Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Dialogue #28 … Those fallible Pharisees
Daniel: The Pharisees knew more Scriptures than any of us. They could recite the 1st five
books of the Bible – and yet they didn't have a relationship with Jesus.
Scaughdt: Hmmmm … That statement is a bit odd coming from a guy who apparently has
relatively little relationship with Jesus' teachings himself (see 2 John 1:9), much less an
understanding of the life Jesus lived before his crucifixion – and it is even more odd coming
from a guy who is actually adhering far more faithfully to the dogma of the Pharisees' primary
modern-day champion (that would be the fundamentalist sect of the Christian church – a church
founded on the teachings of Paul)!
Now I will admit that the modern-day church does not adhere to exactly the same dogma
that the Pharisees of Paul's day were preaching (e.g. Paul himself almost single-handedly invented
both the doctrine of original sin & the dogma of vicarious atonement), and yet Paul did fully adopt the
Pharisees‘ judgmental tone and he did willingly adopt their wrathful version of God … I mean,
did you even read the comments I just wrote above (most recently, on pages 202-203) where I listed
over 260 verses showing quite clearly how Paul was actually an opponent of Jesus' Way? You
didn‘t really respond to it, so I am still wondering what you make of that quite significant
collection of Scripture – a massive proof that seems to pretty clearly side with my opinion on this
particular point … Do you have any thoughts on the matter now?
P.S. Do you also not see how intriguing your statement is that ―[The Pharisees] could
recite the first five books of the Bible‖? My Friend, do you not see that the first five books of
the Bible contain all 613 of the Old Testament laws? Do you not see that the first five books of
the Bible were the very ―yeast‖ Jesus was mentioning when he said ―beware the yeast of the
Pharisees‖ (Matthew 16:6 et al)?!? … Indeed, do you not see that the first five books of the Bible
were exactly what Jesus chose to openly (and radically) amend, edit &/or discard over & over &
over again during his ministry? And do you still not see that the first five books of the
Bible also happen to contain the very two verses in Leviticus that you are using to found
your own personal condemnation of homosexuality?!?!?
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