(January 26, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Vicki Q Wrote:(January 26, 2016 at 4:22 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Jesus was a Pharisee. He believed in all kinds of stuff that Sadducee Jews didn't believe in.
This is something of a departure from normal understanding. What evidence do you have for thinking Jesus was a Pharisee?
Well, the fact that the synoptic gospels giving him views on judaism which mirror phariseec thought is a big clue. Also is the fact that the latest, anti-semitic gospel of John which only really paints him as being against the pharisees. Actually it is far more logical to think of Yeshua as a cult leader of an anti-Rome pharisee or proto-sicarii group whose image got coopted into a new religion by others rather than a man believing himself son of god (the idea of god having a son was alien to all strands of judaism at that time, yet was prevalent amongst the Romano-Hellenistic cults).
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