What would he make of the throngs of people who in millions of churches around the world worship his body carved out of wood, marble or painted cement, he whose religion forbade the worship of idols?
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From Yeshua to Jesus – Yohannan the Baptist [part 9]
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As occurs so many times throughout the pages of the gospels, an ancestral Jewish rite is claimed by the writers of Christianity and passed off as an established Christian rite, notwithstanding the reality that back in the days of Yeshua and Yohana, Christianity did not exist, not even in anyone’s thoughts, least of all in Yeshua’s.
From Jesus to Yeshua – Jesus New testament [part 8]
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All of the events from the birth of Yeshua to his arrest constitute an unfortunate but rather mundane chain of events involving only a cast of Jewish characters – as would have been the case for any other Jew who expressed his religious opinions too freely and too loudly – loudly enough to annoy the Zadokim and the Perushim and flashily enough to make the local Roman soldiers very tetchy as they observed the wild-fire hysteria crystalized on the man who had ridden into town from the eastern gate on a white donkey.
From Yeshua to Jesus – stoning vs crucifixion [part 7]
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The earliest form of Yeshua-spiritual entity began with belief he had resurrected. What would eventually become of the ministry of Saul (Paulus/St Paul) was actually triggered by Yacob (Jacob), one of Yeshua’s brothers, years after the crucifixion.
From Yeshua to Jesus- temple priests-sacrifice [part 6]
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Politically speaking, Yeshua was a separatist, not very different from the Orthodox Jews who, today, live in the Mea Sharim ghetto, a suburb of Jerusalem.
Religious mythology aside, a worthwhile question to pose is If Jesus was the credibly kind, compassionate man enhanced by divine energy, why did he attract so many enemies? Why was he made to die a violent death and why was he abandoned by all except a couple of women weeping within sight of his cross?
From Yeshua to Jesus- Jesus in the Torah [part 5]
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It is generally accepted that Matthew’s gospel, as well as some of the subsequent ones were originally written in Hebrew because of the numerous references made to the Torah and the Books of the Prophets, but in regards to who was Matthew-the-man, he may simply have been like a modern-day obsessive collector of all sound bytes attributed to his hero – in this case, Yeshua, the already-crucified teacher.
From Yeshua to Jesus – Jesus in Matthew [part 4]
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The first Christian gospel is generally attributed to Matthew, though it is believed that Mark’s had been written some ten years earlier therefore forty years after Yeshua’s death.
Matthew’s account begins while Yeshua was having one of the daily ritual baths in accordance with the ancestral Jewish rule of Mikveh which requires a daily immersion in a flowing body of water to cleanse the body.
From Yeshua to Jesus- Seeking Jesus [part 3]
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All but the most ardent of miracle believers will accept that the early prophets, the Isyim and Yeshua, who had lived with them for many years, and others from various world cultures, did not truly perform ‘miracles’.
From Yeshua to Jesus- Seeking Jesus [part 2]
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Another cause of the lack of source material relevant to the early years of Christianity, in Jerusalem, after the death of Yeshua, stems from the facts that though Jewish scholars had written at length about the long succession of Hebrew…
From Yeshua to Jesus – seeking Jesus [Part 1]
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These days, though not in the least bit interested in any religion or prophet, I have become curious as to how Yeshua, the young Jewish rabbi, wearing the tefilin according to the Talmudic obligation and sporting long earlocks, was propelled centuries after his death to the pinnacle of Christian religions as the Son of God.