(February 24, 2019 at 7:58 am)Yonadav Wrote: From a Jewish legal perspective, it seems pretty unlikely that Jesus was Jewish. It really doesn't make sense that Herod would have turned him over to the Romans otherwise. For a Jewish king to hand over a Jewish guy to be punished by gentiles makes absolutely no sense. It simply wouldn't happen. Especially when the gentile authorities send the Jewish guy to the Jewish king, thinking that the guy is a Jew. The only way that Herod sending the guy back to the Romans makes any sense is if Herod determined that the guy was not Jewish.
Luke Skywalker was never a Jedi either.
Hate to burst your bubble, but even the Jewish religion stems from prior polytheism.
Yahweh, prior to being the head God of the Hebrews, was a lesser deity in the divine family of the head God El in Canaanite polytheism.
Regardless if any Christian or Jew wants to argue the character's existence, humans do not have magic super powers to have a cosmic bat phone to a sky wizard. Nor do old books of mythology have any insight to the nature of reality.
I don't hate human rights in saying any of the above. All I am saying is that human's may do better considering those claims were made in antiquity when humans didn't have benefit of modern knowledge. That was then, and it was understandable humans wrote those things and sold those claims when they didn't know any better, but we have a far better understanding of the nature of reality now.
