Explore the dramatic transformation of Saul to Paul! We delve into his past as a Pharisee, his persecution of early Christians, and his life-altering encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Discover how arrogance turned to faith in this powerful biblical story! #SaulToPaul #BiblicalTransformation #RoadToDamascus #ReligiousAwakening #ChristianFaith #Pharisee #JesusEncounter #FaithJourney #SpiritualGrowth #BibleStudy
#Pharisee
"Wenn ihr fastet, dann schaut nicht so drein wie die Heuchler! Sie setzen eine wehleidige Miene auf und vernachlässigen ihr Aussehen, damit jeder merkt, dass sie fasten. Ich versichere euch: Diese Leute haben ihren Lohn schon erhalten!" (Matthäus 6,16) #ItsACult #Pharisee #Hypocrite
Nicodemus was a #Pharisee and came to Jesus at night, confessing Him as a teacher from #God.
Jesus told him that unless a person is born again and/or from above, he cannot see God's reign.
Nicodemus was confused, wondering if a person could re-enter the womb when old and be born.
Jesus responded that one must be born of water and the Spirit, having received #baptism, to enter God's reign.
"If you are a Justice, you have to disclose this kind of stuff. If that bothers you—if you are so committed to living a private life beyond the reach of disclosure—you can go be a urologist or something."
#conservative #corruption is a thing to behold as it comes down from the supposed #moral mountaintop of #christian #nationalism
#hypocrite #pharisee #scotus #clarence #thomas
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/harlan-crow-school-payments-insult-injury.html
@ThisWeekInAS This is a good thread.
Christians who use 'Pharisees' as a handy insult for legalists miss the point in a few important ways. 1) they shouldn't be looking for blanket insults for anyone if they're reading their New Testaments for personal ethics; 2) Jesus and Paul were Pharisees; and 3) since the New Perspective of the 1970s the perceived legalism and works-righteousness of first-century Judaism has been largely dismantled, and seen as a projection of medieval Catholicism onto scripture by early Protestants.
The second point is probably the key one to communicate. As the #Jewish Scholar of early #Christianity Alan Segal writes, the only first-century #Pharisee to have left us writings from their own hand was... The Apostle Paul in the New Testament.* Both Paul and Jesus are clearly marked as Pharisees by their belief in a general resurrection and their approach to the Jewish scritpures. Jesus had his sharpest conflicts with his fellow Pharisees because that's how conflict works: it takes a lot of common ground to get a proper disagreement going, since you have to expect better of the other party. Moreover, when Paul and the gospel writers refer to 'the Jews', this was the same term as 'the Judaeans' (hoi Ioudaioi). The Romans didn't care what people believed, just that they were governable; 'The Judaeans' were, in general use, the people who observed the customs of Judaea, and not a race.
* Segal thinks, as many now do, that Josephus was really an Essene.
As I shift more to Mastodon, I want to try a different approach this week. Instead of a handful of examples of antisemitism, I’m going to focus on one tweet. The message of the tweet isn’t antisemitic, but the aftermath of posting it was problematic.
CW: I don’t think anyone will be offended by anything in the following thread, but I will unpack how the word “Pharisee” has been misused by Christians.
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