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Christianity
and “The Jesus Story” is an improbable narrative with Jesus, the messianic Jew,
being lost in a Christianity that would become a Gentile faith.
Historic Jesus
was born to the peasant class in the small hamlet of Nazareth in Judea. He spoke Aramaic, the language of the working
class, grew up without formal schooling among fisherman and farmers. Chances are he could neither read nor write,
but was well versed in the oral history of Jewish Law and the Old Testament.
“The Jerusalem
Group” he headed was a Jewish Reform Movement meant to restore moral and
spiritual integrity to the Jewish Temple.
This led to conflict with the High Priests and Elders, leading to his “Crucifixion
on the Cross,” a death limited to egregious criminals, being buried in a rich
man’s sepulcher with reality and myth then taking over as he left no written
record.
The next
improbability was the role of Paul turning Jesus’s ministry from the Jews to
the Gentiles, while the Gospel writers, penning accounts of his life and
ministry 40 to 100 years after his death, romanticized that period so that these
Gospels cannot be trusted as representative of Jesus or his life.
The “Siege
of Jerusalem” in 70 C.E.
destroyed the Second Temple, decimated the
Jewish faith, destroyed Jewish Christianity, but launched Christianity as a “Gentile
Faith” to flourish in the Mediterranean while being persecuted by Rome.
Equally
improbable, this all changed with Christianity becoming the “State Religion of
the Roman Empire” in 380 C.E., leading to the Roman Catholic Church and
a Christianity of more than 1 billion Catholic souls today.
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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART TWELVE -- A SENSE OF MANDATE!
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