Why do Christians continue claiming that the deaths of the early Christians prove the religion?

Question

when tens of thousands of Jews were slaughtered during the same period of the Jewish Rebellion, and the Jewish Sicarii died at Masada. The Essenes, and other splinter sects, were completely wiped out.

The idea that only the early Christians were subjected to abuses and slaughter is an intentional distortion of history. The entire Jewish population, most of whom were not Christians, were engaged in open rebellion against the Romans and faced even more brutal reprisals than the Christians.

The Christians seem to be the only group to embrace the slaughter of the Jewish people as an opportunity. Doesn't that just reek of treachery?

Should we all become Sicarii and adopt the beliefs of that particular sect because they 'died for their beliefs'?

Serena, a common apologetics argument used by many Christians is, "If the early Christians hadn't witnessed a miracle why would they be so willing to die for it"?

My response is that the ENTIRE Jewish community was involved in open rebellion against the Romans, and their willingness to die for their particular communal beliefs are no different from any other sect during that same period.

Abdul, I'm not Jewish. Do I detect some anti-Semitism?

Answer 1

The Jews were willing to die for their faith in God.

The early Christians were willing to die for their faith as well.

Are you?

Answer 2

"when tens of thousands of Jews were slaughtered during the same period of the Jewish Rebellion, and the Jewish Sicarii died at Masada. The Essenes, and other splinter sects, were completely wiped out."

That's terrible.

"The idea that only the early Christians were subjected to abuses and slaughter is an intentional distortion of history. "

And can you point out a person who said that only Christians were subject to slaughter? No one is distorting anything,as this is fake to begin with.

"The Christians seem to be the only group to embrace the slaughter of the Jewish people as an opportunity. "

Christians have done that in the past,yes.But so have Muslims...and atheists...and murder is completely contrary to the teachings of Christ.

"Should we all become Sicarii and adopt the beliefs of that particular sect because they 'died for their beliefs'?"

Once again,no one has claimed that slaughter of Christian means that Christianity is true.

Answer 3

Consider St. Paul, a co-founder of the Holy Roman Empire. He carried a get-out-of-jail-free card, in the form of a medallion. That medallion showed the head of Caesar, and signified his Roman citizenship. He was not the only one apparently. When the Jewish Establishment wanted his head, he didn't hesitate to move the movement. But you are wrong about Roman history. Judea was a backwater rebellion, and many peoples were decimated.

Answer 4

This claim is made because of Christ's disciples such as Peter, James and John. They went from hiding and scared weasels to mighty, outspoken, unafraid, healing, casting out demons great men. The change in Apostle Peter was the main reason for their statements. One day Peter denys Christ 3 times and not long after Christ was gone Peter stands up against these same Pharisees and gets thrown in jail. An angel finds Peter sleeping the night before his execution. Peter wasn't worried about anything. The angel made the way for Peter to escape the jail. After knowing Christ and seeing the Resurrection, Peter feared nothing. Peter was one changed man.

I agree with you about the Jewish people. The Jews are the most persecuted people in all of history. The Jews are God's example for the rest of us and we refuse to listen to history. The Jews forgot God and they suffered greatly. Have you read Jeremiah?

Answer 5

you have an extremely exciting theory. have been it no longer for the quantity of antisemitism interior the NT, i might even believe you to a undeniable quantity. The solutions on your questions could be stumbled on interior the e book of Acts. in case you persist with Acts, we see James, brother of Jesus, as being a very Orthodox Jew residing with different Orthodox Jews. all of us be attentive to that he became the chief of the Messianic Sect from the loss of existence of Jesus till his own loss of existence. then you've Paul, the nemesis. He leads the Messianic group right into a format the place they, or a minimum of the hot converts, do no longer stay as Jews. no longer basically that yet he and his followers look to hate Jews. as a effect we come across antisemitism in many of the church fathers (the two Latin and Greek) besides interior the books of the NT that have been written interior the 2nd century, inspite of each and every thing the Messianic Jews have been long gone. to this point as ideals in Messiahs, there have been various over the final 2000 years. as long simply by fact the believer acted like a common Jew, no one looked as though it would strategies too plenty. provided that and whilst they began following strange practices did they get the boot.

Answer 6

(Edit because I thought of a better wording.)
Please, generalizing only makes you look stupid. I was raised in the Catholic faith (Which, if you know your stuff, is the same as Christianity), and I have never, nor have I known anyone, who claimed that one case of the many Religious groups sufferings proved us right. Every Faith had it's followers suffer at some point in time. If that proves anything, it proves that humanity as a whole likes to torture other people.

Answer 7

BS is what it is. These people only use this type of thing as proof of their religion, but ignore that it happens in all of the religions at one point or another. They are constantly trying to re-write history to make their own appear more persecuted, therefore more right - in their line of thinking anyway.

Answer 8

That's a lot of talk coming from the same religion responsible for the crusades and the inquisition, not to mention the Salem Witch Trials either.

Answer 9

It's also important to appreciate that people are prepared to die for ideals other than religion.

Answer 10

Buddy, u r good jew, i always enjoy your questions and answers. Keep em commin and show everyone else that they should wake up from self-righteousness!