(July 13, 2017 at 9:29 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:So the NT says Jesus was from the city of Nazareth. Big deal. I'm from the city of Miami, but does that make me a member of the Myaamiaki Native American tribe?(July 13, 2017 at 2:06 am)Aliza Wrote: I'm not sure what the doctrine of the city of Nazareth is, but I think what's really happening here is that Christians are confusing the words "Nazarite" (one who upholds the Nazarite laws) with "Nazarene" (one who is from the city of Nazareth.) Really, it's a homophone. The words sound similar, but they mean different things and they're spelled differently.
I think the NT states that Jesus was from Nazareth, but that's not the same as being a Nazarite. We can easily demonstrate that Jesus wasn't a Nazarite (like Sampson) because he drank wine, and wine would be prohibited for Nazarites.
As it says in Acts 22:8 (CEB) = "I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are harassing,’ he replied."
Acts 24:5 (CEB) = "We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the empire. He’s a ringleader of the Nazarene faction"
If he was a Nazarite, he'd be different. He'd not be drinking wine, for starters. He'd also not be touching dead people, but apparently he heals the dead. Clearly, he's not a Nazarite. There is no scriptural basis that I'm aware of for a faction that comes out of the city of Nazareth.
