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Alfred Rosenberg

repeated word for word on Mt. Horeb, if this were imperfect". This
thought-process returns with great stubbornness in many places.
Such a small-mindedness was transferred to the Roman Catholic
principle where the Old Testament Will achieved a victory over
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free-thought. But Origen could still write: "Ifwe keep to the letter
and understand that which was written in the law in the manner of
the common people, I would have to blush to acknowledge that it
was God who gave these laws. Then the laws of men, for example,
the Romans, the Athenians, Spartans, would be more excellent and
reasonable". Origen was indeed a free man, but the view of the
"common people" has won, until today when a second Reformation
stands at the door to remove the Jewish mind entirely and to release
the New Testament finally from the clasp of the Old.
De Castro cannot satisfy himself, and rightly, in providing
proofs that Christ could never ever have been the Messiah promised
to the Jews. "What has he fulfilled of the prophecies? Did he ever
have power over the Israelites? He did not sit on the throne ofDavid,
he did not hold his people in the truth, his family was one of the
most common, and his deeds prove that he was not the rightful
Messiah". If it says that at the time of the Messiah all the righteous
of his people, all the refugees from Israel from all four quarters of
the world would be gathered together, the mind captivated by the
Christian religion must admit that Christ did not do that. "Who are
the poor of the world whom he has justly judged? Did he possess
any worthy Sanhedrin to which alone God has given the right to
judge?"
Christ erred and, through the lack of respect which he
manifested with regard to the laws of the fathers, forced the
Sanhedrin to sentence him to death. If the judgement had not been a
right one, somebody would have been found to defend him, but in
spite of the invitation to do so, nobody presented himself to do so.
However, one must indeed grant to the Jews the ability to
know their law, even if they have formed it from their own mind

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[Origen (ca. 1 84-ca.253) was a Platonising Christian theologian from Alexandria
who distinguished between the Ideal Church of Christ and the empirical Church
that offered a refuge for "sinners".]

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