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To: Neoliberalnot; Popman
Jesus, being the founder of Christianity I think broke from Judaism. He was hung a cross for it at the behest of the jewish leaders.

This interpretation is inaccurate. Jesus was misunderstood as a political leader by the Jewish religio-political leaders of the time (the Sanhedrin, who were nevertheless under the rule of Rome), and therefore Jesus was regarded as a threat. But the Sanhedrin elite did not speak for the thousands of Jewish people who thronged to Him to hear Jesus teach and to receive miraculous healings. All his initial followers were Jews. He revolutionized Jewish belief, attempting to deepen the people's understandings to the heart-felt truth of the Spirit of God instead of expecting salvation from performing rituals.

Jesus experienced the same expulsion as Luther did from Catholicism and Wesley did from Anglicanism when they proposed reforms to return the people to a truer version of the faith, but which did not make them any less Christians. Jesus was, and remained, a Jew in His earthly incarnation. But as the Son of God, he sought to connect each person more profoundly to the will of the Father for their individual lives.

119 posted on 04/02/2018 9:53:01 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Albion Wilde

I believe Jesus is the Son of God and that does not make him Jewish, which is not an ethnicity. Some recent genetic studies have found (by analysis of the DNA of Semitic-speaking peoples) that they have some common ancestry. Although no significant common mitochondrial results have been found, Y-chromosomal links between Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East like Arabs, Jews, Mandaeans, Samaritans, and Assyrians have shown links, despite differences contributed from other groups (see Y-chromosomal Aaron).

A DNA study of Jews and Palestinian Arabs (including Bedouins) found that these were more closely related to each other than to neighboring Arabs.[12][13]


130 posted on 04/02/2018 4:39:02 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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