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Origins of Christian Zionism, How It Corrupted American Christianity and Why It’s Finally Collapsing
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Jesus Praised Pagan Faith — and Who Really Killed Him
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Tucker notes that Jesus repeatedly lifted up Gentile faith as exemplary — praising the Roman centurion's belief above anything he'd seen in Israel, ministering to the Samaritan woman — before asking about the contentious 'who killed Jesus' question that periodically ignites online debates. Hall walks through the scriptural record: Peter's first sermon explicitly told 'Men of Israel' that they crucified Jesus; the Pharisees plotted his death from the moment Lazarus was raised; the Sanhedrin covered it up. The Romans physically carried out the crucifixion, and Jesus forgave them from the cross. The deeper point is what happened next: within decades, the Roman people experienced mass conversions; by the third century Rome was Christianized. The Jewish leadership that rejected Jesus instead stoned Stephen, persecuted the early church, and eventually had to invent a new religion after the temple fell in 70 AD.
The Apostle Peter's first sermon opens with 'Men of Israel — this Jesus Christ whom ye crucified.' The Romans crucified him physically, but within decades Rome converted to Christianity at mass scale; many Jews who witnessed the resurrection persisted in persecution, stoning Stephen. Hall uses this to argue that the scripture's emphasis on Jewish culpability isn't ethnic hatred — it's a distinction between those who repented and those who didn't.
