(urth) Who's Right?

[António Pedro Marques]

Matthew Weber wrote (03-12-2010 18:33):
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> 2010/12/3 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com
> <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>>
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>     Lee Berman wrote (03-12-2010 18:24):
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>             Antonio Pedro Marques: Well... yes: what makes him [Severian] so
>             special?
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>         An interesting question. Let's apply it to Jesus. Your answer
>         requires
>         information gleaned from History/The Bible, prayer, religious
>         leaders
>         etc. How would you answer the question if you were a contemporary of
>         Jesus as a young man in his 20's?
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>     For all I know, what's special about the man Jesus are his
>     teachings. That's the key element I find missing from the 'Conciliator'.
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> Really?  What did he say that his antecedents didn't?

Please present his antecedents' teachings.

> Christianity considers Jesus' acts of much higher importance than his
> teachings--especially the redemptive act of sacrifice on the cross (or,
> if you'd rather, the redemptive fact of his incarnation).  It's liberal
> Protestantism in its post-Enlightenment instantiation which has given us
> this fixation on teachings.  Which isn't surprising, since once you deny
> Christ's divinity, you don't really have much else left.

We're not talking about christianity. Lee asked what would a 20 AD Jew find 
special about Jesus.