.. this also highlights where the true point of contention lies–in the messiahship of Jesus.”
If the author knows some basic premises of Judaism he may want to rethink “the true point of contention.”
Judaism at it’s foundation is, “Shema Israel, HaSheim Eloheinu, HaSheim Ekhad.” And the Pharisee Yehoshua (not J*esus), you know the Talpiot Tomb Jewish man with bones, said, “you shall love your companion as yourself.” NMH 22:29.
“Shema Israel, HaSheim Eloheinu, HaSheim Ekhad,” is a statement about the “only-ness” of the Creator and Sustainer of the world. He is not a man.
Those same scholars that understand history, and rightly so about the 1st century man who was a Perushi (Anglicized to pharisee), those that understand it was the Romans that executed him with help from their quisling Hellenist Jewish Temple companions including the High Priest, also understand Christianity’s umbilical cord to the Egytpian/Greek/Roman pantheon. That Christianity is a syncretism, of the Z*eus myth with a stolen identity of a Jewish man. The facts of history are that there was a man, a Jewish, Torah observant man, actually having judicial authority as evidenced by his being called Ribi, not rabbi, which is much less authoritative. This man lived and died as all men do. Did I mention his tomb in Talpiot? His identity was ripped from history and placed in the limbo that is Christianity.
So it is not Ribi Yehoshua’s messiahship that is the true point of contention. It is Christianity’s foundation of a man being the One that holds this universe together.
Now today if the following scientific and historical facts are agreed upon:
1. All men die.
2. There is a tomb dated to the proper time.
3. There is an ossuary in that tomb.
4. The above ossuary is inscribed, “Yeshua bar Yoseiph.”
Then Christianity takes it’s rightful place with the rest of the pantheon, completely apart from Torah Judaism and the final question can again be examined.
Was Ribi Yehoshua ben Yoseiph the Mashiach?
For “orthodox” Jews, whatever that means, it is particularly difficult having been taught by both Jews and Christians that the Torah observant man Ribi Yehoshua was the excuse for Christianity and it’s persecution of the Jewish family.
They are also taught that the Mashiach could not have come yet. Yet they cannot agree on how one would recognize him, (little h in him.)
Remember that he must be documented to be of the line of King David, born in Beit Lechem, heal the breaches in Torah, and fight the enemies of HaSheim. The first two qualifications he has fulfilled and others from now on can’t. The last two his talmidim (students) continue to do today. netzarim.co.il
[Quote: Eliyahu Konn ]
