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(DB) So being religiously Jewish then was a much more complicated affair than it is even now. There were no Rabbis yet, & even the priests @ Yerushalayim & around the countryside were divided among themselves. Not only that, but there were many Jews both in Pale-stine & outside of it, in places such as Alexandria in Egypt, who had very different ideas about what being a good, devout Jew meant ...

Some believed that in order to be a kosher Jew you had to believe in a single divine figure & any other belief was simply idol worship ...

Others believed that G d had a divine deputy or emissary or even 'a son' (as before), exalted above all the angels, who functioned as an intermediary between G d & the world in creation, revelation, & redemption. Many Jews believed that redemption was going to be effect-ed by a human being, as actual hidden scion of the house of David ~ an Anastasia ~ who at a certain point would take up the scepter & the sword, defeat Israel's enemies, & return her to her former glory. Others believed that the redemption was going to be effected by that same second 'divine figure' mentioned above (& before) & not 'a human being' at all! And still others believed that these two were one & the same, that the Messiah of David would be the divine Redeemer (or two buddies?)! As I said, a complicated affair ~~~~~~~

While by now almost everyone, Christian & non-Christian, is happy enough to refer to Yeshua, the human, as a Jew, I want to go a step beyond that. I wish us to see that "Christ" too ~ the divine Messiah ~ is a Jew. Christology, or the early ideas about Christ, is also a Je-wish discourse & not ~ until much later ~ an anti-Jewish discourse at all! Many Israelites at the time of Yehoshua were expecting a Mes-siah who would be 'divine' & come to earth in the form of a human. Thus the basic underlying thoughts from which both that 'trinity' & the incarnation grew are there in the very world into which "Yeshu" was born & in which he was first written about in the Gospels of Mark & John?!

Genoeg: ik neem nog 1 paracetamolletje & kruip onder m'n wolletje. G d werd geschapen naar 's mensen 'evenbeeld in 't begin' ~~~~~~