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To: A_perfect_lady

I responded....”You want to know the ‘requirements’ of the Messiah from a Jewish perspective and how would they identify Him”.....

Your response...”That’s the first part. Why do I want to know that?”

How about you just continue with why that may be significant to you...


714 posted on 04/22/2014 8:53:19 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
I responded....”You want to know the ‘requirements’ of the Messiah from a Jewish perspective and how would they identify Him”.....
Your response...”That’s the first part. Why do I want to know that?” How about you just continue with why that may be significant to you...

Because the way in which Jesus' biography is crafted to fit some of those requirements is very suspicious.

-Must be born in Bethlehem... but Jesus was from Nazareth. Ah, but through a strange quirk of fate, his heavily pregnant mother was compelled to travel almost 80 miles to take part in a census. There is no record in Josephus of a census, and even if there was, this isn't generally how they are conducted, and even if they were, one does not drag a pregnant woman across the country. And even if you did, why would the Romans conduct such a matter in Bethlehem and not Jerusalem? This is very suspicious.

-Cannot be descended from Solomon. Joseph was descended from Solomon... this is undoubtedly why Jesus claimed Joseph was not his real father. It would have disqualified him. Given the propensity for Greek and Roman heroes to be descended from gods, it was probably not as crazy sounding then. Just a way to avoid being declared ineligible for the position.

-Being born of a virgin wasn't one of the requirements. That "born of a virgin and called Emmanuel" (which Jesus was not called) was a sign of something else entirely.

All the rest of the so-called parallels are cherry-picked and after the fact. Things no Jew would recognize.

733 posted on 04/23/2014 6:06:22 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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