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The Bible is verifiable through archaeology and history and the inclusion of the bad as well as the good indicates we have to hand a full and frank historical account.
We also know the Jewish nation were a proud people, they were warlike, they went away from God, they worshipped idols and devised their own forms of worship. Because of their distortions of Old Testament Law Jesus called them a generation of vipers.
Here are some of the things Jesus said about them:-
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his (John the Baptist) baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechariah son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
These are the people we read about in the Old Testament who justified their actions by saying they had been commanded to do it by God. They were the spiritual leaders and were in a position where they were able to say these things and get away with it but later Jesus told them to their face they were evil. The atrocities we read about in the Bible were not of God but were perpetrated by the people themselves. Unfortunately todays leaders sometimes do the same and invoke the name of God to get their own way and because of their scheeming and conniving ways humanity suffers.
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The Bible is verifiable through archaeology and history and the inclusion of the bad as well as the good indicates we have to hand a full and frank historical account.
We also know the Jewish nation were a proud people, they were warlike, they went away from God, they worshipped idols and devised their own forms of worship. Because of their distortions of Old Testament Law Jesus called them a generation of vipers.
Here are some of the things Jesus said about them:-
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his (John the Baptist) baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechariah son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
These are the people we read about in the Old Testament who justified their actions by saying they had been commanded to do it by God. They were the spiritual leaders and were in a position where they were able to say these things and get away with it but later Jesus told them to their face they were evil. The atrocities we read about in the Bible were not of God but were perpetrated by the people themselves. Unfortunately todays leaders sometimes do the same and invoke the name of God to get their own way and because of their scheeming and conniving ways humanity suffers.
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