(December 7, 2021 at 6:51 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: I was brought up to believe that Jesus taught to love your neighbour, extending the idea with the parable of the Good Samaritan. The lesson there being everyman is my neighbour.
I discovered only recently that Jesus also told his followers to stay away from Samaritans They were, and are a despised sect, not considered to be real Jews by mainstream Jewry. Also to stay away from gentiles. Staying away from gentile is a very big deal; it's here the great numbers of early christianity came; early christianity was very attractive to the marginalised, especially women and slaves. Jesus was after all a pious Jew. The sect he founded was a Jewish sect for Jews.
Mathew 10: 5 "These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel."
It has long been my belief that if there was an historical Jesus, he has little or nothing to do with the sect which became of Christianity.
Yeah. Paulism isn't very close to what Jesus preached.
