RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 14, 2015 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2015 at 8:30 am by watchamadoodle.)
(March 13, 2015 at 10:52 pm)Nestor Wrote:I think this is similar to statistics, sampling, etc. So absence of evidence is useful information IMO.(March 13, 2015 at 10:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: How do you know when your knowledge is "complete"?You don't. That's why absence of evidence is not evidence of anything.
(March 13, 2015 at 10:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We have archaeological evidence that the term Chrestians was in use in Rome by 37 AD.What if Christianity existed before Jesus in anticipation of a Christ (Son of Man as portrayed in the Book of Enoch), and then Jesus claimed to be that anticipated Christ?
Quote:The Chrestiani inscription naming Jucundus, Antonia Minor and her husband Drusus establishes Chrestianity in Rome during the Augustan period.
Here is a quote from a review of "The Jewish Gospels" by Boyarin that I've mentioned earlier. I think this idea would explain a lot about the development of Christianity.
Quote:Boyarin looks at the first and second centuries where you have some Jews focusing on the book of Daniel and expecting a mediator figure as redeemer, some even expecting the mediator to be the suffering servant. There was widespread bi-theism or binitarianism within Judaism where Jews perceived God as an unknown God and a lower logos of God. The ideas of a complex godhead (a God with two or three persons) have their origins in the Judaism of Jesus’ time and before him. Many, perhaps most, Jews were expecting a Redeemer who was an anthropomorphic divine being, known as the Son of Man.https://kavvanah.wordpress.com/2012/03/0...sh-gospel/
