Vasholz's Definition Of Anti-Semitic

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Vasholz gives a great definition on what anti-Semitic really means. Anti-Semitic means that a person has hate towards Jewish people as a people because they are Jewish; he goes to give examples of how the New Testament can be seen as anti-Semitic, he shows this by giving bit of scripture such as John 5:16, 6:41,7:1, 8:48,52, and 10:31. All of these passages are Criticisms from Jew toward Jesus. Many Jews of that time wanted Jesus dead due to the fact he broke Sabbath and said he was the son of God, Which would have made him an Equal with God. Vasholz also exclaims that the thought that the writer of John was a bigot was false by giving an example of an incident that happened in the 1950s where people wanted to ban Huckleberry Fin for using

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