Protestantism

» pink101 - I'm Not Buying That

In response to The Fringe Element of Christianity posted by Migisi:
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Jesus and his followers were a fringe element of Judaism.
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I'm not buy that. I think it's a wolf ticket, if you know what I mean. I think it was the other way around.
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The way I look at it and from a long time study of the subject both inside and out, I see Jesus as being at the core of Judaism. Don't minunderstand me. I see Jesus coming at the priesthood with a "let's get back to basics" message and they didn't like that one bit. They had taken the original revelations and turned them into a highly organized way of controlling the masses--they put the fear of god into the people. Jesus was all for taking that out of them.
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I think there is a core message in Christianity and I think it is found in the life of Jesus--not in the preachings of the priesthood, neither of then or of now.
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Were you situated at Urbana/Champagne when you taught? There are some great studies that came out of the Communications Department there under the guidance of James W. Carey. I don't think we can understand the message Jesus brought to humanity without gaining a good understanding ot the culture in which he moved. Actually, the two cultures in which he moved; the Jewishness of Jerusalem and the Jewishness of Egypt. Jesus did come out of Egypt, you know.
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-- posted by pink101