tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post113034288865956502..comments2024-03-27T03:32:53.817-05:00Comments on Euangelion: Celsus and the Parting of the WaysMichael F. Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-1130589273463836422005-10-29T07:34:00.000-05:002005-10-29T07:34:00.000-05:00Nice post. I wonder, though, why the development o...Nice post. I wonder, though, why the development of the label 'Christian' should suggest a parting with Judaism. Isn't this part of the confusion: that Christian is not Judaism. But if different parties (hAERESEIS) within Judaism were identified by different names, couldn't the appelation 'Christian', even as it probably was originally intended negatively, have designated yet another Jewish 'party'? In that case, I think the differentiation b/n Christianity and other Jewish sects was already fairly vibrant in the first-century, but it was later, nearer the turn of the century and through the 2d century, that the differentiation b/n Christianity and Judaism qua Judaism really came into its own. Am I over-simplifying or missing some important piece of info?Rafaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14471888340005683193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-1130358360154285452005-10-26T15:26:00.000-05:002005-10-26T15:26:00.000-05:00Thanks for that! On the parting of the ways: I bel...Thanks for that! <BR/><BR/>On the parting of the ways: I believe that Stephen's sermon in Acts 7 makes the argument that the trajectory of God's true people continues with those who follow Christ. Those who rejected Christ broke away from true Israel. This is something that would have been imperceptible to pagans in the early days.Alan Bandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09631479580408195078noreply@blogger.com