• Lux
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    246 months ago

    Christianity evolved out of Judaism after Jesus’ time, so no, he wasn’t Christian

    • @riodoro1@lemmy.world
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      86 months ago

      This guy is implying that if god himself was born on this earth he would have religious beliefs.

      The idea is so ridiculous it’s almost as ridiculous as existence of god. Wouldn’t that be some sort of a paradox?

      • Lux
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        26 months ago

        I’m implying that Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish, I didn’t say anything about the son of god.

    • @JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Judaism doesn’t believe that Jesus was the Son of God. Jesus constantly stated that he was the Son of God. Jesus was Christian.

      • Lux
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        36 months ago

        Modern Judaism doesn’t believe that, but the people that believe Jesus was the son of god during Jesus’s lifetime would still have called themselves Jews. Jesus fit a Jewish prophecy. The religious split that created Christianity came after Jesus.

        • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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          16 months ago

          No one believed that Jesus was the son of God during Jesus’s lifetime, the prophesied Messiah figure was supposed to be a military/political leader. Jesus as the Son of God is 2nd century.

          • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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            16 months ago

            the prophesied Messiah figure was supposed to be a military/political leader.

            Meh not really. There were tons of different messianic versions floating around. We know this because we have the dead sea scrolls where a fully religious figure is described that way, plus the writing of Josphius who talks about wandering holy men making that claim. Their culture was complex as well as their history. They “knew” that they had prophets who were poor, outcasts, military leaders, political leaders, kings, Rabbis, crazed hermits, magicians. Ezekiel and King David have very little in common except both were viewed as the rightful rulers of their time by latter generations.

            Also Paul describes him that way. In Romans and Galatians.