So your unstated but obvious conclusion is that Jesus was a mad man. Got it. Have you ever spent any time reading C.S. Lewis? You might, might, learn a thing or two about Christianity.
Thats what you got out of my post? That is a stretch.
Have you ever spent any time reading C.S. Lewis?
I have read the Screwtape letters and Mere Christianity.
Both good books but based, like all of Christianity, on mistranslantions and eisegetic renderings of the Hebrew.
I think blasater1960 is Jewish. He is not going to believe that Jesus is the Jewish messiah. His presenting a case for a different understanding of OT verses that we take as prophesying the birth of Jesus and presenting a different understanding does not tell us what he personally believes about Jesus. It simply is a defense of the Jewish understanding of those verses and why they (to them) do not show Jesus is the messiah.
He may think Jesus was a liar, he may think he was a lunatic. But that is for him to say and not for us to presume.