Did Jews of the time think Jesus was a heretic, and that his teachings were blasphemous?
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Jesus was basically and orthodox Jew from the West Bank. \n\nHe failed in trying to get a following during his lifetime -- only wound up with 12 country bumpkins from the Galilee. \n\nIt wasn't until centuries later that the religion of Christianity came unto its own, based not so much on what Jesus did/said, but on what Paul taught. \n\nThe teaching of Christianity such as the tripartite godhead, God as a man, the virgin birth, etc. are anathema to Judaism.
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Excellent question!\n\nMost people think that Jesus simply made up the story, choosing the Samaritans (whom the Jews hated as "half-breeds" who had corrupted the Israelite religion) as the unexpected hero.\n\nWell, he certainly WAS responding to that hatred.   But he did not simply make the story up.  Rather, he took an actual episode from O.T. history to drive home his point.\n\nJust compare these two passages  (I've put a number of the parallels in CAPS):\n\nJesus says:\nLuke 10:30  Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to JERICHO, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. . . .  \n33  But a SAMARITAN, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34  He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. \n\nNow look at 2 Chronicles 28:8-15, where we read how after a victory of the Northern Kingdom of Israel ("Samaria") against Judah (origin of "Jewish") in the south, a prophet warns them about mistreating their brothers, whom they intednd to enslave. The people decide to return the spoils of war and release the people.   Read the whole thing, but especially take note of the ending;\n\n2 Chronicles 28:14  So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. 15  And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They CLOTHED them, gave them sandals, PROVIDED them with food and drink, and ANOINTED them [i.e., poured oil on their wounds], and carrying all the feeble among them ON DONKEYS, they brought them to their kinsfolk at JERICHO, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to SAMARIA\n\nDo you see what Jesus is doing?  The religious leaders might have simply dismissed as absurd the idea of a "Good Samaritan" helping a needy Jew.  But they KNEW their Scriptures, including this story -- so Jesus adapts it and turns it into an illustration that they could NOT dismiss, because it had actually happened, and they knew it!  (Zing!)\n\nIn fact, there are in Jesus' teaching MANY examples of subtle (and not so subtle!) references to OT stories and images that the leaders of the day would know...   Unfortunately, we often do not know them and so do now fully appreciate the power of his points.
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Jews that believe in Jesus Christ as the messiah
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Well, I guess it would all depend.\n\nIslam was founded after Christianity, so that religion actually has a firm, somewhat uniform stance on Jesus. He is honored as a prophet.\n\nChristianity is younger than Judaism and could be considered almost a kind of Jewish heresy because it is, in part, based on Jewish scripture and claims to be the plan of the Jewish G-d for the salvation of the world through the prophesied Messiah. \n\nMany horrible things have been done to Jews in the name of Christ, so a really negative opinion of him is not uncommon and is certainly understandable. There are Jews who see Jesus as a good man and teacher whose followers made false claims about after his death. There are Jews who believe anything in between those two extremes or even that there never was such a person.\n\nSo I guess between the two, Judaism could be thought to be more insulting, but that is only on a purely theoretical basis. In reality, views vary wildly. Actions even more so.
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perhaps not in the way the modern Christians think. however, there were several Prophets of THE PEOPLE who talked to various tribes of THE PEOPLE talking about the same basic concepts JESUS did. such as the PEACE-BRINGER who talked to the Five Civilized Tribes and Hiawatha ( who actually existed ).
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nope, not at all. jesus is not part of our theology or teaching. he might have (historically) been a jew who wanted to reform judaism, or he might have been a trouble maker who coopted certain mysitical jewish practices. but he was unimportant to judaism and he remains so.\n\nand btw, judaism does not teach that he was a prophet AT ALL.
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This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and\nthe writings of the "Church Fathers" themselves reveal\nthat they were constantly forced by the pagan\nintelligentsia to defend what the non-Christians and other\nChristians ("heretics")4 alike saw as a preposterous and\nfabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever\nhaving taken place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says,\n"And from the apostolic age downwards, in a never\ninterrupted succession, but never so strongly and\nemphatically as in the most primitive times, was the\nexistence of Christ as a man most strenuously denied."5\nEmperor Julian, who, coming after the reign of the\nfanatical and murderous "good Christian" Constantine,\nreturned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, "If anyone\nshould wish to know the truth with respect to you\nChristians, he will find your impiety to be made up partly\nof the Jewish audacity, and partly of the indifference and\nconfusion of the Gentiles, and that you have put together\nnot the best, but the worst characteristics of them both."
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That's what he said, and, if you think about it, it is absolutly true.  In the beginning Jesus led a sect of Jews.  Then the gentliles who began to follow Jesus didn't like the Jewish regulations, so, they split off.  That began a long history of the  followers of Jesus splitting over and over again, often over things Jesus said nothing at all about.
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Jesus wasn't white, he was a Jew, and from what I've read, he was probably black or very dark-skinned.
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Jesus was made Jewish by his family and was the Jewish eqivalent of Luther. Hence he was a Protestant !\nBesides why do christians think they own the right to brand others Pagan. I'm sure all others see christians in the same light, as non believers.  Now would ultimateprogrammergod please give it a rest. We are sick to death of hearing Jewish people declare every utterance against them as anti-smite  or Neo-Nazi. How dare you ! Get a life. You won,t win friends around the world that way.
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Someone give this bigot a brain-ectomy, please.  \n\n*sighs*  They're not even remotely evil and theres no solid evidence that the Jews had Christ killed (who was a Jew, btw).  Even if a group of Jews did, how do you hold the entire religion responsible?
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Jesus was a good little jew boy and always did what his mother told him. Joseph was just his stepdad. He was expected to be married with children by the time he was 26, so I would guess he was married and had children. To do otherwise would be irreligious. I do not know if you were aware of it but Jesus was a very religious person. Breeding was an absolute requirement of religiousity. The jewish bible said to go forth and multiply. If your brother died before having children, you were required by law to knock up his ol lady. Better hope she was cute.\nIt was the later perverted priests of the false religion formed after Jesus that gave credence to the theory that Jesus was a celibate male because the Wierd Gay priests hated women and thought that you could not be holy if you defiled yourself with female contact. So they invented the myth that Jesus was celibate and that all priests should follow suit. We now know that is hogwash to cover up the fact they are mostly gay guys and always were. Take a look at those clothes the pope and the cardinals wear man. is that gay or what?\nThe reason the "bible" does not mention it is because it was a collection of old Jewish books that were written long before Jesus was born.\nYes the new testament portion of the so-called bible was added to it by the new religion of the followers of Christ AFTER he dies, BUT those too were just the writings and ramblings of the few people that had met and known Jesus during his brief period of life. These were called "gospels", meaning good news. But some of the people that knew jesus duing his time wrote books about it did not get included in the new religion "bible' because the gay priests got together and voted them out because they did not like the messages. the messages of the other gospels are completely in accord with the notion that jesus probably had a wife and child and she was Mary Magdalene\n(not his Mom for Chrisakes, he was not incestuous) It was the Mary Magdalene that hung out with him and the guys like a groupie. Sort of like Yoko Ono. She was his favorite and the other desciples were always complaining about her . These complaints were recorded in their "gospels" too and that is why they were left out by the new Church that was trying to establish a religion that they could control the world with.\nThey had a big meeting together of all the church leaders from around the old world and decided by VOTE to exclude many gospels, and burn them, and kill anyone who mentioned them as heretics and then they proceeded to do so.\n\nAmong these were the gospels of Mary( of course) and Phillip, and Thomas and some other works of note that explained many things. It is all available on the net at NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY in Egypt. A few copies and fragments were unearthed about 35 years ago, translated and are available for anyone who cares to read them.\nit is a shame that the friends of Jesus who knew him best were not allowed to tell anyone what they knew. But that is the way of the world of organized religion, something jesus did not really like. he was like a guru with desciples who were each supposed to spread the word by mouth to individuals who would each in turn spread it to others like a big AMWAY. But they killed him and  squelched his efforts.\n\nThe Mary that jesus loved and probably married, was NOT the whore named Mary mentioned in some bible verse as a person he helped, She was another Mary (Marys? hoodathunkit)\nI guess Mary was a common name back then too. The Church Fathers deliberately decided to discredit this Good Mary by spreading the misinformation that she was this whore. They later confessed to this canard about 30 years ago and apologized to the world but everyone still mistakenly believes that the Mary that Came to see Jesus on the cross and later got his body and took it to a tomb and washed it, like a good little wife, and was the first one he appeared to, was the whore. This was meant t
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Jesus became a prophet of God and was sent to confirm the LAW (Torah), but not to preach a new different religion.\n\nBoth Jesus and Mother Mary lived as a Jew, with jewish teachings and confirming the Law sent my Moses.\n\nbecause the religion of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were the same, neither of them tried to spread a new religion, but to confirm the previous prophets teachings.\n\nEven, Mohammed doesnt call jews or christians as different religion, as it mentions them People of the Book, which means Islam itself is not considered a different religion, but it was to confirm the religion of Jesus and Moses, and spread the One God Almighty's message.\n\nChristianity was surely spread globally, but at the times of Jesus, His disciples also didnt believe on him many times. The followers themselves were thinking Jesus as son of God, which was considered as blasphemy even my Jewish teachings, Jesus replied here himself as Son of Man, and When asked about the Question of Son of God, Jesus replied that "You say the son of God", but they thought Jesus said himself as son of God when he was refering the Son of God was told by the people not him, Thus he was crucified.\n\nLuke; 22\n66  And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,\n\n67  Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:\n\n68  And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.\n\n69  Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.\n\n70  Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, "Ye say that I am."\n\n71  And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.\n\n"Ye say that I am." is clearly mentioning that he said himself son of Man, but son of God was said by them, but this was misunderstood not only by christians but also by jews and considering blasphemy, there comes the crucifixion story.\n\nWith these misunderstanding between the followers, how can the religion be preached as a major very soon.
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Jews do not believe that Jesus was the G-d of son. He was just one of the false prophet and troublemakers in our history that caused us lots of hardship. He was a Heretic and turned his back on his fellow Jews and G-d - he did not follow the laws of the Torah. \n\nYou can call Jesus whatever you want - he can be your messiah/boyfriend/G-d or whatever - I really don't care. We try not to think about him and don't associate ourselves with that traitor. But once again, I respect what you believe and - I just don't see how you don't understand our point of view.\n\nThe reason why Jews have so many rules is because G-d gave the Torah to the Jews (when they were in the desert - on Mount Sinai). Therefore only the Jews have to listen to its laws. They are many laws and they are strict but they become a way of life. Actually they define our lives and set our goal in life. \n\nI don't see how anyone can live without the guiding hand of the Torah.
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Jews are not supposed to have any particular beliefs, positive or negative, about Jesus.  He's simply not part of the religion.  Same would be with Buddha, for example.\n\nIf you intend to invoke the question of "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord," The Jewish answer would be "None of the Above," because the 'L3' argument is based on acceptance of the New Testament as historical record. Only Christians would view the New Testament as a valid historical record, not Jews.
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1)Christianity is the religion of persecution and bigotry. It says it isn't but its history says otherwise. Ask the Jews.\n2)Jesus wanted all his disciples to be like him, which is to say, wandering penniless homeless celibate monks. No thanks!\n3)Jesus prohibits divorce except for adultery. Apparently Jesus had little experience with alcoholics. I cannot follow a teacher who puts such a blanket prohibition on divorce.\n4) Jesus was not the Messiah. The Jews were looking for a king who was a military genius (like Alexander the Great). They expected the Messiah to tackle Rome and drive the Romans out of Israel. Jesus denied he was this Messiah (my kingdom is not of this earth).\n5) The Bible is  a partisan document edited and compiled by men who were hostile to women. Gospels like "The Gospel of Mary" and the "Gospel of Thomas" were just thrown out as being heretical. \n6) Christianity embraces orthodoxy - thinking those thoughts that you are taught and which are allowed. Thinking your own thoughts about God leads to heresy. *uck this shit.\n7)The miracles are unbelievable.\n8) The Bible contradicts itself in serious ways. There is an entire literature of Biblical criticism devoted to this problem. Library shelves are full of books like this.\n9) The Bible lies and mangles history. Joshua did not stop the Sun.\n10) Some of the Bible's commands are horrible. If you doubt it, read Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
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Actually, No, the Jews of Jesus's day rejected the message of Christianity, as is evident from the Christian's New Testament itself. Repeatedly in the Christian's New Testament, when the Early Christians would go into the synagogues and preach, or even just explain what they believed, they would get kicked out. \n\nThe reason why this was so, is that the Jews to whom they preached recognized the story of Jesus in the stories of other Hellenist and Mediteranean gods. For example Mithra, who was born of a virgin human by a god for a father, who was born in the Winter, and who died in the Spring, and who came back to life three days later, and whose death and resurrection was proof for those who believed in him that they, too, would not die. Mithra was the patron god of the city of Tarsus, where Paul, called by many the true founder of Christianity, was born and raised. See also Dionysus, Attis, Ra, Adonis, and other gods that pre-date Christianity. Even Hercules had a human mother and Zeus for a father.\n\nWhen Christianity failed to take hold among the Jews, that is when the Early Christians took their faith to the non-Jewish world, and made it more attractive to the non-Jews by removing from it, Biblical requirements of keeping the Biblical laws, especially those of keeping kosher and circumcision.\n\nIn Jesus's day, (as now) the vast majority of those Jews who converted to Christianity were very assimilated, very Hellenized Jews, to whom the story of Jesus would have sounded very familiar.