[b-hebrew] Documentary Hypothesis - THREAD CLOSED

Yigal Levin leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il
Sun Feb 3 02:37:16 EST 2008


Okay, that's enough - not just Yitzhak but several members have crossed the 
line. This thread, by whatever name, is hereby CLOSED.

Yigal Levin

co-moderator


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir at gmail.com>
To: "B Hebrew" <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:43 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Those evil pagans


> On Feb 1, 2008 4:16 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now I have to come to the defense of the pagans. I am not one of them, 
>> but I
>> live in an area where there are many self-professed pagans, and this
>> description is completely offensive to them, and to me.
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> I don't know why you say you're not a pagan.  From the Orthodox Jewish 
> point
> of view, anyone who believes in Jesus as the "Lord" or who believes in the
> concept of the trinity is a pagan.  It therefore comes as a surprise to me 
> that
> you say you're not a pagan, because I thought you did believe in Jesus and 
> in
> the trinity.  Wait a minute.  Maybe you meant that you do not view 
> yourself as
> a pagan, while others may view you as a pagan.  But what's to say that 
> those
> people you call pagans viewed themselves as such?  Who exactly in the
> "history of the DH" that you speak of did not view himself as a Christian 
> while
> being a "nominal Christian"?  Do you have any actual evidence that those
> people were pagans?  That they were not Christians?  Could you provide 
> names?
> You are providing a history of the Documentary Hypothesis that is 
> supposedly
> based on facts, but you provide no facts to support it, and in fact,
> it's probably
> all made up.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir



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