text: does anyone think that the christians are the pharasees the bible refers to? after reading books like ten things i learned wrong in a conservative church, i am thoroughly convinced the legalistic pharasees the bible is referring to, the christians are another version of them. some of them (maybe most of them) doubtless are. you probably don't know the ones who aren't.  they sort of hang in the background, and there aren't very many of them. wanna be one?