Jesus’ Failed Prophecy About His Return

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Define what you believe the kingdom is.

GC

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Funny thing you have stated, you say Judaism and Christianity are two different religions, the you proceed to say they are spin offs of each other, which would make them intertwined and basically the same, seems you need to believe one or the other. For the Jews the messiah might mean an earthly ruler for them, they have always been an arrogant people the bible shows us this clearly. What else does the Bible teach clearly that the "Messiah" is for all people and this teaching starts in the OT. Another thing the Trinity is mentioned though not by name in the first chapters of Genesis and even affirmed in the NT. This covers thousands of years.

GC

They are different in they they teach two different things; "messiah," soul, after-life, etc. Also in the fact that you have other authoritative texts such as the Talmud and Zohar. Where they are spin-offs is that Christianity cherry picks and misrepresents Judaic theology to attempt to justify its theology. However, most of what is taught in Christianity today is the result of councils, written creeds, adaptions of other religions to gain converts (such as paganism), break away from other larger groups, and so on. Religion is great to read about and research and learn some philosophical insight but there's a point where the rubber meets the road; meaning are you going to follow reason and logic, or be completely true to the faith and suspend all reason; because in the end you can't have both.

 First off you did not answer my first question, this may not seem important to you but it holds truth in Christianity.
Secondly the Bible is strictly Christian because it shows how the OT and NT are intertwined, you can't separate them, each would lose much of it's value.  The bible contains no adoption from any pagan religions, the reason some people see pagan things in the Bible is simple, they do not read the Bible with the intent to learn. faith has nothing to do with suspending reason and yes you can have both, I know this because I have both in my everyday Christian life.

GC