Coping with evidence that Christianity morphed

[ThePainefulTruth]

What does this latter part have to do with what I said?

We don't know if Jesus preached about humility, and turn the other cheek love etc as you we bringing up.

 

[Desert Snake]

We don't know if Jesus preached about humility, and turn the other cheek love etc as you we bringing up.

These teachings can be misinterpreted.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

These teachings can be misinterpreted.

Exactly. And multiply that by 2000 years.

 

[roger1440]

Was Jesus a revolutionary, a faith healer, a teacher, a doomsday prophet, ...?

More than likely Jesus was just some Jewish guy who recently entered the ministry. He was inexperienced, got in way over his head and in the end got himself executed over it. Take a step back and look at Jesus’s life. Jesus was from rural Galilei. On average, country folks are not as well educated as city slickers. Jesus may have known the Torah backwards and forwards but that does not mean he knew the ways of the big city. During Passover week in the 1st century Jerusalem would have swelled at least triple in population. This would have made Jerusalem one of the most populous cities in the known world at that time. According to Jewish tradition a man does not enter the ministry until the age of 30. Luke’s account states, “Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry…” (Luke 3:23). The synoptic Gospels, (Matthew, Mark and Luke) has Jesus enter Jerusalem for one Passover. John’s Gospel has Jesus going to Jerusalem for three Passovers. Regardless if it was one or three Passovers, Jesus was a young and inexperienced minister. The Romans would have had extra troops in Jerusalem that week to keep the peace. The last thing the Jewish and Romans authorities would have wanted that week was an instigator that might start a riot or uprising. Keep in mind Passover week would have been like the Rolling Stones, Lady Ga Ga and the Super Bowl coming to town all the same week end. It would have been chaotic. Jesus must have done something that lead the authorities to believe Jesus posed a threat. As the old saying goes, “An act of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Jesus’ buddies thought the execution was unjust because Jesus was innocent. Now the seed for martyrism has been planted. Jesus would had entered Jerusalem with no less than thirty people. There would have been his mother, his brothers and sisters, Mary Magdalene and the Apostles. The Apostles would have numbered around five or six, not twelve. That number is derived from the silence of the remaining Apostles in ALL known Gospels. Added to the number of people just mentioned would be family. After the death and burial of Jesus this group of people goes back to their villages. The story is told and retold and goes into different directions. The foundation of the Jesus story that came to be is based on the emanate arrival of the Jewish Messiah, the hatred of Roman occupation and “Gabriel's Revelation”. The final building block to this foundation is the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...veils-mysterious-hebrew-tablet_n_3184953.html

 

[metis]

We don't know if Jesus preached about humility, and turn the other cheek love etc as you we bringing up.

But the post you responded to had no scripture posted by me in it. You seem to have a hard time connecting the dots, not only on this thread but also previously a couple of others whereas you've gone off on a tangent and "responded" to things I did not post.

 

[buddhist]

I'm no Biblical scholar, but from a wider perspective; how do you write a book that is the most widely read, influential, inspirational work in the history of humanity- across multiple millennia, continents, cultures? i.e. it has to be able to speak to different people in different ways- just as in our personal divine experiences yes? So wouldn't we expect this capability from a divine revelation?

Majority doesn't make right, even as Jesus is said to have taught (Matthew 7:13-14).