Christian answering questions too!

[Pat Mustard]

As for whom I believe Jesus was/is:  I believe Jesus was the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament.  That he was both God and man.  I would not state that he was misunderstood if you are referring to the Jewish leadership of the New Testament.  I would say he was a wise man but that mere wisdom does not denote deity or anything truly remarkable, just being wise. 

Tried to reply to this on my phone, but it et that one, so lets go again off the desktop:

First of all how to you reconcile Jesus to the jewish conception of the messiah? The jewish messiah was to be a second David, to restore the jews to the land of Israel from the sea to the river Jordan (and possibly beyond), to destroy their enemies with fire and sword, and to create the land of milk and honey that yhwh supposedly promised in the convenant? A person such as Simon bar Kochba came far closer to being the messiah according to the talmud than Jesus ever did.

In corollary to that, how do you explain the systematic mangling of talmudic prophesy in the gospels and new testament? The most salient example being the supposed virgin birth of Jesus, which fulfilled a prophesy which neither spoke about a virgin birth nor was about any messiah. It is nearly impossible to reconcile Jesus with the great leader which the talmud foretold.