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Originally Posted by zeek
Interesting information, UntoHim. Kittel's alleged actions against Jews make him a despicable character. Do you have evidence that his Nazism or antisemitism tainted his exposition of Greek words used in the New Testament?
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If Kittel was a Christian so was Hitler:
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"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
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Christians have a long history of killing the Jesus killers. But the Jews as Jesus killers is a myth. Jews didn't kill on crosses, they stoned to death. Jesus wasn't stoned to death. Therefore the Jews didn't kill Jesus.
Moreover, just because Kittel could expound NT Greek words doesn't make him a Christian. Kittel may have had a great mind but there was no Christian heart in him.
He's no Christian I want to be associated with. If Lee was fine with such an association he was an idiot. Obviously Lee's heart wasn't right either. To Lee high peak doctrine was so important that it didn't matter if Kittel was a Christian or not. Head was more important than heart. And that was reflected in his movement.