Who was Jesus? Who wrote the Gospels? Why are they written in Greek? Why do they have a Pro-Roman perspective?
After the final destruction of the Temple in 70 AD and the end to the major Jewish war against Rome, the militant Judaism and Messiah is fading and the pacified Messiah as Jesus is rising as the new religion. In time, it will become the religion of the Empire. Militant Messianic Judaism is dead along with its twin, Zealot and Anti-Rome Christianity.
The New and Pacified Messiah, Jesus, encourages the payment of taxes to Rome and turning the other cheek instead of violence. One would hardly know, in the Gospels, that Judea was under Roman rule.
It is a Roman that Jesus credits with greater faith than any Jew and a Roman soldier that declares "Truly this was the Son of God". Roman leaders are almost convinced to become Christians and Paul, as a Herodian, has an abundance of friends in the House of Caesar that Paul sends his greetings to.
And of course, Paul teaches that it is God who puts Roman leaders in their positions of power, and they are there with God's approval and are to be obeyed.
These are not the tales and admonitions of the militant and Zealot Messianic Jews or Christians.
I believe there are 2 options here:
ReplyDelete1--The Bible was written by a bunch of gypsies sitting around a campfire
2-- It would require a Christ to invent a Christ
You can come to the correct conclusion just by reading the book! Happy I could help.
One is two?
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