Paul no longer called the Christians disciples, since he could no longer conceive of
Jesus as a rabbi.
Not exact matches
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).