Actually, I'd love it if you and @Miken would both clarify what we're talking about and its relationship to the OP. I seem to have gotten lost along the way.You'll have to clarify what you're looking for, so please do so.
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Actually, I'd love it if you and @Miken would both clarify what we're talking about and its relationship to the OP. I seem to have gotten lost along the way.You'll have to clarify what you're looking for, so please do so.
The nation of israel stemming from those who agreed to obey the Law when Moses detailed it, was under mandate. They (the Jewish nation) were constrained by consent to obey it. in detail.Not as a mandate, However, I voluntarily buy into many of the mitzvot.
Depends. Traditionally, the answer would be yes, even though there was wiggle-room to varying extents allowed. But as time has gone on, questions about the authenticity of of a literalistic interpretation of Torah have come to fruition with the various reform movements.
You'll have to clarify what you're looking for, so please do so.
Have much to do today, I will only answer in brief.
In OHJ, Carrier uses the word trial(s) 76 times, about half of them referring to the trial of Jesus by the Sanhedrin, most of the rest concerning the trial of Paul for unfathomable reasons, and references to unstated gods.
Carrier uses the word struggle(s/d) 15 times in OHJ, none of them having to do with Jesus and only one referring to a god, Osiris. As I have already documented, Carrier’s claim about Osiris ascending into heaven in the Pyramid Texts is wrong. It is the king being buried in the pyramid who has taken the place of Osiris in heaven, since the king is a god, and Osiris is down in the underworld, judging whether mere humans will continue to exist after they die. Osiris does not ascend to heaven. The king does.
The word Saoshyant as used in the Gathas, the pre-Christian form of the Zoroastrian texts, does not mean anything like messiah, as I have documented via Boyce’s words. Not until the Yasht in the Younger Avesta, which does not appear until centuries after Christianity, is this idea found, again according to Boyce. It is expanded further by throwing in a virgin birth in the 9th or 10th century in the Bundahishn, which is so late it is not even considered canonical. And as I have documented, it contains clear historical references to a series of foreign oppressions of the Persian people including the 7th century Muslim invasion.
Your quote from Wiki. Emphasis mine
"Messianism is the belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior or liberator of a group of people.[1] Messianism originated as an Abrahamic religious belief, but other religions have messianism-related concepts. Religions with a messiah concept include Zoroastrianism (Saoshyant),"
Wiki? this fits Boyce's words?
As far as I know, Boyce never commented on where messianism started. But as I have documented several times now, in Boyce’s own words, the idea of a messiah in Zoroastrianism is not found in the pre-Christians Gathas. It only appears in the post-Christian Younger Avesta and in the 9/10th century CE Bundahishn.
Wow some Christians disagreed on stuff. Yeah that makes things super clear?In the Jewish scriptures the only use of the word savior is in reference to God or to a historical military leader in the past. The messiah is not called savior or even identified as an individual until well after the Law and Prophets were written. As I have discussed at length elsewhere, earlier followers of Jesus had problems with the Paul’s clam about the crucifixion having some kind of salvation value, although they agreed he was crucified, and even with the idea of resurrection itself. It is clear that there was a real Jesus before Paul started adding all his stuff that Carrier thinks came from mythology.
Once more, Boyce says that the idea of world savior does not appear in Zoroastrianism until after the Christian era had begun and does not much resemble the Jesus story until the 9th or 10th century CE.
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I have yet to see any convincing case of a Jesus-like story in mythology. I earlier knocked down the Dionysus story. I have a couple of times now knocked down the Osiris story. I will now proceed to knock down the Inanna story.
The story of Innana where Carrier incorrectly gets his story from dates to before 2000 BCE in Sumer,
Inanna wants to conquer the underworld,
But Carrier sums this up as
Inanna is crucified (nailed up), and notably not on earth, but in a non-earthly realm (the sub-world, in accordance with Sumerian lore of the time), and not by people, but by demons—and their godly overlords, who happen to be the gods of death,
Carrier, Richard. On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (p. 62). Sheffield Phoenix Press. Kindle Edition.
No, Inanna is already dead when she is hung on a hook, not nailed up. No crucifixion. The underworld was the land of the dead in just about every religion and mythology in that area, not just in Sumerian lore. Inanna went there to conquer that land. The demons are the seven judges of the dead who killed Inanna by looking at her with that intent. Erec-ki-gala, Inanna’s sister, is the one and only god of the underworld in this story. And the efforts to get Inanna back did not even start until after the third day and took a bunch of finagling.
Please provide a single example of an already existing god who became human. Paul insists on that as crucial to his argument. His description of Jesus as the Son of God is exactly like that of Philo’s Son of God, creator of the world and such. That was not from mythology at all but Philo trying to import the Platonic demiurge intermediary into Judaism. The only Jews who bothered with this idea were students of philosophy at Tarsus at the university there, famous as the center of philosophy studies for the region.
When you were talking about Carrier you had to shout that he had a PhD at every opportunity, even though it was not related to scriptural studies. Just having a PhD was all that mattered. But when you find out I have a PhD suddenly that does not matter anymore.
“]The apologetics here is that you are actually seemingly trying to say Jesus wasn't just a Jewish version of this myth? Which suggests you are clinging to something supernatural somewhere in here.”
Since I have been contradicting dearly held Christian beliefs all along, I find the label ‘apologetic’ truly hilarious. Not clinging to anything supernatural at all. I list my religion as None because that is the question asked. But I am in fact an atheist. My PhD is in Physics and I am trained in the logical analysis of facts to reach genuinely justifiable conclusions. Your religion seems to be based on unfailing faith in the Gospel of St. Carrier. I have shown how Carrier is wrong with detailed analysis of what he is saying with quotes and lots of supporting evidence. And how do you respond? By calling me a liar for saying I ever read anything from Carrier. Despite the extensive quotes no less. Yep, you’ve got yourself a religion there all right.
Some say that, but Jesus was a Handworker in wood, stone, bone etc, and (like the Baptist) he led an uprising against a very corrupt Priesthood.Some say Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi.
Teach? He led a revolt against the whole Temple corruption ........ Jesus made speeches, sure, but he was not holding any kind of classes, imo.Did Jesus teach Christianity or did Jesus teach Judaism?
No..... nrever.Did Jesus intend to found a new religion?
Yep..... both himself and the Baptist.Did not Jesus say that he was sent for the lost sheep of the house of Israel?
John of Patmos and Paul...... and others. Paul wasn't even interested in Jesus or any part of his movement, imo, never told a single anecdote about anything that Jesus actually did (other than during last day) he was just interested in 'Christ'.If however, you say Jesus did not come to found a new religion, then where did Christianity come from?
Yes, but the issue of "detail" is a bit misapplied on this because of the issues of the "oral Law", the "commentary system", and the fact that there were and are different branches of Judaism.The nation of israel stemming from those who agreed to obey the Law when Moses detailed it, was under mandate. They (the Jewish nation) were constrained by consent to obey it. in detail.
This viewpoint is similar to that of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam and Bahai religion.
You can explain perhaps sometime, but be aware that Jesus, who was killed by legal decree, condemned many teachings of the religious leaders. That's one thing I see. Furthermore, he was resurrected. In a more powerful state than when he was alive in the flesh. I'm tight for time now, so hopefully I too will get back to it, but it is an interesting subject.Yes, but the issue of "detail" is a bit misapplied on this because of the issues of the "oral Law", the "commentary system", and the fact that there were and are different branches of Judaism.
I can explain if you want but I have to leave now, so take care.
Yes, I would say.By God, the difference between these theologies you mentioned and their conception of Jesus are poles apart.
We've been through thàt with much discussion as to why it makes sense historically to believe Jesus existed.Christianity started when some creative writers imagined the Jesus character.
His story...to look back and reason why, his own life baby self DNA was previously sacrificed and removed out of natural life. Moses pyramid/temple past evil incident....returned by Saviour star wandering putting gas mass back into the spatial body x mass and also the returned ICE cooling end of year. To own return/reincarnation rebirth in the Garden Nature, supported by cooling gases, return of ground water and oxygenation of life. The stable state for animal and bio life born in the same equal womb of space scenario. Immaculate state returned.You can explain perhaps sometime, but be aware that Jesus, who was killed by legal decree, condemned many teachings of the religious leaders. That's one thing I see. Furthermore, he was resurrected. In a more powerful state than when he was alive in the flesh. I'm tight for time now, so hopefully I too will get back to it, but it is an interesting subject.
We've been through thàt with much discussion as to why it makes sense historically to believe Jesus existed.
"to believe"
There's the problem. Since when does belief make sense? No one knows whether or not Jesus was an historical person or an entirely mythical person, but many believe as if that were enough.
Yes, it is ascertained both through the scriptures, history (the persecution of the followers of Christ early on) and written works rather soon within the first several centuries that Jesus existed..Yes, it makes sense to me the more I think about it and consider it. I wasn't there, so I was not an eyewitness, but I have come to believe (yes believe) and understand that the Bible is true and that God is the author, using men as those writing the history."to believe"
There's the problem. Since when does belief make sense? No one knows whether or not Jesus was an historical person or an entirely mythical person, but many believe as if that were enough.
The author, a human a thinker and a storyteller quotes no Man is God.Yes, it is ascertained both through the scriptures, history (the persecution of the followers of Christ early on) and written works rather soon within the first several centuries that Jesus existed..Yes, it makes sense to me the more I think about it and consider it. I wasn't there, so I was not an eyewitness, but I have come to believe (yes believe) and understand that the Bible is true and that God is the author, using men as those writing the history.