{"id":4945,"date":"2013-09-10T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2013-11-19T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T02:42:49","slug":"dont-believe-everything-you-hear-in-bbc-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dont-believe-everything-you-hear-in-bbc-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t believe everything you hear in BBC documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nofacepalm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4947\" style=\"border: 11px solid white;\" alt=\"nofacepalm\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nofacepalm.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nofacepalm.jpg 295w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nofacepalm-90x81.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>In a <strong>recent BBC documentary<\/strong>,<em> Story of the Jews<\/em>, we are told:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born a Jew, like his saviour, was Paul who, within a few years of Jesus&#8217; death began the process of liberating Christianity from the claims of Jewish ritual.\u00a0 Christianity was either universal or it was nothing.\u00a0 So Paul <em>aggressively<\/em> de-Judaizes the Christian message and there was no surer way of doing that than insisting on the divinity of Jesus.\u00a0 That violated the first supreme principle of Judaism which was the indivisible oneness of God.\u00a0 <em>Echad<\/em>.\u00a0 Two: &#8220;Father and son&#8221; had Jews scratching their beards.\u00a0 Three: &#8220;The holy spirit&#8221;.\u00a0 Why not five?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See this<a title=\"post by Marc Goodacre on Simon Schama's misreading of Paul\" href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/simon-schamas-misreading-of-paul.html\" target=\"_blank\"> blog post by Dr. Mark Goodacre<\/a> of Duke University for the <strong>many things wrong<\/strong> with this paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T James McGrath on FB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent BBC documentary, Story of the Jews, we are told: Born a Jew, like his saviour, was Paul who, within a few years of Jesus&#8217; death began the process of liberating Christianity from the claims of Jewish ritual.\u00a0 Christianity was either universal or it was nothing.\u00a0 So Paul aggressively de-Judaizes the Christian message&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dont-believe-everything-you-hear-in-bbc-documentaries\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t believe everything you hear in BBC documentaries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,14,55,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-complaints","category-history","category-holy-spirit","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}