Sentences with phrase «jesus as a rabbi»

Paul no longer called the Christians disciples, since he could no longer conceive of Jesus as a rabbi.

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Hey sheik, I don't know what your saying, but as far as I can tell, a rabbi named Jesus may have existed, but there is no proof of that.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

William Phipps, who has written extensively on the subject of Jesus» sexuality, says Jesus could not have been accepted as a rabbi in the Jewish society of his day had he not been married, and that the marriage in Cana, where his mother as hostess called on him for help with the wine, was probably his own wedding feast.

There, the rabbis treat the power of the name of Jesus to heal as a real phenomenon that Jews must shun.

They found the realism of the parables of Jesus as their distinguishing mark when compared to the parables of the Old Testament and that of the Rabbis.

He said that back in the Middle Ages, some Rabbis went through the Talmud and edited out any references to Jesus as well as anything that Christians liked to use to evangelize Jews.

back in the Middle Ages, some Rabbis went through the Talmud and edited out any references to Jesus as well as anything that Christians liked to use to evangelize Jews.

Jesus had previously appeared as a prophet proclaiming good news and summoning the people to repentance; here we see him as a sage or rabbi giving instruction (cf. Mt 5:1 - 2).

We will be discussing the Apostle Paul's words about women later in the series, but it's worth noting here that when first - century rabbis like Jesus and Paul allude to the stories of the Torah, including the creation accounts, they are not participating in «straight exegesis» as we would understand it today.

Sandro Magister comments that «The central issue that prevents the rabbi from believing in Jesus is his revealing himself as God.»

The second - century rabbi Akiba pointed to Leviticus 19:18, Jesus» second commandment, as the sum and substance of the law.

As Ben Witherington says, «It is significant that Jesus was willing to perform extraordinary miracles (raising the dead), and to violate the Rabbinical Sabbath regulations even in the presence of Rabbis and in the Synagogues in order to help women.

You may really be mistaken, after all Jesus was a Jew, born a Jew, lived as a Jew, a rabbi, and died as a Jew.

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

21: 11, 46; Luke 7: 16, 39; 13: 33; 24: 19; Cf. Matt, 12: 39) But besides «prophet» another designation of Jesus appears in the gospels: he is addressed as «rabbi.»

I could have spent years trying to build a relationship with one person, but Sunday as I worshipped, I wept standing by the rabbi and the imam knowing, that I would have the privilege of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus to some people for the first time.

From this time come the disputes over interpretation of the Law, in which they appealed to the authority of Jesus and represented him as the rabbi which he had never been.

This list could be easily continued; and indeed such examples must be kept in mind in order to understand how Jesus taught as a Jewish rabbi.

It may be, as was said above, that at the time of Jesus the practices of the scribal profession were less fixed than two generations later, and it may also be true that Jesus was less bound by forms than other rabbis.

as a student of history and topic, it is almost impossible to believe a rabbi the age of jesus would not be married, it is too obvious that the church wanted to diminish the role and power women had until finally releasing the truth about mary magdeline, jesus» probable wife, they needed to create a divine son of god to give the church power especially after the council of nicea

The fragment has since been widely discredited, though some scholars argue that it would have been highly unusual for Jesus not to marry, as would have been the norm for a rabbi of the time.

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

Of course the whole story may be dismissed as a devout legend, told to show how Jesus excelled the rabbis in wisdom.

His questioning mind, his study of the Jewish law (the perplexing reference to the fig tree in verse 48 probably points to the fact that Nathanael was a student of the law, for the rabbis used to say that the best place to study the law was sitting under a fig tree) prompted Jesus to praise him as a true Jew and an honest man (1:47).