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121:7.1 By the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century times of Jesus] the [[Jews]] had arrived at a settled [[concept]] of their [[origin]], [[history]], and [[destiny]]. They had built up a rigid wall of [[separation]] between themselves and the [[gentile]] world; they looked upon all gentile ways with utter [[contempt]]. They [[worshiped]] the [[letter]] of the [[law]] and indulged a form of [[self-righteousness]] based upon the false [[pride]] of [[descent]]. They had formed preconceived notions regarding the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish messianism promised Messiah], and most of these [[expectations]] envisaged a [[Messiah]] who would come as a part of their [[national]] and [[Race|racial]] history. To the [[Hebrews]] of those days Jewish theology was irrevocably settled, forever fixed.

121:7.1 By the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century times of Jesus] the [[Jews]] had arrived at a settled [[concept]] of their [[origin]], [[history]], and [[destiny]]. They had built up a rigid wall of [[separation]] between themselves and the [[gentile]] world; they looked upon all gentile ways with utter [[contempt]]. They [[worshiped]] the [[letter]] of the [[law]] and indulged a form of [[self-righteousness]] based upon the false [[pride]] of [[descent]]. They had formed preconceived notions regarding the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish messianism promised Messiah], and most of these [[expectations]] envisaged a [[Messiah]] who would come as a part of their [[national]] and [[Race|racial]] history. To the [[Hebrews]] of those days Jewish theology was irrevocably settled, forever fixed.

121:7.2 The teachings and [[practices]] of [[Jesus]] regarding [[tolerance]] and kindness ran counter to the long-standing [[attitude]] of the Jews toward other peoples whom they considered [[heathen]]. For [[generations]] the [[Jews]] had nourished an [[attitude]] toward the outside world which made it impossible for them to accept [[the Master]]'s teachings about the spiritual [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE brotherhood of man]. They were unwilling to share [[Yahweh]] on [[equal]] terms with the [[gentiles]] and were likewise unwilling to accept as the Son of God one who taught such new and strange [[doctrines]].

121:7.2 The teachings and [[practices]] of [[Jesus]] regarding [[tolerance]] and kindness ran counter to the long-standing [[attitude]] of the Jews toward other peoples whom they considered [[heathen]]. For [[generations]] the [[Jews]] had nourished an [[attitude]] toward the outside world which made it impossible for them to accept [[the Master]]'s teachings about the spiritual [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE brotherhood of man]. They were unwilling to share [[Yahweh]] on [[equal]] terms with the [[gentiles]] and were likewise unwilling to accept as the Son of God one who taught such new and strange [[doctrines]].

121:7.3 The [[scribes]], the [[Pharisees]], and the [[priesthood]] held the [[Jews]] in a terrible bondage of [[ritualism]] and [[legalism]], a bondage far more real than that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire#Government Roman political rule]. The [[Jews]] of Jesus' time were not only held in subjugation to the [[law]] but were equally bound by the slavish demands of the [[traditions]], which involved and invaded every domain of [[personal]] and [[social]] life. These minute regulations of conduct pursued and dominated every loyal [[Jew]], and it is not strange that they promptly rejected one of their number who presumed to ignore their [[sacred]] [[traditions]], and who dared to flout their long-honored regulations of [[social]] [[conduct]]. They could hardly regard with [[favor]] the teachings of one who did not hestitate to clash with [[dogmas]] which they regarded as having been [[ordained]] by Father [[Abraham]] himself. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had given them their [[law]] and they would not [[compromise]].

121:7.3 The [[scribes]], the [[Pharisees]], and the [[priesthood]] held the [[Jews]] in a terrible bondage of [[ritualism]] and [[legalism]], a bondage far more real than that of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire#Government Roman political rule]. The [[Jews]] of Jesus' time were not only held in subjugation to the [[law]] but were equally bound by the slavish demands of the [[traditions]], which involved and invaded every domain of [[personal]] and [[social]] life. These minute regulations of conduct pursued and dominated every loyal [[Jew]], and it is not strange that they promptly rejected one of their number who presumed to ignore their [[sacred]] [[traditions]], and who dared to flout their long-honored regulations of [[social]] [[conduct]]. They could hardly regard with [[favor]] the teachings of one who did not hestitate to clash with [[dogmas]] which they regarded as having been [[ordained]] by Father [[Abraham]] himself. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had given them their [[law]] and they would not [[compromise]].

121:7.4 By the time of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first century] after Christ the spoken [[interpretation]] of the [[law]] by the recognized [[teachers]], the [[scribes]], had become a higher [[authority]] than the written [[law]] itself. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic Judaism] And all this made it easier for certain religious [[leaders]] of the Jews to array the people against the [[acceptance]] of a new [[gospel]].

121:7.4 By the time of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first century] after Christ the spoken [[interpretation]] of the [[law]] by the recognized [[teachers]], the [[scribes]], had become a higher [[authority]] than the written [[law]] itself. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic Judaism] And all this made it easier for certain religious [[leaders]] of the Jews to array the people against the [[acceptance]] of a new [[gospel]].

121:7.5 These [[circumstances]] rendered it impossible for the [[Jews]] to fulfill their [[divine]] [[destiny]] as [[messengers]] of the new [[gospel]] of religious [[freedom]] and [[spiritual]] [[liberty]]. They could not break the fetters of [[tradition]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Jeremiah] had told of the "law to be written in men's hearts,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.31] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel Ezekiel] had spoken of a "new spirit to live in man's soul,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezekiel#Chapter_36] and the Psalmist had prayed that God would "create a clean heart within and renew a right spirit."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_51] But when the Jewish religion of good works and [[slavery]] to [[law]] fell victim to the stagnation of traditionalistic [[inertia]], the [[motion]] of religious [[evolution]] passed westward to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European] peoples.

121:7.5 These [[circumstances]] rendered it impossible for the [[Jews]] to fulfill their [[divine]] [[destiny]] as [[messengers]] of the new [[gospel]] of religious [[freedom]] and [[spiritual]] [[liberty]]. They could not break the fetters of [[tradition]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Jeremiah] had told of the "law to be written in men's hearts,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.31] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel Ezekiel] had spoken of a "new spirit to live in man's soul,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezekiel#Chapter_36] and the Psalmist had prayed that God would "create a clean heart within and renew a right spirit."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_51] But when the Jewish religion of good works and [[slavery]] to [[law]] fell victim to the stagnation of traditionalistic [[inertia]], the [[motion]] of religious [[evolution]] passed westward to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European] peoples.

121:7.6 And so a [[different]] people were called upon to carry an advancing [[theology]] to the world, a [[system]] of teaching embodying the [[philosophy]] of the [[Greeks]], the [[law]] of the [[Romans]], the [[morality]] of the [[Hebrews]], and the [[gospel]] of [[personality]] sanctity and [[spiritual]] [[liberty]] formulated by [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] and based on the teachings of [[Jesus]].

121:7.6 And so a [[different]] people were called upon to carry an advancing [[theology]] to the world, a [[system]] of teaching embodying the [[philosophy]] of the [[Greeks]], the [[law]] of the [[Romans]], the [[morality]] of the [[Hebrews]], and the [[gospel]] of [[personality]] sanctity and [[spiritual]] [[liberty]] formulated by [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] and based on the teachings of [[Jesus]].

121:7.7 Paul's [[cult]] of [[Christianity]] exhibited its [[morality]] as a Jewish birthmark. The [[Jews]] viewed [[history]] as the [[providence]] of [[God]]—[[Yahweh]] at [[work]]. The [[Greeks]] brought to the new teaching clearer [[concepts]] of the [[eternal]] life. Paul's [[doctrines]] were influenced in [[theology]] and [[philosophy]] not only by Jesus' teachings but also by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo]. In [[ethics]] he was inspired not only by [[Christ]] but also by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism Stoics].

121:7.7 Paul's [[cult]] of [[Christianity]] exhibited its [[morality]] as a Jewish birthmark. The [[Jews]] viewed [[history]] as the [[providence]] of [[God]]—[[Yahweh]] at [[work]]. The [[Greeks]] brought to the new teaching clearer [[concepts]] of the [[eternal]] life. Paul's [[doctrines]] were influenced in [[theology]] and [[philosophy]] not only by Jesus' teachings but also by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo]. In [[ethics]] he was inspired not only by [[Christ]] but also by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism Stoics].

121:7.8 The [[gospel]] of [[Jesus]], as it was embodied in [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s [[cult]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_centers_of_Christianity#Antioch Antioch Christianity], became blended with the following teachings:

121:7.8 The [[gospel]] of [[Jesus]], as it was embodied in [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s [[cult]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_centers_of_Christianity#Antioch Antioch Christianity], became blended with the following teachings:

*1. The philosophic reasoning of the Greek proselytes to [[Judaism]], including some of their [[concepts]] of the [[eternal]] life.

*1. The philosophic reasoning of the Greek proselytes to [[Judaism]], including some of their [[concepts]] of the [[eternal]] life.

*2. The appealing teachings of the prevailing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries mystery cults], especially the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism Mithraic] doctrines of redemption, [[atonement]], and [[salvation]] by the [[sacrifice]] made by some god.

*2. The appealing teachings of the prevailing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries mystery cults], especially the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism Mithraic] doctrines of redemption, [[atonement]], and [[salvation]] by the [[sacrifice]] made by some god.

*3. The sturdy [[morality]] of the [[established]] [[Jewish]] religion.

*3. The sturdy [[morality]] of the [[established]] [[Jewish]] religion.

121:7.9 The [[Mediterranean]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_Empire Parthian kingdom], and the adjacent peoples of [[Jesus]]' time all held crude and [[primitive]] [[ideas]] regarding the [[geography]] of the world, [[astronomy]], [[health]], and [[disease]]; and naturally they were amazed by the new and startling pronouncements of the carpenter of [[Nazareth]]. The [[ideas]] of spirit [[Possessed|possession]], good and bad, applied not merely to [[human being]]s, but every rock and tree was viewed by many as being spirit possessed. This was an [[enchanted]] age, and everybody believed in [[miracles]] as commonplace occurrences.

121:7.9 The [[Mediterranean]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_Empire Parthian kingdom], and the adjacent peoples of [[Jesus]]' time all held crude and [[primitive]] [[ideas]] regarding the [[geography]] of the world, [[astronomy]], [[health]], and [[disease]]; and naturally they were amazed by the new and startling pronouncements of the carpenter of [[Nazareth]]. The [[ideas]] of spirit [[Possessed|possession]], good and bad, applied not merely to [[human being]]s, but every rock and tree was viewed by many as being spirit possessed. This was an [[enchanted]] age, and everybody believed in [[miracles]] as commonplace occurrences.

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