RE: jizkiahu ben david (I told you so..)
April 8, 2021 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2021 at 3:03 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 8, 2021 at 1:41 pm)Drich Wrote: nor have they ever considered a messiah before christ nor never once considered anyone in the 2000 years after christ...
This isn't right.
Jews use the word "messiah" differently than Christians. For them, it is almost always a political leader who unites the Jews, strengthens their homeland, and gives them peace. The Christians changed it, to something more magical.
Several people have been called "messiah" over the centuries. The Old Testament calls Cyrus the Great a messiah, because he ended the Exile and allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
Different groups of Jews have named people messiah, when not all Jews agreed on the name. I remember an orthodox community in Brooklyn who named their leader messiah about 20 or 30 years ago. Most Jews ignored it. You could probably find dozens of similar examples from history.