Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that Jesus was Jewish but also the founder of Christianity. How did that happen?

I’m not interested in debating what is true. I just want to know the story of how it is supposed to have happened, whether you believe it or not.

You are confusing Judaism as religion and Jewish people as ethnicity.

Anonymous wrote:He didn't start a new religion. He lived. He had followers. He died because he was killed. A long time later, a very long time later, a religion was created called Christianity and he was the brand used. Frankly, this Jesus wouldn't even recognize, join, or even approve of the religion created around him.

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Anonymous wrote:What continually stuns me, and throughout my life is that the entirety of Western civilization is based upon this mythology and it continues to evolve into whatever a culture wants it to be. It's just surreal.

Get over yourself

Christians and Jews worshipped at the Temple together until it was destroyed. After that, the Pharisees and their followers focused on studying the Torah and became what is now rabbinic Judaism while the followers of Christ focused on the Eucharist, which they had been celebrating together on Sundays.

What continually stuns me, and throughout my life is that the entirety of Western civilization is based upon this mythology and it continues to evolve into whatever a culture wants it to be. It's just surreal.

Anonymous wrote:Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

Stories made up later. Backmapping.

He didn't start a new religion. He lived. He had followers. He died because he was killed. A long time later, a very long time later, a religion was created called Christianity and he was the brand used. Frankly, this Jesus wouldn't even recognize, join, or even approve of the religion created around him.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus is an abbreviation of Jew-sus

Some of you are so godawful dump. Do you actually think anybody, Jewish or Christian or atheist, would find this funny? I've said it before and I'll say it again: DCUM needs to upgrade its atheists.

Jesus is an abbreviation of Jew-sus

Anonymous wrote:Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

It's a nice story but absolutely did not happen at the birth of Yeshua, a boy from Nazareth from the handmaiden (not virgin, that's a translation error) Mariam, by Yosef. The date, the place (bethlehem) and the other happenings were all invented afterwards to make "fetch" happen. There's lots of scholarly material on this (including all four gospels) that he came from Nazareth.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

It’s amazing we even know about His birth.

It’s amazing He created the world’s largest religion; a peasant with no connections or wealth or power.

It’s amazing Kings were bringing a peasant baby gifts.

Astrologers / wise men, not kings.

The gifts they gave baby Jesus were gifts given and offered to Kings.

Myrrh used as an anointing oil, frankincense as a perfume, and gold as a valuable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

It’s amazing we even know about His birth.

It’s amazing He created the world’s largest religion; a peasant with no connections or wealth or power.

It’s amazing Kings were bringing a peasant baby gifts.

Astrologers / wise men, not kings.

Anonymous wrote:Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

It’s amazing we even know about His birth.

It’s amazing He created the world’s largest religion; a peasant with no connections or wealth or power.

It’s amazing Kings were bringing a peasant baby gifts.

Technically , The three wise men/kings were the first Christians because they believed Jesus was the messiah/ the chosen one /the king before he was even born. They were already en route .

Jesus was mythologized before birth.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus always considered himself a Jew. But he taught things that conflicted with Judaism (no dietary rules, no respect for Pharisees, hanging out with “unclean” women and the make dregs of society, etc). After Jesus’ death the rift between his followers and traditional Jews widened (you can see this happening in Paul’s letters), and his followers became known as Christians.

This.