(urth) Who's Right?

[Matthew Weber]

2010/12/3 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> Matthew Weber wrote (03-12-2010 18:33):
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>> Really?  What did he say that his antecedents didn't?
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> Please present his antecedents' teachings.
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You'll find those teachings under the heading "The Old Testament".  Enjoy.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/browse.html


>  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.
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> We're not talking about christianity. Lee asked what would a 20 AD Jew find
> special about Jesus.
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That's hard to say, since we have no record of anything Jesus did between
the ages of 12 and 30.  He doesn't seem to have begun any public teaching
(besides the episode in the synagogue at age 12) before his baptism by
John.  Very possibly a 20 AD Jew might not have found anything particularly
special about him.

-- 
Matt +

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
    Publilius Syrus (First century B.C.), Maxim 847
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