Tuesday, October 21, 2003

ANTI-SEMITIC, OR ANTI-CHRIST?

Ted Baehr finds no antisemitism with Mel Gibson's Passion movie. The real problem is that the critics are a pack of anti-Christs:
Several people have called me lately to discuss the controversy over "The Passion.” Generally, they have brought up the question of whether the movie is anti-Semitic. The real issue of "The Passion" is not anti-Semitism; after all, Jesus was Jewish, as were the disciples. The real issue is anti-Christ, a bigoted position embraced by a group of negative, self-appointed secular elites, whose intent is to attack Jesus Christ by attacking the authenticity of the Bible and of Christianity itself.

Baehr endorses the extreme early dating of the New Testament books posited by J.A.T. Robinson. Robinson argued the entire NT was written before AD 70 and the destruction of the Temple. Certainly the entire NT was written in the first century, although I would argue that Revelation was written ~AD 96. At any rate, Baehr has the right read on this one.

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