf course, this will not stop believing Christians from taking the New Testament at its word, and continuing to blame the Jews for Jesus's death.\n\nBUT, how then can we Jews respond to such a question, "Did the Jews kill Jesus?"\n\nThe very question itself makes us respond with our own collection of questions:\n\nWho are "the Jews" referred to in the question? \n\nAre they all Jews forever and ever? \n\nThis would mean that if the people outside of the Huntsville, Texas, prison who cried FOR the death of Karla Faye Tucker (convicted of murdering her own kids i believe),were of Scottish origins, for example, then from now on all Scottish peoples, regardless of where they were at the time she was given the death penalty are guilty, forever, for her death?Remember that the people outside of the prison were not the ones, and could not have been the ones, who actually injected her with the fatal poisons. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Jews in the world at the time of Jesus did not live in Israel, and would not have heard about any event taking place there for months after the event. News traveled so much slower then.\n\nLets pretend that "the Jews" back then really did kill Jesus (which they did not!). Since when are the children responsible, or culpable, for the sins of their parents? This very idea is UnBiblical! In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically states, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." \n\nFurthermore, in Ezekiel 18:20 it states, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." So the very idea that if Jews killed Jesus, which they did not, then the idea that the Jewish People forever are responsible for that sin is both UnBiblical and nonsense.
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I was a history major in college with a focus on the holocaust.  I studied him extensively.  It is widely argued about whether he was a Jew.  Little is known about his real father.  It may be that his father was a Jew or half Jew and was absent, causing resentment of those people.  \nIf you look at history.  Historically,, the Jews have been constantly persecuted..  A couple reasons for this is      1. The Jews killed Christ (actually the Romans did, but the Jews get  blamed).  \n2. Loaning money  for interest or usury.  Christians were not.  Jews are characterized as wealthy and greedy.  Both of these generalizations are founded on their laws which permit usury.\nIf you look at this time in history, the Germans were financially crippled by the reparations they were forced to pay due to WW I.   They were not allowed to rearm at all.  Take a people with a proud military past, a loss of a major war, a country ravaged by war, financially crippled and unable to build, that makes for the perfect set of circumstances to find a scapegoat.\nDue to the allowance of usury by Jewish laws,  many were bankers.  They were fairly affluent.  Hitler chose a group of people that many were wealthy and affluent and already faced a prejudice, to be the one's responsible for Germany's woes.  This helped rocket him into power.
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The gospel of judas is junk. Judas wasn't told by Jesus to betray him...Period...Read the Bible,and Not what you read from another book.
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306  \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306  \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535  \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691  \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692  \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050  \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078  \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not per
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Actually if you read bible then you would see that it were Jew scholars who said that the blame will be on us and our children as they thought that it was a noble task they were going to perform. And still Jews think that what they did was right as they still do not believe that Jesus was the one promised in their scriptures.\n\nOn the other hand the teachings of Christians do not allow them to harm Jews or take revenge of the death of Jesus as he did not die on the cross. If he did die on the cross then why the ointment was put on his wounds? Surely he did not die on the cross. If they think that he died on cross then they should accept that he died a cursed death and hence do not blame Jews for that as Bible itself says that whoever dies on cross dies a cursed death. This also proves that he was not the Promised Messiah and whatever Jews did to him was right. But since Jesus survived from cross he did not die a cursed death.\n\nIt is Koran which tells us that he was neither crucified nor murdered. That means he died a normal death and hence was a noble prophet of God.
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If the Gospel of Judas was a proper Gospel then it would still not corrabote - as Jesus WAS crucified - but the difference was that Judas is made out to be the hero - as it frees Jesus' spirit from his body - which apparently was the mission.\n\nHowever, this just is not consistent with the fact that Jesus healed people - if the purpose is to free spirits from the flesh then while heal the flesh (and He still does today - see my question on miracles).\n\nBut given that it was written by the Gnostics 200 years later then no.  But it does provide an interesting insight into the Gnostics beliefs.
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306 \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306 \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535 \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691 \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692 \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050 \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078 \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not permitted to
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well i read somewhere that judas was meant to betray jesus in order for him to be put on the cross and forsake himself for out sins. intresting theory i thought.
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Ah, that is very astute, and it raises another interesting question doesn't it. \n\nIf Adam and Eve sinned why are we held responsible for an act they committed?  Hardly seems fair, but interestingly this very theme is seen elsewhere in the Bible.\n\nNoah gets drunk and falls asleep.  His son Ham sees his nakedness, but Noah curses Canaan.\n\nDavid commits adultery and murder, but God causes his son to become ill and die.\n\nBTW not atheist.
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Because at that time, Jews were the popular scapegoat for any problems, so it was natural to blame them. Even now, some fanatics out there still think that Jews control the entire world and are plotting to kill everyone. For these people, a war against Jews is good, and necessary. And Hitler used these people.
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Someone give this bigot a brain-ectomy, please.  \n\n*sighs*  They're not even remotely evil and theres no solid evidence that the Jews had Christ killed (who was a Jew, btw).  Even if a group of Jews did, how do you hold the entire religion responsible?
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^Have you read the Talmud?  Have you studied it?  Can you understand it?  Do you know what it is?\n\nLet us not forget that the Old Testament is Jewish and the christians accept it in it's entirety.  Jews have to wait until Yom Kippur for forgiveness, even assuming your premis to be correct.  Cross-kissers can simply fess up at their convenience, mumble a few incantations and kiss a ring or a  statue to get theirs.  Protestants have to earn forgiveness, except for those sects who are doomed from birth (other than the select chosen ones.\nIf your question was intended to be anti-Semitic, it was a poor effort.  If it wasn't, learn a little about racism before you open your mouth because yours is blatant. \n\nAs for other racist books, try most anything put out by the monks in the Middle Ages.