(December 19, 2014 at 2:03 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Yes, that too. Yahweh was anything but humble and caring towards his enemies, so where did this come from with Jesus? Love your enemies? Where was that in the OT? Following the letter of the law is something Jesus spoke against, but Yahweh demanded. Picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week means death. Starting to worship another god after the one you were worshiping leaves for forty years means death, even before you make public a rule about only worshiping one god.
Retroactively punishing people for a rule you just made up? That makes no sense.
It came from a Jewish teacher named Hillel. Seriously, it did. Jesus' whole shtick was stolen from another teacher
There were some Jewish converts in the Roman empire and I strongly suspect that one of them took the best of Hillel and combined his teaching with different popular religions to come up with what the creator thought would be a better religion.
