Posted on 06/11/2018 5:25:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Video: 'The religious leaders of the time were corrupt.'
This is no untold or secret reason. Jesus made it clear in Matthew 23:13:
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to."
Throw in His comments about the money changers allowed to do business in the temple it's all straight forward.
The so-called religious men of the day were corrupt. Instead of focusing on leading people to God they were focusing on making money (much like some televangelists today and the Catholic church selling indulgences). True men of God would lead men to God. These people were looking out for their bottom line.
Jesus was calling out hucksters and hypocrites whose selfish greed kept people from connecting to God.
This may be unknown to Jews who don't read the New Testament but this isn't untold. It's in The Book.
Interesting, thanks.
So Jews look to Christians
as Christians look to Mormons,
and as Mormons, probably,
look to Scientology.
Redemption is correct
Jesus redeemed us
Jesus and the notion of a Messiah is apparently the issue. Is he or isn't he? I accepted the salvation Jesus offered and am now born again in his spirit. So for me there is no problem but Jesus does pose a problem for others and I never really understood why.
Old Testament Hebrew books gave me the impression that people were seeking relief from the many laws, rules, and regulations they are required to observe to serve God. I suppose many thought there must be a better way to serve God.
My filter isn't working....
Roses are red,
Violets are bluish,
If not for Jesus,
We'd all be Jewish
Because if they believed Jesus was the messiah, they wouldn’t be Jews.
It’s like asking why atheists don’t believe in God. People who believe in God aren’t called atheists. People who believe Jesus was the messiah aren’t called Jews.
How do we explain, then, that the first followers of Christ were mostly Jews?
The video seems to put all the blame on a venal religious establishment, ignoring that there were far more complex reasons why more Jews - many of whom certainly had minds that were just as independent as those of Jesus’ followers were - DIDN’T follow Him.
If someone started a brand new religion that “accepted the ‘new testament’” but added to it, would that prove it is authentic?
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Joseph Smith did just that.
Some people believe it.
Interesting...
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JESUS;
turned water to Wine
The Blind to see
The crippled Walk
And the Dead Rose again!...
These were his Bonifides.
Excellent summation! :)
The conditions of the Torah are impossible to achieve - and that is the point. Man had to learn that achieving Holiness through obedience is impossible. However, Jesus came and in his “flesh” complied fully with all of the conditions of the Torah - thus fulfilling (completing) all requirements. Once the Torah had been fulfilled, Jesus established the terms for acceptance will all nations (exactly as foretold in Isiah). Thus, Israel’s relationship with God is no longer exclusive, but others can be “grafted” into this remnant of Israel - the followers of Jesus. Now all that is required is faithfulness to the completed work of Jesus - what a Joy!!
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
The conditions of the Torah are impossible to achieve - and that is the point. Man had to learn that achieving Holiness through obedience is impossible. However, Jesus came and in his “flesh” complied fully with all of the conditions of the Torah - thus fulfilling (completing) all requirements. Once the Torah had been fulfilled, Jesus established the terms for acceptance will all nations (exactly as foretold in Isiah). Thus, Israel’s relationship with God is no longer exclusive, but others can be “grafted” into this remnant of Israel - the followers of Jesus. Now all that is required is faithfulness to the completed work of Jesus - what a Joy!!
Amen!
Plenty of Christians did spread the Gospel - it took over much of the world!
But perhaps many Jews knew - and still recognize - that what they know through their own original and ancient teachings is equal and sufficient, or even superior, for THEM.
Maybe all Jesus was doing in the first place was uncovering for them the depths of what they already possessed; and they felt or feel no need to change formally - under which perspective they may find efforts to convince them to change offensive.
(If Jews want to know about Jesus, they will come to Him of their own accord. Trying to browbeat Jews in threads like this seems no different to me than all the Catholic v. whatever-Protestant-flavor threads that we see on FR - big waste of time, productive of nothing but bad blood between people.)
Peace!
Janey
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