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February 25, 2004

Talk About The Passion, Again

There's a new controversy in Denver over the sign that a local pastor put up on his church marquee:

The marquee of the Lovingway United Pentecostal Church on Colorado Boulevard and Mississippi Avenue reads, “Jews killed the Lord Jesus..."

The Anti-Defamation League said it received several calls Wednesday morning from people who drove by the sign and were upset by its message.

Well, surely, that's because the line is being taken out of context, and clearly goes against the Biblical message of love. So, with that in mind, let's look at the line in its proper context:

1 Thess 2

14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Hmmm, nope, that pesky Paul pretty much says the Jews killed Jesus and that they all around suck, and God kicked their asses because of it.

Ah well, so much for the Bible and Jesus and love and forgiveness, huh?