RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 2, 2020 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2020 at 2:11 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 2, 2020 at 1:29 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Christianity was originally a Jewish messianic cult.
But can you say that for sure? Why couldn't we presume that early Jesus had nothing to do with Judaism, considering that he fails miserably on the Jewish Messiah test, and only later on became Christ?
So maybe he was some different (gnostic) entity-God who was then tied to Jewish mythology.
For instance, there was some early Christian teacher called Marcion who claimed that Jesus had nothing to do with Judaism. He even had his gospel which was Gnostic, non-historical, and did not make Jesus a Jewish man but a new fresh God who "came down at Capernaum."
Now, many scholars claim that Marcion's gospel is rewritten Luke, but some claim it could be older than other Gospels.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"