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Originally Posted by jewels
Good words, shiningstar.
Oh, the more I think about the movie: the Sanhedrin of the day were really just trying to preserve their political power and safeguard what they perceived as their people's purity of their faith, while they as a nation were occupied by a monarchy that made the monarch a god to be worshipped. If Jesus wasn't who he said he was (and he wasn't the only 1st century Jew to have followers claiming he was messiah--oppression will bring those types out in a people) then his "I AM" statements would have been blasphemy as they identified him as claiming to be God.
Anyway, I see it as God had a plan and they had a role. A huge role full of faithful believers, going back to Abraham that laid the groundwork for their to be an understanding of what sin was, what price had to be paid to eliminate it, and how much God was willing to go through to have a relationship with the people he created.
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Well written Jewels. In any case if the Sanhedrin hadn't panicked and ordered
his death then he would never had died on the cross and Christianity wouldn't
exist today. As a matter of fact he would have been the greatest teacher of
the Jewish faith or simply dismissed as a madman instead of being the
messanger of the Christian faith.
