Do you think Jesus ever told any rabbi jokes?
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Probably. I bet He had a sense of humor. I mean, it's a sign of being human. Which He was. (And God has a sense of humor as well. That's why He let His Chosen people wander the middle east for years, before letting them settle in the only place without oil. Good one God!)
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Paul SAYS Jesus said this, but it isn't anywhere to be found in the Gospels.  Possibly Jesus never said it, or maybe Paul made it up; Or, possibly, one of the hundreds of "editors" of the bible thought it was a nice sentiment and added it.
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Jews do NOT consider Jesus a prophet.  In fact, to Jews, Jesus didn't even exist!  "Jew for Jesus" are not Jewish, they are evangelical Christians working for Satan!\n\nDo you know that there is not a single historical document that mentions Jesus.  The only place you find Jesus mentioned is in the Christian Gospels, which is strictly a faith document.\n\nIslam considers Jesus a prophet, but considers that Mohammad was the "final" prophet.\n\nJews listen to G-d.  G-d gave Jews clues (prophecies) to determine who the messiah would be, and Jesus did not meet even one single messianic prophecy!
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WWJD? He was 100% Torah-observant as He walked the earth; He kept the Sabbath holy, He celebrated the Feasts of the Lord, He ate only clean food, He wore tzitzit.... Yeshua the Messiah was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, taught as a Jew; His original followers were Jews. To claim that they were not Jews or Jewish is ludicrous! Even Paul was a Law-abiding Pharisee. The Bereans checked what Paul taught with the OT - the OT was the standard Paul had to meet.\n\nWhat is not Jewish in Christianity are the heresies which Emperor Constantine formalized for the Roman Empire and which his puppet Pope, Sylvester, claimed the authority & power to change God's Law and rubber-stamped the apostasy into canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. Unfortunately, when the Reformers tried to break away from the vain traditions of men, they were not successful; they failed by maintaining Sunday Sabbath, Easter Sunday, Christmas - things which the Bereans would not have accepted, things which Paul would not have accepted, things which the original disciples & apostles would not have accepted. Who thinks that God would ever accept those traditions?! (Hint: God has NEVER tolerated any paganism mixed in with His worship. Paganism is an abhorrent abomination to God.)\n\nYou cannot server two masters.... You can follow the path of Yeshua the Messiah, The Way, the Truth & the Life. Or, you can follow the path of a pagan emperor (until his death bed baptism - for whatever good that did, only God knows) and the traditions of Popes (& Reformers, et al).
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Well...I would say some of the things Jesus said were only relavant to the time. Since you are Catholic, and I am as well we can probably relate with some of this better. So here it goes:\n\nObviously some of the things that Christ talked about (such as the references to the types of clothing and locations in the world etc...) are general and relevant only to those of the time. I don't know many people who walk around wearing cloaks anymore and we don't execute people by crusifixion anymore so...some of those things are irrelevant, but are important for us to understand.\n\nThe whole thing about not eating pork could be taken a few ways. I don't know if that was because of refigeration...I doubt it, but it could be. Catholic's do not do it because we don't think it's needed. Food is food is food. To have something kosher just means that it must meet certain dietary laws. Jewish followers, as far as I know, are the only individuals who follow that law. It could be for refrigeration purposes, but I think it has more to do with how the passages and laws are interpreted than that. Probably something to do with passover or something...I really don't know, might want to ask a Jewish person that one.\n\nIs it possible that some of Jesus' words were only relevant to those he was talking to at the time? Sure! But Jesus came for the world, so his words are for the world! He may have said he gave the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, but he didn't give them to me or you. They were for Peter and whoever Peter gave them to later on. So yeah, I'd say that's a fair statement.
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You are correct that early Christians used Greek translations, which is why they made rather rediculous errors like misinterpreting Nazarite to mean 'someone from Nazareth'.  Is any other proof even really needed that Jesus was not a Jewish Rabbi?
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Regardless of whether Jesus was a real guy, I think that the meme we see today was started by Peter and Paul.  It seems unlikely that Jesus could have come up with all of that stuff about eternal salvation on his own.
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What would Jesus say?
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He didn't say Jesus was a drunk.\nHe asked why Jesus promoted alcoholism. Which, if you read the Bible you'd know he did. And the person who asked this question sited how Jesus condoned drinking. He turned water into wine for goodnessake!\n\nBut ya, he never said Jesus was a drunk.  Just wanted to clear that up.\nSome of you need to take a better and more open look at your Bibles. Everything is not rainbows and sunshine.\n~Gypsy~
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Yes, I have. I think it's completely wrong to think that the Jews have to keep the law while we have to believe in Jesus. Jeremiah 31 says that God would make a completely new covenant with the Jews that would be different than the one he made when he brought them out of Egypt. Therefore, there is only one true covenant, and that's the New one --- Christianity.
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you kind of have to read between the lines when Jesus Chirst is speaking. since he is talking to a jewish believers, he is telling them that he has more sheep/followers who are not in front of him but spread through out the world. and that all his followers are not just jews but from other races as well.
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That's exactly what he thought after he said it!\n\nHe went... \n"D'oh, who AM i talking to?"  then he said... "Jesus, i'm still doing it...I'd better get therapy!" followed by... "anyway, who's Jesus?  Quite like that as a name though, If ever i have a son, i think that's what i'll call him"\n\nHe felt very sheepish.  Of course he didn't realise that he felt sheepish at the time cos he hadn't yet created that phrase (or sheep)\n\nHe created light on the second day!!!\nOn the first day, he created Heaven & Earth.... so he must have done all that, in the dark... How cool is that !?!?
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No, but last year there was this guy dressed up like Jesus preaching in the street.  I kept heckling him and he got really mad and told me to go Fvck myself.  \n\nI will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
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The day I heard Jesus laugh was both funny and weird.  \n\nThe full story is in link below:
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No.\n\nThis idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul.\n\nThe Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nWWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus did not marry.\n\nJohn the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that the example of the Essenes influenced either or both Jesus and John the Baptist in their celibacy.\n\nThe Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).  \n\nThe concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Did Jesus speak English?
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No. Most of them are copies of OT books, and the rest is commentary on OT laws, etc.  All the biblically based scrolls predate the New Testament era.\n\nJesus was an Essene rabbi. From http://www.centuryone.com/25dssfacts.html\n"The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C. to 68 C.E./A.D. The Essenes are mentioned by Josephus and in a few other sources, but not in the New testament. The Essenes were a strict Torah observant, Messianic, apocalyptic, baptist, wilderness, new covenant Jewish sect. They were led by a priest they called the 'Teacher of Righteousness,' who was opposed and possibly killed by the establishment priesthood in Jerusalem."\n\nThe fact that Jesus was baptized, taught about the end of the world, etc. - decidedly un-mainstream Jewish doctrines - and was killed at the request of the conventional Jewish establishment -- is clear evidence that Jesus was the leader in the Essene sect in his time. If you want to understand what he intended true Christianity to be, read up on the Essenes.