(July 1, 2014 at 6:54 pm)Lek Wrote: If we were making up a story about God, how many people would make him become a man, be humiliated, and be executed as a criminal?
I agree it doesn't seem to make sense given the Jewish Messianic context.
However, look at it another way. Jesus was believed to be the Messiah ready to save the Jews from the Roman oppression. Yet, he died without managing to achieve this prediction. So the early Christians had to come up with something to continue to cling to hope. Thus, the resurrection and then the later idea that Jesus was God who came to this world in the flesh to die for our sins and be resurrected after doing so. The salvation, rather than physical, became a spiritual one from sin (rather than from the Romans).
