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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (17135)	4/19/2004 3:44:52 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

Here is a treatise on the first uprising which indicates that the intention of Jesus, as the head of a populous group, was to request or insist upon the Year of Jubilee. This was a once every 50 year redistribution of land and cancellation of debts. <font color=navy>He once said, quoting from Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour. </font> findarticles.com Much of this land would have been owned by Greeks and Romans and much of the recipients of redistribution would have also been gentile. Oblique references: users.cyberone.com.au <font color=brown>These a priori considerations are reasonable and legitimate. They point to a predicament of the Gentile Christians, resulting from the Jewish war of 66-70, fraught with both danger and perplexity. But why, it must be asked, since this is so, is there no obvious evidence in the New Testament of Christian reaction to that war and its consequences? The answer seems to be that search has hitherto been made for the wrong things: 'obvious evidence' of reaction has been expected to take the form of clearly stated references and comments upon those notable events which are so vividly described by Josephus. Attention has not been given to the possibility that the effect of the Jewish war and the destruction of Jerusalem on the infant Christian Church may have been so profound that it produced such a transformation that, after AD 70, Christianity became almost a completely new movement. Further, the possibility has not been explored that Christian wrtings after that date are really the products of this transformation, and present a new interpretation of Jesus and his mission. </font> S. G. F. Brandon, The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth, B. T. Batsford Ltd., London 1968. As I recall the lecture, that the synthesis that became basis for a gentile auxillary organization (which transformed into christianity) was the work of Philo of Alexandria. (This I forgot until I saw him mentioned in some of these references). utm.edu His message to the gentiles was that their Greek beliefs were really based on jewish prophets and stories and that they had a chance to return to the source (By helping preserve jewish autonomy). Looking up Jesus on the internet is quite a task, there are so many sites. I will be alert to more