(January 27, 2016 at 11:54 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Well, the fact that the synoptic gospels giving him views on judaism which mirror phariseec thought is a big clue. Also is the fact that the latest, anti-semitic gospel of John which only really paints him as being against the pharisees. Actually it is far more logical to think of Yeshua as a cult leader of an anti-Rome pharisee or proto-sicarii group whose image got coopted into a new religion by others rather than a man believing himself son of god (the idea of god having a son was alien to all strands of judaism at that time, yet was prevalent amongst the Romano-Hellenistic cults).
What I said before about Pharisaic and Christian differences.
Plus- if Jesus was a revolutionary military leader, he left no evidence of it, and all of his followers went in a completely different direction. Also, he would have been a complete failure, and would have suffered the same fate as all the other wannabe revolutionaries of the period. There are quite a number of them we know about historically, and as soon as they got killed, their movement came to an immediate halt.
Judaism was comfortable with the idea of God having a presence on earth (burning bush, pillar of fire, Shekinah), and Jesus was seen as the latest in the list. 'Son of God' is more about role than biology in Judaism.