(October 7, 2013 at 4:45 pm)Drich Wrote: 33 is the traditional age of a well respected rabbi/teacher. In that culture, if one speaks and what he says is not like then it can simply be dismissed as being the ranting of a young person. If he speaks too wildly as a young person then by reputation could have been branded a fool. Once someone was labled a fool then everything the 'fool' said was ignored.
Christ simply followed the traditions and spoke to the people on the terms their society had laid out for Him.
That's a good answer except that Jesus was 30, not 33. Most estimates put him at 33 when he died, but then, if he could start 3 years early, why didn't he start 6 years early? It was easy to lie about your age back then, I would assume.
Quote:I was being sarcastic. I agree it's interesting. Go ahead and intend all the blasphemy you want.
Oh, I've blasphemed before and I'll do it again, don't worry about that. I just thought this was a pretty clean question, so I was gonna keep it that way (at least from me).
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- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
