Thomas, with all due respect... The contradictions, mistranslations, out of context passages, and just plain errors in the GT have been discussed here over and over. Jews and other non-believers have been accused of being blind, close-minded, and hard-hearted to the xtian truth for two thousand years. We have been persecuted because of these false accusations, and when a significant church leader (maybe not yours) says something in the GT which is held by xtians as the perfect word of G-d, heaven breathed is false, you brush it off as trivial. You're entitled to "your" truth, but Jews are tired of being characterized as blind and worse, when the facts are clear to see.