RE: Four questions for Christians
July 8, 2013 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 6:16 pm by Consilius.)
Paul lived after the death of Christ and the foundation of the church, so if anyone made Christianity up, its not him.
God is described as good, loving and merciful in the Old Testament like he is in the New. You are speaking in absolutes. Because of sin, man had fallen to the brutalities of the OT. God gave the Jews law to regulate and later wean them from their sinful state into a closer relationship with him.
The Jews didn't like Jesus because he failed to meet their expectations as king and liberator against the hated Roman Empire. Their expectations were met shortly after Christ's death in the form of Simon bar Kokhba, a rebel leader against the Romans who established an independent Jewish state and made himself Prince in the Third Jewish Revolt. He died shortly after and was condemned as a liar, giving way to hundreds of other messianic claimants.
Jesus Christ was one of the most out-of-place of the Messiahs. He rarely publicly claimed himself to be God or the messiah or a political figure of any sort. But he was Jewish and behaved Jewish, because he sought to revise the Jewish law and bring it to its completion through himself to fix what Adam had done and restore man's relationship with God.
God is described as good, loving and merciful in the Old Testament like he is in the New. You are speaking in absolutes. Because of sin, man had fallen to the brutalities of the OT. God gave the Jews law to regulate and later wean them from their sinful state into a closer relationship with him.
The Jews didn't like Jesus because he failed to meet their expectations as king and liberator against the hated Roman Empire. Their expectations were met shortly after Christ's death in the form of Simon bar Kokhba, a rebel leader against the Romans who established an independent Jewish state and made himself Prince in the Third Jewish Revolt. He died shortly after and was condemned as a liar, giving way to hundreds of other messianic claimants.
Jesus Christ was one of the most out-of-place of the Messiahs. He rarely publicly claimed himself to be God or the messiah or a political figure of any sort. But he was Jewish and behaved Jewish, because he sought to revise the Jewish law and bring it to its completion through himself to fix what Adam had done and restore man's relationship with God.
