“We be Abraham’s seed!!!!!!!”........ or were they?
The Religious movements of the time of Christ's ministry such as the Saducee and Pharisee groups seemed very strong and worshipful at the time. They had even gathered a strong respect from the public. Although these Religious groups showed such strong attachment to the old testament scripture that the people believe their authority, Christ in many occasions showed how misguided and deceived they really were.
One of the most recognized arguments in the New testament is the one in John 8:31-59
Please read this if you are not familiar with it.
Where Jesus is preaching freedom, the Pharisees (as we can see in vs.13) take offense to this claim of Israel being in bondage…. And think they are so smart in their reply of “We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man : how sayest thou, ye shall be made free”
A Pharisaical mindset exposes its own downfall at this point. It claims to something that the one who they are arguing against can’t disprove by natural physical means. Yes they were from Abrahams seed. But Look at the flaw in this argument. If you look at the history of the Israelites they had been in bondage…. And were actually in bondage to Rome at the time of argument.
This shows us that the Pharisees had deceived themselves into believing that the claiming of Abrahams seed was a defense. I’ll comment more about this later
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