02-03-2004, 02:44 AM
drmlanc Wrote:Depends on your definition. If the definition is race, of course you are right. if the definition is Pharisaic Judaism, then they were Christians later, no longer "Jews". This is in religious terms. You cannot be Buddhist AND Christian for instance.
This is perhaps crossing over the line of Peshitta vs. theology, but may I point out the words of Paul?
"Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!" (Acts 23: 6)
Even Paul didn't stop being a Jewish Pharisee, at least according to his own words.
Jews are still Jews even after coming to faith in Messiah Yeshua. Paul was not a former Pharisee or a former Jew when he testified in Acts 23.
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