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What power?Set aside all the requirements of a messiah for a minute. This question is in regards to his power alone. In other words do Jews recognize his power, but forbid him anyway?
Jesus taught about a new Dispensation, which is now seen as the upgrade to the New Testament. This was resisted since it would essentially make law obsolete. This upgrade was based on the forgiveness of sins. Sin only occurs if you violate any formal law. If there is no law against something, there is no sin if you do it. On the other hand, if there was no punishment, for any sin against formal law, due to the forgiveness of sins, then formal law becomes powerless. At that point, there is no need for the law, if forgiveness neutralizes any enforcement. Law becomes simply a guideline, to learn to do right, until one is perfected in faith.Set aside all the requirements of a messiah for a minute. This question is in regards to his power alone. In other words do Jews recognize his power, but forbid him anyway?
Simple answer. It is likely that there was a historical Jew that "some" and I stress "some" of the normal human stories in the NT were based on. That Jew, had no power different than any other ~1st cent. Jew from the Galilee had. If one wants to say that he had power, it may have been that he had the power of words to convince a band of Jewish men to follow him for a period of time until his core Jewish cult fell apart and some of their concepts were picked up in the Roman non-Jewish world.Set aside all the requirements of a messiah for a minute. This question is in regards to his power alone. In other words do Jews recognize his power, but forbid him anyway?
Just to show what I mean. Can you show me at least 3 historical Jews, whose background can be verified in the Jewish community, from the 2nd Temple period who describe, in detail and in Hebrew or Aramaic, a person who was named "Jesus" and what power this Jesus was witnessed to have as well as their assessment of what evidence showed that this power wasn't based on trickery and deception? Examples, like slight of hand and such.This question is in regards to his power alone. In other words do Jews recognize his power, but forbid him anyway?